In other news today...
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
From reddit, but actually
funnyterrifying.Won't be the first queen to rule on life support:
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Some science for the day:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Researchers need to go back to the drawing board to find ways to collect more vital behavioural data to help magpies survive in a changing world.
It seems to me the magpies are doing just fine, thank you very much.
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Let us believe in Holy Church of Science:
"participants regarded absurd claims from a scientist as more credible than those from a spiritual leader"
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
more credible than those from a spiritual leader
Really? Couldn't tell from The Pandemic. </ >
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
more credible than those from a spiritual leader
Really? Couldn't tell from The Pandemic. </ >
Nah. That's been about not trusting bureaucrats and politicians.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Let us believe in Holy Church of Science:
"participants regarded absurd claims from a scientist as more credible than those from a spiritual leader"Well, scientists sometimes make correct claims, even when absurd, while religious leaders only make as many correct claims as a broken clock, especially when it's about absurd ones.
So the higher credibility is a priori well justified, even if absurd claims require scepticism.Also, anything but the headline is behind a paywall.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Also, anything but the headline is behind a paywall.
Sorry, I have "institutional access" to Nature via the next university, and it works quite seamlessly.
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Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS
Surprised it took this long.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS
Surprised it took this long.
I'm not sure why they'd get rid of it. It's a killer app.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS
Surprised it took this long.
Remember that bit about not breaking userland? What if there still were some weirdos using it?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
That move came after 12 months in which the company’s shares had plummeted 80 percent, wiping about $38 billion off its market capitalization. The company’s stock has rallied since, partly due to news that Nike, Amazon, and other groups were evaluating potential bids and as activist investor Blackwells Capital pushes for a sale.
What? This random bike-or-whatever company I've never heard of had a market cap of about $47.5 billion?? Surely that's here.
For comparison, let's randomly look at... say, Ford Motors: market cap $69 billion.
Or General Motors: $68 billion.
Surely, these are nowhere near the same in terms of revenue, profit, net worth, etc.But then, Tesla has a market cap of $815 billion, and they sell like a total of 8 cars a year. So maybe I just don't understand how any of this works.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
to read the article, but these things are indoor exercise equipment - how the fuck are they getting wet and rusting? Are they just absolutely dripping with sweat?
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The article doesn't detail it, but I would guess that it is bikes in a humid environment that are most effected. Especially so if you are near the ocean, salt water oxidizes iron faster than normal water.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS
Surprised it took this long.
Remember that bit about not breaking userland? What if there still were some weirdos using it?
... @Tsaukpaetra , you have critical stuff on ReiserFS, yeah?
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
to read the article, but these things are indoor exercise equipment - how the fuck are they getting wet and rusting? Are they just absolutely dripping with sweat?
I used to produce about a gallon of sweat an hour on an exercise bike. Probably yes, absolutely squelching with it.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS
Surprised it took this long.
Remember that bit about not breaking userland? What if there still were some weirdos using it?
... @Tsaukpaetra , you have critical stuff on ReiserFS, yeah?
Negatory.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The planning going into the cover up probably cost more than fixing it. My mother bought a can wd40 about 15 years ago for about $2. Still fucking works.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The planning going into the cover up probably cost more than fixing it. My mother bought a can wd40 about 15 years ago for about $2. Still fucking works.
phosphoric acid is also cheap and effective for removing surface rust, which should be all they have there.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But then, Tesla has a market cap of $815 billion, and they sell like a total of 8 cars a year. So maybe I just don't understand how any of this works.
No, it's not just you. The market is broken. For details, see e.g.:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118122844,descCd-buy.html
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The planning going into the cover up probably cost more than fixing it. My mother bought a can wd40 about 15 years ago for about $2. Still fucking works.
phosphoric acid is also cheap and effective for removing surface rust, which should be all they have there.
You sure about that? Because from reading the article, the bikes acquired the rust before arriving from Taiwan. Meaning, they were likely not properly protected while on a cargo ship. Months in the sea air.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
But then, Tesla has a market cap of $815 billion, and they sell like a total of 8 cars a year. So maybe I just don't understand how any of this works.
No, it's not just you. The market is broken. For details, see e.g.:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118122844,descCd-buy.html
The problem for me as a lay-investor is what to do.
Just keeping your money around you suffer from inflation (and a lot so now), you don't get any interest on savings, and bonds don't give any yields at all. So there's only the stock market left, which is extremely overheated. Or properties, which cost twice what they used to a few years ago.
I've been waiting for another crash (E: stock market) for at least 3 years or more, since I kept thinking "this can't go on forever". And that was apparently "wrong" too. So, continuously, I'm faced with the dillema between "buying at the peek now" or "losing more money by waiting". And the normal way of hedging against stock is supposedly bonds, which as mentioned don't work either.Well, maybe a land war will change things, even if for the worse.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The planning going into the cover up probably cost more than fixing it. My mother bought a can wd40 about 15 years ago for about $2. Still fucking works.
phosphoric acid is also cheap and effective for removing surface rust, which should be all they have there.
You sure about that? Because from reading the article, the bikes acquired the rust before arriving from Taiwan. Meaning, they were likely not properly protected while on a cargo ship. Months in the sea air.
It's possible it's more than surface, but probably not. I guess it'd be interesting to see examples.
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@topspin I've been waiting for a property value crash as well, because I want to buy some property to generate wealth. Probably some rental space for small businesses, and just woodland.
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public int SomeProperty { get => throw new Exception("Crash!"); }
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
public int SomeProperty { get => throw new Exception("Crash!"); }
Getting into the main page for property sales in Sweden and adding a bug that will cause sales prices to be shown too low.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
You sure about that? Because from reading the article, the bikes acquired the rust before arriving from Taiwan. Meaning, they were likely not properly protected while on a cargo ship. Months in the sea air.
It's around 6000 nautical miles from Taiwan to LA, so it should be about two weeks, not months. Unless the ship ends up waiting for months on anchor outside the LA port that is.
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@topspin I'd say bypass the stock market and hunt for smaller companies that don't list in the market. See if you find one that has a good business plan, but is hampered by some debt. Such that if it were debt-free, it'd thrive during the crash.
Maybe something that people will always need. Like food, for example. ...Fishing boats? Fishing boats plus a stock of fuel for a long availability outage? When the market crashes, there's going to be issues with fuel deliveries. If your boats are the only ones at sea, while everyone else is out of fuel, you'll get prime squirrel-skin for the fish.
Or maybe just invest in fuel. As in, buy a petrol station and enlarge the storage tanks. The way fuel prices are going, more fuel sitting in the tanks will be good for your profit margin in the end.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Because from reading the article
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@Carnage same, except I'd like to buy a house to live in instead of renting.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Carnage same, except I'd like to buy a house to live in instead of renting.
Yeah, I'm looking for a house in the country side with fiber network, and a large garage. 5 rooms minimum.
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Carnage same, except I'd like to buy a house to live in instead of renting.
Yeah, I'm looking for a house in the country side with fiber network, and a large garage. 5 rooms minimum.
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.I don't want a country house (I'm allergic to yardwork, literally), but fiber would be good. And a garage. And space to run a smoker.
But the main reason I want to own is so I can change things like appliances. And a house, because I'm tired of sharing walls.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
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@dcon That bunker isn't very secret.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dcon That bunker isn't very secret.
So what? As long as it's built in secret, it meets the criteria. I imagine he's playing the ol' Sudden Bunker gag on the neighbors.
Myself, I'm hankering for a nice unassuming house with a surprisingly extensive basement. The current is too assuming without enough basement.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
And space to run a smoker.
Put a post in the middle of the yard with a rope of length radius - k. I wouldn't even bother with a ring bearing, they can't run for very long.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
I've only seen those in old mansions. Not that I've been in very many newly built mansions. If I become wealthy enough to build me a mansion, some secret murder passages seems like a nice idea.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
I've only seen those in old mansions. Not that I've been in very many newly built mansions. If I become wealthy enough to build me a mansion, some secret murder passages seems like a nice idea.
It's surprisingly hard to properly do that with current construction procedures, as demonstrated here (I cannot find any video with just this specific scene, so 115s mark is important)
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
I've only seen those in old mansions. Not that I've been in very many newly built mansions. If I become wealthy enough to build me a mansion, some secret murder passages seems like a nice idea.
It's surprisingly hard to properly do that with current construction procedures, as demonstrated here (I cannot find any video with just this specific scene, so 115s mark is important)
Being a billionaire makes a lot of things possible.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I've only seen those in old mansions. Not that I've been in very many newly built mansions.
I get the impression from the movies that, as a protagonist, if you want a secret passage in a new mansion then you just punch your way through the flimsy drywall. Passages so secret that nobody knew they existed before that moment!
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@Dragoon okay, this is just a study, vs their understated announcement of the robocoup.
Probably.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.I've been partial to a moat.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
I've seen a youtuber take tiktoks where they do. But most were extremely wealthy people.