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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Farmers are on large plots, and there is only so much watertable. Why do they need to be anonymous? Sounds like more blockchain hype + the hidden potential for Nestle or whoever to buy up all the water rights discretely. Utilities should
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Of course, at any restaurant glasses given with water for the table are going to be somewhere much nearer your 236ml, so there's really nothing psychotic about it. Bingo. It's not hard to sip on a average sized glass of wate
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Because the people that will likely win the nomination will almost certainly have big money, to include Big Pharma, behind them. Ads, research, propaganda, and aggressive ground games work, but they need money. Like multi-national corp or
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
That's because medical companies made it up to sell more drugs. Restless leg syndrome wasn't a thing until pharma starting pushing drugs for it. Legit palsey is a completely different story.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
How? edit: I mean that as a genuine, serious question, how is that worse?
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
If Scandinavia is anything like Canada, the Pine Beetle. We need a week or two at -40C (fun fact, -40C is roughly equal to -40F) to really thin them out. We haven't been getting that cold weather, so large numbers of them make it thro
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Cars are so dangerous. Is it really worth it just to have a popular recreation like racing? Why don't we just ban cars? In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, 30,296 deadly, killing 32,999, and injuring 2,239,000. There
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail? Aside from the obvious fanboy vs anti-fanboy thing, all of the other players in these spheres tend to be huge companies and government contract
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Why not send your daughter? It's 2019 after all. Equality means they can be fed to the meatgrinder too.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
There is no question it happened -- we know for sure the Russians were pushing hard on this. Most nation-states push propaganda, this was just especially hard and blatant. The question is how much did it help, and were other players, lik
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Practically this means exploitation opportunities are rather limited, but a forced collision being possible at all seems non-ideal for an adversarial use case. There's also the risk that future cryptanalysis will further weaken MD
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
"All Nationalism is 'wounded', by definition" -- there is always some old grudge or memory of glory to fuel revanchist ferver. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWarNerd/comments/85ewei/all_n
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> I'll take a wild guess and say it's because your intellect is way more developed than your affect. Interesting. I like that phrase. > Meditation and psychedelics can help learning that if it's something you wish to i
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Edit: and adding no offense at the beginning of your post does not make it less offensive. It just makes seem passive-aggressive :P Your post sounds passive aggressive, mate. Parent's post just sounds direct, bordering on blunt.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
In Canada it's $400k CAD. Open to all -- bring $$$ and drop em in the local economy. See also: Vancouver housing issues.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Technical: I wish I learned Perl and Python earlier. Scripting is powerful. Non-Technical: Learning to speak the Will-to-Power language of executives; coded Power-Talk and all that. Once you start getting to the Senior Manager / Di
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
"freewall: the rise of data capitalism"
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Since the name doesn't explain it: "Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,275,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting." Cool, but
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Lying to advertisers would not make Facebook a ponzi scheme. That would just be Fraud. And on a long enough timeline, publicly traded companies may eventually come to that point.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Why delete the grayed out comments? Not trolling, am curious. I feel like by skipping those you're just bowing to the will of the hive mind without knowing what the alternatives could be.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> I like it. You can make a joke, but if it's bad, you end up paying for it. To quote John Scalzi "the failure state of clever is asshole"
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Didn't someone put a theory out that the Venus of Willendorf was not venerating the Fat Goddess, but rather what someone sees when they look straight down at their body? (cuz cave people didn't have good mirrors and all) Deeper ex
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
"Millennials are killing music with their beats and their memes" > but there's a thick layer of terrible that rises to the top of the pop charts and you have to dig through it to find music of any worth. This is a trite ar
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> I completely disagree that Stanley is a loser, to me he is a quintessential clueless. He’s working in the office, not the warehouse: he’s in middle management, so IMO he’s clueless by definition because he is part of the padding betwee
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Russia is a hyper regressive, anti liberal, anti democratic, low human rights, dictatorship. My interests are particularly not served by allowing companies from Russia to spy on me. Russia is also on the other side of the globe, has a
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Social media networks like Facebook and Snapchat aren't like this. Correct. They're not that terse with their terms. You'd have to read so. many. paragraphs. to figure out they're doing the same thing.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> The experience feels the same, and there's no real novelty That sounds like Stellaris, tbh. Eventually it just turns into waiting for things to complete so you can launch the next war. And without the historical immersion (EUIV,
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
So then what is the play? Send it to someone else's bank account?
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
A lot of Tor nodes and endpoints are fairly small in terms of capacity and throughput. Streaming lots of porn vids through them eats up a lot of bandwidth compared to, say, writing emails or browsing darknet markets or reading about Tienan
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Also remember Thiel's Dark Enlightenment[1] ideals and positions which are, arguably, alt-right. He seems like a member of the coterie that Trump would take orders from. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enli

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