Bassman1805

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[–] Bassman1805 23 points 1 month ago

I died inside every time she brought up that Dick Cheney endorsed her. That should be a dirty secret, not a core campaign message.

[–] Bassman1805 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's directed at people who absolutely cannot vote for Harris due to her stance on Gaza. Instead, they enabled a war on their LGBTQ neighbors.

[–] Bassman1805 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd argue that 98% of US voters don't care about Gaza whatsoever. It's a wedge issue for a very small minority but was unlikely to significantly affect the race in the big picture.

Almost everybody I know bitches about the price of groceries (regardless of where they place the blame) but I only know a couple people in the Real/Outside World who regularly talk about the Gaza genocide.

[–] Bassman1805 14 points 1 month ago

It's not that "the crime isn't a felony in Florida", it's that Florida defaults to the felony-voter rules of the state where the crime was committed.

New York lets felons vote as long as they're not currently incarcerated, so Florida lets him vote.

[–] Bassman1805 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but if you get caught with a paper trail and only one comma, nobody's gonna jump to your defense.

[–] Bassman1805 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FWIW, I think this injunction was not about election integrity, but gambling laws.

But yeah, bribery is legal if you have that third comma in your net worth.

[–] Bassman1805 1 points 1 month ago

Intel being kicked off the Dow is a real end of an era moment. How the mighty do fall.

[–] Bassman1805 4 points 1 month ago

IT'S A TRAP! IT'S A TRAP!

There are two Finnish snipers!

[–] Bassman1805 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.

[–] Bassman1805 7 points 1 month ago

Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.

Intel would probably be in a better spot if they'd just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.

[–] Bassman1805 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The vast, vast majority of chips produced are "old generation" chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it's pricey enough that it doesn't look that way in company earnings reports).

Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

[–] Bassman1805 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The reason it doesn't work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you'd get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.

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