magduf

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by magduf 7y ago
I completely disagree about the Moon being more difficult. We can get to the Moon in 3 days flat. We cannot do that with Mars; to go there, humans have to spend months in space being exposed to hard radiation. With the Moon, that isn&#
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't work at a FAANG company, but we do have some pretty nice hardware. I have 27" Dell monitors that I think cost about $800 each when new. (They're probably less now, they're a few years out-of-date by now.)
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by magduf 7y ago
Admittedly, I'm not a coffee drinker, but rather a tea drinker, but I've seen French presses and I thought the idea was that they aren't very expensive, but they're a lot more laborious than a machine, both in preparatio
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by magduf 7y ago
Depends on the monitors and dishwasher. A $250 dishwasher is a pretty crappy one; the nice ones are $500-1000. $150 will get you a perfectly decent 1080p 23" monitor, however at work I have three 27" monitors that probably cost
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by magduf 7y ago
Honestly, the bit about cooking and doing the dishes sounded even more ridiculous than the coffee thing. What kind of adult can't do even the most basic cooking, or never has to do dishes? How many people actually get all their food
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by magduf 7y ago
For certain things, yes. For other things, no. For instance, I find "all hands" meetings at work to be a complete waste of time, except maybe for the possibility of socializing or getting a free lunch. I could learn everything
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by magduf 7y ago
You think 3 days is "too far for any meaningful emergency response"? I mean, yeah, if someone needs to be in an ICU within an hour, that's too long, but if they develop a new coronavirus on the Moon, 3 days to get people bac
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by magduf 7y ago
Getting back from Venus is as easy as launching from Earth: i.e., completely doable with present-day technology. The only issue is getting it there to begin with, but that's not really hard, though we'd probably need to launch se
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by magduf 7y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but no, those people were called "Martians". (His term, "homo ares", is referring to Ares, the god also known as Mars.) The Belters lived in the Asteroid Belt, and were opposed to both the Terrans
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe we should work on terraforming it: use various processes to change the atmosphere and stop the runaway greenhouse affect, shed the excess heat into space, and build an earth-normal atmosphere. However, it does seem like building rotat
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by magduf 7y ago
>Despite that I don't think it's a good idea to recommend or disrecommend any specific drug; it is very much a biochemical roll of the dice as to whether a med will work on a given individual and the odds aren't even parti
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by magduf 7y ago
>Please don't recommend Phenibut. It's not an antidepressant. It's highly addictive and has severe rebound and withdrawal symptoms. Drugs that make you temporarily feel good should not be confused with antidepressant drugs
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by magduf 7y ago
It seems to me that the real problem is that these issues have root causes which really need to be addressed, and that's why telling the chronically obese people "just stop eating" doesn't work, because it isn't add
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't think this applies here; from the story, it sounds like both Pornhub and the victims are in the US, and Pornhub is bound by US law on these matters (which is decidedly unfriendly to CP). >Furthermore, these platforms can cla
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by magduf 7y ago
I believe so, yes. My ex-wife used Stevia a lot and loved it. It tastes bitter and disgusting to me. Growing up, my mom always used Sweet-n-Low (saccharine sweetener) and tried to get me to use it. It always tasted bitter and disgusting
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm fairly sure they can't do that after the trial has started. Basically, yeah, if you admit to the attorneys at the beginning (during "jury selection") that you'd do this, then yes, they'd use this to make su
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by magduf 7y ago
>I think there are millions of people who wouldn't lose a wink of sleep over assassinating someone in cold blood, but wouldn't be able to live with themselves if forced to acquire and plant images and videos of children being r
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by magduf 7y ago
Stevia tastes bitter and nasty. It's not even sweet.
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by magduf 7y ago
>So you're saying that getting less votes in an election makes one better at getting the most votes? Fascinating the logic, or rather lack thereof, of Trump supporters. Wow, this is an incredibly stupid post. I'm not a Trump s
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by magduf 7y ago
>Let's call this the coronavirus Because it's not "the coronavirus" any more than the Spanish Flu is "the flu". The Spanish Flu was one pandemic that happened with one strain of the flu; it's not the s
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by magduf 7y ago
This seems like a very good example of how poor enforcement is. Child porn is very, very illegal, and gets "regular people" throw in prison for the rest of their lives just for having downloaded it and having it on their machines
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by magduf 7y ago
Obviously, you are completely unwilling to accept the fact that Trump won the election, and somehow you're creating utterly insane logic to continue the fantasy in your head.
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by magduf 7y ago
Are you seriously bringing that up again? He won the election. The number of votes is irrelevant. Maybe that's why he won: he actually understands this simple fact about how the Constitution works, and people like you either don&#x2
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by magduf 7y ago
>Insofar as he can be said to understand anything Well, while he doesn't seem to have much understanding of economics or how to run a government properly, let's give credit where credit is due: he certainly seemed to understand
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>The rest of the world has their own responsibility to some extent but the US usually takes point on these kind of things. The US has 330M people. The rest of the world has over 7B. The rest of the world needs to get over this idea tha
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by magduf 7y ago
This is what happens when you elect utter incompetents to run the federal government, and they cut off funding for public-benefit agencies. The American people are getting exactly what they voted for. Expect things to get much worse.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Please don’t shame me. You're the one picking on me for just handing out some advice to someone. >I think the fact that you are not angry about this situation Where did I ever say I was OK with the state of affairs here? You&#x
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by magduf 7y ago
I never claimed this was a sustainable strategy for most Americans. Where did you ever get that idea? Someone on this site probably has a good income in the software sector, and can afford a plane ticket out of the country to stock up on i
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by magduf 7y ago
Wiretapping is only illegal if you don't give permission for it. By having a device that's always recording audio, you're implicitly giving permission for what you describe.
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by magduf 7y ago
2 wrongs don't make a right. And sure, FB uses "dark patterns", but that's a lot more subtle than registering obvious phishing domains. There's simply no defense for that at all; it's obviously aiding and abet

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