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by eplanit 5y ago
I had my MI at age 43. Other than _smoking_ weed (via a bong) daily I was in good shape with regular exercise, etc. (5+ miles hiking in hills every day with my dog, at the bare minimum). After 3 stents I became much more conscientious abo
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by eplanit 5y ago
I can't imagine running an internet based service and not logging IP addresses. How else do you debug issues or isolate malicious users, etc. Does anyone think it's realistic (or even responsible) to not log basic info? I don
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by eplanit 5y ago
As a US citizen, I've been wondering for almost 10 years now if we're edging towards a new civil war. In the past 5 or so, I've been worrying almost equally about the state of global affairs setting the stage for potential w
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by eplanit 5y ago
Actually, it is true: "When Bill Clinton gave the country “safe, legal, and rare” in 1992...They translated into language the inchoate sentiments of millions of Americans so exactly that they had to hear it only once for it to become t
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by eplanit 5y ago
What about if their tattoos are swastikas or nooses, and the "non-conformist" views are antithetical with the ideals of "wokeness"? They're "doing as they like", so let them express and find themselves, ri
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by eplanit 5y ago
How can people trust a company with a product like this, and a product history like it has, with their code on Github, or with their personal/career info on LinkedIn? I've always considered Microsoft as the "McDonalds of Soft
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by eplanit 5y ago
Exactly. Stop calling criminal activity "crimes", and then the stats look great. And, the local SF media participates and pushes the "crime is actually down" narrative: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news&#
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by eplanit 5y ago
I predict that mRNA is going to be an obnoxious fad, where every marketer on the planet tries to leverage the concept/acronym/terminology into their product packaging (regardless of whether it's a medicine, a car part, a floo
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by eplanit 5y ago
Twain's observation is timeless: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's not conjecture[1] -- what is misinformation is the assertion "...has been categorically shown to be untrue". Citation? I find that when people use "categorically" in an assertion (denial), then there's go
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by eplanit 5y ago
Both of those countries disarmed their citizens relatively recently -- and now, neither is an example of liberty.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Australia and Venezuela are the 2 best most recent examples of why the 2nd Amendment is so unique and important.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's not a slope, but a cliff -- and they've gone over it. What has amazed me is how there are many Aussie's who agree with the rules and are happy to comply. It's amazing.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Leveraging the old model to add momentum to the new model is not sad, at all.
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by eplanit 5y ago
His hairstyle is annoying, and that's a fact. /s
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by eplanit 5y ago
I'm glad you're opposed to the bill, but what you describe sounds to me like a mindset of "I'm free because the government (via restrictions on people) helps me feel safe". To me, that's not freedom, but depen
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by eplanit 5y ago
Australia's penal colony origins are beyond ironic anymore.
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by eplanit 5y ago
People seemed to have forgotten the Diebold voting machines, and their provably insecure implementation... and the conspiracy theories about Bush benefiting from it. Odd how that was a liberal position at the time, and nobody called them na
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's quite an odd humblebrag, I must say. You feel good for the simpletons for whom Go's expressiveness is adequate, but it's just not up to your own lofty ideas. Perhaps the language isn't a fit for your skills or pr
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by eplanit 5y ago
Geezus, now card games are being ruined by racial narrative, too. I and many other people grew up playing Spades, and this is the first whiff of any such historical rewriting that I've encountered (though I shouldn't be surprised)
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by eplanit 5y ago
Thank you. That, plus reader mode, makes it actually readable.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That part struck me, too. It's a narcissistic way of seeing things, where everything comes back to being about us (the West). ISIS's motives were pretty plainly spoken from what I understood at the time. It was a grand nihilist
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes, and that "squares with its values". Thinking that Apple (FAANG) have "values" other than that are falling for the marketers illusion.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I hear you, but there has to be some objective measurement that can be applied, or else how does one fairly do things like qualify students for admission into a school. There are aptitude tests for this purpose, but they too are imperfect.
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by eplanit 5y ago
This says a lot more about you than either Trump or Nicklaus.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yup. Anecdotes or lies; take your pick.
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by eplanit 5y ago
This reminds me of this guy from a few years ago: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/chicago-man-arrest... I gotta admit, I like his style.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I so miss the straightforward, personality/attitude-free style of presentation and demonstration. Hopefully that style will have some kind of comeback. Simplicity and sincerity are best. A great piece of history.
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by eplanit 5y ago
A couple of years late for the "Me Too" fad; but, in the right venue that angle might have some impact.
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by eplanit 5y ago
The government website stats support the claim: ~29% of the entire US homeless population is in California, which is disproportional when compared to other state population densities.[1] That said, the piece doesn't offer much constr

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