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by jdkee 4y ago
The ACLU is no longer interested in protecting the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
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by jdkee 4y ago
You are spot on with the collapse of the USSR. See https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121178/ev...
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by jdkee 4y ago
Corporations should off-load the real estate in dense urban cores and let developers convert those buildings to housing.
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We Can’t House the Homeless(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by jdkee 4y ago|2 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Roger Linn's tribute to his friend Dave. See https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/more/dave-smith
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Klein Tools is a manufacturer of hand tools for professional electricians, and they’ve been in that business for over a century and a half. Are they the best at it? Ehh, depends who you ask." Well if you ask any professional elec
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by jdkee 4y ago
Yikes! I see what you did there.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Chris Meyer, who worked at Sequential Circuits, designed the VS. Here is his take: https://learningmodular.com/the-story-of-the-prophet-vs/ RIP Dave Smith.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"The others relied heavily on integrated circuits from SSM or CEM. (Obviously they all contain discrete components--but the synth modules in a Prophet 5 or Oberheim OB-Xa are basically ICs with some support circuitry.)" I am curre
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by jdkee 4y ago
"The impact of this seat scarcity has been higher prices at elite colleges, which has eventually trickled down into higher prices at other schools also. Scarcity of seats leads to systemically higher prices. As we obviously want system
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by jdkee 4y ago
Building synthesizers out of discrete components was simply far more expensive than using digital technology to create and modulate various sound waveforms. The Yamaha DX was far cheaper to manufacture than the polyphonics Prophet 5, Oberhe
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by jdkee 4y ago
So sad. He was so young. Dave’s synths, along with those from Tom Oberheim, had an enormous impact on music in the 70s and 80s.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Sure, Jobs himself was priceless. But, yeah, Apple did overpay for NeXT at the time." Not if you view the transaction as a package deal.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Notably different from the Monty Haul problem where additional information is given to the player of the game prior to making the decision to switch. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
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by jdkee 4y ago
Proximity, unplanned interactions and privacy are three key components or forming new friendships. See https://www.businessinsider.com/things-that-help-people-make...
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by jdkee 4y ago
Much like the re-invention of "fogbank" for nuclear weapons. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233
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Old thinking will break your brain(alexsteffen.substack.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
"The policies highlight disparities between Google’s direct employees and contractors. Google is estimated to have well more than 100,000 temporary, vendor and contract workers who spend their time on Google projects but officially wor
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by jdkee 4y ago
Proximity fuses vastly increased the effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire and the story of their development is fascinating. See https://www.historynet.com/proximity-fuze/
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by jdkee 4y ago
I-bonds. See https://www.wsj.com/articles/series-i-savings-bonds-what-you...
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Interland: A New Type of Government(marginalrevolution.com)
5 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Also one of my favorite Atari 800 games, Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One-on-One. See https://www.giantbomb.com/dr-j-and-larry-bird-go-one-on-one/...
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The Atari 800XL(goto10.substack.com)
52 points by jdkee 4y ago|20 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
They can get a warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge.
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by jdkee 4y ago
". . . they regarded tax payment as a duty and promised not to use constructions and tax havens to avoid doing that duty, . . . ." Why not simply outlaw tax havens?
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by jdkee 4y ago
The conflation of abortion nee pregnancy with the right to privacy was the fatal underpinning in Roe and wrongly construes the line of cases it descended from, starting with Griswold. Pregnancy as framed as the right of bodily autonomy in n
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Microplastics Found in Lungs of People Undergoing Surgery(e360.yale.edu)
2 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
If you want another fantastic deep dive into a work of art by the same author, see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/16/arts/design/j...
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What kind of financial asset is Bitcoin?(noahpinion.substack.com)
5 points by jdkee 4y ago|1 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Nature may ultimately solve that for us.

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