Thetimefarm

joined 1 year ago
[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

He personally trademarked the word "we" and then sold it to his company for 5 million dollars. He also owned a lot of the buildings the company had signed absurdly long leases on. It was literally a company set up with the sole intention of funneling VC money into his pocket directly. Even for the shady-ass world of start ups and VC firms what he did was pretty blatant. That's not even getting into how he portrayed the company as a tech start up when it just simply was not. It's like how Tesla and Ford sell about the same number of cars but Teslas market cap is 17x higher because they call themselves a tech company. At least with Tesla you could probably argue they were a tech company at some point early on, WeWork was never a tech company at all. Neumann got his start renting the spare office space he had after his previous company failed and just decided to run with it.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as it's for research and stays HIPPA compliant I don't really have an issue with it. This would be a good use for AI but that's also kinda horrifying to think about. Having millions of unique human DNA samples to train your AI on would be worth something I presume.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Even Apple silicone has a version of Fedora that works pretty well. Give it 10 years and I bet old Apple silicone machines will be faster on linux just like a lot of the older x86 macbooks are now.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I mean they basically do charge you since your data is being sold as the product.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As long as you have your files backed up properly it shouldn't be too difficult. If you don't, I'd be more worried about what happens if one of your drives failed and how you'd retrieve that data.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I started using noscript on my phone despite how annoying it is to use day to day. Desktop have more tools to manage pop ups better, but on mobile the only reliable way I've found is to nuke everything and just re enable what you need.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People have been making paper templates for a long time, I can't see how plastic would have any real advantage. A plastic guide isn't going to constrain a metal cutting tool, at best it just shows you where you need to drill the same as a paper template. If you wander outside the lines you'll just mess up both the part and the jig.

If I were to set up a clandestine gun manufacurer I would try and design a product that could be made using mostly aluminum extrutions and paper jigs. That way it's easy to compartmentalize each step, harder for one guy to flip on you, and fast/cheap. Plus if you get raided you don't have a bunch of incriminating files cached on your CNC machine from previous runs.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You're right in my experience, I graduated highschool in 2016 and I remember how hard they pushed comp sci as some sort of magic success bullet. I thought I was terrible at math and kids who I knew weren't much better were choosing it as a major. I genuinely think in 10 years we're going to find out guidance councilers were being paid kick backs by colleges à la the pharma industry.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah well polonium-210 is ~50 trillion USD/kg so I put a heaping tablespoon in my tea every morning.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You guys were the last country in the world to ban leaded gas... in 2002 lol.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I mean kind of... it's like trying to make a kamikazi plane safer. Literally everyone with a shred of knowlege knew it was going to fail and told him, he just did't listen.

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

There's still a lot of muscle and connective membrane holding your organs inside with or without skin.

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