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by mmhsieh 7y ago
is there some better way to break apart the criminal gangs that do this? how about offering large bounties for turning your confederates in? this might be an annex to the racketeering laws where you get immunity and a huge payday for rattin
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
anyone know the peak ELO of the strongest engine now? some years back the best centaur was about 3300 and the strongest engine was about 3100.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
the country that invented haggis is a natural leader in sustainable development
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
I stand corrected!
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
they were using organic OCR embedded in the skulls of their employees.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
i am not accusing this fellow of wrongdoing: but a truly cynical person could identify banks that have the worst OCR, glitch it, and create a litigable event. if we can turn stop signs into pandas, i think we can cause a paper check to make
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When OCR goes wrong: man settles discrimination lawsuit, bank won't cash check(freep.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|6 comments
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
true scarcity is also a good inflation hedge.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
sad to see him go
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
sure, they are just radio photons. i don't see why not!
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
this is the TSA retirement plan: show up to the airport with your life savings the TSA agent retires with your money
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
good points, but signal strength decay in the semivacuum of space really has to do more with the geometry of your emitter path vis a vis a fixed target (earth). so we get attenuation from the voyager but you can bet your sweet patootie that
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
seems like any nation state can easily afford to do this. we should be wary of any country that is heavily reliant on exports of ink and paper.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
that is a good point, i always forget about the ionospheric plasma. however, there is going to be some amount of outbound re-radiation from the plasma. the sound quality by the time you get to alpha centauri is going to lousy but any alien
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
there is a puritanical thread in american life that is so fundamental we don't notice it. the puritan does not hate pooing because it is stinky, but because it gives pleasure to the pooer.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
owning money is a crime in america now?
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
that is a very good point. we should also shut down BMEWS and send a manned constellation up there to spot ICBMs visually. this is a good billet for the space force.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
french has fourteen verb tenses, which is not optimal. it has been proven that the human mind can only handle six tenses efficiently.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
for national security it would be best to shut this puppy down because it is broadcasting our position to extraterresterial civilizations, not all of whom may be friendly.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
we don't have an academy to regularize rules, like the french for instance. this is why foreigners struggle because of all the exceptions. this is only if they actually care to speak english properly.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
most of these young hackers didn't grow up with typewriters like us ancient ones so i do not blame them for not understanding. they will never know the joy of hearing wham! on the phonograph while typing a college application on a roya
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
this is probably the one thing going viral that silicon valley is not happy about
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
assuming a particular permutation from the lexicographic order to the standard three-line typewriter order, anything other than A B C would cause absolute chaos and many a snagged ink ribbon. think about it.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
yes, we could in theory group them by plosives and fricatives and such, but that song would sound completely whack
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
yes, if it were A B C it would jam all the time. think about it.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
and they do not have as time or mobility to move across their dwellings to the can?
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
oprah: the key to a happy marriage is everyone having their own bathroom.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
we have come a long way from the days when we asked ourselves why we have so many chamber pots
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
to prevent old mechanical typewriters from jamming
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Dead Hand(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|0 comments

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