petsfed

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by petsfed 11d ago
I'm not claiming that people instinctively prefer anything. I'm saying that they've been socialized to believe that "traditional" architecture is some indicator of societal excellence. I don't think its weird
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by petsfed 11d ago
Next thing you're gonna tell me that English speakers overwhelmingly prefer novels written in English. Cultures have visual languages just the same as they have written and spoken (and signed) languages. The crucifix symbol has an unde
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by petsfed 12d ago
Put another way, while their positions are one set of 3 points, their momenta are another set of 3 points, and there is no requirement that 6 points will always lay on the same plane. I wonder what phantom forces would appear when the refer
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by petsfed 12d ago
I used to work with several Apple MEs, and one EE, when they moved to the startup I was at. They were all very skilled and pragmatic engineers. While there is some tribal knowledge benefits to getting really fluent with a given CAD suite, f
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by petsfed 15d ago
I've no idea if they still do it, or if this was an option open to the general public or if it was a special thing for our group, but once upon a time, in my early teens, I got to tour NIST's test reactor in Boulder, Colorado. At
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by petsfed 23d ago
Are you thinking that mushroom foraging is just like going to the store, and there are no experiential benefits from actually going out to look? Would you characterize beekeeping as nuts? Too many bee stings in a short(ish, weeks or months
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by petsfed 24d ago
Are you this actively shitty towards all hobbies you don't also enjoy? People have been foraging for mushrooms for literally thousands of years, but mushroom cultivation is pretty recent, and the overwhelming majority of edible species
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by petsfed 2mo ago
Depends on how many times you get rape and/or death threats from unhinged audience members who went to surprising and horrifying lengths to figure out your identity. Obviously, we cannot wholly bar these jack wagons from going out and
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by petsfed 2mo ago
More than one art installation has been a simple depiction of the clothes worn by victims during their rapes. You should look it up. My daughters have dealt with sexual harassment. Should I tell them to dress less sluttily? I mean, they wea
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by petsfed 2mo ago
>Women just need to deal with it. Assume that whenever you're in a public place, ALL your actions are PUBLIC. A women (and men) should dress and talk in a way conducive to the public arena. People have been the subject of stalking,
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by petsfed 3mo ago
I mean, if you'd asked law makers in 1850 if we needed speed limits on the roads between towns, you'd be laughed out of the room. Does that mean we shouldn't have speed limits? Or does that mean that nobody in power dreamed t
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by petsfed 3mo ago
As I recall, the main issue with that was that because it used facial recognition, the labor burden of enforcing that was significantly lower. If its just human beings looking at every visitor and trying to decide if they match a descript
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by petsfed 3mo ago
Almost as if there's a limit to how many demands strangers can reasonably place on a person before we as a society agree that the person should put up boundaries (like, say, putting on headphones and outright ignoring the demands) an
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by petsfed 4mo ago
Well, no. First, increased demand drives increased prices. This is the least controversial axiom of modern economic theory. So if you add a huge power consumer to a market, all consumers in that market will have to pay more. You can mitigat
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by petsfed 4mo ago
Or maybe the problem is that exchanging labor for scarce necessities only makes sense when labor itself is scarce.
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by petsfed 4mo ago
I had a similar experience playing, of all things Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. You play as a variety of US Marines helping Russia defend some island from a Chinese invasion so as to control some recently discovered oil deposits. And
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by petsfed 4mo ago
Questions like "how would you search for a substring?" are so incredibly dependent on what you're doing on a day-to-day basis, and what you're doing with the data once you've split it. Just because .split(...) is in
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by petsfed 4mo ago
My point is that American suburbs are so aggressively designed for cars that even considerable cost and inconvenience (driving 30-40 minutes) is acceptable in the face of much MUCH lower prices (even if the prices are so low because the qua
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by petsfed 4mo ago
The funny thing about the big box stores is that they can apply so much pressure to their suppliers (and their landlords) that the price difference outstrips differences in quality and convenience. Once upon a time I lived within easy walki
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by petsfed 4mo ago
I'd go further and say that modern suburbs are designed to completely isolate commerce from residence, in a way that doesn't just necessitate driving, it necessitates driving long distances to centralized commercial centers. So
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by petsfed 4mo ago
Just to buttress and embroider around your point that a fab is not a small business: If there was a realistic way even to go from bare wafers to non-trivial custom chips in a small-batch fashion, you can bet there would be a cottage industr
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by petsfed 4mo ago
... which sort of assumes that the global downturn and the local downturn are completely unrelated. Like, if a rent hike pushes out the tenant who has been there the longest, who has the most consistent revenue stream, in other words is the
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by petsfed 4mo ago
Which has led to police officers using "the punishment I received is far in excess of the last time an officer of this department was punished for habitually arresting and raping minors!" as a defense, and it works .
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by petsfed 5mo ago
I was working retail in Eugene, Oregon during the 2014 University of Oregon grad student strike. I had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder because I was working retail with a master's degree in physics (because I did not have the end
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by petsfed 6mo ago
Generalized in the sense of "this interface works as well on a tablet as a desktop computer", or "we can also generate ad revenue with this operating system" or "there should be constant invasive AI integration, eve
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by petsfed 6mo ago
Not to white-knight microsoft here, but I think the problem they run into with every product is that because of their ubiquity, they rapidly reach saturation with most every specialized product they sell. You cannot grow a business if you
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by petsfed 6mo ago
There are a million ways to express the fact of the hormonal backlash without including a quote that makes it sound like killing will improve your sex life. In context, its correct , that's not up for dispute. The question is "do
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by petsfed 6mo ago
I was initially confused because blat (блат, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors) ) sounds, to my non-slavic-speaking-ear very close to bylad (блядь, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_prof
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by petsfed 7mo ago
So he had a pretty good (not perfect) run up until the final 1/3, then had a staggering turn that only the author thought was profound or earned? That's a man who lived his craft right there.
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by petsfed 7mo ago
I've been saying this for years. Yes, we have a gun violence problem. But notably, we do not have a heavy weapons problem. By and large, gun crimes are committed with guns that can be purchased legally somewhere inside the US. So if th

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