Jeema101

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by Jeema101 4y ago
The Case-Shiller home price index seems to indicate otherwise recently: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/indicators/sp-core... If the bottom of the housing market experiences a drop in sales, th
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by Jeema101 4y ago
>Isolation transformers do nothing for safety concerning the dangerously high DC voltages which the tubes run on. Yes, you can still receive a fatal shock via one arm to the other even with an isolation transformer. It's not true to
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by Jeema101 4y ago
Yes it is. This particular radio appears to have an isolation transformer which makes it somewhat safer, but some older tube radios are actually connected directly to the mains line with no isolation transformer (this was done to save costs
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I've also thought this, and I wish people would at least approach the subject with a little bit more humility. It did take evolution 3.5 billion years to do it after all, so I'm not sure what makes us think we can do it in a fract
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I've been to the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio, where they have the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. At first glance, it's just another plane in the museum. But if you actually let yourself think about it, it's somewhat
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by Jeema101 4y ago
Don't know about you but I'm pretty pumped for BallmerCon this year.
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by Jeema101 4y ago
Speaking of snowy roads, it's also easier (in my experience) to get a car with a manual transmission unstuck in the snow because you can quickly alternate between first gear and reverse and rock the car. Obviously wouldn't be an i
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that the pandemic started in Wuhan, but probably not in the way you're thinking: Wuhan is the largest railway hub in all of China [1]. And that's likely the reason why both the institute
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I also had anesthesia for the first time as an adult, but I did kind of feel something as I was going under. It felt like my mind was melting away, and at the same time my hearing was fading out. It was kind of a pleasant feeling to be ho
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I've been around since before the dot-com crash, and while "you can't time the markets" is true to some extent, some people take it as an excuse to turn their brains off entirely and ignore fundamentals.
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by Jeema101 4y ago
The WHO's assessment does seem to suggest that it may be sexually transmitted but doesn't explicitly state it. Here's what they state: "The clinical presentation is often atypical, with few lesions localized to the geni
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by Jeema101 4y ago
My favorite creation of his is the Furby Organ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o ). Which is as insane as it sounds for anyone who's never seen it :)
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by Jeema101 4y ago
I miss those days. I feel like back then computers naturally encouraged exploration and learning. There was no internet, or even modems in most cases, so there was no alternative but exploration - trying to figure out what all you could d
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by Jeema101 4y ago
>We need meaning in live. And for a long time religion gave that. But we threw that out. This is pretty much what Nietzsche was getting at in his often misunderstood quote about 'God is dead', which is actually part of a larger
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by Jeema101 5y ago
The great thing about tabletop RPGs, though, is that you're ultimately free to do whatever you want. It's the job of the dungeon master to roll with whatever the players do and possibly even change the entire narrative on the fly
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by Jeema101 5y ago
Yea exactly. Anyone with experience with electronics who is willing to work with high voltage and has some knowledge of vacuum tubes could probably make one. Side note: old TV rectifier tubes from the 1950s and 60s were notoriously known f
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by Jeema101 5y ago
"NATO invaded Libya and none of the NATO countries faced any sanctions" This is not an honest take on what happened in Libya. The actions taken were initiated and sanctioned by the UN, as part of a security council resolution. P
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by Jeema101 5y ago
That does seem like it's probably gonna be the trickiest part of the negotiations, doesn't it? Zelensky has said he is open to neutrality, but the problem is that he would need some sort of security guarantees moving forward. Dem
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by Jeema101 5y ago
The doctrine to use nuclear weapons in response to an overwhelming conventional attack isn't really anything that new. It originates from the early part of the Cold War when NATO had inferior conventional forces to the Red Army and we
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by Jeema101 5y ago
When I was younger, I had a brief job working for a carpet company doing work in commercial buildings. One of the jobs I was on was recarpeting a number of floors in an office building in the downtown area where the business was. Because
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by Jeema101 5y ago
Sadly, the reason he was able to do it because it was a popular policy among the majority of the population [1] [1] "The American public overwhelmingly approved of the Japanese-American internment measures and as a result, they were se
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by Jeema101 5y ago
It is indeed about perspective. But many people who live in Western, industrialized countries have never been to a developing country, so they have no basis for comparison except what they see around them. Even my modest apartment, which is
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by Jeema101 5y ago
I think I understand where you are coming from because I get the same way. I get excited about a project at first, but then I think "what's the point?" and put it off. My advice when you are feeling that way is to tell yours
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by Jeema101 5y ago
The entire thing seems handwavey to the point of "don't believe your lying eyes". The author is basically saying we need to ignore people's self-reported incidence of having Long Covid. This quote in particular seems ra
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by Jeema101 5y ago
He seems to be admitting that inflation is high, and yet saying we should do nothing. This is precisely what was said by policymakers in the early 1970s who were saying pretty much the same thing back then: we can't act on inflation be
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by Jeema101 5y ago
It's fine if you think that attempting to remove toxic content amounts to censorship - you have a right to that opinion - but it doesn't change the fact that the toxicity itself still exists. But are you also angry at the people
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by Jeema101 5y ago
I admire the dedication to projects like this. First you have to (or someone else has to) disassemble the original binary, since the original source code is usually long gone. Then you have to actually go through the code to try to understa
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by Jeema101 5y ago
Did you actually read it, though? He says "there is nothing wrong with identity politics as such; it is a natural and inevitable response to injustice. But the tendency of identity politics to focus on cultural issues has diverted en
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by Jeema101 5y ago
"The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based o
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by Jeema101 5y ago
The US Census Bureau basically said as much recently. Their findings from October stated that 3.7 million people in the US were currently unemployed because they were "caring for someone or sick myself with coronavirus symptoms"

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