kraussvonespy

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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
culitho may have been the only remaining trademark-able word left in the English language.
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Agreed. Complaining that the product you purchased does exactly what it was designed to do isn't really a "freedom" issue. If one wants to drive fast at night in a Tesla, there are many companies that don't monitor vehic
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Looking forward to giving the Nature paper a read. I appreciate your time and wisdom!
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I tried to go through the "Room-temperature superconductivity — or not?" paper related to the "[We] proved basically mathematically that the raw data are not measured in the laboratory; they are fabricated" comment. I&#x
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
When ~45% of US corn is used for ethanol production[1], I'd say we can stop considering that "periods of excess" and call it what it really is: grift. [1] - https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Isn't "undetectable" an overstatement? If you were a sophisticated attacker, you'd be able to detect RF coming from the Tiles every so often, right? Or do they only respond to the right signals from a signed-in device? I
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Too bad the New Yorker abandoned him. If your writing makes it past the editors, fact checkers and attorneys at that mag, you're probably golden. The effort they spent on Lawrence Wright's Scientology article was pretty hardcore:
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https://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side/
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That's a great tip! I'm getting more dinner guests with gluten issues and would like to get better at that side of cooking. Is there a good place (cookbook) to start with?
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Opposite opinion here: Internet recipes are generally terrible. It's almost impossible to make any determination as to whether recipes have ever been tested or optimized or anything, and I just don't trust them. But if I go to ser
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
It does feel short sighted for Amazon to allow these issues to dilute their brand. They lost money FOREVER to develop a strong and loyal customer base. Now with less online programming,worse physical goods delivery, AND lots of merchandise,
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
COBOL. Spend a couple of months getting back into the coding mindset by digging into COBOL, then find a local company that needs help maintaining old COBOL programs. I've gotten calls from local colleges asking me if: a) I want to teac
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
C&C is excellent. Restricted Data by Alex Wellerstein is a fascinating history of nuclear secrecy. Also known as the NUKEMAP guy. The Dead Hand by David Hoffman is also amazing and covers chemical and bio weapons as well. It has a good
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
The book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is one of the best I've read on any subject. He intersperses the history of nuclear command and control with the AR missile silo near disaster story. Top notch reporting all around.
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
You and I may be the only REAMDE fans on the planet. Thanks bruv. Thanks for the Daniel Suarez tip too. Looking forward to some good near future books.
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Except those forms blessed by the church like bingo, keno, pickle cards, raffles, etc. As long as the invisible friend gets a cut, they’re a-ok with gambling.
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
From my post: "If you’re paying a consultant, sure you want to get an hour work for an hour pay but an employee?" It seems like we agree on the consulting bit but she wasn’t a consultant, she was an employee. Expecting 8 hours of
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver... Considering that your average employee in the US (and it’s safe to assume that numbers in Canada are similar) is productive for less than 3 hours in your
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
More on this from Derek Lowe of Things I Won’t Work With fame: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenyl...
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
All we really have is our time. I like helping people too and in a different economic system, maybe that would be enough. We all need to eat. You could consider hiring a bookkeeper type to work a few hours per week to do the paperwork, taxe
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Lowe’s discussion of this is called “Sand won’t save you this time".
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
So rough math shows that the US spends more on military than the next 10 countries put together. Or put another way, spends 40% of all world military spending. While I get that military R&D occasionally produces tangible benefits to soc
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by kraussvonespy 4y ago
Metafilter has always been well moderated. This is an odd one but boards.straightdope.com also works well thanks to good moderation.
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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
A quick tangent if you have time and can discuss it: some really interesting, effective and odd antenna designs came from AI: https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby).... Have there been an
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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
Wow, thank you. You didn't intend this but you've helped me to understand my mom's life a little better. After my dad died, my mom had a radio going in her house almost 24/7. I never really thought of that as being her w
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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
One can draw a very similar arc for lottery winners too. Most of them are broke and vagrant after ~2 years of luxury. There's no planning for tomorrow. The people most drawn to lotteries (and perhaps those drawn to the limelight too) a
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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
I was just looking to see if someone had posted emoxypine. I have some experience with this med and it does work as intended for alcoholism. Plus it does the job a lot more gently than what I imagine disulfiram does.

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