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The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


H.P. Hovercraft posted:

also burning man doesn't count as a vacation

It's a networking event, totally a business expense

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The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


i had not heard about grimes prior to this thread and now i want her and musk to move to mars asap

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


leftist heap posted:

staring down drivers is great but it also makes you realize how many people literally do not look where they are driving

while bike commuting i have on more than one occasion been nearly ran over by someone making a right hand turn while looking left

the only thing worse than self driving cars are human driven cars

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


ambient oatmeal posted:

I did this once and the guy ran over my foot, got out of his car and punched me in the face

that's what you get for living in new york

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


https://twitter.com/PATreasury/status/1217123506078482435

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


can't speak for tesla, but I met a guy that was at spacex and was 100% on the koolaid

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


that is violence

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


i was at a party nearly a decade ago and some guy was handing out slips of paper with $5 worth of bitcoin as a party favor

i stuck in a drawer and forgot about it until two years ago and found it while cleaning
i went and checked the balance and found that it was worth $100 so I cashed it out and bought a bottle of scotch

thank you for readying my bitcoin story

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


musk is just disrupting double entry accounting

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


lower 48 rural communities are weird to me
you get a bunch of small unincorporated townships dotting the landscape no more than 10 miles apart with no apparent industry or commercial area then you have a walmart supercenter right in the middle of them all

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Lutha Mahtin posted:

townships are by definition unincorporated, yes :rolleyes:

:goonsay:

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


would you prefer 'census-designated place'

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


a bureaucrat in a windowless office stamping APPROVED on a form


my state has a 'city' with a population of 12

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1240490036354854913?s=21

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Chris Knight posted:

no man's dark sky

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


refleks posted:

Software Engineer, small dog person, AnCap.

https://twitter.com/crawfordleeds/status/1250644542589595649

e: gently caress this guys twitter feed is bad, I'm surprised I haven't seen a red hat yet

The Fool fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Apr 16, 2020

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I demand an empirical study on the effectiveness of shirtless old men in internet trolling

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Vincent Van Goatse posted:

imagine being Elon Musk

imagine being someone that would rather go to jail and get his company shut down than go home to his girlfriend and child

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


gschmidl posted:

This is, of course, why everyone should've read Ursula K. Le Guin instead.

I know she’s done other stuff, but the earthsea saga remains one of my favorite fantasy series to this day.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Fuzzy Mammal posted:

graph what's ur address i will mail u a new kb you're killing me

he’s already fixed his keyboard and is doing it on purpose now

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


iospace posted:

Does anyone have the latency of Iridium? I found 1 second and given that's the nearest analogue to Starlink...

http://dodccrp.org/events/10th_ICCRTS/CD/papers/233.pdf

Best case scenario is about 980ms, where the average times in more realistic tests are double that.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Nfcknblvbl posted:

lookin forward to talking over people by accident in phone convos

ever used an iridium phone? it takes practice

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


it thinks the truck balls are a traffic cone

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


MattO posted:

Can you dangle an actual traffic cone from your bumper? Or a few of em... or other obstacle-like items

just get a vinyl stick-on stop sign

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


ambient oatmeal posted:

lol if u live somewhere where u need to drive

most of the us?

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


thread broken?
e: not anymore

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Lutha Mahtin posted:

hi honored, im lutha

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


can’t wait for some jackass to put one of those inflatable tents on the rivers here and get caught by a sweeper

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Cat Face Joe posted:

reminder that elon identifies politically as a socialist

more people would identify as socialist if 'the others' were excluded from any benefits

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I thought Thor killed them all

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


gates and elon must be using the same pr company

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I thought I remember seeing some thermo-electric power generation proposals a few years ago instead of using solar panels


whatever happened to that? seems better than driving on solar panels to me

e: first google result I could find https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224688920_Thermoelectric_Generators_using_Solar_Thermal_Energy_in_Heated_Road_Pavement

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


that’s why the thermal method appeals to me you “just” need to put tubes underneath/in the asphalt rather than having to totally rethink the road surface material

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Jonny 290 posted:

problem though: a utopia wouldn't have roads.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


H.P. Hovercraft posted:

he probably hasn't played that simcity

the Thunderbird’s remake has an episode with one of these, seems more his speed

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I just started watching an lp of death stranding and had forgetten it was the mgs guy

took about 2 minutes to realize what was up

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


most independent podcasts are barely better than a poorly xeroxed newsletter

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


haven’t listened to a podcast in 5 months

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


actually I lied, my son likes story pirates, so we listen to that together sometimes

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The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


hard to make mistakes with scotch or pizza though

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