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by lurquer 5y ago
That second one... was ‘Cthulhu’ a keyword?
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by lurquer 5y ago
Basically, a paper towel, sponge, wick, or most any woven fabric. I bet the ‘3D microstructures’ in a typical woven super Shammy are smaller. Slow day at the lab? Publish or perish, I suppose.
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by lurquer 5y ago
> Why can’t we use... You can. Nobody’s stopping you. Perhaps you meant “they” instead of “we”. Pet peeve. I’ve found when you use the proper pronoun — ‘they’ in this case, unless you make concrete — it focuses your thinking. That is, if
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by lurquer 5y ago
> It should be well known by now from history that this sort of thing can be very dangerous, Dangerous to whom? Not to those in power. It’s precisely because it’s dangerous that it is so popular; the masses love the idea of their ‘enemie
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by lurquer 5y ago
There is no law against yelling fire in a theatre. The phrase was used by Justice Holmes in a boneheaded decision that upheld the illegality of objecting to the draft. Thankfully, the opinion was later overturned. The very narrow point bein
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by lurquer 5y ago
It is illegal in France to insult someone on the basis of their race, sex, etc., etc. Even non-public speech of that type. 500 Euro fine. Up to 3000 Euro for repeat offenses. I believe a couple provinces of France still have blasphemy laws.
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by lurquer 5y ago
I don’t disagree with the general idea: there’s a large overlap in internal and external security. The entire issue just leaves me with a nagging feeling that something fundamental is being overlooked. There is something profoundly differen
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by lurquer 5y ago
> The campy, stupid action movie aesthetic is sugar coating for what I found to be an interesting theme. Hehe. I think you’ve got it backwards. You have Rowdy Roddy lined up to do a film. You come up with a campy corny idea of him fighti
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by lurquer 5y ago
> Most people probably aren't inclined to deliberately target their own company. It's far more likely that there is a bad actor in the world who wants to target your company, than that there is in your company. “Most” people ar
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by lurquer 5y ago
The urge of (some) humans to rationalise their worldview in terms of woody perinneal plants?
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by lurquer 5y ago
> where every single person in the entire company has to make 0 mistakes, and an attacker only has to get lucky once Good post. I don’t mean this criticism for you specifically. But, why is there an assumption among HN types that there a
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by lurquer 5y ago
Agree. There is much confusion and many bad analogies surrounding this issue. Some claim - without evidence - that nation states are behind it. Which, with a moments reflection, is absurd; nation states may have an interest in disabling cer
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by lurquer 5y ago
Ah. I hadn’t thought of that. So putting aside Plank and all the experimental stuff, even on a philosophical level there are problems with thinking of space as continuous. For, that with which we measure space is necessarily discrete and th
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by lurquer 5y ago
>Even as I wanted to avoid it biting me, I wanted to feel its teeth. I wanted to be rejected by the wild. [. . .] For the blood it would draw from my hand to be evidence of the permanent barrier of strangeness, of human and animal, the l
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by lurquer 5y ago
Interesting post. Can you please flesh out the following? I don’t quite follow it.. > having infinitely many states would require them to be infinitesimally similar, and hence indistinguishable from each other within a finite amount of t
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by lurquer 5y ago
I saw Blink in the bookstore. My gut feeling, just looking at the cover, was that it would suck. Didn’t buy it.
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by lurquer 5y ago
I’m familiar with that language. I think it’s intentional. We’re being tested somehow... (I particularly like, when I’m sent to the store, reading “Wwwwwwwww” followed by a legible “etc.”) ProTip: always bring home some flowers; it seems to
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by lurquer 5y ago
Yeah. Any number of scenarios. Of course, in the ‘real’ world, these kind of interdependencies exist all the time. The difference is the speed and scale with which these glitches perpetuate. I mean, you had the same issues in the 1800s with
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by lurquer 5y ago
Getting more fragile by the day. An airline that can’t fly planes due to a third-parties weather app. (Which, for all we know, is dependent on other third-party apps.) These problems will grow exponentially. Just wait until Company A goes o
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by lurquer 5y ago
I want the climate to change. Why do you assume things you believe are ‘problems’ are problems to others?
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by lurquer 5y ago
Reminds me of that Nun who gave it all up to become an Austrian socialite. Van Trap something?
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by lurquer 5y ago
> Awesome! Then let's use accurate terms! (If we must) Great. Start with supporters of Black Lives Matters. Start with those speaking about ‘White’ privilege. Start with those referring to themselves as ‘people of color.’ This is th
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by lurquer 5y ago
>but it's inaccurate and I wish we'd stop using it. You’re not making sense. Is your beef with being referred to by a color? Or, is it being referred to with an inaccurate color? The video — and your post — seems to ask people
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by lurquer 5y ago
Would you prefer being referred to as “Pantone 4637-C”? Do you sincerely think people do not realize “hardly anyone is actually black or white”? Nobody cares what color your skin is. Except, maybe, a dermatologist or a makeup manufacturer.
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by lurquer 5y ago
Most states require all kinds of hoops to evict a resident. Even without a a lease. You can’t just lock them out. Sometimes the penalties for a wrongful eviction can be severe. And, in some states, there are criminal penalties. (As a practi
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by lurquer 5y ago
You just described supply and demand. If the wages are too low, you’ll have a shortage. To remediate the shortage, wages must increase.
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by lurquer 5y ago
That’s not the way ‘literally’ should be used.
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Don’t try to avoid pedestrians, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth... there are no pedestrians.
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I did that. In the kitchen, actually.
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by lurquer 5y ago
Don’t try to stop completely at each stop sign, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth... there are no stop signs.

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