cowbellemoo

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by cowbellemoo 5y ago
What if it wasn't transactional and people were just given what they needed?
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by cowbellemoo 5y ago
What if some of what was given away to others was the food and provisions that families need?
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by cowbellemoo 5y ago
> It’s a waste of everyone’s time and money. Isn't incarcerating a person who's not a danger to others and who's crime had no harmful outcomes a waste of everyone's time and money? > 6 months does not sound like th
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by cowbellemoo 5y ago
I'm a fan of Marx's idea that value is created by labor and the free gifts of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
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by cowbellemoo 5y ago
Many cities had bulk mail pneumatic systems from the late 1800s into the post-WWI era, but Paris had a specific class of mail which was like a cross between a courier and a telegram served by the pneumatic system (which was big for handwrit
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by cowbellemoo 6y ago
> Sweden didn't pull any lever at all Your analysis of their passivity does not acknowledge the assumptions underlying an individualist strategy. The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health p
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by cowbellemoo 6y ago
> what did he do effectively? Cover up his involvement in Iran-Contra.
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by cowbellemoo 7y ago
Many games go until a win condition is reached without eliminating other players in the meantime.
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by cowbellemoo 7y ago
I picked up a TinyFPGA BX to make a VU-meter with strips of neopixels for a Halloween project (keystep+volca keytar with lots of reactive lights). You can do this with microcontrollers but I wanted to stretch myself and see if I could get a
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by cowbellemoo 8y ago
Awesome vco build! Have you read the MAKE book about building the Noise Toaster? It's great! I ran into my own discouraging brick wall when trying to figure out how to fabricate metal control panels/enclosures and printing labels
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by cowbellemoo 8y ago
The Dollop (comedy/history podcast) did an entertaining episode about these psychopaths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38R-OOVfz7A
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by cowbellemoo 8y ago
This is what I've started with, too. Make: Electronics, Make: More Electronics, and the 3-volume Encyclopedia of electronic components by Charles Platt are really great. The 8-Bit Computer video series by Ben Eater (reshared on HN rece
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by cowbellemoo 10y ago
The screen was on, just not private due to tempest snooping. Private strings were output using Morse flashes from HD activity LED. :)
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by cowbellemoo 10y ago
"shibboleet" https://xkcd.com/806/
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by cowbellemoo 13y ago
It's possible to point out that a tax is regressive without being snarky.
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by cowbellemoo 13y ago
In DS9/Voyager, the shuttlecraft have talking computers. On occasion, they use comm badges to execute remote commands like having the computer use the shuttle's short range transporter to beam them back into the shuttle.