RobertMiller

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by RobertMiller 5y ago
*230 years ago. But nobody uses guillotines anymore. The Saudis use a sword.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I just want to point out there are several aspects to punishment. We often speak of rehabilitation and deterrence , but there is also denunciation , incapacitation , and retribution (the most maligned of the five.) Execution isn&#x
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It's a BWR, the worst case failure mode looks something like Fukishima. Certainly a mess, but "set on fire" makes me think you're imagining another Chernobyl. BWRs don't catch fire like that. If something went
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I.... what? I didn't say CNN is neutral, I don't believe that. Nor have I assumed you like Fox News, I didn't insinuate anything of the sort. All I'm saying is Fox News does not wear what they are on their sleeve; the
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> And if he was supposed to make people not vote republican, why did the republicans nominate him? The RNC did a poor job of rigging their own primary, and accidentally let the populist win? The DNC evidently had their act together i
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Isn't Fox New's official slogan "Fair and Balanced" ?
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
They're comparable, but not equivalent.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The mid-20s transition is the most obvious, I think simply because teenagers so often incredibly hot headed. But I believe emotional development continues throughout life as people acquire more experience with age (at least until senility
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
"If I took off the mask, would you die?" "It would be extremely painful" "You're a big guy!" "For you." hmm, you're probably right.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The Matrix fell hard to this. Slow motion bullet time? So passé!
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Yeah they're bad, but you know, it's not their fault. They had such a tough life. And really are they that bad? A little bit of that can make for a good villain I think. Villains who were truly victims earlier in life, or
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I guess I missed the alcoholism, I don't recall that. I remember he starts the movie with a bad relationship with his wife, but that's so he can win her back in the end with his counter-terrorism prowess (lol), not with any real
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
There are a few ffmpeg filters you can use with mpv to get this effect, though you may have to fiddle with their options to get what you want. acompressor or dynaudnorm might be what you're looking for. https://ffmpeg.org&
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Classic action movies of the 80s often had very flat good-at-everything male heroes. What weaknesses does John McClain ever show in Die Hard? Vulnerability to walking barefoot on broken glass I guess, not much. There are obviously except
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Local news at least has one advantage over cable news; it only runs for a few hours a day so they aren't trying to stretch everything out to fill a full 24/7 schedule. But even so it's still crap, I don't watch local TV
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this "ASCII is good enough" mentality. But in the sort of environment where management is telling people not to write words like 'naïve', it's likely that somebody na
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
In many cases, people ostensibly using stereo sound may as well be using mono sound. Stereo speakers built into a TV that's 20 feet away, or watching a video on their smartphone without headphones; technically these people are using
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I'd say the editors did a good job in this case, considering both "they mostly come at night, mostly." and "game over man, game over!" have both become iconic often-quoted lines.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> The age of the article should be taken into consideration here because back then Unicode support was still patchy in places If the article had been written 20 years before it actually was, maybe . You're making me feel old he
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
In the corporate world, native or advanced English speakers who might use such loanwords may sometimes be told to knock it off and stick to using a restricted list of very basic English words, about a thousand of them. Rather than getting
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Cable news is a waste. Anything worth hearing about will be written up by a newspaper. And with newspapers now having websites, cable news doesn't even have an immediacy advantage. The only thing cable news can do better than newsp
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I don't drive if I've had even a single drink in the past several hours. All it takes is one miscalculated breathalyzer and you're hosed. Even if you hire a good lawyer and beat the charge, your life is still fucked up and
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I doubt you could slow-boil any frog, or any other ectotherm. Frogs, and the rest of them, produce relatively little body heat of their own and rely on the environment to regulate their temperature. They do this by moving to cool places w
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> In the US and much of Europe. In other countries they absolutely were the norm. Only ever for people who actually felt sick. Not for all people by default regardless of how they felt. If I'm wrong please correct me, I'd
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Not all flus are made equal, and the data about which flus are particularly deadly lags reality. If a flu as deadly as the Spanish Flu emerged again, you would be wise to worry about it. But until then? Until then, I suggest you go abou
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Lakes are risky even if you know how to swim. There are amoeba that can swim up your nose and into your brain, giving you a very painful death. This risk can be trivially mitigated by wearing a noseplug or by refraining from swimming in
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> There's no reason to believe these are a bad idea beyond lowering entry cost to GPS trackers. That's not something to be glossed over. Lowering the price of abusable technology makes that abuse a lot more prevalent. Tak
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
When they are blind before they learn to speak, yes. Specialized instruction can mitigate this.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I think he's right. People are giving up on covid mitigations a lot faster than people are dying of covid. Every day I see fewer people wearing masks than before, and death rates are trending in the opposite direction.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> No because those flu viruses were not novel, or as deadly. That information always lags reality. When/if the next deadly flu strain emerges, it will have emerged before it is discovered to have emerged. If you're not pl

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