brandonmenc

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by brandonmenc 2y ago
A close family member has permanent heart failure caused by the first Covid booster. They now go to the top heart hospital in the world. The doctors there say that while nothing can be proven for certain - obviously - the timing of their bo
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Help China's military.
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The First Gulf War.
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Over 200 DPI is non-negotiable. Integrated webcam and speakers are a near-must. High refresh is a nice to have.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> I thought we don't want to be like China? Tired: "spreading" democracy. Wired: battening down the hatches so you don't lose your democracy. It's a new world, you just haven't received the memo yet.
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Most of our popular entertainment since the late 20th century has been chock full of these far-fetched ideas as plot devices. Everyone is primed to employ the techno-thriller "what if?" tool when building narratives and sensemakin
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> I don't know why we started doing this to begin with. Because Steve Jobs said: > People don't know what they want until you show it to them. and too many people wrongly believe that they are as smart as Steve Jobs.
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> This is why H1-B visas should have a minimum salary requirement equal to 20% over [median] The requirement should be at least 2x top of band. A mere 1.2x of the median is absolutely absurd.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> Yes, we pay well. Not enough, apparently. > No, you can't work remotely. You'll have to pay even more for this. > No, we don't pay as much as Meta. So again, not enough.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
So many great memories of playing Alley Cat in CGA on the old 286 Epson clone.
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iirc wasn't it the floor mats being designed such that they were prone to interfering with the pedals?
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afaik the current understanding is that red meat contains carcinogens and that this is not related to saturated fat. Just eat it in moderation.
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> we had 100s of channels like the 'golf channel' with useless programming Hey, I like the golf channel. I'm not sure what the complaint is here. People wanted individual channels. Now at last they can buy just the Disne
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
"Why can't I just buy cable channels à la carte ?!" - everyone circa early 2000s We got exactly what we begged for.
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Closing schools for a year. Forcing people to say goodbye to dying loved ones over Zoom calls. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses failing. You know, that sort of thing.
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> the general public has gotten more ignorant, more conspiratorial, more belligerent, and more defiant If the response to COVID was more appropriate we wouldn't be in this situation. Which - by the way - was predicted countless time
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> the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with Right. Which the general public figured out - accurately - about a month into the lockdowns. People will self-isolate for a week or two the next
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Mortality isn't the only measure of danger. Like 80% of COVID deaths were over age 65. For young people with no comorbidities, COVID was mostly benign. Magnitude aside, that's more or less a normal disease. Polio was paralyzing th
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We won't again permit the economy and life in general to grind to a halt for months on end unless it's as dangerous as polio or the black plague. So that's better.
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I live in one of if not the most critical county in the entire country this election. It's going to be insane here. This week alone we've had Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Walz stumping here. https://newrepubl
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
What I meant was, the security of electronic voting machines in general . Prior to Trump, it was afaict an accepted fact among software people that closed source electronic voting machines were sitting ducks ripe for hacking. We went from
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> One side says that it is totally secure, basically 0 fraud, most secure election in history Additionally, the sides have completely flipped. Utterly bizarre.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Who even gets colonoscopies anymore? Everyone I know just poops in a box and mails it to a lab nowadays.
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I finally took an overnight train from Chicago to Pennsylvania to try it out. Got an Amtrak Roomette. It cost a fortune (relative to flying.) Could not fall asleep at all due to the jerky motion. Do not recommend. I have no idea why anyon
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Next can we ban 1-star reviews that just complain about the shipping and not the product itself?
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If you think that's bad, I've seen doctors do this (albeit after providing service.)
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
I mean yeah, of course I know how people hold and walk around with these devices. I was being silly. Everything you said about large hands rings true for small hands and the mini form factor, but instead of just looking silly it's a
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> Perhaps they are targeting people with a smaller iPhone who want another device to watch YouTube. Hi, it me. I have an iPhone 13 Mini that will have to be pried from my cold dead hands because it's about as big a phone as I'm
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As in a general, "what about city centers!" and "everyone needs to get back in the office just because!" It's all feels and vibes.
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It's not like, a direct marching order. It's just a general attitude that has filtered around C suites or whatever. Go watch any daytime cable news investment shows and you'll see it. Just run of the mill cohort thinking. No

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