mrzimmerman

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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Also, various grains are considered essential elements of national security and are stockpiled and protected like many other resources. It’s ludicrous to think that just because there is more global trade all governments have given up on th
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Do you mind elaborating?
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
You may not be familiar with US history, but it was an extremely segregated society back then with many lynchings occurring for any black people who stepped out of line. Black Americans frequently had to make parallel systems just for their
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Language is an entirely human creation with "standards" and definitions that have been changing constantly since humans began creating it. With the internet the english dictionary has been growing at an almost exponential rate. No
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I actually thought you meant people like the comment you're responding to, but then I realized you also appear to be arguing in bad faith. "Master of <subject_matter>" is pretty clear in that a person has mastered a tra
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
But the opposite is true. Android represents a much, much larger part of the smart phone market and there are a wide variety of devices, manufacturers, and sellers. So the more accurate version of your story is that Apple goes to one of 100
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
This isn’t a pull request it’s a feature request in an issue. The maintainer response about why they won’t include it sounds like it isn’t technically simple or inexpensive enough to make it worthwhile.
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
There was a thread the other day here on HN[0] that discussed how the brain isn't actually broken into discreet sections that govern different parts of our biological process. I'm not sure how big an impact that has on this author
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I know it can seem silly, but asking people to have lunch via video chat is a great way to get around some of that distance. Honestly this is just leadership dropping the ball for you and the rest of the team (though it can be easy to miss
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Sure, in an ideal world. But economies of scale do exist and everyone having solar panels and expensive personal batteries remain difficult and not a viable solution compared to the larger, distributed system that allows people to draw what
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
> Here are the ‘wrong’ illustrations that caused the Seuss Foundation to internally decide to no long print six Dr. Seuss books. Fixed the title for the author, though I imagine the accurate title won’t generate the hysteria they’re look
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
So true. I mean, I’ve worked at an autonomous startup and the problem with the timelines stated are the same as most tech companies. Management reports exciting but unrealistic timelines to investors and the media for (unfortunately) practi
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Another tired diatribe about how "the left" is "forcing people to silence". Seuss Foundation not printing some books? It's "the left". Saying something your employer doesn't like and you lose your job
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Right, but the point is that either Gab had normal, reasonable safeguards in place (for the reasons you point out) and their CTO bypassed them creating a very serious security hole, or they didn’t have the safeguards in the first place mean
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
People choosing to no longer read content from or associate with a person who expressed a controversial opinion isn't new and it isn't even bad. That's the other side of the coin of free thought: people don't have to agr
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
It’s a fair point but I think there’s a difference between some music group that owns the rights to Tupac’s likeness creating an image of him to sell more things and a family member wanting to see an deceased relative in motion. But I take
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
This article only seems accurate if you’ve never met any average journalists. Your run of the mill reporter is looking to tell an accurate story, nothing more dramatic or interesting then that. The idea that these news organizations are mon
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I love reading these articles just for the fantasy material. Camping is one of my favorite hobbies but it’s generally car camping and not without some fairly straightforward luxuries (I’m probably not one to hunt and forage). Still, it seem
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Don't you suppose you're being a bit dogmatic about it? Every device has to be as flexible as possible or it's against the law? Genuinely not trying to straw man, but should my oven manufacturer have to account for me wanting
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
You actually compare having electricity supplied to your home with over leveraging in the stock market? Literally the most bizarre comparison. She wasn't running a bitcoin farm out of her house or anything, she was just doing normal da
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I’m curious how this prevents duplication. Sure, the blockchain records ownership which is probably the most _technically_ important part for a collector, but if you can create a 1:1 copy of the art then it’s not terribly unique. With physi
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Probably because that’s in accurate and reductionist: > While children appear to be largely spared the direct mortality impacts of COVID-19, the indirect effects stemming from strained health systems and disruptions to life-saving health
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
He also explicitly told everyone to "fight like hell". I mean, if he's using double speak I can't help that but one part of what he said triggered a percentage of the people to try to find and kill US Congress people, st
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Because the Republican party decided that because Trump was no longer president at the time of his 2nd impeachment trial he couldn't TECHNICALLY be convicted: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I think it's another alt-right hangout that popped up after a ban wave at Reddit. Seems like Voat or one of the .win sites that are Reddit clones made by banned redditors and they seem to always turn into /pol in short order.
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
And a lot of very brittle limestone. It sounds far from ideal for building a tunnel but I'm no expert.
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
I don’t have anything to add to this brilliant response but I’d like to say how much I appreciate it.
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
Terrible title on their post then. I, personally, rarely use a trial period for anything I’m testing for the long term. It’s not worth integrating it into my day to day if I may have to pay more then I want. BUT, I do think it’s important t
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
This was an interesting read. To me it points to asymptomatic variants winning the day in more lock down heavy locations since any kind of symptom would have you at home. Only the most mild would send you back to work or to attend a friends
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by mrzimmerman 6y ago
The big difference being that no one is trying to score cheap political points when they call it “the UK variant”.

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