IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 5d ago
> Speech writers do not write in the voice of someone else, they create the public image of say a president who is inarticulate and make them seem polished and articulate, if anything they lend their voice and ideas to someone else. Obam
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
Maybe in your neck of the woods vets operate out of the trunk of their cars, but all the ones I've ever engaged had offices, expensive medical equipment, an office building, and trained staff.
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
Some part of Ohio functions as a granted monopoly for the power company. They are given 5-year contracts, but an agency exists to tabulate complaints, reaction time to outages, and so on. If they don't impress the agency near the end o
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
A Japanese struggling to learn English asked me "What means... 'asshole'?" While I struggled to answer, he graphically gestured, and I agreed. "But... also means... 'friend'?" Oh. Big cultural differe
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
Your newsletter: How does one subscribe?
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
> I heard "transistor is a switch" or "transistor is an amplifier". As an EE, those statements sound so ridiculously reductive. It's like saying, "An oven is a cake-baker." And it results in confusion f
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
At the cost of immediate and longterm imprisonment. Decisions made at gunpoint are not usually preplanned choices.
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
Loved your scenes in "Call Saul".
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
Are you really worried you might be filmed by an off-brand pair of glasses, instead of a genuine Meta pair?
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
1838 for still photography. Shortly after 1888 for movies. Despite the pearl-clutching in this thread, filming rando strangers without consent has always been legal and socially accepted. It's the prospect of being filmed frequently, a
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by IAmBroom 5d ago
What does that even mean? You have to opt in to film? If you meant to say "to being filmed", how do you implement that? People have been filming crowds since the 1950s; "Candid Camera" famously made covert filming mainst
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
A solenoid is a type of motor. It converts non-motion energy (electricity) into mechanical motion.
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
OMG, I HATE HATE HATE those interviews. I call them "Magic Word" questions. I was drilled for several minutes by an interviewer who was trying to get me to use the ONE PARTICULAR WORD out of the entire English language to describe
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
The comment after yours, about solubility, casts serious doubt on those studies. Physics isn't changed by a faucet.
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
It doesn't maintain temperature at all; it maintains the hot/cold mix. The problem is that the hot temp varies widely (and the cold temp varies slightly as you drain the house tubing reservoir and begin drawing ground-temp water).
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
The point of the argument is that "forcing you to work without pay" is silly.
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
But I'm betting you performed maintenance on your car in that period.
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by IAmBroom 8d ago
You're discussing your peers' behaviors, not AI. It's the same as saying "People don't kill people; guns do." Maybe guns(AI) should be regulated, but the primary problem is murderers(lazy peers), not weapons(AI
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
Negligence is not malicious action. Both are bad, but having a missile hit your shop is never going to mean you are causing violence.
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
All Tesla employees reading this are fervently agreeing, between their tears. "We should build vacuum delivery tubes for passengers!"
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
You are describing the US regulatory landscape, up until Trump's SCROTUS revoked the Chevron deference in 2024.
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
I mean, cardio is Rule #1 of the zombie apocalypse in Zombieland .
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
You are neglecting interest paid. It doesn't matter who issues the credit - the Medici family or the US Federal Reserve.
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
> For most of human history the money was stable. Wildly inaccurate, thanks to forgery and coin shaving - sometimes even governments officially reduced the silver or gold content to make more money out of their coin reserves. Even when p
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
> Social recovery wallets in general did not take off, which was a big learning moment for me that very few people actually cared about the technology and what they really wanted was an app with as many gambling features as possible that
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by IAmBroom 9d ago
Oh, no, not Socialism! That's worse than attending a Macklemore concert!
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by IAmBroom 10d ago
Quasi-sealioning. https://www.google.com/search?q=sealioning
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by IAmBroom 10d ago
> You should be able to own that if you're going to do something like this. Um, are you saying the hackers should admit they broke the law? Or that Flock should righteously own the data they collect? Either way, I d/c. Flock ca
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by IAmBroom 10d ago
The fence around the sandbox is the important part. Cherrypicking the occasional winner is just a side benefit.
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by IAmBroom 10d ago
It's a forever-fresh reminder about security versus your own government, but for malicious hackers and bots: the physical trip to visit you costs more than half their infrastructure. Encryption matters, even if I would divulge everythi

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