gmarx

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by gmarx 9y ago
Your first sentence is just a long way of saying "you are wrong and I need offer no counter evidence because I am right" WRT your second sentence you are clearly so deep in your own cognitive bias you can't see anymore. I&#x2
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by gmarx 9y ago
What, even if violent crime is up you know the downward trend will continue so pointing it out is fear mongering? Given the down votes we can consider the point made; people enjoy being outraged by things they disagree with
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by gmarx 9y ago
I noticed his violent crime graph stopped around 2013. Convenient. Yes violent crime is down by the standards of the previous 50 years but I'm pretty sure it has been inching back up over the previous two, at least in cities. Nothing t
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by gmarx 9y ago
meta-point. You could have edited out your first sentence
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by gmarx 9y ago
I'll add another concern which is already occurring (the thing I'm concerned about, not the concern, although I guess the concern is already occurring) AI is being used as a workaround to existing anti-discrimination laws. The cor
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by gmarx 9y ago
Good job! I don't know your history but speaking from a lifetime of yo yo ing with much more success in recent years, the calorie restriction very likely will need to be permanent. I have found again and again that there is no such thi
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by gmarx 9y ago
I take it you aren't old enough to have started sweating about retirement ;)
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by gmarx 9y ago
haha, yeah. It's petty but I'm well into adulthood, have what I would have considered an excellent income (had you asked me as a teen) and rent what I would have considered (had you shown me as a teen) kind of dump because my job
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by gmarx 9y ago
Doctors "admit" this all the time. Stories in the popular media are where we get claims that doctors have the answers. As for the idea that doctors only give out psych drugs to keep patients dependent, nonsense. There is just a st
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by gmarx 9y ago
It is terrible that he can't live in Menlo Park on 75K. On the other hand the reason he lives in a garage is because he and is family are living with his parents, most likely to save money and avoid the horrendous commute most of his c
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by gmarx 9y ago
yup, that's the downside of the hobby. I spent years chasing improvements which only satisfied me for a week. Took me years to stop and enjoy "good enough". Recently played something on my system for a musician friend and he
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by gmarx 9y ago
optimum room design is great to get the best out of your gear but a $5000 stereo set up in your current living room will be significantly better than the earvuds
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by gmarx 9y ago
I agree. Until about 2005 listening to a CD on my audiophile rig was often painful. Most discs just had an irritating noise that made me want to stop listening. I couldn't tell you what it was but the word people used "fatiguing&q
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by gmarx 9y ago
I love that you call it a "hi-fi" which is what it would have been called the generation before mine. We always called it a "stereo". I've always been amazed by how rare it is for a person to be interested in a syst
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by gmarx 9y ago
yes and I also recall 10 years ago that many reissues that came out on vinyl and cd simultaneously the vinyl version sounded bad
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by gmarx 9y ago
I also haven't found that to be the case...maybe, I guess. I don't really know which artists are heavily marketed and most of what turns up for me is pretty old. Only exception that comes to mind was "blood in the cut" w
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by gmarx 9y ago
And then you develop the habit of using uber so a new local service would have to offer something that Uber doesn't. That could be lower prices or more drivers coming more quickly. I suppose a new service could offer a better deal to t
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by gmarx 9y ago
are we though? Our alliance with Saudi Arabia was a calculation of that nature back around WWII. Recently though did the revolution in Iran cause a problem for our oil supplies? Is there a scenario in which a middle east war or lack of such
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by gmarx 9y ago
Countries cannot profit by war perhaps but that won;t prevent wars. I don't think most wars are entered as the result of a cold economic calculation. They are caused by ancient programs written into our DNA before humans even evolved.
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by gmarx 9y ago
Strange possible coincidence yesterday evening my iPhone screen kept going on by itself and it would display (with a play button) some weird URL that started with https://airtv and then had fastly somewhere in it. Connected? I k
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by gmarx 9y ago
Being honest, I don't know if I use tabs or spaces. My IDE mostly does it when I hit return and I reformat it every so often. Are you guys all programming in vi or notepad or something?
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by gmarx 9y ago
That would have been a bold choice. I remember the guy who played Trapper John on MASH was talking on one of those stock pick shows back in the tech bubble days. He was mocking the idea that the CEO of GM should expect compensation to put h
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by gmarx 9y ago
You don't know that a carrot couldn't have accomplished the same thing
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by gmarx 9y ago
The feelings of imminent nuclear doom were the best. really made the pop culture special
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by gmarx 9y ago
yes...and important problems that we have barely begun to solve
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by gmarx 9y ago
according to the article the medallion allows you to roam the street and look for someone to hail you. Uber and Lyft were ruled by the court to be more like arranged rides (limo service). It likely makes sense if you consider the original p
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by gmarx 9y ago
and if the startup had ultimately been successful this would be part of the founding myth and many people would think it was a positive
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by gmarx 9y ago
My first step would have been to search Amazon for a web enabled door buzzer. Cool project though
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by gmarx 9y ago
Two different issues- research labs/graduate training quality vs undergrad lectures and such. I doubt MIT teachers of basic science are the best in the world. Rather MIT attracts some of the smartest most motivated students in the worl
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by gmarx 9y ago
terrible article and I suspect it was written by a robot. You see this more an more with articles in mainstream press. The article consists of a catchy title with 8 paragraphs that restate the title different ways and never provide the deta

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