MaxfordAndSons

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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Whether or not there's data to back that up, Taxi's also existed for about a century prior to smartphones, which are a great deterrent to victimizing strangers from your car.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
This is cool, but surprised to see no lip service paid to RoboRosewater, a pioneer in the MTGML space.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Something that occurred to me reading this article, is how corrosive the cartels' hold on Mexican society is on market efficiency in small markets - the article mentions half a dozen small businesses in Iguala that are run by cartel me
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Yea idk, I think that version is an attempt at a (pathetic) post hoc justification for the crime (not saying it was made up by gp, but rather the cartels or their apologists). I had read that they were public municipal buses, which I guess
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Brawl in general was the perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with Nintendo (though tbf they have course corrected somewhat in Smash Ultimate) - Melee was a game that allowed an incredibly high skill ceiling with it's high speed and
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
If your child calling you fat would cause you to revoke your love for them, I hope you're not considering parenthood.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Ohhhh that makes so much sense than the halfbaked naive implementation in my head involving the turbine somehow reversing the direction of airflow entirely and sucking air from the back to the front.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Yea that's true, it's not a great comparison. I just meant in the sense that it's a de-facto open air drug market/use zone.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
It's an apples to oranges comparison - those cities may have worse problems with violent crime, but SF's issues with property/petty crime and drug use are off the charts.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
The Tenderloin in SF was a worst in class skid row area pre-pandemic; post-pandemic it is a full blown open air drug market zone, ala Hamsterdam from The Wire.
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
Sorry this is ot, but I can't help but note: replacing "obese" with "body positive" is a wildly Orwellian linguistic move. They aren't remotely synonymous, nor do the groups they actually denote fully overlap (
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
It's in the name
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
30 minutes to <the border of an enormous metropolitan area> is not a very useful metric in practice.
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
This is an inaccurate understanding of the drug economy. The drug cartels that supply the street dealers are multi billion dollar businesses rivaling the size of the big pharma corporations. And the DEA absolutely is not "usually stopp
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, having been sharing care-taking responsibilities for my mother who is in the mid-stages of dementia. For the last year or so, her usage of her phone has become increasingly problematic. She&#
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
I think GP meant their parent's are anti-Trump. Mine are as well, but ironically, during Trumps rise and presidency, I noticed them starting to act quite like mirror images of (what I imagine to be) their Fox watching right wing peers
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
As sib notes, this is sort of trying to beat them at their own game. I think the better move is to reject the proposition that far future population estimates/EV calculations of various projects are meaningful at all, on the grounds th
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
That's not how poker works. It's player vs player, not player vs house. The casino just takes a rake (a cut of each pot). There is no incentive for the casinos to rig the outcome of the game. They make money regardless of the outc
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
> Or they may not identify as female. I thought the male/female dichotomy was the one meant to be separated from matters of identity, and simply be a biology based designation. I understand identifying as man or woman or neither is
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
> The more material argument is whether from an EA perspective running massive scams and funneling the proceeds to EA causes should be applauded or not. Is that really the material argument? It seems obvious to this normie that the answe
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
My mother is in the early/mid stages of dementia, and she recently granted my father and I power of attorney. It doesn't have to be a "taking away" if they can be convinced that it's in their best interested. Admitt
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
There are samples in tfa. Not everyone's taste I'm sure, but pretty impressive for a novice.
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
I think "cartel" rather than "mafia" would be the more apt pejorative.
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
Dave Grossman is the guy who goes around giving police departments seminars on the warrior mindset, including telling them that they'll have the best sex of their life immediately after they kill someone in the line of duty.
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
Exactly; it was novel not weird. And if it had prevailed over FB it would have adopted a slicker, uniform ui by default sooner or later (maybe let old heads keep seeing version 1 like Reddit does).
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
These periodic articles hand-wringing over the loss of old internet quirkiness are basically just re-posing a question isomorphic to "Why aren't people more fun and weird?" or "Why isn't society/culture/re
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
+1 to phrasing blocking/mandatory change requests as "We" rather than "You"
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
I mean, prisoners also have limited rights to free speech, I guess? Think GP meant "rights" to mean "the full spectrum of civil rights private, adult citizens enjoy"
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
I think you mean SIPC?
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by MaxfordAndSons 4y ago
Like how sticking your tongue to a frozen piece of metal causes a burning sensation.

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