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by mcphage 6mo ago
I don’t think we do in this case. This is the very first line of the article: > Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank,
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> the one place in the region where these rights actually matter and mean something What was the article about, again? Was it about respecting the rights of women?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> I don't quite understand how its effective It's the negotiation equivalent of rent-seeking, or parasitism. It requires deep relationships to have already been built, and it consumes those relationships in exchange for modest
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by mcphage 6mo ago
The authors of a powerful solver package were solving a different problem than the users of a powerful solver package, and so different tools may be appropriate.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
I noticed that (similarity between the graphs and the shapes of atomic orbitals), and assumed that was what the article was about. And it wasn’t, and never brought it up, so I was thinking maybe I was confused about the similarity. So tha
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by mcphage 6mo ago
It’s pretty easy on a Mac (or iPad with a keyboard)—Option+Shift+Hyphen. I do it without even thinking about how, it’s so second-nature.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> take a look at just about any stock chart Honestly, I hate that about stock charts. They adjust the axes and scales so that the graph itself provides no information. Did it go up 1 point? 200 points? 5%? 50%? You can’t tell, beca
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by mcphage 6mo ago
This is interesting, but it's a lot of talking around columnar databases without ever directly addressing them—making them seem like the proverbial elephant in the room. Even their table comparing DB concepts with ECS concepts doesn
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> Imagine your competition putting your own model to use against you. I imagine that this is part of the original plan. “Okay, we wasted 80 billion dollars on VR, and that hurts. But if we can somehow to convince all of our competitors
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> 2. You've wiped away the incentive for getting-big mentality which drove some of the billionaires to innovate which advances society to this point. Think - discouraging a future Jobs from making another iPhone-like device. In gene
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by mcphage 6mo ago
I would check your assumption that the money spent going to the moon is wasted—if for nothing else (and there is a lot else), we have stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
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by mcphage 6mo ago
I’m here for the Invisible Cities fan club!
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Invisible Cities is my absolute favorite of his short stories.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
What was that? Sorry, I can’t stop to listen, I’m too busy dumping all of this money into the chipper shredder.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> The usecase for Unfolder or Pepkura isn't 3D printing. I'm assuming they meant a 2D printer, which you need to be able to use this.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Replaced by his son.
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by mcphage 6mo ago
> consider why so many people were upset. Were there lots of people upset? Or was it a small number of people with power who were upset? Like, I'm not at all surprised by how this played out, but it's not clear that anyone wa
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by mcphage 6mo ago
And what better way to support that by making some money selling weapons, especially if it gives you a chance to expand your manufacturing base due to increased demand?
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by mcphage 6mo ago
Goddamn, even Sulfuric only has a pH of 3, at most . That Dihydrogen monoxide stuff is DANGEROUS .
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> the known poison, dihydrogen monoxide Oh shit, they put that stuff in Root Beer? I hear that kills thousands of people every year—from kids to the elderly.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
How much of that was actual spending—and if so, where did the money end up? —and how much of that was just fraud?
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> a human mises a cancer, that 10 out of 10 radiology models say it's there with 99% confidence I think the cases where judgements differ—either between humans or AI or both–will be the difficult to discern cases, where no human and
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by mcphage 7mo ago
No, just asking—I know they're staying out of the gulf, but I don't know how involved they are, and I figured someone here did.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Correction: Hegseth is a crusader. [...SNIP...] He might be an idiot alcoholic, but he very much knows what he is doing. That sound like he knows what he wants to do, but that's not the same as knowing what he is doing.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Nothing in this war has suggested carriers are obsolete. What are ours doing during this war?
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> I watched it twice, which is pretty unheard of for me. I thought the book was fine but not a favourite. I think it's interesting when a movie can be faithful, and yet hit differently. Conclave was like that for me—I enjoyed the b
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by mcphage 7mo ago
Oof, that’s painfully clueless. If I had written a post about how gullible I was, I’d at least take it down.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is in Amherst, MA and quite excellent.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> For a really good sinister conspiracy theory is counterintuitively cozy, what with the way it collapses the amorphous mass of real history, where cause and effect are as muddled as are heroes and villains, into a comforting clockwork m
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by mcphage 7mo ago
Asking you to explain your position more thoroughly is making discourse impossible? Your dedication to communication is laudable.

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