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camperman
10y ago
Heh. No it doesn't. It means we disagree about whether Sandy Hook was real or staged. That's it. But because you're a special snowflake, it has to be all or nothing, black or white, right or wrong. <John Doe voice> I ca
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camperman
10y ago
Of course. Because my opinion on Sandy Hook means the GP isn't using rhetoric.
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10y ago
It's called rhetoric.
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camperman
10y ago
Clearly, this lawsuit goes to 11.
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camperman
10y ago
I had the same experience after seeing Blade Runner in the theater.
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10y ago
> That said, I see you've been on HN long enough to not be surprised that all kinds of people can be found on here. Well, quite. For example, I am a coder, an investigative journalist and a digital forensics consultant with a scaril
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10y ago
If you're suspicious of Sandy Hook then I suggest watching this lecture by Sofia Smallstorm here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYQihoNNuQ The inescapable conclusion for any reasonable person when presented with all
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10y ago
> I expect you're receiving downvotes (not from me) because you're introducing a strawman argument. I didn't introduce it - the parent did. I'm being downvoted because this is a left-leaning board. Shrug. > The fac
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10y ago
> If Trump somehow manages not to be a criminal and a crook (which seems downright impossible) The vast surveillance apparatus of the deep state have crawled everything they have on Donald Trump and all they could come up with was some l
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10y ago
This is a great introduction to both Lisp and Arm ASM - very nice! I will have to take a few days off to study it properly.
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10y ago
If you hit a slice shot in tennis, the ball will travel considerably further because the backspin produces circulation which generates lift. If air was a bunch of bullets, the effect wouldn't happen at all. If you raise a spoiler on a
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10y ago
Nonsense. See here: https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html#sec-fluid
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10y ago
Air does not behave like a bunch of bullets hitting a wing. It's a fluid with velocity and pressure everywhere, not simply in the vicinity of aircraft surfaces. A wing is a pump that sets up circulation in the airflow, upward of the le
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10y ago
Ak, that was actually Clay Shirky. Sorry Clay ;)
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10y ago
Institutions prolong problems to which they themselves are the solution - Systemantics.
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camperman
10y ago
Pleasure. org-mode really is the gift that keeps on giving.
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10y ago
Of course he threw profitability out. An alphabet, probably the CIA, has underwritten him for the foreseeable future. Jeff Bezos is what's known as a NOC, a Non-Official Career officer in the CIA. And they do as they're told. Oth
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10y ago
Indeed. And not quality of stories either.
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10y ago
"Nate, Nate" I said ever so many times, graciously telling my tale. You got it wrong. Horribly wrong. Let it go and move on. The US mainstream media is not there to report the news. It's there to shape public opinion in favor
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10y ago
Howard's YouTube video is really nice too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg
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> So far we only know the DNC leaks were very likely Russian. We don't know that at all. There isn't a single piece of evidence for it anywhere.
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10y ago
Yes! I spent at happy morning there last time I was in the city. That old submarine is right outside the front door. There was some very cool old arcade games in there but some of the mechanical ones were incredible, like the baseball game.
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10y ago
In Soviet Russia, passport control stamps YOU!
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10y ago
It's OK at first but once you get beyond the shiny, it's quite limiting.
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10y ago
In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script - DevOps Borat
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10y ago
Many a true word is spoken in jest - that's exactly what the problem is :)
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10y ago
An old friend approached me with the idea and we have developed it together. He used to work for a media company which had these sort of clients already so we got a head start when they folded and we stepped in to pick up the slack. Subsequ
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10y ago
I disagree - that is impressive. Document it thoroughly and put it on the CV. Current and future employers love it when someone can take practical steps to save money while improving functionality.
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10y ago
It's pretty boring to be honest, which is probably why it's so reliable. I sync media using rsync, the movie and stream player is omxplayer, the image and news feeds use Lua and Love2D, and the scheduler is a simple algorithm whic
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10y ago
Very. I have 200+ digital signs running on customer sites 24x7 playing videos, images, live feeds and showing web pages without trouble for over three years now.
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