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my impression of prosecutors is that they are a narcissist bunch who are in that role because tough-on-crime reputation they earn by putting ppl in prison gives them a leg up in fu…

Microsoft had preview for ARM64 Azure VMs earlier this year. Not sure if they've gone beyond that. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/now-in-preview-azure-...

virtuoso? i'd settle for ability to think and learn. i have been surprised by someone hired as senior software engineer - two levels above me - struggle to understand simple multit…

> I've seen bike lanes added to roads, and almost no one is happy. There's always idiot drivers and bikers and every now and then someone gets hurt or killed. which is why we shoul…

i've always wondered why "Sent from my xxxxx" lines are tacked on. are those intended to blame poorly composed messages and typos on bad typing experience provided by mobile device…

I don't know what the current state of thermophotovoltaics are but maybe that's one way to go about it. Or maybe the temps are too low for that. Not sure. https://www.science.org/c…

they said odds were good, but maybe they're not much of a gambler. and sounds like they views cryptocurrencies as being something akin to scammy MLM or Ponzi scheme rather than an …

and this is part of why i think cryptocurrencies should have died before large number of people wasted their money on it. for the average user without the time/knowledge/patience t…

i'm not sure why people keep thinking that there is a hard limit to number of bitcoins that can be mined when the network can be updated to allow more coins to be mined.

the few ivy league graduates i've worked with were idiots with no original thought who constantly needed handholding. they were good at parroting other people's opinions & ideas an…

Tesla has a culture of working 21/7 and sleeping at the factory. this is just typical asshatery from a ceo who gets paid millions while jerking off at the factory 24/7 and expects …

i wouldn't have issues with him if that's what he claimed he was doing instead of trying to pass off every engineering feat of Tesla and SpaceX as his own. but the piece of shit ha…

i've never trusted him ever since he promoted Leap Motion as some great piece of tech. and his notion that two cheap ass cameras should be sufficient to get self driving up to par …

report on wheat market outlook from Jan 2021 is interesting to peruse. there's certainly no one simple answer to why the price rose, but it does indicate higher consumption and low…

sounds like an episode of House.

from what i've been reading up on the subject, the thin margin that service sector businesses operate on means many failed despite government intervention and the rest raised price…

from what I understand, the increased demand was at least partly due to shift in spending from services so goods during the pandemic.

"...helped the adoption of renewables and made them cheaper." How so? Miners are chasing profit margin so they'll use whatever's cheapest. If that's renewable where some of them ar…

makes me wonder if they loaned Tethers to their buddies (or themselves) so they can buy cryptos then "backed" the Tethers with the loans. wouldn't surprise me given the kind of uns…

Difficulty of the work needed is lowered if it takes too long for miners to find the solution. I'm sure there is a point at which mining becomes not worth doing financially. But th…

Might be a regulation that brokerages have to comply with? Seems like a reasonable solution if such regulation was made in order to detect insider trading.

> The article seems in a very indirect way to make argument that violent reaction to and ostracizing of people that hold opposing opinions is ok when you hold the correct opinions …

I see the difference as there being a national economy and government closely tied to USD. Usually, central bank tries to manipulate supply and velocity of USD so it doesn't become…

With stable national currencies like US dollar, there are debts, expenses, taxes, etc. that are denominated in the currency. And there is a national economy producing products and …

EDIT: I didn't consider dielectric heating ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating ). Seeing as how microwave ovens have 500W rating on the low end, I assume heat genera…