desine

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by desine 5y ago
I think those are two very valid concerns when building a top of the line fighter jet. Especially if EM weapons become a more realistic threat, as each fly-by-wire wire is effectively an antenna. If you're shielding against EM weapon
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by desine 5y ago
Yes the J&J shot still works using only the spike protein. IIRC only Novavax uses traditional inoculation of using the weakened SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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by desine 5y ago
>We can reasonably say the Black Death killed 30% of Europe's population. We can't reasonably say covid won't do the same. All optimistic projections so far have been proven wrong, so all we can say for sure is that humans
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by desine 5y ago
At the very least, you other watches will hold a value more than your smartwatch, long term
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by desine 5y ago
>Quartz watches are just cheaper and more reliable. And more accurate. Better in every measurable way, honestly. Which just makes me love mechanicals even more.
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by desine 5y ago
Perhaps, but they're engineered to minimize such effect. I noted in another comment I started with a Seiko 5, one of the cheapest, most inaccurate movements (being the name for the timekeeping mechanism itself), and I see multi-minute
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by desine 5y ago
It must be exceptionally bad mechanical watches you are used to
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by desine 5y ago
Precision is relative. It's more precise than me looking at the sun, for instance.
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by desine 5y ago
In this modern age, you'll often come across synchronized digital clocks. Whether on your computer, phone, workplace, bank, etc. For me, it has become second nature to adjust my watch's time once every few days. I end up compar
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by desine 5y ago
Whoa he has hair. This must be early career.
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by desine 5y ago
A bunch of youtube, a strong mechanical sense, and the book "watch Repair for Beginners", which was not noted in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116525 So I'm likely down the same path a
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by desine 5y ago
Vintage soviet watches tend to be pretty thin, from what I've gathered. They also tend to be less well made/reliable than modern equivalents, and many of the ones you see on ebay are maxed out on their typical adjustments to stay
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by desine 5y ago
not precise enough to soft boil eggs, and not as easily as remembering to wear my automatic for an hour a day, or wind my manuals once per day. I'm failing to understand why this is so contentious outside of "anti-prepper" at
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by desine 5y ago
Shielding itself is not perfect. Probably enough for the simple circuitry of an analog quartz. But it's not guaranteed. It's a buffer that reduces a wave by a few to a few dozen dB. A EM pulse through even a properly grounded
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by desine 5y ago
>I love that it is "about 22:00" rather than 22:03:37. Agreed. I view myself as a pretty casual person, someone who's not overly concerned with the minutae of modern life. But with a digital watch, it's "12:47&
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by desine 5y ago
To be fair that's like half my love of them. Like a fresh blank canvas, perfection is boring.
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by desine 5y ago
I got into it after my smartwatches, oddly enough. I didn't wear a watch between the mid-90s young kid with a Timex Expedition and the late 2010's adult with an Apple Watch. It was getting in the habit of the smartwatch that mad
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by desine 5y ago
Even as the world ends, I will enjoy a few last perfectly soft boiled eggs over my camp stove, and contemplate the meaning of existence. And a major US metropolitan area, near several military bases, airports, and missile launch sites. So
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by desine 5y ago
I recently fell into this rabbit hole. I bought a cheap automatic watch - a Seiko 5, for both practical reasons and otherwise (will work after an EMP attack/solar event, but it's also just cool as hell mechanical engineering usin
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by desine 5y ago
That’s funny I thought liberal had some sort of synonymous root with freedom or liberty or choice.
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by desine 5y ago
no.
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by desine 5y ago
definitely not the issue of people handwaving away concerns as being unfounded or uneducated. thanks for showing me the truth.
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by desine 5y ago
Concern over long term effects of mRNA therapy, of which I've found little evidence Concern over long term effects of the spike protein presented by COVID-19, both attached to the virus and free-floating within my body as a result of m
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by desine 5y ago
Yes, training your cells to mass produce a new protein we're not familiar with is absolutely safer than your trained immune system possibly encountering a mild viral load, with the proteins attached to the shells as normal. Anyone wh
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by desine 5y ago
TLA is about a local government mandating that businesses check for vaccination status. That's infringing on rights of the businesses, "private property and all."
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by desine 5y ago
Sure, but it's not the only reasonable position to take.
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by desine 5y ago
We allow parents to make decisions for children up to a certain age. I'm definitely not arguing that. It is about me. A population is made up of individual people. Those individual people have rights. Given a choice of a population
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by desine 5y ago
>I've still not heard a single good argument for not vaccinating despite reading most anti-vax comments on this post. Because if I put something in my body only because my master tells me to, I am a slave. Through and through. Bod
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by desine 5y ago
>Well, mRNA vaccines have been in human clinical trials for over 10 years now, so if 10 years is your metric you may want to look in to that. I've tried. I have not found any hard data from sources I would trust. I've found l
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by desine 5y ago
There's risks outside of infectious disease modeling. I'm not sure you understand the counterpoint they were making.

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