IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
<cough>Tiananmen Square<cough>
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Hahahahahaha, "unique unfakeable seal". You slay me!
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
These arguments always remind me of 1960s-1970s era spy movies, where Bad Guy has the secret design for SuperNewBig computer chip, which will tip the balance of power inevitably in his favor. Meh. For a year or so, his computers will work
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
My ASML supervisor literally said to me. circa 2006 (when I asked why we didn't shred our engineering papers): "With all the trouble we have getting these things to work, we should give our notes to the competitors to slow them do
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
I remember in the 1990s watching a bit of British TV, where an ad asked, "What do women in Los Angeles know about beauty that British women don't?" (obviously selling some "secret" "American" product). In
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
"to better align with the EU", or "with Western Europe", would have been better.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
By FAA regulations, commercial flights can't take off in the US without functioning ashtrays in the restrooms. Apparently the thought is: better a smoking cheater stubbing it out in the loo ashtray than hiding a burning ember in the se
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
> I've not personally had it... > which I believe Soviet ice cream to be... Wow.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
You are, I think, blinded by the fact that you were a HS teacher. Primary grade teachers teach principle societal objects by rote and practice, not by encouraging students to "go discover the alphabet on their own". Middle-school
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Maybe. But my grandpa exclusively smoked Camels, and on the rare occasions I like (don't dislike) cigarette smoke, it turns out to be Camel smoke. Ooh, counter-evidence from counterpoint9986 in this thread: https://news.ycom
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
You... are deeply weird and driven by attempts to think utterly logically. I like you.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
And 12:00:00 is noon, which no one ever wanted for a calendar day change.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
There is a law; it's perjury. But it isn't enforced, so ... it might as well not exist.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
"Wright" is a very common last name. You really are grasping at straws.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Before someone mentions IBM's (completely BS) "sub-nanometer circuitry": it isn't nearly sub-nm, except if you look at it from one particular way. The real estate is still many nanometers in dimension. The gates aren&#x2
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
What??? Can someone translate this?
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Off-topic: what finally allowed me to gain the ability for high sharpening on a whetstone was watching a YT video of a master at the craft who worked slowly [0]. He wasn't one of those chefs doing the whoosh-whoosh-whoosh and it&#x27
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Yes, 95-99% of bread's mass is a strongly hydrophilic raw material, and the percentage of water in the precooked product is vital to the outcome. It's obvious the best one can do is to get the dough into the general vicinity of &q
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
We're discussing variation by a single cook. Obviously elevation matters, but noting the correction just once ensures consistent product for a lifetime.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Counterpoint: SCOTUS has been shockingly willing to side with the Executive branch, and the Legislative branch's Republican majority has shown it is willing to fellate the POTUS at every instance. Our so-called balance of powers does n
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Would fix.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
By Ref can point to Null, so even as an atheist I find your argument interesting. Since the procedure acts as a subroutine (no return value), instead of a function... Again, interesting.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
> Most misunderstood PKD book by far. Most had a different interpretation than you did. Under the "Fallacy of Intention" theory of literary analysis, even Philip K Dick's intent isn't "the real meaning". Reg
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
It's also technically incorrect. The texts have been read; this particular text was read for the first time in the modern era .
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Not everyone whose unfalsifiable beliefs differ from yours lacks maturity. In fact, some of them are mature enough to not resort to insults. Signed, 50 years an atheist.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Buddhist golf clap to you, with one hand.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Monte Carlo smart, not optimized compiler smart. Like the way slime molds solve mazes: explore every possible path in parallel, and push growth in all areas with greater nutrient gradients. Not by sensing any gestalt clues, like symmetries
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Counterpoint: long-lived mammals. Elephants and whales are both famously long-lived, and oddly low-cancer.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
Technically true, but IRL we have a government where legions of key people in every aspect have either been outright eliminated, or replaced with sycophants and wildly corrupt profiteers - on a scale the US hasn't seen, perhaps, ever.
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by IAmBroom 4mo ago
The average is not necessarily a highly populated bin. It may in fact be empty (bimodal distributions can have this).

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