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MrBuddyCasino
10,162karma·4,201submissions·November 20, 2011
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I don't know how anyone can call the most amazing invention in computer science of the last 20 years "copyright infringement factories". We went from the ST:NG ship computer being futur…
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The induction stove boost function is glorious. Using twice the power temporarily is such a timesaver!
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Yes the current kits are dumbed-down and soulless. I don’t know that anyone else makes decent ones nowadays.
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The 1950s „Kosmos Radiomann“ Kits were pure magic: https://www.sarganserland-walensee.ch/radio_tv_historisch/ra... That feeling when you hit the right spot on the crystal after s…
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"Fascism" is when military. The more military, the more fascist. According to this metric, the USSR / DDR with its "anti-fascist wall" was super extra fascist because they wer…
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Theres no need to be THIS cynical.
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Is there a relationship with concepts such as NixOS?
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Special mentions to Paul Ehrlich (the "population bomb" guy). Got all his predictions wrong, never changed his mind, got a lot of money for it eg from the Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation…
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"Our high spending is overwhelmingly a product of our high incomes and if other OECD countries had our exceptionally high material standard of living most of them would be spending very similarly…
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The first one to realise this was Jeff Bezos, afaik. One would think the others have wisened up in the meantime, but no.
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Sure seems so. They should just clone the latest Russian improved Geran and call it a day, but oc they won’t.
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"At Cisco, a Dalit engineer was blocked from promotion, kept off key projects, and eventually pushed out. Why? He wasn’t from the right caste. Internal messages showed hiring managers actively di…
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"one does not simply make a cultural change"