K0balt

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by K0balt 7y ago
... And someone taking 30 percent and making you an employee w/o benifits in the process! Yay! Yet another example of big tech trying to figure out how to control and profit from the means of production without building it or investin
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by K0balt 7y ago
Facebook isn't the web, it's already a shitty walled garden.
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by K0balt 7y ago
The answer for this is sanity checking and some kind of layered "reflexes". I design for mission critical things on a regular basis, and one of the error modes I must accommodate is random bit flipping by cosmic rays, emf, or othe
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by K0balt 7y ago
This. High intelligence people often seek other goals, such as the relatively complete freedom of time while having their needs met. You only get so many years... How many of them are you going to spend doing something that you care about r
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by K0balt 7y ago
It's much, much older than the movie reference. Embarrassing check scams are an old, tried and true scam. They were more popular backnin the days of physical chain letters.
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by K0balt 7y ago
This is not only just smear journalism, it's also not even particularly scandalous, and dubiously sourced. At worst it sounds like consenting adults doing consensual stuff... So who cares.
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by K0balt 7y ago
Well, if it works, hopefully someone can port this update to the environment.
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by K0balt 7y ago
In my experience working with surgeons, while being a bad person is not a good predictor of skill, neither is being a good person. The most absolutely talented and innovative people in medicine are a pretty good mix of kind, empathetic, th
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by K0balt 7y ago
Mach 10 in a few seconds. They accelerate at around 100g's So, preternaturally fast.. It's a little scary just to watch on video.
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by K0balt 7y ago
This is correct.
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by K0balt 7y ago
To be fair, it's not like this isn't standard industry practice. Airframe evolve and change, with incremental changes typically only affecting limited areas of impact. OTOH seeking a non aerodynamic solution to a significant stab
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by K0balt 9y ago
Leatherman wave, hands down. Unlike most multitools, the wave is nicely pocketable with fully practical tools. I use tools several times a day, sometimes all day... The wave eliminates 90 percent of the runs to the toolbox. Also, lifetime g
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by K0balt 9y ago
... Until it is recovered by space pirates and sold as a historic artifact....
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by K0balt 9y ago
Ball motion detectors (or shake/tilt switches) work as you describe. They typically have several metal rods on which the ball will rest on two at any given time. The impossible combinations (too far away to span with the ball) are ofte
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by K0balt 9y ago
This begs for an infographic, with the size of countries adjusted for their population.....
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by K0balt 9y ago
This article is an exercise in ignorance. Wallet providers? Does he not even understand the concept of personal wallets? Anybody that keeps a significant amount of money in a hosted wallet outside of specific circumstances (I. E. trading) i
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by K0balt 9y ago
.... That does however mean it would need humidity to operate... The adibiatic cooling alone would be a wash, I'm pretty sure. Perhaps differences in radiative cooling between altitudes would be a help. But.... Even if the self powerin
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by K0balt 9y ago
Ummmmmmmmm.... You do know about thunderstorms and other clouds with unstable vertical develompment, right? Because that's how they work, by warm humid air violently rising into cool drier air.... Don't forget about the latent hea
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by K0balt 10y ago
This would be an effective way for an advanced adversary to suddenly estlish a powerful distributed frontline of bots, by infiltrating, say, the CNN or ESPN feed. Depending on the signal detail, it might be possible to feed it into an audio
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by K0balt 10y ago
Must depend on your relationship culture. My friends and family would be insulted if I didn't try my product out on them first.
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by K0balt 10y ago
I think you may be badly misinformed. Perhaps with a small enough dose, what you say is true. I used to trip regularly. Lsd effects can definitely inude hallucinations! As a matter of fact, not having strong hallucinations was often a reaso