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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Amazon patent to track how many times you jack it on the job: insert bracelet into paint agitator, dominate performance leaderboards, set off every RSI alarm in the system
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you'd think light bulbs of all things would use powerline networking
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from now on all my secret potentially litigated projects will be named "updog"
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I like my women like I like my coffee
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Feb 6, 2018 21:10
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I was going to say "covered in bees"
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tangentially related to techbub but the falcon heavy launch worked. elon musk's car is now in a solar orbit forever. 2 boosters came back and landed simultaneously, unclear what happened to the core but even if they lost it this is a big success
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fuel is not that expensive, it's just liquid oxygen and keroseneqirex posted:I think I remember seeing that having a reusable space shuttle ended up costing like 3x more than just building a new disposable vehicle every time that's because the shuttle is a really bad design in a dozen different ways
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Feb 6, 2018 22:57
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mrmcd posted:Do you think Sarah would mind if we changed the thread title to "techbubb.le: laser is the sauce"? change the title to "tech bubble 451: it was a pleasure to burn VC"
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:for whatever reason that reminded me that the SR-71 was a thing, and it was one of the coolest of things the sr-71 had static requirements for the entire project and it was also top secret so minimal outside interference
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Schadenboner posted:Major Kong on the SR-71. Pro-loving-click. yeah I read ben rich's book on skunk works, it was really cool
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the best sr-71 story
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nah they’re spinning it as “we wanted to burn every drop of fuel in the final stage, we had more than we expected because reasons” the mission was to lose the car in deep space so it’s never seen again and by that metric it’s a success
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despite the dick waving in the aerospace industry and this thread, the sr-71 was consistently tracked and locked onto by radars and fighters operated by sweden of all places there's an sr-71 (actually an a-12) at the intrepid, it's just as cool as you think up close
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President Beep posted:god dammit. what have you done?! 
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ate all the Oreos posted:one day elon will finally invent his crowning achievement, a robotic wife that doesn't talk back at him when he needs her to show up and be a pretty object to validate his self image and when he gets tired of it, launch it into space
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marketing: $100 R&D: $100 nazis: $5000 customer service: $100 please help, my company is dying
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infernal machines posted:tech startup dares the FDA to gently caress them all the way up.  hearing this in jk simmons' voice
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Feb 8, 2018 21:00
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the curious case of benjamin snooze button
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Feb 8, 2018 22:31
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I really don't see the big deal as it's already completely normal to have electronic reminders for things like "go to this appointment" or "your food is done cooking" or whatever. why not "you should go to bed now" especially if you know you're someone who frequently loses track of time while their attention is held by whatever you do to veg out at the end of the day
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another few apps like this and you'll be able to build a fully automated slumlord
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I have the exact same name as a leading right-wing media shitbird so you have to be very specific to google me
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how was it not already against the law to drive around with someone in the trunk
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why on earth did you paste all that it’s not even paywalled
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infernal machines posted:is there some ongoing fyad campaign to come up with the most tortured version of "your posting is bad"? wasn't that the official purpose of fyad in the first place before it became embryonic weird twitter
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-offer-pay-quit/553202/quote:The reasoning goes like this: Employees resist an initial temptation—to quit Amazon and walk out with cash—and by resisting it, they may actually feel more committed to their jobs, said Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale Law School who wrote about the concept of The Offer in his book Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done. Amazon employees who evaluate The Offer and then turn it down have decided they like the company enough to stay a little longer. They then want their future behavior to match that feeling, Ayres said.
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President Beep posted:heltr skeltr
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bump_fn posted:be the capitalism you want to see in teh world hey can we get a mod in here, suicide requests are bannable
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Feb 15, 2018 18:49
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is there an app for calling a tow truck uber but for ubers
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President Beep posted:i need to figure out a way to monetize bad posts. income security for life. start a social media site, sell to one of the bigger ones
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gotta put predator silhouettes on the glass anyone have a couple of big android robot stickers
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Feb 16, 2018 17:42
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mrmcd posted:Of course it's loving Megan McArdle, she of the broken calculator. wait is this not a joke? someone actually proposed that for realsies and that's not a photoshop making fun of oblivious tech people
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Sagebrush posted:"Little Elon! what in HELL are you building?"
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Feb 17, 2018 21:08
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favorite thing about iOS autocorrect is that it will offer to change “guns” to the bicep emoji e: only seems to do it in messages tho
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Feb 21, 2018 16:01
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one weird trick to make money through streaming royalty abuse, spotify hates it
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Feb 22, 2018 21:00
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I was about to ask what the units of "emphasis on manhood" are but clearly it's inches
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ADINSX posted:I don't understand, what is a wedding geofilter? snapchat feature sort of like a hashtag, except: -visual elements on photos -can only be used from a certain physical location -you have to pay for it
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Feb 26, 2018 18:28
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if by "weird poo poo" you mean "ads"
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Feb 26, 2018 18:29
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reminder that that sort of price discrimination for political ads is illegal on tv and print, they just haven’t updated it to cover internet yet
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flakeloaf posted:the idea of the electoral college generally is just so weird to me, who does it benefit the original reason for the electoral college was to insulate the presidential selection process from both a) congress and b) the complexities inherent in a nationwide popular vote across territory with varying degrees of slavery. additionally, it would make federation more appealing to low-population states by assuring them they would not be consistently outvoted by the large ones. so the main benefit was to the people proposing that the constitution be adopted because it helped win needed support part of the original plan was that the members of the electoral college would exercise some discretion in choosing a president, with voters selecting who they felt would make the best decision rather than just voting for their preferred president by proxy. but this was before the rise of organized political parties so the founders didn't foresee blind loyalty becoming a problem a lot of the dumb things about the US system can be traced back to this assumption that the government would always consist of decent honorable men voting for other decent honorable men
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