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ecshafer

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About ecshafer

I am a software developer in upstate NY. Java, Rust, Web Development.

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    Comment #49246278

    I am not sure how this is Cassandra. Cassandra didn't say bad things. Cassandra knew the future and know one believed her, making her helpless to see doom unfold. The author even m…

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    Comment #49226737

    I don't see why this isn't obvious. Terafab is a FAB not a datacenter.

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    Comment #49204199

    That is insanely fast. I had it generate a basic C FFT library that can handle multi-dimension arrays, and it was instant.

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    Comment #49198378

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49176549

    Tesla is imo overvalued and has been for a long time. Its bankrupted a lot of pretty savvy investors in the last 10 years trying to short them because its obviously over valued. Ma…

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    Comment #49169315

    This is why Microsoft is good, there is an entire industry around fixing their nonsense. They are being a job creator!

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    Comment #49158272

    Good. Restaurants are hectic to work in. Menus can change quickly, and many dishes are being cooked and prepped at once. Cross contamination chances are high, so if a restaurant MU…

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    Comment #49118913

    The most important lesson about Grilled Cheese that I have learned is that you can buy a mix of expensive cheese, get a nice fresh loaf of sourdough bread, high quality grass fed b…

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    Comment #49100227

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    Comment #49100181

    Taxes paid was actually what was said.

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    Comment #49099779

    A big difference I think is that Progressivism was based on Christianity and Utopian Socialist ideals in the 1800s and 1900s (at least in the United States). So it was much easier …

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    Comment #49098697

    I am hard-line on this. Sports betting and prediction markets should be banned. Casinos should be banned. Scratch offs should be banned. Its feeding into the worst tendencies of pe…

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    Comment #49097024

    There was a webcomic abtruse goose that made fun of that book by humorously showing what you would have to do to get it done in 21 days. https://gabrielcoarna.com/2010/11/05/how-to…

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    Comment #49087950

    So $1-10k in Chinese model time, thus why we must ban them.

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    Comment #49074625

    Azure is the second largest cloud, and run majority linux. So probably.

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    Comment #49074617

    At least Geist looks nice. Corporate Memphis has always been ugly, beyond ugly even, its an insult to aesthetics itself, an insult to all of life.

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    Comment #49047376

    Henry Nowak would as well.

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    Comment #49038124

    How many people has the US sent to jail due to saying naughty things on Twitter vs the UK? If were going to speak of authoritarianism. Just due to ensuring free speech and right to…

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    Comment #49037531

    Ancient China had a monotheistic religion where they worshiped Shang Di, a monotheistic God without idols, who could not be drawn, and they made yearly sacrifices to at a single Te…

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    Comment #49026113

    Global Warming does have a knowledge gap of sorts. Yes there is a viable solution to Global Warming, drastically cut back carbon and methane emissions. Where the knowledge gap is: …

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    Comment #49011004

    Terrance Tao's chatgpt conversation is really interesting for a variety of reasons: 1. The counter example wasn't just a brute force selection, the polynomial is structured in a ve…

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    Comment #49006760

    Isn't it?

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    Comment #48993472

    To be more specific, I dont think owning a sfh to rent out should be good. But building an apartment complex should be a good investment. Unrestrict building, and tax underutilized…

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    Comment #48992934

    Housing can not be a viable asset class, or it will continue to rise in prices. Step 1 is Land Value Taxes. Step 2 is remove/greatly reduce zoning, allow construction and streamlin…

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    Comment #48984463

    Defense and Military you can want to work there for such nebulous ideas such as serving your nation, protecting your loved ones, security, etc. This would require you to actually b…