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I am hive mind element #1073147199.
Please report any malfunctions to my supervising unit, hive mind element #1073147198. Do not escalate directly to unit #0 unless significant and adverse public relations impact or revenue reduction may reasonably be expected in the absence of immediate remediation.
Weyland-Yutani thanks you.
Everybody forgets about tardigrades, but they will be here when we are long passed from all memory.
The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the expectation that it wouldn’t be repaid.
This is one of those rare times I’ll agree we could use a gulag.
A dream that pays $35k/yr
I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about
I feel the same way about the Barkley Marathons. What was once a soulful, austere and obscure contest against time and nature is now become a Roman orgy of decadence with contestants hauled about on opulent palanquins…
Some kind of lotto system
Nuclear power derives its energy from the binding energy of ultra-heavy atomic nuclei, not fossil fuels. This energy can then be used to power electric cars, avoiding fossil fuel consumption. Furthermore, unlike wind…
You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects. You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each…
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Yeah, a shelter is only truly a shelter if you don’t pay for it. Paying for a home is the very definition of homelessness, after all.
Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.
He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.
Very clearly, you haven’t been to a NASCAR race or monster truck rally in at least a decade. Not many oligarchs. Lots of kids.
Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, there. Notwithstanding grey-market…
What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that causes SMBs to be lean and mean to remain…
The old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The…
> All that matters is purchasing committees are ok Large enterprise purchasing committees are foremost concerned with risk, you absolute dolt. The risk that price will jump 12x, requiring all kinds of scrambling, is…
Because monoculture is unhealthy.
For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.
“ That raises the question of how the company would deal with competitors that are armed with its very own technology - and perhaps beating Intel's own internal product teams with better processor designs. While…
F1’s reasoning is “Andretti won’t be competitive and Andretti’s reputation will benefit more than ours if he has an F1 team” Yeah, just like being a perennial loser did so much good for the Williams legend, right? Or…
Because building planes is an engineering task. Let’s use your argument: Would you hire a lawyer to captain a ship? Why not? It’s not like the captain actually steers the ship or oils the engine. You see? It’s not that…
78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, a known narcotic that has cost thousands of lives by inducing mental impairment in situations already fraught with hazard.
Yes, of course, sending your grandmother a text message is basically identical to you pirating Netflix content. Right-o.