we should airdrop uncontacted tribes shape rotation quizzes in case there is anyone we need to pull out like the matrix
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JC Maxwell
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@male_leo_xxvi stainless rebar is a thing, sometimes used in coastal areas. It's just really expensive and usually not worth the cost
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Why can't we just coat the rebar. Zinc it or nitride it or dip it in epoxy or something. Surely there's a solution here. What about just a shitload of aluminum rebar. Is there a voltaic thing
Steve Mouzon@stevemouzon
Reinforced concrete is fragile because it is self-defeating: the host material (concrete) is a really heavy sponge, delivering water right to the reinforcing that supposedly makes it strong, but water rusts steel. This bridge endured for less than a decade.
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@RealBenSobel pets dot com peaked around 740 million in valuation in '26 dollars. chewy did 12 billion in sales last year alone
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we all agree that the hype for the dot com companies was kinda valid tho, right? It was just a little too early
Atrioc@Atrioc
Its different this time.
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JC Maxwell retweetledi
dwarkesh: “wouldn’t selling nvidia chips to china enable them to train models like claude mythos with cyber offensive capabilities that would be threats to american companies and national security?”
jensen: “what the fuck did you just fucking say to me, you little bitch?”
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@TylerAlterman it's probably two random soviets that somehow prevented accidental start of nuclear war
then Borlaug
I short a lot of the other scientists because those things probably would have happened in the next few years anyway
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Which individuals had the absolute biggest positive impact in history? Give me your top 3
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magic potions are real, we just don't call them that when they work
on the average day I'll take an alertness potion to help me work, a fortitude potion to help recover from exercise, and maybe 25-30 sociability potions
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love how they had to pretend they were doing science up there. "and now the team is recording visual observations of the surface features"
they're looking our the window and we're just doing it because it's cool
NASA@NASA
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…
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@BecomingCritter if you think people will be much better off in ~20 years, charity now is like throwing a life raft to tide people over till the rescue comes
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@ligma__sigma @BecomingCritter yeah if 6 years of taxes is 30K then the real trick here is owing almost no taxes
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@BecomingCritter This is very not smart. They can absolutely go after him much harder. He probably isn’t making much money and is skating by. Taking this as general advice though is very inadvisable
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when you close on the house they will beat you over the head with disclosures. there are probably 20 time where they make you acknowledge interest exists and you understand how it works
now I understand who that's for
Matt Darling 🌐🏗️@besttrousers
I like the "nobody ever asked why" sentence. The reason you pay more money than the house is worth is because the bank loaned you the money.
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@dwarkesh_sp @tylercowen format is cool - all books should be published with the ai reader this point
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.@tylercowen 's new book on how modern economic thought developed is excellent.
Very surprised I haven't been hearing more about it.
Especially recommend chapter 3 on why ideas like marginalism took so long to develop.
tylercowen.com/marginal-revol…
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@TetraspaceWest read the egg off stumbleupon and in 2009 and then wrote about it for a class in my catholic school because I thought my teacher would hate it
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@BecomingCritter $130 average. about half is AC in the south
gas average is 50 / mo
old house 2k sqft
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I think the best way to get really depressed is defaulting to "I'll do that when I feel like it"
good way to never feel like doing anything
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@RandomSprint both partner and wife will make single people feel bad. you should only refer to them vaguely as "someone else"
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