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by dmfdmf 6y ago
You might have better luck posting to the eevblog.com repair forum. The gurus there can probably tell you exactly what is wrong and if it can be fixed. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/?PHPSESSID=q8i8l36ul63r.
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
I predicted this 2 weeks ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22699657 Addendum; With the Fed printing money like there is no tomorrow the US dollar could lose reserve currency status and if that happens then it will m
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Ask HN: Windows 7 Support Extension?
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Quote from the article; An unfortunate coincidence fueled conspiracy theorists, says Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane University in New Orleans. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is “in very close proximity to” the seafood market, and ha
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
If the USA goes then it all goes, i.e. Western Civilization. We will collapse into another Dark Age. Rand identified the cause plus the solution and argued for it for 50 years before she died. The cause is epistemology or the branch of Phil
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
I removed the unnecessary adjective. Thanks.
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FWIW, I will throw in my two cents. This shutdown needs to end immediately. This is absolutely crushing the middle class and the economy. I'd bet that many of the small shops and restaurants I used to go to will never reopen. These l
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
It is hard to answer your question without knowing your context. I'll assume you have had a formal logic course which usually teaches the deductive syllogism. For example; P1: All men are mortal. P2: Socrates is a man. Ergo: Socrates
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Good explanation. Another way to say it is that String Theory (if it stands for anything)represents something like 2^500 possible theories (I forget the actual exponent) and if the experiment rules out 1/2 of those theories there are s
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Today? By definition the Human Condition is eternal and doesn't change over time, here are my timeless definitions that are true across all the ages and all the cultures of man; 1)You are mortal and will die and you know it. Most relig
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Title should say Windows 10 version 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903 and 1909: February 11, 2020 update. This patch modifies UEFI to close a security hole but trashes the boot certificates and thus blocking boot up after update on some
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Lift free weights, start young, make it a life-long habit before your strength starts to wane with age. Look up Alan Thrall on YT for some vids on good form for the basics like bench press, overhead press, dead-lift, squats, etc. that and
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
I'd add the old adage that it is expensive to be poor. What does that mean? The price for consumer goods generally cluster around low, mid and high prices. This includes cars, phones, computers, shoes, appliance, tools and virtually
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
I'd highly doubt she was secretly extracting assets from Theranos so there is probably nothing to be found. Even that devious act would have taken a level of self-awareness that was beyond her. To me she seems like a true psychopath w
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
The problem as I see it is that popularity ranking worked fine in the pre Eternal September era for the web (~10 years ago?). I think it is safe to say that most HN users skew toward searching for more technical, intellectual or scientific
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Don't forget we aren't their customers and we can't opt out.
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
By Choice. Pick something that is outside your normal behavior or skill set (but not too far out) and have at it.
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
The Upper Half of the Motorcycle: On The Unity of Rider and Machine. By Bernt Spiegel Spiegel is a psychologist. If you are not a rider then you might not know that one of the main appeals of riding, that many riders have not explicitly ide
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
This is exactly right. We are (still) in the midst of one of the greatest social revolutions since the invention of the printing press. The invention of the internet has changed the assumptions behind sources of reliable news, funding jou
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
True. Also note, Tepco wanted to replace Fukushima Reactors with the more modern designs like GE ABWR reactors but were blocked by the enviros. So in the 90's Fukushima reactors were uprated to ~110% power instead. Source: Me, worked o
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Defn: Smear: a usually unsubstantiated charge or accusation against a person or organization — often used attributively. Edit: My comment above, the definition of a smear, was posted in reference to a NYT article regarding Deutsche bank sta
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Read Ayn Rand's title essay in her anthology "For The New Intellectual" for the history and current state of Western thought.
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Similar experience here. I had residual pain from a neck fusion and doc put me on those 800mg ibuprofen horse pills + PT. It seemed to help at first but then plateaued and didn't seem to help much. After I had been on ibuprofen for m
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by dmfdmf 7y ago
Greenspam was associated with Rand at least through 1977 when he was chairman of Ford's Council of Economic Advisors, a position that Rand explicitly approved. She died in 1982 and Greenspam was appointed to the Fed in 1987 so she nev
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
> ...A while back, I heard it much questioned whether Trump would leave willingly in 2020. Do you mean Trump loses the election in 2020 and declares Marshal Law (or whatever) to retain control? I ask because I can recall that that accusa
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
I used to work in the nuclear power industry. When I came on board out of college in my first month or so I was given a bunch of books to read and free time to read the history of the company and industry in the company library. I came acro
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
1) Stop beating yourself up, I think this is normal as everyone has a peak time. 2) A cause or a contributor to the distraction and procrastination could be due to forcing yourself to do difficult work in the PM when your mind just isn&#x27
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I recommend starting with "Philosophy:Who Needs It" which is only indirectly about her philosophy but more about why everyone needs and has some kind of philosophy (i.e. integrated view of life) whether they explicitly identify it
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Ayn Rand was a thinker of the first rank and a genius that comes along once every 1000 years. Most people have a superficial view of her ideas and that she was primarily an advocate of capitalism in politics and selfishness as a virtue in
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If you are trying to pickup a lot of new, unfamiliar terminology, concepts, acronyms, etc. you might look into Anki which is a computerized flash card system. It won't help you with the planning or strategy but spaced repetition might

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