mr_spothawk

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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
for those of us who are working to improve our ability to use org & lisp+emacs this is incredibly helpful.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
> It seems that there has been a general trend towards a constant churning of output in order to keep up the dopamine hits for users. my first thought when reading this was "yeah, that's because users don't know how to RSS
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
> Broadband access is not nearly as ubiquitous outside major cities as people believe. Neither as ubiquitous nor as necessary, i think.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
VPN?
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
> The death rate is 0.5% You can't know that without testing the whole population, or at least getting some controls.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/125020387852143820...
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
seems easy to get counted as a COVID death, ya? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
> What do you think that chart would look like if people were just 'left alone to get a bad cough'? quite similar if it's as contagious as we're told.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
I don't want a mask, or a test. I just want to be left alone to get a bad cough once in a while. Remind me again how many flu deaths we had this season?
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
>Who's going to want to risk themselves or their employees if we can't ensure our own safety? Me. I will risk myself. And most of my friends, too.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
well... in modern parlance perhaps. but the word has a specific and precise definition despite peoples' ignorance of it.
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by mr_spothawk 6y ago
would it still be a positive if the president-cum-dictator used this tool or some descendant of it to track & trace political opponents across the country before jailing/murdering them?
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
> Also chances are the girls in question were most likely sex trafficked (Modern day slave trade by another name). The women in question (those in contact with Epstein) were, in no way, a representation of chattel slavery, which is (i pr
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
This is probably the most important message that any of us could be communicating to the Cancel Culture crew. Thanks for putting it so succintly
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
Can you be a bit more clear about what "defending statutory rape" means to you? All i'm seeing is people pointing out that statutes are different around the globe, and that it was rms' point that the variety of these rul
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
> He was in two roles that were largely about PR and put him in positions of power over young women. 1st, you're assuming his relative power based on claims in an article by a young woman who didn't know about him, and still ha
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
maybe people think you "should be unemployable in any position which would involve public prominence, leadership, or significant influence." are you even thinking about what you're writing? it seems like you're just atta
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
> decades of inexcusable behavior for any individual That's blowing it way out of proportion. You mention one remark 13 years ago, and refer to it as decades.
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
Also worth visiting in Scottsdale (not far away, and historically related) is Cosanti, which is free. Paolo Soleri is a really interesting character
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
> removing myself would make it difficult for them this is exactly why I deleted all my friends before I deleted my account.
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
> These people I'm not sure what group of people you just Other'd, but I am suggesting that you re-read your post and consider: a) whether you still hold the view you espoused 13 minutes ago that some group of humans are non-th
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
I guess they're not going to ban content that glorifies war, though? That would be a bridge too far.
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
Does the article address how many hours of television do you need to watch every day to see 400 hours per year?
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Ask HN: Would you work in the Oil and Gas industry?
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by mr_spothawk 7y ago
They're also responsible for paying for their expenses, and i'll bet they're not as good at getting writeoffs as the in-house CPA. So you might actually see increased revenues as a result. Decent question though.
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by mr_spothawk 8y ago
This is so good, and really takes me back to that time. For some context, I've recently been particularly interested in listening to CDs (I even just bought a CD-ROM burner today, wtf...), learning programming languages from books, and
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by mr_spothawk 8y ago
I don't play video games, but I might just call the PD and tell them not to SWAT me anyway - just to be safe.
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by mr_spothawk 8y ago
10 hours later and its 8.74%
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by mr_spothawk 8y ago
What was the book with the "Memory Hole"?
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by mr_spothawk 8y ago
It looks like the Gompertz function is asymptotic... i wonder about how they fit that model to the price spikes. Also, stupid question: what's the expected price then, given that the infection nears that asymptote by say, 90%?

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