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enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
Flipping is working from home. I probably have 5 to 8 left in me.
enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
I feel like James Cameron has never tried anything safe. He was a truck driver early on. Some dentists took a risk and financed a truck driver to make a movie.
enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
I would assume, with a little evidence, that driving 7,500 mi/year rates as dangerous as line work.
enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
It’s more terrifying to see anyone point a metal tool toward an open breaker panel.
enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
Also, commuting 10,000 mi/year carries the same risk as construction alone.
enoint··on So you think you could be an electrician?
> That capital owner - or his ancestor - either worked exceptionally hard or took exceptional risks to get into that position.

That’s nuts. The industrial barons of 19th century America neither worked hard nor took amazing risks. They were lawyers and bankers who manipulated stocks and broke unions.

enoint··on Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
Newtons writings were not categorized, so quantitatively I think “occult” is only the part where he ponders the chronology and lost wisdom of ancient civilizations. I don’t think investigations into obscured qualities of matter (like alchemy) would be very interesting to occultists.
enoint··on Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
Entity voting already exists in Delaware, before women’s suffrage. If an AI instance registered as a trust or LLC, then it would deserve a vote in Delaware municipal elections.

I think LLC membership would be the trick.

enoint··on Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
Anthropic probably went to the Pope with the question, “what would you do if AI asked to be baptized?”, which is slightly different than questions of consciousness. This pope will probably have to define the process to determine if AI is a person with relation to baptism.
enoint··on Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?
About the warning triangle problem: one solution is to offer a passenger a free ride from California to Texas. If the truck stops along the way, the passenger agrees to deploy the triangles, which triggers a ride to come pick them up.
enoint··on Trump Accounts have auto-enrolled more than 60M children, Treasury says
In the Time interview, Trump controls the entire interview, with Wiles and Cheung able to interject. Doesn’t mention 530A once, and complains that all the topics are negative. Sounds like he’s forgotten it.
enoint··on Make Tmux the OS
Yeah I wish the author tried herdr or read about Superlogical rather than assume UI widgets could absorb some optimal functionality from tmux or screen
enoint··on California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
I think it’s factually non uniform. In some states, you must be emancipated or qualified for emancipation before you can marry.
enoint··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
I feel like Joseph McCarthy’s list of <over 200 communists in the Department of State, or whatever> is particularly noteworthy. He couldn’t have contrived that list without Roy Cohn, and Cohn is one of the founding fathers of today’s ruling party. The legislative and executive branches legitimized giving attention to dudes with a secret list.
enoint··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
The temptation will be to pressure people on a secret list with public disclosure. And there’s a grey zone, too. Imagine a messy divorce, in which one person’s name is conveniently found on a list that’s time stamped during some period of contended infidelity. I think that’s how these are supposed to work.
enoint··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
What do you think the punishment will be for wearing a burqa near a school, in Italy?
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
I think what you’re wondering is: can residential electricity schedules promote off-peak rates for EV charging. I’ve seen that and I think it takes the edge off.

But we’re in a drought right now. I think hydro is down at least 20%. Wyoming wind power alone totally makes up for that.

enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
That’s proportionally true. Utah and Wyoming depend on Alberta because of elevation. I’m confused by the change at Seaway.
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
The politically-important Alberta oil mostly goes to the mountain states down here. Coincidentally, those same states rely heaviest on coal for electricity. So, the choice is recharge an EV on coal (think arsenic and mercury accumulating somewhere nearby) or good ol gasoline (which is piped from Canada).
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
We usually rely on polling for those answers. When you encounter a randomly-selected American on the street, do you find it 50/50? I’m in Wyoming, perhaps the reddest state, and it’s close to 50/50.
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
I’m sure China would, too. I wonder what’s harder: diverting that oil to the northwest passage, or diverting Persian Gulf oil around the strait of Hormuz?
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
That’s a weird way to say 50.1% of votes were against Trump.
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Canada was able to convict Peter Nygard, and Trump might not have completed the Epstein coverup yet.
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
The important categories are oil and potash. Consumer actions might not influence those much.
enoint··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
The system elected him without a majority.
enoint··on Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding
Assuming no power bill, I don’t think 300 RTX would ever break even, if bought retail. Would have been smarter to try drop-shipping those to China. So, why didn’t they? Was there some condition or stipulation from the source?
enoint··on US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29
Saskatchewan would demand a substitute buyer, I think. Finding cooperative middle countries is a difficult strategy.
enoint··on GNU Radio World
GNU Radio, entirely in your browser — explore the open-source SDR ecosystem with zero install!

GNU Radio World is a browser-based GNU Radio Companion flowgraph editor and WebAssembly runtime. You can place, connect, and configure blocks, then run the resulting flowgraph directly in your browser.

enoint··on A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He's a Senator
You can understand why Marshall skips town hall meetings.
enoint··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
I think the WeChat worm proves entire classes of handheld devices will be affected, with consequences beyond what Tencent can afford to remedy. I think we’ll see the most-centralized ideas suffer first, not necessarily the Western ones who relied on being too big to fail and prioritized stock buybacks.
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