MarkLowenstein

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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   Perfect! The wealthy world has ascended the Maslow pyramid to the point that our itches are no longer scratched by material stuff. Isn't this the situation that spiritual people have been begging for for millenia? Now it's time to
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   Shortly after the 2016 election the WaPo added a black banner proclaiming "Democracy dies in darkness." I have always thought that that was more of a rallying cry for them - hoisting their pirate flag as they took on Trump - rathe
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   K. Eric Drexler - Engines of Creation https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Creation-Nanotechnology-Libra... Randomly chose this off the bookshelf at a Borders in 1990 or so...turned out to be the most exciting book I've ever
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   Gorgeous! Would absolutely pay for most of these. Best thing though: this is the first software I've ever seen that advertises "in one click" yet really requires only ONE CLICK.
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   Excellent logic vsareto. It's hard to verbalize what you have done here so well...which is why they choose this weird phraseology to begin with. Netflix told me that I was complicit in this same way yesterday--so I canceled my subscrip
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   I'd like to see a system like this: if your tweet is blocked for a reason, all you have to do is find a tweet that's worse than it is for that same reason, that is not already blocked. If the moderators agree then yours is unblock
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   by MarkLowenstein 6y ago

   Macrolides appear to be antibiotics like the azithromycin part of the very well-known trio HCQ + azithromycin "ZPac" + zinc. People have been discussing this trio for two or three full months now and there is no excuse for these s
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   by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

   I got my son's French horn overhauled by Dan. He is one of these inexplicably dedicated craftsmen in a very offbeat art--the kind the world would be poorer without. I believe that people with his kind of obsession with completeness and
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   by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

   I'm very interested in that gap you refer to. Was there something you were used to as a mechanic that you weren't getting in your new career?
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    by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

    Possibly qualifying double for these same statements: https://youtu.be/dw4aGcmircA?t=2120
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    by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

    Would this be a good example of the kind of corruption he's talking about? https://www.npr.org/2016/12/10/505079091/lawrence-lessig-off...
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    by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

    A bit late, but I see now that I biffed on expressing myself here, and I don't blame you all for thinking I'm wrong. What I meant was that one out of 50 people's life stories are interesting, not that only one out of 50 peo
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    by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

    Yeah, people keep saying they do this because of some "research" but I suspect that whatever research that was is very wrong. Here's what doesn't add up: the story of someone's life and activities is only truly inte
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    by MarkLowenstein 8y ago

    I second this. I have this EIZO square monitor and it is a joy to work in. Just think of "wide" screens as actually being "short" screens, and you can see why you'd feel cramped and constricted when using one, like
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    by MarkLowenstein 12y ago

    Oh, was that E_NOTIMPL, E_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, E_NOIMPL...? I forgot again . Google sets to the rescue! S_OK, E_FAIL, submit. I did that particular one at least 20 times. I worry that a truly great technology has died with Sets: the way it wou
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    by MarkLowenstein 12y ago

    Alternate title: Why people who pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa are poor