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Phil Dowson

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  • IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

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  • I certainly don't want spending on AI data centers to pay off, but something about IBM CEO quotes got me thinking

    “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

  • no_context

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  • We demand, a shrubbery!

  • US debt reaches $37 trillion years before expected

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  • US debt reaches $37, a trillion years before expected. FIFY

  • This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removed

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  • Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tatted wall with its white lettering.

    "My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"

    For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

    ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL

    BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

  • What hardware does not support Linux?

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  • About 10% of the hardware in my 2016 MacBook Pro. Twice I've tried to install Debian on that Satan spawn using various gists online, and each time I ended up deciding it wasn't worth the time

    Every other piece of hardware I've tried in the past works without fail, that MacBook irks me.

  • How long have you been sitting on that?

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  • Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept.

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  • The Fourteenth Amendment covers birthright citizenship, but also covers whether or not someone can be disqualified from office if they have "... engaged in insurrection or rebellion...".

    Wonder who would benefit if the 14th was repealed?

    Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  • It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!

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    Why Trump Wants Greenland: Experts Reveal the Key Reasons

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  • The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

    https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/President_of_the_Imperial_Galactic_Government

  • Know Your Nooniens: A Handy Guide

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  • They were not related, just happened to have a similar name.