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by kbutler 9y ago
But you could further optimize your communication by dropping the profanity. A listener declaring Crocker's rules says they will not be offended, but at best, profanity communicates your emotional reaction to a situation. In seeking op
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by kbutler 9y ago
Following up on my own comment, here is an article that talks about 2 placebo-controlled, double-blind studies that found a decrease in violence by adding multivitamin supplements. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/e
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by kbutler 9y ago
While I agree prisoners aren't treated well, I'm not convinced that vitamin pills are necessarily worth while. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/do-multivitamins-... "If you take a multivitamin,
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by kbutler 9y ago
If it were just 11am 12am 1pm That would make sense. But it would be 11:59:59.9999999999am 12:00:00.0000000000am 12:00:00.0000000001pm So incrementing the arbitrarily least significant unit would require toggling the most significant unit w
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by kbutler 9y ago
I've just been thinking car repair, so I had hopes of something more unusual here, maybe like the blue smoke of some electronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
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by kbutler 9y ago
The Snopes take on it is worthwhile and adds more context about previous snowfalls: On 21 January 2017, flurries from dawn until late afternoon left most of the area blanketed in snow...A month before that, there was a brief flurry of snow
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by kbutler 9y ago
It's a storage optimization in the kodak photo technology - replacing one face with another. It's the next step beyond the Xerox photocopiers: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_fl
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by kbutler 9y ago
Perhaps the map makers had different esthetic priorities than you have?
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by kbutler 9y ago
The instant it becomes noon, it is no longer ante meridian (before noon). Thus we have to make an arbitrary allocation, and it makes a lot more sense to lump 12:00 with 12:01-12:59, rather than with 11:00-11:59.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Wish granted. Wonder bread is made with real sugar. www.wonderbread.ca Not completely sure it's bread, though.
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by kbutler 9y ago
I had a stack of ~25 floppies that I used to download linux with X and some programs to run on a 486. Software has gotten much bigger...
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by kbutler 9y ago
The grandparent was describing the long-term vs short-term effect of broad subsidies. The short-term effect of a subsidy is a reduced cost to the consumer. If subsidies are generally and persistently available, this reduced perceived cost i
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by kbutler 9y ago
> harsh context break for me. There's no continuity like a book more than a page turn? I find the continual swiping distracting. And it's a much more complex motion (akin to a page turn) and must be done more frequently than pa
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by kbutler 9y ago
Screen sizes are reported on the diagonal, but the makers are not constrained to maintain the same diagonal size with different apsect ratios. For instance, the pixel Chromebooks have 12.82" and 12.3" diagonal screens. I've n
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by kbutler 9y ago
Try pressing space (or page down on keyboards with pg down).
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by kbutler 9y ago
The graphic minimizes the apparent difference by splitting it between top and bottom and maintaining the same diagonal size. 3:2 gives 18% more vertical space in the same width https://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article&#x2
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by kbutler 9y ago
One year in one country no less...
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by kbutler 9y ago
You're not paying for everyone - a significant chunk of the transfers you're endorsing are paid by deficit spending, so you're still signing up other people who don't get to vote to pay for what you want. Of course there
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by kbutler 9y ago
Components per integrated circuit. The link above quotes Moore's 1965 statement.
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by kbutler 9y ago
I don't think the size of Sinclair is the relevant benchmark. The profitability and prevalence of the practice is the important part. How much did that sponsorship earn them? How many other sponsored stories are they running? What&#x2
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by kbutler 9y ago
Moore's law in its original 1965 meaning was an observation that transistor counts doubled every year and a projection that this would continue for the next decade. Moore revised the projection downward in 1975 to every two years, whic
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by kbutler 9y ago
"Fantasy is just as good as reality when it comes to T-Rex coloration". Then let's go for plaid and gingham dinosaurs, like the pink elephants on parade! It doesn't need to match reality, it needs to aid suspension of d
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by kbutler 9y ago
It may be more accurate to call it an oligopoly, but the distortion of the market from limited supply and competition remain the same.
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by kbutler 9y ago
"Uber is the sole party that structures the relationship with its drivers and determines the rate it would pay them. Why is it not their problem or fault? And, if it’s not their problem, whose is it?" The driver is the sole party
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by kbutler 9y ago
The "MAKE IT SAFE TO FAIL" was contradicted by the article. "This is a pity because experimentation can produce outsize rewards. For example, I wouldn’t be risking much by trying a generic soda, and if I liked it enough to sw
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by kbutler 9y ago
"Organic" as chiefly of biological origin? Yeah. "Organic" as occurs in nature and beneficial for plants? Sure. "Organic" as compound containing carbon? Yes. "Organic" as compound with at least one c
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by kbutler 9y ago
It's worse than meaningless because it distracts from more damaging issues because "Wow! Heavy!" If I have 10kg of mercury and I dump it in a river, that measures 10kg of toxic waste. But if I have pile of 10 million kg of r
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by kbutler 9y ago
There doesn't seem to have been much of a lobbying process. It was accepted with little debate, and other options to promote progress were rejected. Copyright was a well-established practice inherited from British common law, and view
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by kbutler 9y ago
Note that the value of product placement, in film advertising, endorsements, and merchandising all /benefit/ from the increased distribution of piracy. This suggests possible changes in business model, but it is really hard to giv
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by kbutler 9y ago
The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; https://www.law.cornell.

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