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The Switch – Now in Book Form(technicshistory.com)
1 points by cfmcdonald 5y ago|0 comments
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The Pumping Engine(technicshistory.com)
33 points by cfmcdonald 5y ago|3 comments
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The Weight of the Air(technicshistory.com)
39 points by cfmcdonald 6y ago|5 comments
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The Age of Steam(technicshistory.com)
14 points by cfmcdonald 6y ago|0 comments
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
Generally in boardgaming "tactical" is used to refer to moment-to-moment/turn-to-turn decision making, reacting to the immediate situation. I don't see how that applies here, you can't decide on a draw/action s
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
At the time it was created, the default copyright term was 28 years, with an additional 28 if renewed. The owners of the rights to the movie neglected to renew it, and it fell into public domain in 1974. Anything not in public domain in 197
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
I'm curious to hear your list. I've read a lot of fantasy and IMO the vast majority of it is poorly written schlock. GRRM stands out to me because he can actually write fairly well (though the quality has slipped a bit in the last
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
If you check the footnote there it seems Ballotpedia computed this rate themselves. It seems exceedingly unlikely this has anything to do with fraud, since other states handily won by Trump like Alaska and Iowa show similar large drops in 2
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
Okay, so if the total rejected ballot data isn't available what is your basis for claiming that it did happen? The burden of proof rests on the accuser. In any case we know that the signature rejection rates for Georgia in past electio
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
1) Didn't happen. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte... 2) Both Democrats and Republicans had greater turnout. This was expected since Trump is a highly polarizing figure. Not relevant to
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
Yes, they tested everyone else in the restaurant and no one else was infected. If you are going to make specific critiques like this, you really need to read the article first.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
I don't think I'm being generous, "this century" unambiguously means the current century starting from year 1 (19th, 20th, 21st) not the previous 100 years. See for example the usage in https://en.wikipedia.or
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
One could argue that the whole point of traditions like Christmas is to have comforting, repeated experiences like listening to the same music each year, something to ground your mortality in timeless rituals that started before you were bo
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
You do realize that this century started only 20 years ago?
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
It takes time for secondary effects like that to show up. But I recall reports of large numbers of restaurant closures as far back as late spring.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
I guess life would be largely the same except for the millions of dead people? In general though, there has been a huge variety of policy responses across the globe and over time, so I'm not sure what you mean be 'we' 's
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
It seems pretty clear from the video that the guy's video call dropped, it wasn't cut by CNN. CNN is reporting on these criticisms of Emanuel on their website: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/politic
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
Hmm, I saw a different irony, that this conversation about the dangers of Silicon Valley censorship is being hosted free of charge on YouTube.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
On the gun thing, I'm not sure what you're talking about. I just tried searching for "gun safety" on YouTube and got tons of results.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
It is Washington Irving, not the Gershwins, who is responsible for the "Columbus set out to prove the world was round" myth.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
You don't need a "smart home" for this. I have a decades old thermostat that can be programmed to turn down at night.
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The Backbone: Conclusion(technicshistory.com)
8 points by cfmcdonald 6y ago|0 comments
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Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public(technicshistory.com)
1 points by cfmcdonald 6y ago|0 comments
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Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public(technicshistory.com)
3 points by cfmcdonald 6y ago|1 comments
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
> Thanks to this law you can't be held liable if you have a blog with a comment section. Even absent a comment section, most blogs are hosted by someone else (e.g. WordPress), who does not vet the content on that blog. That won&#x27
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
Seems like an overreaction. No one has actually abolished any police force in the U.S., AFAIK. The Minneapolis city council made some noise about it, but most of them regret it and nothing has come of it. Any guns you own are statistically
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
The U.S. used to have cigarette vending machines. I believe they were phased out due to the desire to enforce age limits for smoking more strictly, not because of theft. My general impression is that the U.S. used to have more vending machi
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
I think that chart is misleading, 0 drinks in the last week does not mean "doesn't drink at all, " which implies total abstention. You can easily go weeks or even months without a drink as an occasional drinker who only parta
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
It doesn't matter, the technology doesn't provide any means for central tracking.
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by cfmcdonald 6y ago
The U.S. has already tallied 145K deaths. It's not clear what % of the population has been infected but it's surely much less than 100%. So clearly 0.04% can't be the correct overall death rate.

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