XalvinX

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by XalvinX 8y ago
In about 1980 or so i got a TI 99/4A (I was about 12) and figured out how to do high-res graphics within the limitations of what was essentially a text-only machine. By redefining the 8x8 character blocks you could manipulate individu
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Absolutely true. Dvorak should start his own venture...a lot of fans would jump (the sinking) ship in an instant.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I've lived in South Korea for a long time. It has deep, deep cultural issues that are bound to drag it down eventually. Until the education system completely changes, the political system reforms, and people's attitudes change a
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I was only showing the other side of equation... I'm as Libertarian as they come and also believe Karl Marx's theories made tons of sense...(I know that sounds a bit contradictory!) Amazon needs to share its wealth much more, at
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by XalvinX 8y ago
where?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I would agree that Bezos is one greedy motherfucker. No doubt about it.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
good point. and people used to paint their faces with lead, use leeches as medicine, and so on and on. can't argue with you there! weren't asbestos used in early cigarette filters, even? i think they were. look: i'm not
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Well, you can believe what you may, of course. But at least no one is dying from it...you can't say that about very many modern medicines, even Tylenol kills a lot of people. Probably half of the world's peoples have had good eff
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by XalvinX 8y ago
IMO it will be hundreds or thousands of years (if ever) until humans will fully understand the intricacies of DNA...the complexities are just enormous.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Even something such as ginseng that has a 5000+ year history of use with no real known side effects?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
If you aren't being a little sarcastic, you are lucky. The bug saved you money for shit that you obviously are not wishing very hard for. Kids at Christmas time certainly don't need a backup....
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I just realized the influence of Hacker News. I read techcrunch every day and it is rare for an article, any article, to get more than 2 or 3 comments (although, to be fair, they just added commenting in the last few months)...this one got
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by XalvinX 8y ago
i tend to agree
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by XalvinX 8y ago
or the drivers form unions, maybe?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I thought I just read that Google will have some operating in Arizona "by the end of this year" ...no? These things are basically a solved problem already and just waiting to get approval.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I, for one, am quite proud of Europe for taking steps to protect her citizenry. Hopefully the rest of the world will follow shortly.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
that kind of spammy shit would have had me off of it very quickly. but, thankfully i never used it in my life...and never will. if i wanna see cat pictures and latte art or Beyonce's latest plastic surgery updates i can just google it
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I assume that is sarcasm, right?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Facebook knows how to keep the government happy by just handing the NSA and whoever else all the data they hoover up. So I suspect they can get away with whatever and no one is going to say too much about it. They provide a great service
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Hard to believe a billion people use this nearly an hour a day....don't people have lives anymore? Sad, is what this really is. While there have been times I've used sites like reddit that much, it is a helluva lot different bei
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by XalvinX 8y ago
after watching that video make sure to read some of the comment section...the anti-apple sentiment is strong and growing, to be sure.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I was, once, excited about the prospects of an iCar...back when I still was a believer in the cult of Apple. Then I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 I would never trust my life to an Apple product,
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Oh, and they will change the shape of (or remove completely) the charging plug every couple of years so you have to buy a new one. How do you think they made so much money over the years...they are geniuses!! Bastards, but geniuses. Wasn&#x
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by XalvinX 8y ago
And all the much-heralded advances in AI still produce email notifications that are kind of like those old Ad-lib games where the blanks get filled in by gobbledygook. And after listening to one sleep-inducing waterfall video for a single l
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Some people theorize that alcohol works in a similar way for the brain.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Thanks for the friendly warning. I will try to be more civil. Still, I'm surprised that it would be okay for one poster to actively promote dangerous drugs and defend big pharma and their psychiatrist puppets in an equally emotionally
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I know plenty about him and the climbing world, and the history of it, and have been involved in it personally since 1980, and have met many of the same people has, etc. I stand by my statement. I'm not making assumptions, just observa
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by XalvinX 8y ago
good to know. cool. I hope to make a few thousand anyways.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I don't understand what you mean. They removed the paper money the explicit said "this is good for one silver dollar and can be exchanged at the US Mint at any time" (those were called "Silver Certificates" and loo
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by XalvinX 8y ago
There are prisons and there are jails and detention centers. I've been to jail more than once and jail is essentially 3-square-meals-a-day with library and exercise yard access and otherwise a softcore joke that just wastes your time.

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