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Comment · 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure at this point I know more about AWS and AWS internals than my account solution architect and I’ve never worked for AWS.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ll never forget loading the game 20-50 times in an attempt to get the bug that made the license code work. Endlessly loading. Checking the code on the paper wheel. Fail. Do it again. Kids these days will never know that pain.
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Comment · 3 years ago
100% this. As a small time farmer. I cannot butcher my own animals and sell them to anybody directly. I have to sell them "on the hoof" in a minimum size of a quarter of an animal and then have a custom butcher process the animal. I can't sell any of my meat directly to a person after it's butchered, or to a restaurant. I can only sell in those cases if I go to an FDA certified meat processor, which is 400 miles one way from my property. So essentially I'm limited to selling meat to either friends and family or shipping my animals 400 miles and paying $2 a pound in processing costs.

So no the Prime act isn't a way for corporations to go around the rules, it's so small guys like myself can sell meat to people without having to truck it 800 miles.

Comment · 3 years ago
Amazing that they completely ignore the regulatory capture of FDA meat inspection. It is the largest barrier to disrupting the "big 4" for anybody to enter the market. Given the cost and complexity of running an FDA approved meat cutting facility, it makes it nearly impossible for small farms to enter the market and provide an alternative to the big 4.

Instead small farms such as myself are forced to do stupid things like sell the meat to somebody 'on the hoof' and then have it custom cut by a butcher, because getting the meat processed and cut at a FDA inspected facility, if you can get into one, adds $1-3 a pound. This also means I can only sell you a quarter beef or larger. Which most consumers don't have the money or the freezer space to do.

Comment · 3 years ago
Building a bomb isn’t a secret. Tom Clancy wrote a very technically detailed description of the tooling and process and building of a nuclear weapon in 1991 in The Sum of All Fears.
Comment · 3 years ago
That call is because Health Plans are rated by CMS on if you get certain types of services, or skip them. By skipping those checkups you are reducing your health insurance plans STARS rating, which means they lose significant monies from the government. Each .1 of a start equals around 1 million US in government funding to a health plan doing MA.
Comment · 3 years ago
If it takes 300 one time in the future to start a long term reaction that’s a price I think we would all pay. The fact that we proved the idea now makes this just an engineering problem.
Comment · 3 years ago
And now we wait two years for another “iterative” launch. No wonder it takes NASA 20 years to do anything. And what are they doing in those two years? Certifying the flight computers. I was fearful SpaceX was falling behind but now I see that this was just a publicity stunt to make NASA look competent and effective. When they aren’t.

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