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The earth sped up slightly the last couple years after only slowing down for a long time.

The great leap-minute crisis of 2147 will be interesting.

It all goes back to the maxim that you can't con an honest man. Con "artists" always make the victim be a victim of their own dishonesty and greed.

1000% the fault of the small plane and a terrible loss to a historical treasure.

This is a really famous case and is fairly Kafkaesque.

It comes down to this:

> In 1992, a French court ruled that having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France.

He was legally stuck at the airport with no options from 1988 to 1995 when Belgium said they would take him. After that he stayed due to stubbornness in refusing to sign bureaucratic papers that did not represent his mental truth, which was affected by the years trapped and made him a bit off in the head like it would anyone. So he remained stuck.

He never could afford to stay at the airport. He was trapped there by bureaucrats. Humanists recognizing his dilemma gave him food.

So expressing regret did not work, it rarely does and is widely considered a sign of weakness. Perhaps it have worked better to double down on your offensive positions, strengthen them, draw in deranged allies. (\s, maybe)

Or find an employer that does not require github which is like 99% of employers.

Apparently your username is a Portuguese psychological term that means self-reflection, that is cool. But maybe expand outside that.

It was reported in Peopleware that bugs are somewhat consistent across LOC so someone who implements a solution in 10x fewer LOC also has 10x fewer bugs.

Good point about the spline edge this is a peeve of mine as well. I do like that most databases store book height which is really useful imo.

After decades with private practices, since I switched to WalMart my prescriptions are more accurate and glasses cost almost nothing.

"Perfect is the Enemy of Good", as happened with Duke Nukem III.

Related is the amazing Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City California.

Weird to see the PhD is now a trade degree with people expecting to receive technical skill training to increase their chances to get an ok job with benefits working for some corporation.

Possibly the PhD is the new High School Diploma, signifying basic literacy and ability to follow directions.

Marjorie Rice. Housewife.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentago...

Her discoveries first mentioned in a 1988 magazine when she was 65.

Wow thanks so much. That is indeed "incredible" on many levels.

Never will happen.

Source: Their high level employees that I know.

Satellites cost a lot to operate and UA is using significant bandwidth for these satellites. SpaceX is not a charity.

The article has errors. UA pays $500 a month for the $5000/mo high bandwidth high priority mobile service tier which they need for their high bandwidth drone video streaming. SpX eats the rest of the cost. This does not mean either that "it costs $4500/mo" or that "they pay $4500/mo".

It seems obvious that AI models are derivative works of the works they are trained on but it also seems obvious that it is totally legally untested whether they are derivative works in the formal legal sense of copyright law. So it should be a good case assuming we have wise and enlightened judges who understand all nuances and can guide us into the future.

OK, and then which services are next? A lot.

The least capable doctor's time is worth $300/hr. The scribe is paid what, $25/hr?

This is so much like hearing of engineers that will not hire a $20/hr maid due to egalitarian reasons so they squat in filth or waste all their free hours cleaning, all while capable and willing cleaners starve. Insane.

There are huge productivity gains in private practices that eliminate web pages and email and switch to paper in filing cabinets only. This is also why fax machines still exist and are exclusively used by medical practices.

The discussion here very clearly is primarily about Twitter. Assertions it is primarily about Tesla are unequivocally disingenuous.

Yes that is exactly what I said.

Almost as anachronistic as people using QWERTY consoles.

Ah, so he bought a Carribean island and is marketing it as an upscale resort for the ultra rich to jet to and this makes him an eco savior. Nah.

> Is not really so much difficult if you are rich. You just buy a chunk of land with a unique ecosystem, keep people from entering on it and you save ten species from going extinct. Is as simple as that.

Oh do you mean that land in Hawaii that he blocked native caretakers from accessing and has since been taken over by invasive species?

The photo and caption were pulled from their resource pool.

Agreed. The argument seems to be that the targeted pieces are "oil" paintings. But surely they know that the oil in these masterworks is derived from renewable sources and that therefore makes no sense, oil in oil paint is not petroleum based. So it seems the argument is disingenuous and there is a conspiracy. On the other hand I have realized that very few things people do are rational so the assumption common in economics theories that people are making rational choices I am not convinced by. Personally I think these people are all just crazy. However I can not rule out conspiracy to discredit. Like UFOs, this movement is an enigma.

It definitely is product placement. What is going on behind the scenes at Reuters to allow for that is probably quite interesting.

Agreed. That's really the only interpretation that makes sense, assuming they are acting rationally.

For me the Mindstorms failed at updates and could not work despite heroic customer service that did not include a refund. They are not a tech company and can not do tech.

Since then I've proven that things like ESP32 Arduino etc actually work to teach small kids real robotics. Mindstorms was always a gimmick.