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hobbesmaster posted:if they’re cdma not for too much longer lte
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Bhodi posted:this beats what I thought this was going to be, stealing oil from transformers for cooking quote:Consumption of PCB-laden chips poses a health risk to Kenyans in a country where health services are already underfunded and doctors are in short supply no i think you put the chips on the PCB not the other way around
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ah they might not notice for a while then cradlepoint?
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prisoner of waffles posted:as always a good and substantive post is mostly not engaged with Eh, if it wasn't interesting to folks no reason for them to respond. You're drat right about that avatar though.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:hoverwife said that everyone at the hospital in nola had to stop asking who the president was as part of the mental assessment because it's really difficult to empathize w/ a patient when they just blurt out the n word from a week after inauguration: 2DCAT posted:Funny getting hit by a car story: The paramedic asked me a series of questions to determine whether I was all there. The last question was "Who is the President of the United States?" my response was literally "God loving damnit" and the paramedic laughed and said that was an acceptable answer.
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bless you sir
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he was just trying to cut the battery since they didn't put in a switch
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lovin that police language like "created some motion" or "discharged weapon, striking the unarmed individual"
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lovin that police language like "created some motion" or "discharged weapon, striking the unarmed individual" i think you mean "an officer-involved shooting where the suspect received multiple bullet wounds"
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ate all the Oreos posted:i think you mean "an officer-involved discharge of a firearm where the suspect obtained multiple bullet wounds"
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lovin that police language like "created some motion" or "discharged weapon, striking the unarmed individual" oh god the fun we had with this bullshittiously officious language i mean, not shooting people
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I saw a headline last week that was something like "bystander in officer involved shooting had no active warrants" when the cops raided and shot up the wrong house
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flakeloaf posted:oh god the fun we had with this your mistake was being an army cop. the civilian force is where the real action happens
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flakeloaf posted:they absolutely do but the discovery algorithm needs to be smarter than "a playlist tha's just some poo poo you searched for once, forever, with no new advice" my understanding is that on spotify human-curated playlists is where it's the best chance for some musician to get his stuff into rotation, and there's some emerged market of people who make these playlists which is not entirely unlike what radio hosts kind of do not sure how the playlists are chosen and promoted though
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has anyone said hyperpoop yet https://twitter.com/schmangee/status/969293437668397056 “Ohio is defined by its history of innovation and adventure,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who once canceled a $400 million Obama-era grant for high-speed rail in the state. “A hyperloop in Ohio would build upon that heritage.” In January, a bipartisan group of Rust Belt representatives wrote to President Trump to ask for $20 million in federal funding for a Hyperloop Transportation Initiative, a Department of Transportation division that would regulate and fund a travel mode with no proof of concept. It’s hard to keep up: Last week, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission announced feasibility and environmental-impact studies for a different hyperloop route, connecting Pittsburgh and Chicago through Columbus, Ohio, to be run by a different company, Virgin Hyperloop One. The company—which fired a steel pod through a tube at 240 mph in December—is also studying routes in Missouri and Colorado. Meanwhile, Elon Musk—who has obtained (contested) tunneling permission from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan—pulled a permit from the District of Columbia for a future hyperloop station. ... In a promotional clip for the Great Lakes Hyperloop that plays like a sequel to Chrysler’s Detroit Super Bowl commercial, a gravelly voice intones that this is not a dream, as b-roll footage of factories is cut with aerial footage of what can only be construction of an oil-and-gas pipeline. “We’ve already got a prototype,” the narrator instructs. They don’t. Andrea La Mendola, the company’s chief global operations officer and chief engineering council member, told me there is no full-scale prototype just yet. The company says it is building one now in the southern French city of Toulouse. “In terms of full-scale, all-integration, it will [be the first prototype],” he said. “We will start with 400 meters. Then we go up to 1 kilometer, and possibly 1.6 kilometers—if we add a curve at the end.” I’m no engineer, but if the company wants to blast humans at the speed of sound for hundreds of miles across the American Midwest, maybe they should build the curve. A few of them. La Mendola isn’t an engineer either. Before joining HTT as its chief global operating officer and a member of its chief engineering council, La Mendola was working as a filmmaker. He has a master’s degree in engineering—media and cinema engineering. It’s a well-deployed skill set: What Hyperloop Transportation Technologies lacks in nuts and bolts, it more than makes up for in Hollywood flair. The pods will be coated in “Vibranium,” a rebranded carbon fiber whose name you may recognize from Black Panther. lolll forever
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holy gently caress. yes, let's earmark billions for a magical kind of train that doesn't exist instead of building actual rail infrastructure today. you want a high-speed train? go ask the japanese, they've been running them for 30 loving years, they can probably build you one between whatever c-list midwestern transit hubs you want
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didn't they build a "prototype" that was like 1000 feet long and took 8 hours to depressurize?
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infernal machines posted:holy gently caress. building actual things doesn't give these companies in the PPPs as much money to pocket as a nebulous study of a theoretical transportation mode does i should be surprised that there are multiple hyperloop companies but i'm not really in the face of this kinda thing
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i suppose i already know the answer to this question, but are people, people with money, honestly so easily enthralled by whatever latest flash in the pan gimmick that’s shat out by some futurist rear end in a top hat that they’re willing to pass over proven technology and systems just to get a taste? “invest in high speed rail/other proven models of mass transit? I’d rather throw money into a hyperloop-shaped hole!” is it all just some VC pyramid scheme??
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it's just politics, and these new companies are much better at getting at that government pork (and kicking it back to the governor in some way) "we cant get enough VC, or the VC's want out, lets get some sweet sweet government dollars"
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as many 1%er rich people there are, and VC firms and other investors out there, its still really hard to find an investor with a fatter wallet than the federal government
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:building actual things doesn't give these companies in the PPPs as much money to pocket as a nebulous study of a theoretical transportation mode does oh i know. it's the reason metrolinx is paying to study "hydrogen trains" instead of just building a loving overhead line system like they'd planned to a decade ago. doesn't matter that almost no one builds fuel-cell trains and the few that exist even as concepts are too small to handle our double-decker rolling stock. and none of the hydrogen generation infrastructure exists. and none of the hydrogen storage infrastructure exists. no, lets build an entire industry and supply chain from scratch to supply these trains no one builds, rather than just getting on with putting up the overhead lines and buying some catenary engines and calling it a day infernal machines fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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President Beep posted:i suppose i already know the answer to this question, but are people, people with money, honestly so easily enthralled by whatever latest flash in the pan gimmick that’s shat out by some futurist rear end in a top hat that they’re willing to pass over proven technology and systems just to get a taste? H.P. Hovercraft posted:“Ohio is defined by its history of innovation and adventure,” vainglorious imbeciles
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also actually building these big projects takes years and years and they might not be in office by the time something like a brand new commuter rail system comes online for them to take credit for it, while at the same time they're paying the political costs of things like the right-of-way acquisitions and bond measures/new sales taxes needed for such a project to get going
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you know what? gently caress it. we deserve to go extinct. don’t have to kill anyone, just universal sterilization. as a species we’re just the absolute worst
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Research Expanding Brain Dot JPG small brain: NSF grant big brain: private capital investment galaxy brain: federal private-public partnership
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universe brain: volunteer workforce collaborating thru google docs that you use to calculate corporate value It’s there, they have frequently stated, that the company’s unique advantage lies: in the more than 900 volunteers so enamored with the idea of a functional hyperloop that they deploy their time and expertise suggesting materials, building simulations, or developing marketing in exchange for stock options. A fawning Harvard Business Review case study published in 2017 cast conventionalities like “paying full-time salaries and being focused on traditional employment” as “substantial disadvantages.” The study praised HTT’s cost-saving strategy of collaborating over Google Docs and reported that the company’s more than 60,000 social media followers “contributed in various ways,” including alerting the CEO to new engineering research. In inventing and implementing a commercial transportation mode, the method is unorthodox, to put it mildly. Terri Griffith, a professor of management at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and one of the study’s authors, told me she thought the company’s record of patents and feasibility studies provided evidence that the system was working even in the absence of a prototype. The company claims to be worth $100 million, though that calculation relies on the valuation of volunteer contributions and products on loan from starry-eyed partner companies like Leybold, which manufactures the vacuum pumps that might one day suck the air out of a transportation tube. La Mendola says the company now employs about 40 salaried engineers, who are charged with merely reinventing the relationship between time and distance.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:Terri Griffith, a professor of management at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and one of the study’s authors, told me she thought the company’s record of patents and feasibility studies provided evidence that the system was working even in the absence of a prototype. 
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:oh lord the monthly SV transportation luncheon is going to be on something called "Smart Regions" what if instead of allowing a new house to be built ever, we installed an app? chet businesson reveals how the east bay can solve the housing crisis and traffic with this one weird trick Stymie posted:yeah, she wanted to suppress votes too to ensure the superdelegates weren't an issue for anyone but her so thanks for confirming superdelegates have never been a problem excep tin the minds of the deranged faux-left, fyi a bunch of guys. why don't you name who's not going to be arrested Bhodi posted:it's a social crime, what we do to old folks what kind of idiot bullshit is this where old people dont sit around drinking down the vfw or whatever all day in america also lol that you think old people need public transportation to get drunk. or that they're being taken care of, they are drinking all day long at a bar after all
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there are a shitload of old, isolated shut ins out there, especially in rural/suburban areas. if you can’t drive, or have someone drive you, then you’re largely hosed in much of this country.
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Penisface posted:my understanding is that on spotify human-curated playlists is where it's the best chance for some musician to get his stuff into rotation, and there's some emerged market of people who make these playlists which is not entirely unlike what radio hosts kind of do I frequently get playlists containing artists I already listen to plus some other stuff thrown in. All things considered Spotify is pretty decent.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:Terri Griffith, a professor of management at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and one of the study’s authors, told me she thought the company’s record of patents and feasibility studies provided evidence that the system was working even in the absence of a prototype. shadow investor spotted
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President Beep posted:there are a shitload of old, isolated shut ins out there, especially in rural/suburban areas. if you can’t drive, or have someone drive you, then you’re largely hosed in much of this country. this isnt unusual at all. real hosed up old people can't get around places anywhere, or if they can they usually don't. it's the same in england or austria as it is in america there is nothing special about america in this regard. especially since it really doesn't matter that theres no public transit in places that are literally empty voids
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President Beep posted:but there’s also no transit in a lot of places that aren’t empty voids newsflash: the exact same thing is true across the entire world, in every country except like singapore or san marino since those are literally just a city and it's especially so for olds because a lot of them are still staying out in farmlands they were born on, or moved to outlying/cheap suburbs before they retired
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fishmech posted:newsflash: the exact same thing is true across the entire world, in every country except like singapore or san marino since those are literally just a city ok, perhaps. just to make sure i get you though, you’re saying that public transit in america is on par with that of most other developed countries?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lovin that police language like "created some motion" or "discharged weapon, striking the unarmed individual" in this case i'm just going to assume the dude motioned to the tesla making a jerk-off motion President Beep posted:i suppose i already know the answer to this question, but are people, people with money, honestly so easily enthralled by whatever latest flash in the pan gimmick that’s shat out by some futurist rear end in a top hat that they’re willing to pass over proven technology and systems just to get a taste? investors are increasingly chasing stupider and stupider ideas for the promise of bigger returns, it's basically the topic of the thread and a symptom of rich ppl having more money than they know what to do with for pols the alternative is putting that money into useful programs that will be too popular to axe in a few years. this kind of poo poo makes today's pols look good now and lets tomorrow's pols look good when they poo poo-can the failing project as "pork barrel spending" President Beep posted:diaperpoop
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