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by petsfed 1y ago
I mean, aside from the weird civilian rape-to-romance subplot, yeah. Technically it holds up well. Which is true for most of Clancy's novels.
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by petsfed 2y ago
I don't think all artists are leftists, but I do believe that all art that has a broad impact is progressive in character, if not in intent. Did the Renaissance painters who used single-point-perspective do so in service of seizing the
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by petsfed 2y ago
Broadly speaking, all existentialism was leftist in character because its core tenet was a rejection of old ways. Definitionally, you cannot reject the old order without being liberal/progressive/leftist/etc. Which, again, wa
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by petsfed 2y ago
By just about any reasonable accounting, the willful deconstruction of the concept of art reached its peak during and after World War I (e.g. Dadaism), specifically because of the wanton and apparently pointless destruction of an entire gen
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by petsfed 2y ago
>The survey[1] had a 24% response rate, so that 59% number is extrapolated from that, it's actually just over 14%. That's not how statistical extrapolation works. Here's a recent study that uses modern statistical modellin
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by petsfed 2y ago
Because my 5-year-old daughter has experienced something akin to sexual harassment. Its grim out there, but its far grimmer in Antarctica, and other isolated places where victims have little recourse in the moment [0]. I went out of my way
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by petsfed 2y ago
I want to buttress a sibling comment and dig into how misleading your quoted statistics are. While there are complicating factors, in general, probabilities add linearly. So for the average woman in the US, who lives for 77 years, she there
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by petsfed 2y ago
Is there a reason why you went with traces rather than pours? I count 7 signals per board, and they're all meant to be low impedance. You could even expose copper on the back of the board to be used as ad hoc heat sinks without spendin
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by petsfed 2y ago
There are a million different ways to ascertain "income" to evaluate whether or not a person is paying their "fair share". That we doggedly refuse to do any of them if your income is not subject to payroll taxes is a b
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by petsfed 2y ago
I disagree categorically with this. Yes, in principle, the court cases would be easier if the law was written with the complete regulations in place to begin with. However, facts on the ground change faster than the legislature is able to m
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think this is a really good explanation of the underlying problem. The example that is top of mind to me, because it hits pretty close to home, is stuff like the Environmental Protection Act or the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The laws d
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by petsfed 2y ago
At least in the US, "impeachable offense" is whatever the legislature will vote 2-to-1 for (which was revealed during the first Trump impeachment, and underscored why the second was such a farce. If 2/3 of the senate wouldn&#
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by petsfed 2y ago
You've found a way to correctly anticipate new user needs and new technologies years, even decades, in advance? And you've found a way to completely forestall the non-technical demands that force non-ideal design choices? You&#x27
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by petsfed 2y ago
My rooster was a jerk, but he deserved to die the way he did, which was the way he lived: picking fights with things that could kill him in an instant if they bothered to care. I'm glad that he died fighting the beak and talons of an o
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by petsfed 2y ago
I've had jobs where I was called stupid to my face, repeatedly, and the expectation would be for me to enthusiastically nod, smile, and say "I can see why you'd feel that way, but..." then launch into my sales pitch for
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by petsfed 2y ago
Thanks! I did not see that previously. Going to edit my post now...
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by petsfed 2y ago
They keep saying that a "large" increase in minimum wage results in a 4.6% increase in case rate. But they don't [d̶e̶f̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶"̶l̶a̶r̶g̶e̶"̶ ̶(̶e̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶v̶s̶.̶ ̶"̶s̶m̶a̶l̶l̶"̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶
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by petsfed 2y ago
I've worked with several stepper motor driver ICs that feature a ground pad on the bottom of the IC and recommend an unmasked copper pour connected to the ground pad via thermal vias, on the opposite side of the board from the IC, size
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by petsfed 2y ago
If you keep this idea alive (and I hope you do!), you might consider shrinking the keyboard battery and designing its docking configuration so that it automatically charges from the main battery when stored in the laptop. A 3 month keyboard
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by petsfed 2y ago
Hmmm. That's also an interesting solution to the same problem. Although honestly, the scenario where I want to have a removable keyboard, I'm likely using an external display (probably a hotel TV), and a small wireless mouse is a
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by petsfed 2y ago
This is really cool! There are some obvious next steps for improving the polish on this, would you say you were more resource constrained, time constrained, or skill constrained? For instance, did you put any thought into making flex PCBs t
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by petsfed 2y ago
I'm going to be pedantic for a second, as a sort of dark coping mechanism: >Anyone who supports a known rapist and felon and who openly takes bribes can not be convinced of anything Clearly, they can be convinced of something , jus
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by petsfed 2y ago
This is less like "well, I could get the $10 pants and have to replace them in a few months, or the $70 pants and have them last a decade" sort of cheap, and more the "well, I've been saving a mortgage down-payment for 1
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by petsfed 2y ago
There's also that, but I didn't go to the effort of investigating the rate of various strengths. I'll bet their data explorer shows that aspect of the phenomenon too. I suspect that a major factor is that the great plains of
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by petsfed 2y ago
Tornadoes are quite a bit less common outside of North America, and especially the US. Some of that comes down to the absence of people in the places where tornadoes occur, so there's no one there to report them. The Tornado Archive
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by petsfed 2y ago
Because if this sequence of events (one allegedly Chinese-government controlled social media app is banned over apparent ties to the government, so all of its American users immediately switch to another Chinese app whose name can be tran
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by petsfed 2y ago
And this is sort of the case that I was gesturing towards. A good school system is not one that just pounds on you to sit in class until you can regurgitate some fact. Its one that lets students figure out what they're good at before
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by petsfed 2y ago
My kids are enrolled in a homeschool parent partnership program (because its one of the few public montessori programs within an easy before-school-drive for our kids). My experience has been that the families attracted to that school fall
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think there are two assumptions embedded in the parent comment that I think you're ignoring: 1) The people who are on to bigger and better things are in fact vanishingly rare. Like, yes, Bill Gates dropped out of college, but he drop
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by petsfed 2y ago
What I'm understanding you saying re: Concord is that the game was poorly marketed, had bad character designs, and also one of the developers made some ill-considered tweets 4 years before the release of this game. Absolutely, that o

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