_moof

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721.
by _moof 5y ago
> Combat disinformation by refuting it. Got any ideas that might actually have a non-zero chance of working?
722.
by _moof 5y ago
That link isn't from the media.
723.
by _moof 5y ago
Ok then. What specific test ("taking time" is not specific) do you think was skipped?
724.
by _moof 5y ago
> At this point even if the shot cured cancer I wouldn't take it because of how it's pushed. And there it is. For you at least, this has nothing to do with evidence, or facts, or information, or patience or empathy or reasoning
725.
by _moof 5y ago
Is this a standard that you've applied to all medical care you've ever received, or is this particular to this vaccine? For example, have you ever taken medicine or received a treatment that was invented in the past 50 years, and
726.
by _moof 5y ago
What will you believe?
727.
by _moof 5y ago
I don't know enough to have an opinion on marijuana's medical benefits, but in principle at least I agree. Unfortunately, "we live in a society, man," and that society requires that you find some way to transform I want
728.
by _moof 5y ago
The US Supreme Court found in 2005 that the federal government is within its rights to criminalize the growing of marijuana for personal use via the commerce clause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich As f
729.
by _moof 5y ago
Believe it or not, the Midwest is not seismically stable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone Also, tornados.
730.
by _moof 5y ago
The article and the statement are frustratingly light on details, but this appears to be an application of the primary author's prior work on navigating by observing the Doppler shifts in LEO satellite constellation frequencies: https
731.
by _moof 5y ago
Just curious/not furious: is there a convincing argument for why one should enable this particular kind of research at the cost of potentially diminished security? I recognize that this question relies on an assumption that is itself a
732.
by _moof 5y ago
I've recently added 2FA as well. Super easy to do.
733.
by _moof 5y ago
Seriously. This is almost a genre at this point. Hysterically demanding rapt attention just to take an entire paragraph to say something that takes one sentence. It drives me crazy. I put it in the same bin as the scourge of 8-minute how-to
734.
by _moof 5y ago
Don't early exercise. Here's why. Yes, there are potential tax advantages; you avoid having to deal with AMT, which is significant. But the tradeoff is that you've thrown away the essential advantage that an option gives you:
735.
by _moof 5y ago
I still don't understand why the question of originality or whatever is anything but a red herring. Europeans came and nearly wiped out the existing peoples and destroyed their cultures. Are we really going to split hairs and say that&
736.
by _moof 5y ago
I don't get where this "has to" business is coming from. If they want to be called Indians or American Indians, then I'll call them that. There's no need to get wound up.
737.
by _moof 5y ago
Most people just have wildly incorrect ideas about flight because their only experience with it is the hellscape that is major airports. When that's all you've ever seen, it's natural not to understand that it's an extre
738.
by _moof 5y ago
It's still somewhat common in coastal areas. Though I realize "common" leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
739.
by _moof 5y ago
It's a city. It's congested. Here's a fun (?) fact: the FAA explicitly refuses to define the term "congested." In one case, they actually claimed that an area with one person was congested. Not sure if that held u
740.
by _moof 5y ago
I used to train pilots for a living. Just eyeballing it from the photos but that looks like 1000' AGL to me. Plus, that building is in San Jose's airspace, which means that aircraft was in contact with and radar-identified by San
741.
by _moof 5y ago
All good points. The site is run predominantly by folks from North America, and I live in the United States, so there's a particularly North American flavor to this discussion. That's naturally going to focus on the specific exper
742.
by _moof 5y ago
That ship has already sailed, unfortunately. And in any event, I have a hard time imagining the airlines doing that. Say what you want about the tenets of capitalism, but at least it's pragmatic.
743.
by _moof 5y ago
> Why do we give special status to “the earliest known people to inhabit a land”? Because generally speaking the later arrivals view the earlier people as subhuman and engage in horrific acts of violence against them. So it's not re
744.
by _moof 5y ago
Ah, well then—nobody but themselves to blame, I suppose!
745.
by _moof 5y ago
The FAA approach to something like this would be to incorporate an industry-defined standard by reference (e.g. altimeters "shall meet the standards set forth in SAE Aeronautical Standard AS 392C") which has the benefit of requiri
746.
by _moof 5y ago
Don't know if you're in the US but if so, I'll remind you that we have multiple constitutional amendments that protect your right to keep secrets. But if you find those amendments to be unethical, I sincerely wish you the bes
747.
by _moof 5y ago
How about this: 1. Make a snapshot of a secondhand book store's online inventory. 2. Sell all the books to them. 3. Diff the inventory. 4. Buy them all back. Voila!
748.
by _moof 5y ago
UTF-8 encoding works like so: 0xxxxxxx 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx ...where the "x" bits encode the code point. So if you're halfway through a four-byte sequen
749.
by _moof 5y ago
I feel like the modern web is an exercise in adversarial UX. I am constantly fighting with it to get it to stop doing - and pardon my Anglo-Saxon here but I think it's warranted - obnoxious bullshit. Hotkeys, pop-ups (er, sorry, modal
750.
by _moof 5y ago
Right, of course - silly mistake!

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