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Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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How impressive this is will hinge on whether there were any shenanigans behind the demos. I find it difficult to take breathless announcements at face value given recent issues.

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If you know, you know.

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It's only hubris when it leads to your downfall.

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I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.

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Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren't already competent.

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I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I'm trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.

From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.

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Shareholders and journalism do not mix. All this prevarication on the part of the Times stems directly from wanting to goose numbers sted committing journalism. And goosing is a time-honoured first step.

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It's abundantly clear that we are not going to learn from history.

The really fucking ironic point is bin Laden's stated goal was to destabilize the U.S., and boy, howdy. No need to enumerate the problems stemming from that.

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Darmok and Jalad ...

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Always the sign of a stable democracy.

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It's also then just one step removed from refusing to accept any friends or romantic partners who don't do exactly what you want at all times because life is supposed to be tailored to you.

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As soon as we have this commercialized, fusion is just around the corner.

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