IIAOPSW

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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The major impetus for unification was the promise to build the subway. Manhattan had the money but needed the land, Brooklyn and Queens had land but not the wealth. Once upon a time Flushing was hyper religious Quakers. When the NY & Fl
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Could it have been some large company that held the land and put their own buildings on it? Coincidentally that describes an area a bit north of where I'm focusing called "Rego park". Where does the name Rego come from? W
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've looked at some really old maps. Like this one from 1853 [1]. So for starters, the Long Island Railroad is apparently eternal as its nearly impossible to find a map which pre-dates it, the modern subway lines bare remarkable resemb
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Hi, my names Roberto Realmann and I like inhaling and exhaling so you can trust me.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Yeah I know the history. But believe it or not those grids are easy. You can make all the grids of Brooklyn out of like 6 Jigsaw pieces. There's a directly south portion that leads to the lettered Ave's all the way to CI, a "
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Flushing all conform to a reasonably sized jigsaw piece of locally consistent grid. Bushwick is a Cheese wedge between Fulton and Broadway. Williamsburg is approximately several (smaller) pizza slices with the cr
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
This is one of those 90/10 rule things where just learning a post-it note worth of trivia covers you for over 90% of instances. I'm sure he's competent at navigating especially in the ordinary places reachable by ordinary sub
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Building numbers ascend in the same direction as streets / avenues and usually the hundreds digit is incremented at the corner so that building 369 is (ideally) between 3rd and 4th. Something similar to that. Double check me on this. I
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
On a related note, I've been obsessed recently with grid cities. Queens, New York in particular flummoxes me. Locally every point conforms to a grid, but globally they don't all conform to the same grid. Brooklyn is comparatively
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Subversive itch man. Its not about the money. Its about being above the rules. Disclaimer: I've personally not stolen a car.
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No they won't. They'll keep the kids on as a loss leader. So much value add in indirect ways. Put up with a few years of not advertising to them so you have a user base later on. Keep the parents on-site under the delusion they ar
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Thanks. I meant it literally and figuratively. Literally, drawing shadows of optical illusions generally makes them stop being optical illusions. Figuratively, all illusory experiences (magic tricks, scams, psychotic delusions) tend to have
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
And if you could truly do analog manipulations of infinite precision real-valued quantities, you could beat a Turing machine. Analog precision eventually hits the so-called Heisenberg limit, below which further information does not exist.
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I'm vaguely aware of a band that had a track titled something like 8600 baud that was basically instructions to decode a secret message. Not quite what you wanted, but it proves the principle of digital-on-vinyl is possible. Another si
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
When I was a kid I used to wonder how everything worked and would disassemble things to find out. Started to take apart those disposable cameras people used to use for vacation photos. Learned the painful way what a capacitor is and how it
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Remember folks, if you're unsure, illusions don't have shadows.
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reflected
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Usually, you get a lecture about how unethical it is to spread misinformation about the composition of the moon.
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If it was additionally trained on decades of old Playboy magazines, it would be an AI only capable of comprehending money and sex, thus rendering humanity 99% redundant.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Honestly, when you speedup or slow down the playback to be in proportion to their size, all animals sort of sound the same. This goes for whales all the way up to birds. Whale sounds sped up are hilarious btw.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Looking back it seemed incredibly easy and 'hand wavy' for the doc to just shut up the parent and schools and write up a prescription to 'solve the problem' Exactly. The diagnosis is a tool for the system to give it
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I don't follow why screams and grunts can only encode gross mood. Presuming I can differentiate them enough to have some amount of vocabulary, why can't I make a well reasoned and abstract grunt?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Algorithmic entities are likely to prosper first and most in criminal, terrorist, and other anti-social activities because that is where they have their greatest comparative advantage over human-controlled entities. Control of legal ent
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Hard work is only seen as a virtue and sloth a vice because of the context of the world we are currently stuck in. You assume a system of value which might not make sense in the future.
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It was always hat man. The hat was invented by people with sleep paralysis seeing him.
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That's the sort of conjecture which lets you arbitrarily dismiss evidence against a theory. Even worse, its the sort of conjecture that is plausibly true yet hard to find conclusive evidence. Any lack of evidence for a subconscious exp
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
For a sizeable chunk of people possibly so, but it seems not so universal. Lots of people don't find any form of "just have faith" convincing.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>you get a _sense_ for where the shot is going. High, low, left, right etc so it's not just guesswork and statistics either. It is guess work and statistics. Just because it happens at the level of neurons rather than as a conscious
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I think I can explain the trick even easier and hopefully that clears up your confusion. Simply store a complex number s which represents the current output of the synth (cos on the real part, sin on the imag). At each time update (the samp
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Once, to gloss over many details, I had a signal lamp on my fire escape and started quietly yelling morse messages into the void. At first I used a reference sheet looking up each character as I needed it. Then something clicked in my head

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