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They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
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astronautjones··on I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
When I last saw geto boys live, willie d introduced the set by saying "we know why y'all are here, that's why this is the office space tour. and you know mike judge is the greatest satirist of this generation, watch silicon valley sundays on hbo" and then they went into "still" and bushwick bill beat up a printer on stage with a baseball bat. it was transcendent.
astronautjones··on Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
because you are clueless and/or misinformed as to what separates this virus from other coronaviruses and HOW different it is from other coronaviruses. the technology absolutely does not exist.
astronautjones··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
why should i change? he's the one who sucks.
astronautjones··on Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
https://www.discogs.com/release/10503660-Bill-Orcutt-An-Acco...
astronautjones··on Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BKSWnuF3pA
astronautjones··on Prince of Persia in JavaScript
Finally, a thought is able to form from the depths of my mind - the netflix noise is just straight up the falling noise from prince of persia!
astronautjones··on Email from FBI Looks Odd
calling that guy a journalist is hilariously disingenuous. the guy that has been caught doctoring and falsely editing literally everything that he has produced?

He's catering to an audience of hateful people that can't even eat breakfast without it being in bad faith. He is weeks away from an expose telling you that actually the confederacy landed on the moon first.

Being a contrarian fool that argues blindly without accepting or understanding reality and context is de rigueur on this website, it's disgusting

and telling as to why the industry is so self-serving and fraud-ridden

astronautjones··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
don't use metal to do that! use compressed air
astronautjones··on AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (2017)
most of them are just on top of mountains or hills

http://long-lines.net/places-routes/index.html

astronautjones··on A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big Business
great, thorough, and excellent journalism from a writer Thiel & his scumbag colleagues tried to destroy at gawker
astronautjones··on Statement from Mark Zuckerberg
> You must log in to continue.

they can't be serious

astronautjones··on Statement from Mark Zuckerberg
end algorithmic recommendations
astronautjones··on Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger is now working on a decentralized encyclopedia
man, don't link to the epoch times
astronautjones··on Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
they want low turnout
astronautjones··on Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
I had a peak-motorola era moto G - it was fast, up to date, devoid of bloatware, and the camera was of incredible quality for such a cheap phone. the only downside was it was flimsy and met an early death at the hands of my merciless kitchen tile
astronautjones··on Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
> "On September 20, 2019, at around 2:30 PM CDT, a man drove a black first generation (2001-2008) Chevrolet TrailBlazer LT through an entrance door of Sears and began driving through the store and into the main concourse of the mall, crashing into kiosks, Clarks, International Diamond Company, and multiple other stores, seemingly targeting Forever 21 and other adjacent stores.[40][41] The driver was taken into custody by responding police near the center of the mall's first level without further incident. The identity of the suspect was not immediately released. No injuries were reported, but the mall was temporarily on lockdown due to the incident as well as concurrent, but unfounded, reports of an active shooter.[42][43] The mall was evacuated about one hour after the incident.[44]

The man, later identified as Javier Garcia of Palatine, Illinois, was charged with terrorism as a result of the incident; he appeared in court on September 29, 2019, and was denied bond. He appeared in court again on October 1, 2019, and was due back in court on January 27, 2020.[45][46][47][48][49] Garcia's family spoke out arguing that Javier is not a terrorist and that he has schizophrenia, though a police investigation shows evidence that Garcia's attack was premeditated, with investigators releasing – in part – that Garcia "searched 'Woodfield mall,' the aerial view of the mall and mall premises 124 times between 9/19/19 at 14:38 and 9/20/19 at 12:55."[50] Garcia has since also been charged with an unrelated arson case from September 8, 2019, in his hometown of Palatine.[51]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodfield_Mall#Car_incident

astronautjones··on Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S.
I share your suspicion.
astronautjones··on Unleaded Avgas Approved
corruption. its use in aviation - and use of other chemicals involved in their engines - is not safe at all either -

https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covi...

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51633897

astronautjones··on Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)
ironically (and anecdotally), pre-touch iPods are still popular in Japan. still see them being used (edit: sometimes) in pristine condition
astronautjones··on Quest for “green” cement draws big name investors to $300B industry
"many doubt" is the same as "some people are saying", you can usually add "in completely bad faith" after those phrases
astronautjones··on Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
Is this Snowden narrating?
astronautjones··on Robinhood S-1 IPO
what could possibly go wrong
astronautjones··on Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas
that is a sad looking street
astronautjones··on UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
> It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.

and they almost all happen over declared testing areas where the air force has trialed new stuff on navy crews without telling them in the past...

astronautjones··on Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
it really depends on location. last month I got a brand new usb turntable (that had a goodwill sticker with a barcode, they knew what it was) for $9.
astronautjones··on Pattern Generator – Create Seamless, Royalty-Free Patterns
man this is a beautiful achievement
astronautjones··on Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network
go wild using SDRs and just start researching what everything does. the kiwisdr network is really impressive and amazing - http://ve3sun.com/KiwiSDR/

if you live in the US, i've found that 90% of ham action is bordering on c-span call-in line territory and really off-putting and demoralizing.

it's much more exciting and encouraging at first to listen in faraway locales online (and then you can eventually get some equipment that can catch those signals physically at your house too). the old tech guy factor is alive and well with the subculture which is honestly really endearing imo, especially the people that review equipment on youtube. it is a level of humble and noble pedantry - what some might call dorkiness - that seems like it barely even exists in my generation's youtube

astronautjones··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
great comment and you seem to have the same voice as Adam Curtis
astronautjones··on WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash
i agree that they should revert this to how it was before, but if you want, you can fix it:

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...

astronautjones··on Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
this is true "female body inspector" shirt clientele though
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