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abosley

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    Comment #49123225

    But the water. What about the water necessary to "restore the soil". The soil in question of course, was non-productive desert 50 years ago. We are doing input intensive farming in…

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    Comment #47925288

    The tech companies train their employees to say this in their social media guidance and training.

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    Comment #47881131

    Agreed. What happens when every company lays off 10, 20, 40% of their staff? AI Agents don't pay taxes and dont participate in a meaningful amount of the consumer economy.

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    Comment #46901512

    The Iranian guards, along with most of the armies in the second and third tier powers don't have elite anything. Please see Desert Storm, etc. Most of them ran. The ones that didn'…

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    Comment #46534121

    Apparently I can use deadly force most days in the trader joes parking lot - I've had people come that close to hitting me on a weekly basis in Seattle. She made a bad decision tha…

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    Comment #46209238

    Appraisals are generally done to ensure that the loan guarantor will be able to recover their investment if the party taking the loan defaults. Therefore, cash offers don't perform…

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    Comment #45353270

    As someone who has worked in hypercloud data center expansion and planning - I can confidently say this analysis is um, incomplete. W/out violating NDAs...I'd refer everone to mult…

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    Comment #44360724

    I’ve been a paid synergy user for 10? years. Works great for multiple computers + OS scenarios. It does flake out very occasionally. I’ll have check deskflow out for some embedded …

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    Comment #40947127

    Even more evidence we have no idea what is going on: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10509198/#:~:te... . My silly anecdotal theory is that the vagal nerve and the gut…

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    Comment #40932751

    Pretty sure these are definitively non-profit organizations.

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    Comment #39167324

    +1 Stross is decidedly the opposite of the stereotypical US west coast sci-fi author.

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    Comment #38463165

    I'm experiencing 4090 pricing violence.

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    Comment #38072166

    Quantity has a quality of its own. Dude named Piketty wrote almost 2k pages about wrt capital accumulation. The opposite of what you propose is what actually happens. For another e…

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    Comment #38031969

    Always view the negging of non-orthodox approaches to anything by the WSJ as anything but surprising. Furthermore, cui bono with respect to potential outcomes? I think it's the pha…

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    Comment #38027801

    Did 15? seconds of fact checking the blog post since, as a home owner, it seemed wrong based on my little experience researching, purchasing and installing kitchen appliances in my…

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    Comment #37297274

    The author is in the process of writing a book on demonic possession...I may be a bit of a cynic here, but this may just be.....marketing?

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    Comment #35707883

    MSFT has a partnership agreement with OpenAI. We didn't acquire them. Microsoft employee. Thoughts are my own.

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    Comment #35518335

    I sold my MazdaSpeed 3 due to a parasitic drain - it was at the dealership for 4 months at one point - with no resolution.

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    Comment #34972958

    Marketing PMs need work too :).

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    Comment #34907630

    No...that's the marketplace.

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    Comment #34907623

    I agree. Furthermore, imagine if the police were measured by the number of crimes they actually prevented versus the number they documented. Yes, I realize that these are orders of…

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    Comment #34903822

    In Bellevue WA - they raised my price by $20.

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    Comment #34822869

    Agreed....the part where it states that "Fructose produced in the brain could possibly lead to inflammation..." made me eye-roll...really hard.

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    Comment #34780220

    Microsoft showed the opposite. (Microsoft employee here). We were more productive by every common software dev measure when working from home. That's why Satya has been calling oth…

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    Comment #34345268

    As a people manager in MSFT, I would welcome this - it's another great lever to get top performers to come work for you when done effectively. Steal the best employees from the wor…