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by npongratz 2y ago
I disagree. I highly appreciate @alterom's perspective and clear elucidation, and think the discussion has been fantastic.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Authoritarianism, everywhere and in all forms, seeks to shut down curiosity and critical thinking.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Sure, we could speculate about his true unstated reasons for marking wrong my answer. I highly doubt the science teacher marked me wrong for "dumping", though. He had every opportunity to explain that to me after I got my exam gra
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by npongratz 2y ago
> From grade school on, you are graded on whether or not the grading authority likes the results you got. I took an exam in a high school science class where I answered a question with the textbook's definition exactly as presented
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by npongratz 2y ago
Tangier Island off of Virginia, in the Chesapeake: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-isla... Also, for what it's worth: > Some people have characterised Tangier’s way of speaking as ‘
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by npongratz 2y ago
> please pick up a book on bash/zsh/sh and take the time to learn. Or even just the man page! bash(1)'s man page is a treasure trove, and it's a fairly short read (versus an entire book, at least). man bash
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by npongratz 2y ago
Indeed, since January 2016: https://icannwiki.org/.softbank And confirmed by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160116175915/http://data.iana....
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by npongratz 2y ago
Some might even chant, "This is necessary," over and over.
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by npongratz 2y ago
> As many people speak of this difficulty to evolve and change their diet, I have come to theorize that people have a deep seated cultural need for sacrifice -- something must die for their meal to be legitimate. Of course something must
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by npongratz 2y ago
My understanding is that the composition of each body is different. There's the obvious: More ices and liquids comprise Ganymede, possible since Ganymede is so distant from the Sun. And the not-so-obvious: Mercury is anomalously dense
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by npongratz 2y ago
The Neptune-Pluto gravitational resonance is pretty neat. Wikipedia has a nice listing of other orbital resonances in the solar system: Likely gravitional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance#Mean-motion_...
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by npongratz 2y ago
For what it's worth (nothing, just interesting to note): Ganymede is larger, and less dense. Mercury's mass is more than twice Ganymede's.
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by npongratz 2y ago
I see two major differences to the mass advertising of yesteryear (which, similar to you, I have also lived through): 1) The psychological manipulation inherent to all advertising has shifted from diluted, mass manipulation to pinpoint-accu
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by npongratz 2y ago
I can just hear the pitch to auto CEOs and "business development" execs: " ... now with full self-driving! Where your captive audience can't use the safety excuse for avoiding your very important and lucrative propaganda
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by npongratz 2y ago
The AM and FM radio ads cannot surveil you like the GPS- and cell-enabled (and forced) in-vehicle advertising systems do.
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by npongratz 2y ago
> This is some Black Mirror type dystopian vision of the future for me. Indeed. I always assumed this was the impetus for FSD: these vehicles confine the most captive audience, so they will be a surveillance/advertising gold mine.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Quite an understatement: > The core is about 4,000 miles from the Earth's surface and, despite best efforts, scientists have so far been unable to reach it.
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by npongratz 2y ago
> At least printers give you some sort of error message. Inscrutable, and infamous, though they may be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
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by npongratz 2y ago
> Yep, it looks like it'll help Trump get elected, and he'll probably do exactly the same thing with these union workers that Reagan did when the air traffic controllers went on strike (he fired them all). Reagan fired federal
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by npongratz 2y ago
"We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.."
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by npongratz 2y ago
Squats don't work your grip, and I'd say deadlifts work your back quite a bit more than squats.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Don't know what to say -- the page returns 200 for me, from a couple different networks and different devices and different browsers, yesterday and today. I definitely agree, though, that the archive services show 404.
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by npongratz 2y ago
> It's split up into 18 separate loads TFA suggests it's not split up: > Intel will put a 916,000-pound "super load" on the road in Ohio on Wednesday, for a trip that will cover approximately 150 miles in nine da
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by npongratz 2y ago
I proved a topology theorem in a dream once. Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had been bugging me all day long, and I suspected it'd be featured on the next morning's (way too early) final exam for my university co
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by npongratz 2y ago
I hate Illinois Nazis.
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by npongratz 2y ago
I share the sentiment. I've long noted in situations with grids of terminal windows where focus-follows-eyes would be so much faster and present less friction than using hotkeys or focus-follows-mouse.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Is that 2% on cash the VC fund directly contributed, or is it 2% on total funds injected into the business including loans the VC saddles the business with? (Or is that kind of leverage typically only done by private equity funds?)
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by npongratz 2y ago
Retroalgorithmics. Similar to the contemporary use of the term retrocomputing.
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by npongratz 2y ago
Not just confuse them, but convince them we're not a threat, and thus not worth exterminating.
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by npongratz 3y ago
Confirmed in TFA: > The sailboat will also restock its coffee and cacao supply on its journey through the Caribbean. That supply is then brought back across the sea to France, where the coffee is roasted, and fine chocolates are produced

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