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by dredds 6y ago
"The Untold Truth Of Grant Imahara From MythBusters" (2019, 12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0
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by dredds 6y ago
In my day we'd feed the Spinning Jenny punch cards all day long. We should also stop using ROBOT which means "forced labor" (slave) in Czech.
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by dredds 6y ago
Master and Slave Cylinder.. Automotive and Engineering. Will blue collar thought police be as compliant as (ahem) WHITE collar workers? Uh. "Workers" has slave connotations. Employees. Wards of the State of Private Prisons. Hard L
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by dredds 6y ago
Rating systems can be gamed, but micro-rewards and reward-limiters could subdue this effect if tied to some proof-of-individual system which also enhances the community. IRL; standup comedians get rewards, and patrons add to the entertainme
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by dredds 6y ago
Fans are in a ponzi race to discover talent before the masses pile in. (Who's Got Talent meets Democratized Dragon's Den)
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by dredds 6y ago
Imagine if we taxed pre-existing conditions, like propensity to diabetes or obesity. Your genetics will set your tax bracket. Politically-incorrect enough? Right, so target drinks.. slippery slope.. all sugar. Then people buy the cheaper cu
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by dredds 6y ago
Yes. Or otherwise we should get a full rebate for running or other exercise. Send in a BMI receipt with your yearly tax refund request. Now that is some serious job creation!
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by dredds 6y ago
People actually travel to Asia for their cheap and delicious food. Rice takes a little more effort, but so does exercise. Recipes are free.
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by dredds 6y ago
Exactly. "Death & taxes" both being certain is not a passing coincidence. What is the relationship of poverty to death rate? Oh, wait, so poverty kills more people than sugar? Who knew.
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by dredds 6y ago
I think caveat emptor also applies in this case. We don't ban sky-diving, or any other extreme sports to protect people's life or health. .. "the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and su
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by dredds 6y ago
Wuhan recently tested all 9 million residents and found only 300 currently positive cases, which are not included in official figures since they are all asymptomatic. If they had tested the residents for antibodies instead then we would hav
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by dredds 6y ago
Indeed. NZ & Aus exchange about 20% of each other's tourism in a regular year. Sometime in July we should see open borders across the ditch, saving a good number of jobs in travel and tourism sectors. Job subsidies have been timed
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by dredds 6y ago
There was another site that had 30 day deletion policy, but if you logged in during the 30 days then deletion was automatically cancelled. Squirrelly behavior obviously.
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by dredds 6y ago
As an aside, when i top up my prepaid mobile i have the option to donate the top-up to another number. Yet dating sites i've seen don't allow subscribing someone else for a limited time (by opting-in on their side of course). Is t
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by dredds 6y ago
The 'digital diary' app [0] sounds fairly innocuous. [0] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300016238/nz-covid-tracer-w...
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by dredds 6y ago
The next issue is whether to count positives who are new arrivals placed into quarantine of 2 or more weeks. Countries will be reluctant to blemish their clean virus-free records even though quarantine may be effective and necessary to have
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by dredds 6y ago
NZ is also postponing app tracing as our cases hit zero, and our PM recommends old school ppl power. (200 tracers on standby with more being trained just in case)
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by dredds 6y ago
None, because as they finally pulled back on QE in 2019 the yields inverted and the overnights jumped, so Trump forced them to dive back in around Sept '19 to keep the gravy-train trucking for the election year bragging rights.
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by dredds 6y ago
> TSLA - with gas so cheap, electric vehicles are less attractive One suggestion was that the big players will postpone electric while their ICEs get a temp boost, thus giving TSLA an even more unassailable lead.
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by dredds 6y ago
I think this is why ppl (msm) should tune out the "Obamagate" nothing-burger, cos it's potentially less dangerous than anti-asian sentiments given the population demographics in the US. Who's next after; Muslims, Blacks,
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by dredds 6y ago
Also when we save a page the number is in the title.
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by dredds 6y ago
Well said. Somewhere along the line house-owners became endless cash-cows for bankers and got political support. I guess an asset-owning class is deemed a more stable reliable voter in this scenario. Renters are just so many fish in the sea
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by dredds 6y ago
Right. The title implies renters lose too. But if you're not "contracted in" (long-term lease) then keep an eye out for discounted rentals and remain flexible. It's not like after an earthquake or other natural disaster
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by dredds 6y ago
This is a SpaceX sim isn't it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-Nksc7Oh0
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by dredds 6y ago
The Invitation (2015 film)
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by dredds 6y ago
I looked, and she's wearing an Ouroboros necklace. "The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, has been said to have a meaning of infinity by depicting the cycle of birth and death. The Our
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by dredds 6y ago
At least they don't have to fire 1 million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg
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by dredds 6y ago
Indeed. MS just announced building a new datacenter in NZ (which happens to be close to eradicating CV'19 given it's geography) so expansion even during a global crisis is certainly possible. https://www.stuff.co.nz&#x2
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by dredds 6y ago
Googled Venus Simulation. Found Terraforming Wiki. https://terraforming.fandom.com/wiki/Venus_Simulation
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by dredds 7y ago
MS have always been zealous about TM names. Since the purchase i suspect many like myself are sitting in the stadium waiting for whack-a-mole to start, popcorn at the ready.

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