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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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> I think 0 people will say “I may be suffering but at least my countryman is doing fine.” Again, that Michigan autoworker can move to Tennessee, or wherever else jobs relocate to. Millions of Amer…
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> But if you look at the US alone, you see that process happening as well (e.g. aircraft and auto mfg moving to the non-unionized south). A Michigan auto worker may not be thrilled by jobs moving t…
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Krugman implies that the US-Canada (not Mexico) integration of the auto industry came from NAFTA. Not so; The Auto Pact < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Auto_Pact &g…
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>in Europe there is still widespread cynicism and vitrol against anything Elon Musk especially Starlink. European Tesla sales are rising yoy again. < https://www.statesman.com/bus…
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> Isn’t this a similar argument to how Africa adopted mobile phones significantly faster than other regions? You didn't read the article: >Africa’s internet infrastructure is not fit for pu…
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> and then models learned that they can back track and error correct You mean "Human developers learned ...", yes? Or was there really an all AI-driven, self-improving aspect to this?
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If you don't want to believe me that Apple's drives worked and Tandy's didn't, consider why VisiCalc launched on the Apple II in 1979 despite Bricklin and Frankston intending to do…
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> I mean, in 1978 Tandy used standard drives and a disk controller IC, and still managed to sell a whole 16K TRS-80 system with disk drive for the same price The Tandy products were utter garbage. …
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>that was something like 5x as fast. ... which is still significantly slower than the Disk II. The 1978 Disk II is about 30 times faster than the unaccelerated 1982 Commodore 1540/1541, as w…
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>Commodore disk drives (4040 and so on) actually use a very similar approach. There's no FDC controller chip and the 6502 is hooked to the drive (literally the same SA-390 as Apple used) via s…
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As zellyn said, Disk II is pure genius writ large. It's flabbergasting how good Woz's designs were. Almost on a whim, he with the Disk II did something no one anywhere in Silicon Valley—anyw…
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Yes, but only because of a MacOS update. My UnRAID server has been up for more than a month, and would be much longer were it not for a system update there, too. The uptime of the VMs on the server ar…
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From < https://www.euractiv.com/news/heatwave-shuts-down-berlaymont... >, corroborating the Politico report: >Staff working in the building told Euractiv that the air …
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The Andrew Johnson administration considered offering to buy both Greenland and Iceland from Denmark!
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The more I hear about GLP-1 drugs, the more I think there is something to the joking suggestion of putting it in the water supply.
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>Every 10 years or so Argentina defaults on it's debt. The next day banks/hedge funds line up to loan it money again. >The ways of finance are mysterious. James Grant's Bagehot …
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>We already nationalised the oil industry in 1976. You must be referring to something else. Don't bother. It's hopeless. They're obsessed with Orange Man Bad and won't listen to…
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>For the night to come, like the previous night, predictions are that we will have 35°C (95F) at midnight. I'm not even sure it was this hot when I was at Las Vegas eleven years ago. Las Vegas…
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>Alberta ships through BC now Yes, in minuscule amounts. As of 2025, 90% of Canadian crude and 100% of natural gas goes to the US. < https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysi…
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>Canada is not an infrastructure “joke.” It is a country with some world-class delivery organizations operating inside a political system that too often destroys continuity. >As a Canadian, I th…