kevinmchugh

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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
They've paused offering it while they can't fulfill it?
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Wow, I never knew that could happen! Are there other examples or a name for this phenomenon?
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
A bit before Bitcoin was NESARA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA I learned of NESARA through Will Sommer's TRUST THE PLAN, which is about qanon. The MOASS, NESARA, and qanon conspiracy theories all share so
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Sure, but depending on another single point of failure - as opposed to linking to a url you actually own - is what distresses me
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
I see people using "linktree" to crosslink all their different social media accounts together and it really bums me out in a way I can't describe.
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
> if it's an actual, viable business Maybe one in ten vc backed startups will find a viable business model eventually. If you don't take vc money maybe it's easier to find a smaller viable business, but then it's hard
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Or have a giant scale, show people loading all this stuff into one side of the scale, and then placing the iPad on the other side, and the iPad side sinks. There's a million ways to do this idea
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Health insurers, who buy quite a lot of diabetes treatment, would much rather buy a cure. And they really don't want to pay for untreated diabetes. I've heard from an insurance CEO who wishes their plan could pay the electric bill
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
An occasional pop, sugar or no, isn't going to cause diabetes.
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
They did not. The one you linked is from March 2008. https://www.theonion.com/black-man-given-nations-worst-job-1...
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
The point/counterpoint that I have thought about at least once a month for at least fifteen years: https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
This seems like an uncharitable reading. I don't think there was a comparison made. Any justice system with a very high conviction rate is either unjust or extremely selective. The American federal government is also extremely selectiv
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
You can also buy an outdoor wok burner, but home cooks are generally not getting much wok hei.
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Wok hei isn't a home cook technique
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
Sorry, you didn't say this: were they advertising openings the whole time you were there, but not interviewing? It seems like the ruse would depend on there being interviews for the role, but interviews are so expensive and disruptive
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by kevinmchugh 2y ago
I've been in a lot of from arguments but never had one where I was later proven right by the federal government. That's quite the feather in your cap.
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
The one change that has happened is that animal fighting and baiting has become unpopular and unacceptable over the course of the last ~200 or so years. It's not 0 but there's much less dogfighting, cockfighting, bear-baiting etc
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
The stoppages in American football also mean bigger players with worse stamina are viable, since they get a break after even short plays.
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
I think people have different thresholds to watching violence, and there's a spectrum from cartoon violence to street fights to war footage. My mom doesn't like to see punching, even in cartoon form. I enjoy everything as long as
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalop...
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Ronda Rousey won eight fights in a row with the same technique. In five of those, it took less than a minute. Imagine a soccer player saying she was going to take the ball from midfield, go straight down the middle, and then drill it into t
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Headgear is used in some combat sports, including Olympic boxing. It makes the head a bigger target, which means the head gets hit more. Those strikes may be less severe, since they're cushioned. But taking more hits is bad. There cert
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Bigger gloves are useful for defense. You can catch a lot with big gloves that you can't with little ones. What's gonna matter most is how the athletes train, how hard they get hit in sparring. A very long professional career migh
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
This makes sense as an answer but seems like an incredible indictment of venture capitalism, right? If they can't bring about a better, safer, healthier, science fiction future because it's less profitable than crypto, who can? If
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Nobody's claiming that he was a programmer. From what I've read, though, he had a very keen sense of design and product. Here's an anecdote: https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html I think &
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
About four years ago Andreesen published this: https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/ They were and remain big crypto investors and it's pretty weird that the essay doesn't acknowledge how much talent and money
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
The extremely dangerous zipline never killed anyone because armchair critics correctly pointed out the danger!
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
This story only exists because the guy can constantly post for all to see everything that he's done or is trying to deal with and all his grand plans
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
The individual with the bad window placements was actually a Something Awful user (not a redditor) and he was actually well advised not to do what he was doing. Folks who'd like to know more can search for "Groverhaus" or the
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by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Anyone collecting data needs to consider how the data can be misused. Whether that be by a (repressive) government, a hacker, or a future purchaser of the data

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