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by ctdonath 7y ago
That "belief" is what you want "them" to believe, so you can degrade & oppose them as inherently evil. Pardon the mind reading; it's the conclusion I come to when subjected to such bad-faith & ignorant lab
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Near as I can tell, this "MAGA hat is a hate symbol" notion comes from people who want a group to embody evils X, Y, & Z so that group can be opposed. Lacking such a group, progressives have designated Trump supporters as su
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Minimum wage is ~$7.25/hr. All one need do is work 25 minutes mundane labor a day to afford 3 square meals per day (see Twitter's @ABuckAPlate). (Corollary: min wage law prohibits anyone earning anything if they can't produ
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by ctdonath 7y ago
They give away lots of excess food. Every week I take bushels of gourmet bread to food charities. I go out of my way to do so, maybe you should to rather than agitating to compel strangers out of ignorance. The well off do far more for the
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by ctdonath 7y ago
It is an ideal world. People may negotiate for whatever they see fit. It takes two to come to an agreement. It only one agrees to terms offered, how is it fair to compel the other?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
You would refuse a starving person your food? You have enough, why the compulsion to steal from others to “redistribute”?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Define “theft”.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
My experience with utility solar is it’s getting competitive but not reliably so yet: https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1184138472988315648?s=20
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Not yours to “not allow”.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
As one who is not involved in creation or operation of “vastly expensive” items, you have no say in the matter. Those involved do have a say, that being accepting or rejecting contracted providence of goods or services, which may or may not
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Where to preorder the cookbook?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Deciphering truth is up to the individual. You don't get to declare yourself the authority thereon, empowered to control what others hear based on what you deem "truth". Strange how many purporting to wave the banner of &quot
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by ctdonath 7y ago
How about ... freedom of speech? Quit trying to micro manage everyone. Accept payment to publish messages on a competitive platform - and let readers, being mostly competent adults, figure content out themselves.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Complying with a deliberately & precisely worded law is not exploiting a loophole, it's complying with the law.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Internet is becoming a staple commodity, vital to modern life. If it isn't available somewhere, people don't move there. Cities abound now in growing part because that's where high-speed low-latency reliable connectivity exis
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Isao Tomita did similar on album Bermuda Triangle. See http://www.isaotomita.net/recordings/bermuda.html
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Recall that Apple is big into 100% recycling. Don't discard dead AirPods, get them "repaired" (replaced) at cost and let Apple recycle the components/materials.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
We already went through the "why buy an X whose batteries can't be replaced" when the iPhone showed up. Same reasoning: between smaller size, greater capacity, less breakage, and wanting a reason to buy the new model ~2 years
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Actually destroys the sound. Acoustic equivalent of x + -x = 0.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The number of people willing to be paid to not fight fires is unlimited.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Define "loneliness". "Alone" != "Lonely"
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by ctdonath 7y ago
1.5km vs 550km is not necessarily mutually exclusive when using phased array antenna: the beam may be 1.5km wide, but it may be steered across a 550km area. Ergo sat could service both Austria and Turkey, without blurring - it knows whi
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Tangential followup: Recently there was a flap about a satellite having to move out of a Starlink sat's way because the latter wouldn't. On the Starlink website they call out the automated collision avoidance system. Seems the Sta
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Starlink animations depict each sat servicing a narrow cone below. Remember, these operate much closer to the ground than geosynchronous; they'll have a much better idea where the client is than just which hemisphere.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I currently pay $25/mo for wired internet, 25Mbps & 1TB/mo cap, no discernible latency. Closest available is $80/mo satellite internet, 12Mbps & 40GB/mo cap (overage => deprioritized), latency measured in seco
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Mostly Christian, yes. There are some Jewish relics, and a few other items. Much of the collection is very old/rare, seriously museum-level content & quantity. Content includes: Gutenberg Bible, first-printing King James Bible, Dea
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The founder of Hobby Lobby has an amazing collection of historic religious texts (I've seen them). The retail chain does not.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Ah, memories. The frustration was they wouldn’t deliver from CA to NY. Fascinating to watch technology go from world-changing bleeding-edge to archeological discovery.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Observation: "comic book" movies today are largely not suitable for non-teenage children (practically all rated PG-13). What was literary version of "toy" is now 9-digit-budget blockbusters.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The political term “left” actually started at the beginning of the French Revolution, where the legislative chamber was distinctly left and right sides, with the left side occupied by those waving the banner of “liberté, égalité, fraternit

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