MrSkelter

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by MrSkelter 4mo ago
Even more likely, high frequency ringing in the higher res file, caused by the converters, has the same effect analog distortion via tubes does creating the perception of clarity where there is none. No one can hear the difference between p
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by MrSkelter 4mo ago
The casualness with which you suggest AI can produce better films than the Disney archive makes the rest of your assertions irrelevant.
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by MrSkelter 4mo ago
You misread your link. That list is of the change in moving to cashless since Covid. Sweden is low in the list because it’s been cashless for such a long time already. Those places aren’t more cashless than Sweden. They are the ones that ar
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by MrSkelter 4mo ago
As a sometime Swede the idea of dealing with daily life in cash is farcical. Possible, sure. Convenient. No. When my coffee shop in Sodermalm’s card readers weren’t working they just gave me free coffee over taking cash. Cash in Sweden is a
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by MrSkelter 5mo ago
The design is wrong in a fundamental level. The rocket equation says it all. By adding so much extra weight for “reusability” (which they don’t release numbers on in terms of cost and means nothing when the rockets end up in the Indian Ocea
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by MrSkelter 5mo ago
It’s just bad writing. There is no such thing as a universally understood acronym. Even within fields. The cost of clarity is zero. Not elucidating means that over time the writing rots as meanings change and new “universal understandings”
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by MrSkelter 5mo ago
Bridge City Toolworks have been made in China for a long time now. China makes some fantastic stuff but Bridge City built a name on being American. Woodpecker are a better choice. Expensive but high quality. Mafell and Festool get a ton of
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by MrSkelter 5mo ago
The whole premise of this rebuttal is wrong in a self serving way. Purchasing power and income are meaningless without accounting for what needs to be bought. Americans can make high incomes for decades only to be bank d by medical debt. Ha
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
Bitcoin is arguably the worst designed technology product in history. Burning $88k of carbon to run the world’s slowest payment network and produce a tiny corpus of data is stratospherically dumb. The technological equivalent of raising a f
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
Musk and his ilk have mesmerized a lot of people. It’s easier for them to believe in the fantasy superiority of a rocket which hasn’t achieved orbit than the real achievements of NASA and other space agencies. It’s supercharged by a desire
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
Anyone who writes that VC investment in defense was zero five years ago is neither informed nor credible.
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
It’s funny how mandatory registration and tracking is fine in the US when it’s in support of war or to track minority groups, but impossible when the aim is serving the public, increasing access or safety.
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
Africa contains a billion people over hundreds of cultures. Referring to “African” tradition is like referring to “Asian” or “European” tradition. Do better.
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
It assumes you have an internal monologue which is a problem if like me you don’t.
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by MrSkelter 6mo ago
Here’s a reality check. There are two types of vaccine be coders. Those who review the code generated and those who don’t. Either because they don’t understand code at all, or because they don’t have time and don’t care. Code quality is onl
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
I love architecture and falling water disappointed me. It was in terrible shape firstly. The new round of fixes has just been completed so it would be good to see it again before it resumes crumbling (those cantilevers have been drooping fr
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
You are just moving the goalposts to criticize a position without being required to provide a reason. You could pick any phrase and mark it as beneath intelligent discourse. You are choosing “problematic” because you don’t like the implicat
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
It doesn’t work for that either. That’s the point. It’s akin to looking at a Texan middle grade schoolbook and then concluding everything significant was invented in America.
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
It has been obvious for decades that Americas beloved, insanely expensive, carrier groups were weapons of the past. Every time this is mentioned the comments fill with naval fans pointing out that in fact carrier groups are invulnerable due
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
This is why floor to ceiling windows in living spaces don’t feel quite right. It’s much more comfortable to have a low barrier and then a window because there’s something involved into us which makes being on a platform feel precarious. Peo
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
The US is a war at the behest of Israel and Israel would like the US to fight as it does. There are very recent images from the current war of Israel, Israeli mothers commenting on the fact that their children schools have been taken over b
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Waiting for Steve Jobs to invent iPhone cost me $4.7B dollars [video](youtube.com)
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
The premise of the article Is so easy to refute that it makes any conclusions drawn ridiculous. Wealth and intelligence aren’t correlated at all. Wealth and education are quite strongly correlated but education isn’t intelligence.
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
Your problem is evident in your question. What does “black” mean? It’s entirely subjective. Dwayne Johnson? Liv Tyler? Nelson Mandela? Barack Obama? Mariah Carey? This is a semantic issue. Ethnic groups are constructs. A system which miside
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
As a Brit it’s been very obvious CdG was right since the start. The final straw was almost 50 years ago when Thatcher gave up the UKs space program and satellite plans in favor of giving the money, in cash, to the US. In return for paying f
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
Couches aren’t known to have guns and the cops in Afromans house search the couch as if it’s about to bite them. It’s a very American mixture of fear and bravado in a feedback loop which means every piece of evidence of cowardice has to be
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
I’ve been on a Wacom tablet (without display) for almost three decades now. I was given one free, when Wacom was my client in my first job, and after a couple of days of awkwardness have never looked back. In that time I have owned 4. Just
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
You know what tells people there’s more to read? The fact the sentences are cut and the piece hasn’t concluded. As for “no overhead” what about all the code needed to implement this? Pages of text should be minimally styled for maximum effi
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by MrSkelter 7mo ago
There is no department of war. Congress can rename the department of defense but hasn’t. All you need to know is in the willingness of people to play along with the Trump administration’s willful steamrolling of the law.
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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
That’s not how speed bumps work. You can drive over a speed bump in a sports car. It’s just uncomfortable and potentially damaging to do so at speed. Most SUVs ride poorly compared to cars due to solid axles and huge unsprung weight. If you

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