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We have election in November, mobilize everyone you can and vote.

Apart from the specs of a cable is there a way to verify the signal quality of a cable? I have lost many days trying to debug random hardware issues and the final answer was to jus…

Realistically EA will never financially recover from this in its current form. Likely they will carve out 1-2 portions of it they can resell and the rest will die.

No the taxpayer is. We paid the subprime mortgage bill. We will pay the private equity leverage bill too.

Fuck this corrupt system. You want to buy a company? Bring your own fucking money. Why do we have to pay for this shit?

Regular people have less real disposable income than before, and risky financial products can only conceal the truth for a certain period. Eventually, the truth will emerge, possib…

In south Europe it has been the case for like 20 years. The answer is simple. Businesses don’t pay enough. People prefer cutting expenses and expectations (nobody in their 30-40s b…

Yes it is a solvable problem that is priced so far at USD 0.6T just for the US and not accounting for future risks of accidental leaks (which are not rare and contained enough to d…

Oh the problem that nuclear proponents insist that does not exist. When you point out it exists they tell you it’s minor (it all fits in baseball field is the used argument) When y…

Exactly. We invented a pump. We can use it as vacuum to clean things up. The same pump can be used as a shit fire hose. The effort we need to clean things up is significantly highe…

0 friction, intuitive ux. Mouse, scroll wheel tabs all work out of the box. Still is an ugly tui, but orders of magnitude better than tmux. To even get started with tmux you need t…

M5 networking stack is a mess. A lot of corporate deployments had to wait for Apple to patch up things

So essentially 2 years worth of payments, with a reasonable monthly payment, will not be enough to buy an apple device.

My problem is the opposite. When there are breaking news directly affecting me I have no way of getting them. In between a myriad of notifications, fake social media posts, total c…

Everyone should be lobbying. It is the golden era of lobbying with 100% success rates. Whether you are in AI or the lettuce industry.

But this will not be a singular event. And like humans it does not mean that the smartest makes the best decisions.

Where does this leave Fable? I am confused.

Exactly. With stroke of a pen a company is less important than its ability to pay taxes. So we can put people above companies. With a stroke of a pen.

Why a company has to survive but not its people? For example when it comes to the IRS bill, the company will literally cease operations and sell all of its assets to pay IRS. Why t…

Since they can put a huge battery onboard why don't they also electrify runway taxiing? I cringe every time a jet plane has to spool up, burning god knows how many gallons of fuel,…

They benefit everyone but I have never seen one in a rich neighborhood. So the rich are exercising NIMBY.

You definitely do not want a sewage treatment plant in your backyard. But hey, you got a cheaper home price so that the rich guys can pump their crap to your backyard from miles aw…

If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?

A link and password communicated to me would suffice.

Did you see any of the MSE numbers? around 50% success rates in the tasks. Anyone in robotics can tell you that building an 80% solution is doable, very fast. Covering the last 20%…