ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
How many people absolutely need to low latencies
It's not about need, it's about want, and even when it is about need HughesNet can't meet the need and paying $100 a month for Starlink sounds a hell of a lot better than your suggestion of... buying a different house in a less rural location?
I don't know how things are in the US
Clearly. Look up population density for the US compared to most European countries and you'll understand, maybe. You also might understand (one of the many reasons) why public transit in the US is so much more difficult.
ChickenOverlord
4hr ago
Looking at the previous thread that roystgnr linked, I see you arguing that HughesNet of all things has comparable speeds and prices to Starlink.
Speed is hardly the only important factor for an internet connection. HughesNet has latency in the 600-800ms range, making online gaming impossible and phone calls an intolerably laggy mess. It has hard data caps that make watching streaming video in any significant quantity a non-starter. And it has a horrifically slow upload speed, something like 3 Mbps, which would make my (and many other people's) work from home jobs impossible.
Starlink has none of these limitations. I gotta agree, into the Gell-Mann amnesia bucket you go.
ChickenOverlord
5hr ago
Even before Starlink launches began, SpaceX was launching roughly three times as many rockets as ULA per year
ChickenOverlord
7hr ago
I don't have a WSJ subscription so I can't confirm the details, but it looks like Starlink turned profitable ~4 years after thet started launching the satellites, which is a pretty crazy turnaround given the massive amount of capital poured into it: https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b?page=1
ChickenOverlord
8hr ago
Also Falcon 9 launches were both profitable and undercutting the competition by massive margins before SpaceX ever landed a single booster. The space industry was beyond ripe for disruption.
ChickenOverlord
19hr ago
The highest ranking female chess player ever, Judit Polgar, is ranked 61st overall. There aren't any other females in the top 100. It beggars belief that mere implicit discrimination would be enough to turn the game so strongly against females at the highest levels., but I don't expect feminists to understand what something not even passing the smell test means. If there was actual explicit discrimination and rules barring women from joining they might have a point.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
This seems wildly arbitrary.
And it is the right of a nation to make such arbitrary decisions.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
Welcome to why Affirmative Action makes Asians and Whites furious
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
If you read the article linked in the Twitter post, you'd see that Asian enrollment dropped by about 1/3 and Hispanic enrollment went up about 50%. Black enrollment seems to have mostly held steady.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
One of the coolest things I ever got to see in a museum was the actual ice pick used to do the job
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
I work on boring tax software for a megacorp, and our software development velocity would actually improve if we fired our entire offshore team (based in India). We would need a small transition period (due to them apparently intentionally siloing important information) but currently they cause more issues than they fix. As a small example, one of the third party tax accounting softwares that we integrate added a new authentication method in late 2022 or early 2023, I can't recall. I spent an hour or so to add support for it to the API client wrapper that I maintain (that gets used by all of our products for integration with this third party software). The only changes required on the part of the other products using my wrapper is a ~5 line code change, a new column in the database to track if customers are using the new or old authentication method, and updating an existing form (where users enter their API credentials) to allow users to choose the type of authentication they want to use. The data required by the new auth method is actually a subset of the data required by the old method, so the form needs hardly any modifications.
In spite of this, my offshore coworkers have spent almost a year and a half having regular meetings about implementing these changes, planning, "technical discussions," etc. And I've had to attend the vast majority of them, wasting mountains of my time. Oh and I'm not allowed to implement these changes myself in the 30 minutes or so it would take to do them, they're very protective of the things they work on and actively inhibit and block anyone who tries to improve their shitty code. And they refuse to read the documentation that I've written.
So basically my offshore coworkers have wasted 10+ hours of my time over something that should have taken a single dev 30 minutes (plus a change request to our DB admins I guess). And this for over a year and a half now.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Famously in the Bible, in the book of Acts, Paul's Roman citizenship affords him special treatment. See Acts 22:25-29.
In Zimmerman's case we have abundant evidence that his story was accurate. We have testimony from Trayvon's friend who was on the phone with him shortly before the encounter that Trayvon made it all the way home and decided to double back to attack Zimmerman. We have an eyewitness who saw the fight from a distance who saw (based on the colors of the clothing he saw etc.) Trayvon on top of Zimmerman, beating him. We have the reports of paramedics and medical examiners showing injuries to Zimmerman consistent with him being grounded and pounded, while the only injuries on Trayvon's body (apart from the obvious bullet to the chest) were to his knuckles.
It was pretty much an open and shut case, and were it not for public pressure (and protests by advocacy groups funded by and working directly with Eric Holder and other members of the Obama DoJ) it would have never gone to trial, and rightly so.
Edit: source on the DoJ's involvement https://theweek.com/articles/462236/did-justice-department-incite-2012-trayvon-martin-protests
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
what'd go wrong with changing society not to hold Only Fans as a black mark against her?
I mean, apart from the likely impossibility of trying to change society as a whole? Just emptiness and depression, nothing major.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
At least William Adams has a decent amount of actual historical documents about him (and written by him!). Yasuke has about 6 lines total, that say he was gifted by the Portuguese to Oda Nobunaga, and then returned to them after Oda Nobunaga's assassination.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
But, this is a distributional effect. It's like how if we had let the plains Indians own all that prime farmland on the prairie, it could just be used by them to hunt buffalo, but if they had to pay a land tax, they could never afford it.
You know, I think you just made one of the most powerful arguments against Georgism I've seen. At least for leftists that I've seen that support it.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Commies tried it in Romania, but they didn't have the political will to keep enforcing it (and it led to a massive amount of orphans, though again that could arguably be solved with sufficient political will)
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
I love to shit on the Bay Area as much as the next rightwinger, but its nightlife is nowhere near as dead as Seattle's.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Then say that instead of pretending to be shocked
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Do you have a specific objection?
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
aurochs
Have been extinct for 400 years, how do we have any reasonable way to compare their intelligence to that of cows?
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Well I can't speak for psychology majors, but as someone who was dumb enough to major in history there are virtually zero jobs in history outside of actually teaching history (either in grade school or university). I majored in history but went on to become a software dev. My dad majored in history but spent his whole career doing insurance claims adjustment. My grandpa majored in history and spent his whole career as an electrician. My older brother was dumb enough to get a whole ass PhD in history, and somehow managed to land one of the tiny, tiny number of actual history jobs that aren't teaching jobs.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
At least in Zimbabwe, the black citizens now have less economic prosperity and less political freedom than they did in Rhodesia.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
How do you resolve issues where someone you whitelisted replies to the comment of someone you haven't, and vice versa?
Do your older siblings tell you you were adopted because they hate orphans, or do they do it because it gets to you in a way that other insults and teasing don't?
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