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  • Everyone has to learn this lesson the hard way

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  • Of course the real problem is when someone in the change swaps out from a benevolent manager to dick :)

    Had this happen with a VP seat. The resignations that followed made the office look like ground-zero for an extinction-level event.

  • Everyone has to learn this lesson the hard way

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  • Most companies are politically fiefdoms of a sort. This is by design. You're completely dependent on the benevolence of the management chain above you. This also explains why decadent or malicious management is nearly impossible to overcome without resorting to involving lawyers.

  • Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions

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  • Agreed. Stop the bleeding first, then triage based on wounds and prognosis.

    Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.

    I'm fully prepared to not live long enough to see that repaired. Not that it's hopeless, but it really will take a lifetime.

  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

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  • Trump tries again to delay $5m sexual abuse payout to E Jean Carroll

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  • Which also makes this whole thing so much more petty, since he technically already paid the settlement; it's no longer his money.

  • Time travel

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  • how to make some wire. [...] finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets.

    These two ingredients put our 120v dynamo really far up the tech tree from "make fire." Our intrepid time travelers are going to spend years trying to not be velocaraptor food and foraging for a meal themselves, all while making stupendous amounts of charcoal and prospecting for ore.

  • Time travel

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  • What I love about that scene is that Bill and Ted are too dumb to know what a paradox is, and how dangerous that can be for a stable timeline. Instead, they just intuit the most useful way to abuse time travel and everything just happens to work out.

  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

    I've seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.

  • Fox News Says Government Advising Good Thermostat Temperatures Is Akin to Communism

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  • It's a legacy we inherited from the cold war. Half the time, Fox News is speaking to Boomers and older gen-X, all of whom grew up and/or lived under the shadow of thermonuclear war and the looming threat of "Communism" (USSR). Nevermind that's all passe, the propaganda still echoes in their ears and can be recalled in an instant by uttering that one trigger word.

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • This is just barely in the 1990's, but The Conversatron comes to mind.

    There was quite the cottage industry around Quake in the 1990's. From GameSpy for finding matches/servers, to news and modding sites for which I can't quite recall the names.

    There's also countless companies and startups that either went bust or were eaten by other companies.

    Meanwhile, there's stuff still online from then that has no right to be. SpaceJam comes to mind.

  • If every star in the night sky is a signal is it possible to send data to other galaxies by intermittently blocking out the suns light in that direction?

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  • Yes. This has been theorized, but with the obvious limitation of building anything big enough to attenuate the sun's output to a visible degree.

    Right now we look for periodic dimming of distant stars, in order to ID exoplanets as they orbit and block light. We also look for any wobble from the gravitational pull of a large orbiting body, like Jupiter-sized things.

    As for artificial dimming, that more or less falls under the concept of a "Dyson Swarm/Sphere", and is something we're keeping an eye out for too. Your signal concept would be carefully orchestrated windows in that swarm, as it orbits. But the energy and sheer mass requirements (measured in substantial fractions of whole planets) are at a level of civilization well beyond anything we can do at present. So there may be something out there, but we're in no position to do the same.

  • Trying to buy a house and realizing you can’t afford anything decent

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  • Glad you enjoyed it.

  • Trying to buy a house and realizing you can’t afford anything decent

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  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Further failure domain segmentaion.

    If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

    Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • What's sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn't be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.

  • Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals

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  • What's crazy is that I read “economic individualism” and immediately think of solar power, composting toilets, salvaged building materials, minimal new construction - basically all the eco-hippie-shit they rail against.