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by mrkstu 6y ago
The difference being if you stop the pulses the changed behavior would also stop. Transmutation would be permanent.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The problem with 'positive' liberty is simple. You can't have it without taking negative liberty away first- i.e. Universal Healthcare as a 'right'- you have to compel multiple levels of society via coercion in orde
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I starting to suspect I have a variety of such genetic endowments- gout because I can't break down uric acid, high blood pressure that gets instantly elevated when I eat black licorice (which I loved as a kid), variety of allergies, Ty
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I'd be fine taking the current 'welfare state' budget and redividing it any which way between UBI and current welfare priorities- for instance completely gutting food stamps but parsing out equivalent into the UBI stipend.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The difference is that originally there was a higher likelihood of trying out a Google product than a random startup's. Now that equation is flipped- I'd rather try a random startup's product than a Google one- at least the s
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Politicians as a class aren't well known for their kindness, but Senator Romney, Jeb Bush, Jeff Flake, Lamar Alexander and Will Hurd come to mind.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
There is no reason to 'other' people like this. Parties are things that people adhere to, some for a season, some for a lifetime, but they reflect very little about their worth as human beings. I come from a large family and we re
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by mrkstu 6y ago
For those so certain that the Republican Senate is going to ram though someone, there are a few moderates left, and they've already decided thing can wait until after the election: "So far the following GOP Senators have pledged t
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Luckily another part of the traditional Apple ecosystem are well engineered community generated extensions to cover for Apple's lack of advanced options for some functionality: https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net&#x2F
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Considering he reported his feedback loop w/his Facebook handlers on the issues he encountered, how is Sam 'wrong?'
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Key word was 'partial'- in no way do I believe that they want valuable employees completely sidelined- just that if they are paying slightly above market and are carrying slightly more employees than they really need , it ends up
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Will Wheaton, James Marsters, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are all excellent narrators.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Since I haven't bought/read the 'Red' book, does the Black contain everything the Red does, i.e. a superset?
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The average FAANG engineer is partially being compensated for NOT working at a competitor- i.e. the best talent is also the biggest threat and if there isn't a salary cap then the NY Yankees are sometimes going to sign redundant player
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by mrkstu 6y ago
More than 100 million Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Numbers are huge and more importantly the feature (glucose monitoring) is much more critical to their health.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I was hoping for the same, but considering the regulatory and health issues for not getting it 100% right, I'll give Apple some credit for what its done rather than ding them for not yet being able to package in what hasn't been i
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Basically a stealth price increase
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by mrkstu 6y ago
In an alternative universe where Novell continued to dominate networking, we'd be talking about how IPX uses the MAC directly to ID the host and had a separate network ID to uniquely identify the LAN the host is connected to. It is act
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by mrkstu 6y ago
NPs are generally ASICs so it depends on how flexible the code needs to be that is being executed. If it gets outside of the parameters of what the ASICs can handle it can severely limit performance. An interesting side effect is a lot of t
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Its par for the course. You can't buy a Kobo book on a Kindle. The question of course is an iPhone a specialized device or a general one. I would say Apple has worked as hard as it has to keep things locked down so it can say, with a s
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They prohibit the app, that is available from their store to advertise ways of bypassing that store. I'm pretty sure Walmart doesn't sell items in its stores that have text on the packaging about how to buy the item cheaper at T
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by mrkstu 6y ago
This seems to basically confirm the likelihood that Mars has been getting living materials all along. And potentially the other way around[0]. [0]: https://archive.fo/SGTma
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep, I secured a firstnamelastname.gmail (both common) for my wife early in gmail's life- and its very useful for ease in sharing. I have a similar .mac/.me/.icloud email. Unfortunately the innumerable 1,2,3 ended users of th
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Being a unified county/city doesn't seem to have helped San Fran overcome NIMBYism and related ills.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
This is so ahead of the curve of reality that it’s easy to dismiss- BUT at the least it’s possible that it could lead to some interesting basic research being done. Hopefully that, rather than misleading rich marks and separating them from
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by mrkstu 6y ago
A very focused rider required on contracts that employment can't be terminated due to political speech outside of work hours. Make that one of a small handful of similar riders required by companies to hire 'union' members an
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by mrkstu 6y ago
And this singular issue may be the genesis of the rebirth of unions in a modern context.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
But your 'harm' in that scenario is limited to your developer fees and likely the venue limited to small claims court or local equivalent.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
It seems the best applications would be ones with periodic need of more power and feeding the capacitor from the battery.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
California has already convinced residents and citizens of other states to leave or stay away- it is only migrants from other countries keeping population growth going: "Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia lost population

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