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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Too bad you wouldn't be allowed to sell it without catching a misdemeanor or a $25,000 fine.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Uppers aren't regulated as firearms. Only lowers. In CA SCS might be required to ask for your ID to make sure you're not a felon to comply with AB 1263.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Don't speak here.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
You used to be able to print the CAG19 carbine but now you have to carve it by hand from a block of wood. Doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Oh, you don't miss paying $800/year for the privilege of having an LLC that does literally nothing?
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
I love reading posts like this. When you were a child, learning math or grammar, do you not remember bouncing off the walls of incorrect answers, eventually landing on a trajectory down the corridor of the right answer? Or were you always i
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
I had to force myself to forget about rhino after they deprecated the only version I had a license to, and I moved off Windows, because I would have been destroyed if I realized what I had lost.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
> Have you ever been on a boat? What is a "boat"?
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
You don't get it. Your 400sqft apartment needs to be shrunk by a factor of 6 to have the same area as the Orion. Try living in an 8x8 foot square for a couple weeks.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Ah. You refer to Rationalism.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
I can port it to an FPGA and so can you.
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by fgfarben 6mo ago
Learn how to skim?
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
I am suffering substantially more psychic damage from being forced to watch videos of pig euthanasia at meathouses than any pig has ever suffered from being euthanized at one of those meathouses, because I have 10x the neurons as a pig and
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
Oh? Are you going to do a citizen's arrest on a wolf for traumatically murdering a deer, thereby violating its right to avoid cruel and unusual punishment?
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
A huge vat of mercury metal has a lot of degrees of freedom. Is it conscious?
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
> we force-breed, torture and kill animals and their children in the millions every day just for the pleasure of consuming meat, eggs and dairy products We do the same thing to plants. Why do you have no qualms about killing plants to ea
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
> the first step is to embrace veganism The past 4 billion years of life for prey animals has been "get born, eat, get eaten by a predator." They have never experienced any other environment. Why do we owe them a different one?
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
> there's something troubling to me about taking any living thing and wiring its senses up to a profoundly incomplete simulacrum of reality. How do we communicate this to the engineers at YouTube who refuse to make an offramp for ch
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
Driving a car down a busy highway is way more dangerous than assembling one of these packs and storing it in your garage.
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
> I'm not taking any risks with 170 charged 18650s, if I would so much as drop or bump the bike I would discharge the pack and dismantle it. I know it was not your intent, but when people hear this stuff about the fragility of EVs,
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by fgfarben 7mo ago
A heavy battery makes an ebike extremely unpleasant to pedal manually. You should try it. I built almost exactly the same size pack (2 kWH) as Jacques in 2020 on a hybrid road bike and hated it so much that I only rode it 20 times or so. Th
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by fgfarben 8mo ago
too late.
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by fgfarben 8mo ago
Neither did Gottfried
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by fgfarben 8mo ago
Not with the non-self-cleaning sensor suite they have right now.
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by fgfarben 8mo ago
The point you're missing is that this website is actually a submarine ad for the domain, xikipedia.org, which the owner is probably trying to sell.
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by fgfarben 9mo ago
They will 100% be charged with murder.
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by fgfarben 11mo ago
...how do you think trans-oceanic trade was done before steam or diesel powered ships? Plenty of customers don't care about latency, just cost. No fuel = no fuel cost.
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by fgfarben 1y ago
My pet idea is that Western societies should prescribe antibiotics at random to a different tiny fraction of the elderly population each month / year. People who suffer from unexplained / untreatable diseases like arthritis or MS
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by fgfarben 1y ago
Do you think a GPT that already trained on something "feels" the same way when reading it a second time?
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by fgfarben 1y ago
How exactly did "Big Tech bootlickers on YCombinator" enable the UK's parliament to enact authoritarian censorship laws? Pray tell.

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