bigbubba

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by bigbubba 6y ago
No computers available in the years preceding the present were practical for you? I doubt that.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Huh, I thought it was properly FOSS albeit with a plea for subscriptions, but that's much worse. Evidently my gut instinct was right.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
140 million is a lot closer to a billion (7x) than most people are to 140 million (>140x.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
ABS and good tires compliment each other.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Saying that visual obstructions should not exist is fine if we're all being idealists daydreaming about the changes we would impose when we become Emperors of the world. But in the meantime, stopping distance is important. Making th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Isn't Roblox basically Second Life, but specifically for kids? It's pretty messed up for it to have in-game payments at all.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If only crosswalks were the only places children might approach a street, stopping distance might not be so relevant. And you need to remember that not all vehicles are SUVs or pickup trucks, even in America, and regular small cars benefit
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That's a fine snarky retort if you only consider idealised abstract scenarios. In the real world, streets are lined with all manner of visual obstructions that children, deer, etc may be hidden by. Bushes, cars, buildings or garden w
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Stopping distance won't seem like a ''fetish'' to some kid who cases his ball onto a busy street and doesn't get his brains splattered because cars do stop faster than they once did.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That prisons are or should be about justice in the first place seems worthy of skepticism. It seems to me prisons have many possible uses. Rehabilitation is a popular one, as is justice/retribution/revenge/punishment/d
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I guess the photograph 'volcano' would probably be Getty.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Jdownloader has the aesthetic of sketchy windows freeware from a bygone era. I tried it once, then uninstalled it a minute later. youtube-dl also integrates well with other tools or autonomous workflows; for example mpv invokes it to stre
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by bigbubba 6y ago
He may have insulted you, but not all insults constitute logical fallacies. Ad hominem: You're wrong because you're an idiot. Just an insult: You're an idiot because you're wrong. Furthermore, concluding that somebod
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Applied Science found that cryogenic treatment of steel drill bits made them last twice as long: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAxi5YXTjEk
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I doubt that's it; the last American president to meaningfully oppose anything Israel does was JFK, who tried to get international inspections of Dimona to stop Israel's nuclear weapons program. https://www.jewishvirtua
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the tiger would easily crush your neck, even if their teeth couldn't pierce the mail. I'd give better odds to a knight wearing a lot of plate armor. Still not very good odds though.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Victimless disrespect is still disrespect.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Prohibition was also advanced by suffragettes who were tired of being beaten by drunk men. The truth is multifaceted. As I said, anti-fun was probably part of it, but taking that kernel of truth as a simple narrative is misguided. Further
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A thief thinks every man steals. An apathetic engineer thinks all engineers share his apathy.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Was a specialized real-time JVM used for this? I know real time isn't necessarily low latency, but it sounds like both are desired properties in this sort of situation.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Respect seems incompatible with airing your criticisms to strangers on the internet. That, to me, is not respectful.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Privately doesn't mean secretly in this context, and the CIA did not exist in 1936. I don't know who precisely funded the film, but I've never seen anything that calls into doubt its purported source of funding.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I suppose, though alcohol seems most fun when consumed in moderation, which avoids the hangover, avoids (major) productivity impairment, and is encouraged by our culture.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Blaming puritanical opposition to fun seems like a 'just so' narrative that fits some of the apparent facts, but is contradicted by others. For instance, American culture glorifies caffeine, particularly coca cola which is portra
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You say you respect her decision, but then in the same breadth go on to say you think it wasn't her decision at all. You've written much in this thread to strangers on the internet about how you believe it was a wrong decision.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Doctor run hospitals aren't any cheaper. Collectively, doctors control the regulation and administration of their own industry. The AMA is one of the largest lobbyists in America. They have incredible political influence.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If their industry didn't artificially restrict the supply of labor to keep their wages sky high, they wouldn't be so overworked now that more is required of them. My sympathy is nonexistent; they've made out like bandits for
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is a keen difference between the Socratic method and infantile requests that you be spood-fed everything.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Probably they hit it with a rock and decided it didn't sound hollow. They may also have noted an absence of seams. Seams could be hidden with welding and grinding, but that would suggest it wasn't assembled on site.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Silent protagonist games still exist. 'Prey' comes to mind (though an AI character speaks to you using your character's voice, and you can also hear your character speak on a few recordings you can find. But in the traditio

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