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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Can you expand on this, because I'm not understanding what your grief with the 2016 DNC is. I'll help speed the process saying: 1. I voted for Bernie in the primary 2. I fully recognize -- and we all should -- that the DNC is not
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I think this take is on the cynical side. A more charitable interpretation would be what they say (but maybe I'm being naive): that they don't want to break the rules to fix what someone else broke by breaking the rules. I'm
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
> Edison Sure, and (as far as I know) Edison's basic pattern at discovery was much the same as what we use today (less so these days obviously): 1. Fill a sealed container with non-reactive gas or vacuum 2. String something
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
The problem I was listening to a historian discuss the other day is that we're stuck in a cycle of: 1. Republican breaks norms/laws 2. Democrat cleans up after, but by *not* breaking norms, doesn't go far enough to ac
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I'm not seeing this. I uploaded a video earlier today comparing sending in Tom Homan to replace Greg Bongino to sending in Ghostface to replace Jason Voorhees -- both still murderers. Unless they're lying to me about the view coun
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
> The invention of the "airplane" is just a simplified term for "controlled and sustained powered flight" Maybe? But most people think of it as "invented the airplane," and the two terms have different conno
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
The interesting question (to me) is how directly a line can be drawn from the original invention to what we in modern times think of as “the thing”? As an example, the Wright brothers built a biplane that had wing warping instead of aileron
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I've now installed this and it's already improved my posture -- thanks! It reminds me of how I now wash my hands for at least twenty seconds every time, because my Apple Watch will annoy me if I stop at even 18 seconds. Little rem
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I think that's the point.
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One time I was racing across the country in a moving van because my wife was injured. The truck was speed-governed to 75 mph, which I was sitting at for most of the trip. I have a picture of the back of a school bus that handily passed me b
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I'm not the author, but I assume it benchmarks the highest height of your head, blurs from there, and updates its baseline if you ever appear higher. Meaning that the way to have "perfect posture" is never to sit up straight
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I wonder what effect this will have on cost and delivery time. Will Amazon start telling us, “This is available sooner from seller XYZ”?
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Trump is forcing this to be a Game of Thrones "you win or you die" situation: there is no way out of this with a 60:40 solution, the only possible outcome is complete victory for one side, utter defeat for the other.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I haven’t looked at the article in question, but is there enough material to make an article specifically about the CIA research programs?
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Nope, I knew about Iran-Contra years back. I'm thinking of the economic policy, the AIDS mishandling, the rest of the middle east shenanigans, the various military escapades, and on and on.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I used to say the same thing about Ronald Reagan -- a president who did many questionable/bad things, but he lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums we experienced in the late '70s. Over time I've learned context about how those
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Richard Bach in his book Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah: “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I haven't done the stats, so I should probably have said "Apple's weather app still doesn't seem as precise or accurate" That said, I'd still bet a dollar (that to be fair, I might lose) that Apple today is
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Begrudging upvote for you my friend.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> they got to do something kind for someone And he never needs/wants this benefit of giving for himself? Because he never describes paying it forward, in fact quite the opposite. And again, he repeated describes never failing to g
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Dark Sky was a marvel, and when it first came out, its ability to say rain will start where you are in 2-3 minutes was a marvel. The information design argument is 100% valid, but I also marvel that, having bought the company, Apple's
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I assume this is a level maker for a game? A link to the game on that page would be great.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Then he needs to be willing to live both sides of the equation.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I see others expressing this point, but I'll add my two cents: this essay really bothered me. 1. The writer describes hitchhiking to work every day, presumably for months or years. He doesn't describe in any way how he paid back t
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Living in Jersey City, the Path train to Manhattan only leaves every 20 minutes on Sundays, and that's infrequent enough that we were discouraged from making that trip. We still went, but I'm sure not as often.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Coincidence, my stepfather was a wedding photographer for about six years. His saying (this was definitely in the era of physical film) was: "Great photographers don't always take great photographs, they just don't show anyon
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> The amount of software I can create is now mostly limited by ... hard thinking. I'm a product manager and I was talking to my dev lead yesterday about this very thing. If PMs are like headlights on a car and devs are like the engi
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this?
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I think it depends on what you mean by "equivalent" 1. If the walls are vertical and you are maximizing the horizontal area of the sofa and you are not allowed to reorient the sofa, then the problem collapses to the 2D case and th
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I literally didn't notice that the snowflake icon turned it off: 1. I scrolled through the article getting more and more frustrated with the snow 2. I scrolled all the way back to the top and saw the snowflake icon 3. I clic

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