Posts by Blank Reg

Re: Larry

of course not every investment works out. But I've seen too many stupid ideas and obvious scams such as Theranos get funding while worthwhile projects get ignored. I've met with enough VCs to know that most aren't qualified to judge whether technical claims are feasible, yet they are the ones handing out the cash.

Re: There is a lesson here...

But the Space Force might be able to get to it. Luckily you could always have one of the Jewish space lasers "accidentally" zap your satellite

You're ignoring the massive resources that go in to making all the gear used in mining, and the buildings housing all that gear.

Re: With a small tweak

That shouldn't be a surprise really given their primary markets were telecom and finance, both markets that bleed cash for every second of downtime.

Re: 60% chance of failure

There is another possible outcome. Tesla drops by another 87% to get down to a reasonable valuation. Then his collateral for the purchase isn't nearly enough to cover the loan and the banks take over Twitter.

Re: PET indeed

they only go down to 100hz, so it can't cancel out a lot of the low end noise that you hear on a plane

Re: It's not wasted

right now the best use of this money would be to provide Ukraine with anything they need to push the Russians out, and that includes pushing them out of Crimea. If they end up in a substantially worse position than before the war then we may finally be rid of that Putin asshole

it seems that the average intelligence on this planet has plummeted in the last decade or so.

Re: "Authenticate all humans"?

I don't think he's smart enough to be a supervillian, maybe just your generic run of the mill villian

Re: Might as well add me.

I don't recall the visa requirements, but going to the local Russian consulate was like time traveling 50 years into the past. I don't think it had been redecorated since the 70s. The staff were so slow and it was obvious that they couldn't care less about their job or getting things done in a timely manner.

Getting a visa for China on the other hand was simple and fast.

Re: Clippy behind the wheel

We're a long way off from AI being able to deal with the many more subtle aspects of driving that we do without even thinking about it. You can often tell in an instant whether that driver next to you is a timid driver afraid of everything or a complete asshole who is going to cut in front if you at the first opportunity. Drivers also communicate nonverbally with each other all the time, and not just with the middle finger, AI can't do that

Mackenzie Scott (Bezos' ex) seems to be doing a good job with her share of Amazon

Re: Missile Gap

hitting a hard dense object at mach 5 is likely to put a big hole in their missle, you just somehow need to be able to get enough of them in the way to ensure a collision

Re: Good report

Surely a sign that the end is nigh

I wouldn't even go that far. A wallet has far fewer failure modes than any electronic device.

not necessarily, some used vehicles are selling for more than a new one because the wait for a new one can be many months long

Re: Experience

"They view new ideas with too much skepticism rather than taking a balanced view and giving new ideas and approaches a fair shot."

The problem is that so many of these "new" ideas are just a repackaging of something we've already abandoned in the past, but it seems new to those that are new to the field.

Re: Effect on copper prices

sure it would still be tiny versus the price of gold, but a 10x increase in the price of copper would have a huge impacts on the cost of electronics, electric motors, generators etc.

Re: Bollocks statistics

Exactly, my WFH day sometimes starts as early as 4am and ends as late as midnight. That doesn't mean I've put in a 20 hour day, On such days I might very well have stopped working by 9 am and picked up again sometime later in the day

Re: Buttery males

The republicans basically advertise all their misdeeds through such projection. Pretty much any time they accuse someone without any facts to back them up it's because they themselves are doing the same thing.

That's why so many are adamant that elections are rigged. They always try to rig elections so the concept of a politician running for office and not trying to rig an election just never crosses their feeble little corrupt minds

Re: It's over

There should be nothing controversial in saying fascists/nazis/war is bad. if those are controversial to you then you are the problem.

Re: War ... huh ... what is it good for?

When the people repeatedly put an asshole in charge then they eventually suffer the consequences

Re: It's cloudy out there

I believe somewhere in Russia they are still making vacuum tubes so they have the option to go really old school with their home grown computers

Re: So....

As many of the planes are leased from manufacturers outside of Russia, and the Russian airlines will no longer be able to pay for the leases then you can expect those planes to be seized as soon as they land almost anywhere outside of Russia and their few remaining allies

Re: Don’t forget Pooh Bear in all of this

China very much likes having the world as its customer, not having a world would really put a damper on economic growth.

Re: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

All the web developer bootcamp graduates can't be helping matters. They seem to learn how to do web development and nothing else, no background in basic computer science principles.

Maybe that's why so many don't realize that Javascript is a steaming pile of crap or that the entirety of the web development ecosystem is an abomination. It's a house of cards built on quicksand.

Re: Sounds legitimate

Unless you're short selling, then the sky is the limit

They can lie all they want, but most people who aren't already brain dead will question why Russia "liberating" a country would result in skyrocketing prices, a crashing economy and empty store shelves.

Re: Size of a real keyboard?

If you don't allow Apple to patent already existing ideas then they wouldn't get to file many patents at all.

The UN could encourage further domestic trouble for Putin by declaring that any region of Russia that wishes to break away will be immediately recognized as a legitimate independent country., unless they would rather join some other country.

Why should Putin be the only one that can unilaterally decide what land belongs to which country?

Re: Google Docs form

Having worked with Russians for over a decade I can tell you not one of them supports this. All their facebook profiles are now flying the Ukrainian flag

I expect any supporters of this invasion are likely old people feeling nostalgic for the old USSR