VLM

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by VLM 4y ago
It'll be defined in practice as wrongthink WRT political, economic, or religious belief. It'll be sold to "save the children" but it'll likely never be used for that.
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by VLM 4y ago
If someone were literally being paid to push an agenda online as a day job, they would want to eliminate all organic desire to produce content leaving only the somewhat more influential paid content. Just because site X is not paying for us
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by VLM 4y ago
That was not my experience when clicking on "random page" a couple dozen times for fun. Store chains that went out of business. Airliner crashes with substantial property loss and injury but no fatalities. Abandoned software tha
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by VLM 4y ago
Ironic that in a thread about shaming how people should be permitted by others to have fun, the first page of that web page is a long rant about the author's demand to gatekeep his purchasers political views, dripping with hatred for h
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by VLM 4y ago
That 2% consists of people like my teenagers, both of which cannot afford housing and medical coverage by themselves and as Dad, I'm personally quite well acquainted with how they get financial assistance (LOL). And no, McD does not pa
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by VLM 4y ago
The epitome of privilege is assuming everyone has house servants to empty their trash cans. My trash cans at home do not empty themselves, nor do I have my hired man do it for me. Yes, I admit elderly living in nursing homes do have hired
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by VLM 4y ago
> whiskey in the basement isn't spying on you Everyone important in the world already knows my SiL bought it for me, tracked at the point of sale using a loyalty card, tracked via her credit card, her highway pass shows she visited
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by VLM 4y ago
Binary thinking. You can ONLY actively consume or actively delete, unthinkable that you can passively not use it. Its like claiming its impossible for that bottle of whiskey to sit, undrinking, on my basement bar top, whiskey can only eith
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by VLM 4y ago
> Just look at the lack of non-college work in the US that pays a living wage. A problem that doesn't exist. Plenty of that work out there. Try to get a custom 3-phase power line run in the datacenter. Average age of electricians
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by VLM 4y ago
Its innumeracy propaganda. There are no minimum wage jobs where I live anymore, and I live in a lower cost of living area (not Manhattan or silicon valley, LOL). I'm not surprised no one can afford rent at $7/hr when no one can f
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by VLM 4y ago
Most people don't need to delete their accounts. I have a tasty bottle of rather expensive whiskey on the bar in my basement right now. Luxury consumables are a good gift, I guess. I don't want to drink it right now because I hav
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by VLM 4y ago
simple timers are not eco and not greenwash. Its actually just as bad as cars. Fit for purpose is no longer a requirement for sales, but uses less water or uses less electricity is a requirement for sales.
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by VLM 4y ago
If you watch youtube videos about switching power supply teardowns, like "diodegonewild" you'll see that no-name switching power supplies from China generally have fake electrolytic capacitors now a days. If your circuit nee
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by VLM 4y ago
Who is "the company" in an economic system of infinite middlemen? It would be an interesting way to drive a final stake into the heart of brick and mortar retail; if everything is shipped FROM China for nearly free but shipping TO
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by VLM 4y ago
"citation needed" is an overused debating point that makes the opponent look better, regardless he's obviously talking about 16 CFR § 20.1 specifically subsection (a). Note that its trivial to work around. I purchased a blue
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by VLM 4y ago
"Contains post consumer recycled content because our name brand multinational megacorporation cares about the environment."
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by VLM 4y ago
> blue-pill STM boards Those are useless for practical application. 64 KB of flash and 20 KB of RAM on a stereotypical STM32F103 (edited to add weasel words: that's what a blue pill is, correct? I don't actually use them.) Rem
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by VLM 4y ago
"And on the flipside: Wow, American society is really holding kids back." Naw, not just kids, its everybody.
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by VLM 4y ago
A couple topics no one has mentioned: "inherited property" = He started this with Grandpa, then he left for college and/or grandpa died, now its a memory of the good old days. Now if he could only find someone to experience
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by VLM 4y ago
Most people are not lifters, and there seems to be no correlation, so yes that is a fairly common experience. Also the level of aggression in the weight room is extremely low compared to the basketball court. You "win" in the wei
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by VLM 4y ago
Body builder is mostly a power lifter who periodically calorie-restricts to get a lower body fat percentage (there are differences in program design, but "in general", thats the major diff). Easier to gain muscle strength when yo
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by VLM 4y ago
> or something The somethings you're looking for are huge levels of self discipline and low time preference. You can glance at a guy and tell he has that if he has muscles; you can't glance at a guy and tell if he has a masters
533.
by VLM 4y ago
"getting jacked" correlates with about a hundred other positive behaviors, leading to obvious confusion about which is the magic sauce that actually causes female attraction. The article incorrectly assumes its mere bulk mass, bu
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by VLM 4y ago
Plenty of pre-1970 sources, none post 1970, generally the opposite. The most famous historical study was rigged from the start.
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by VLM 5y ago
The point is the economy is currently based on something hits the news, hoard hoard hoard, price explodes, empty shelves and high profits. Happened to TP a couple years ago and is in process with microcontroller chips and will be happening
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by VLM 5y ago
I'm not OP, but its elimination half life is about six hours, so you'd superficially expect OP's BP to drop in a curve with a half life of six hours after the last dose. It would be really easy to chart with one of those wri
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by VLM 5y ago
The problem with language wars is the people whom cannot be trusted with pointers, also cannot be trusted with lambdas or recursion. The name of the game has always been to avoid directly insulting the bad programmers by making fun of the l
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by VLM 5y ago
Its the classic logistics problem. Scaling ratio of weight vs volume or something like that. Just like nukes, if you heat an enemy soldier to 100M degrees he isn't any more dead than heating him to 10M degrees and volumes expand very
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by VLM 5y ago
> Or imagine a lethal compound You'll get nuked (or similar WMD) for that. Imagine a somewhat more realistic set of applications for hot new research chemicals. How about aircraft or shells or covert actors spray some "thing&qu
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by VLM 5y ago
> Fortunately we don't see any real work Not really, having new developments all classified is not helpful to anyone.

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