rdiddly

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by rdiddly 5y ago
On the other hand, if we change the word from 'weight' to 'thrust' it becomes an accurate-ish statement.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Hmm, I thought my state's legal framework on this was the norm. I guess I'm lucky & spoiled rotten!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Swapping old for new IS meaningless and not the goal. In fact some swaps would inevitably be new-for-old. The company would own both, so who cares. This idea is only about swapping depleted for charged, so you don't have to wait around
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Draconian isn't so much the word I would choose... more like simply "illegal" and indefensible in court. Witness the speed with which they removed the language. They obviously had some real attorneys take a belated look at it
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by rdiddly 5y ago
While nothing lately has made me "doubt the basic tenets of liberalism," quite a bit of public speech has made me doubt that the given speaker understands said tenets. Not necessarily this writer, but then again he doesn't st
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Why not treat it like a propane tank exchange? The company owns all the tanks(1); you don't own the tank(1) and aren't paying for the tank(1) (other than maybe a deposit to ensure you'll return it someday). When you swap it,
487.
by rdiddly 5y ago
I dunno, battery swapping sounds like a good idea actually. If only the batteries were swappable...
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Can we talk about the irony that the NCMEC's database of CSAM (two abbreviations I didn't know before this week) is literally a huge child porn collection, or is that too immature? The whole story sounds like bad science fiction t
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Engineers would tend to want to optimize a thing for efficiency at that thing's ostensible purpose. Which means there's good engineering (the result is efficient) and bad engineering, if everything is framed within that engineerin
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by rdiddly 5y ago
In a democratic nation of laws you could tax or ban something profitable (although even there it's a tough sell getting people to vote for higher taxes or costs), but in an oligarchy like the US, that lobby, those oligarchs, will work
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by rdiddly 5y ago
And yet I have more respect for someone criticizing China who has actual skin in the game.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Why so hung up on that though? White actors and content are already available over at Universal, Paramount, MGM etc. It's like a white person complaining Howard won't admit them so they're stuck going to Yale. The idealism of
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by rdiddly 5y ago
It looks to me like simple economics - there's a niche market with unmet demand.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I'm sorry, my first thought is murder/coverup. Thought the same thing when it was Hunter Thompson and the 9/11 responders. I have no evidence. And suicide is plenty plausible. Just want that idea out there for some reason. It
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Acknowledging receipt of the King Missile reference!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
They don't have their rifles with them. So arguably the words "force" and "army" don't even apply. (An 'army' generally has 'arms' or at least 'armor'.) It's just more bodies,
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Hmm maybe I agree with him more than I think I do then. And yeah I've enjoyed at least one of his books and "feel like" I've read another just because of how often it gets quoted to me, haha. Definitely there are at leas
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Why do people hate email so much? (Because they haven't mastered it yet, Grasshopper, but anyway...) The thing is, it's communication. Are we shocked that a big chunk of our work burden is the burden of communication? "He spe
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Not to mention that "I will get cancer" is a positive statement under that rubric, and "I will not have any problems" is negative. Shocker, you kind of need the rest of the sentence to extract meaning!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
No S-H-I-Curling-Broom!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Performatively resolute as always, Maggie!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
If we're talking square cover, round hole, no cover big enough to cover the hole could fall in.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
They answered it - it's @tennessee
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yeah I kept thinking you'd never get away with talking that way now.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yeah it's odd. Especially for those of us whose moms weren't such wonderful blessed martyrs (eyeroll). Doesn't really bolster any particular point either, unless maybe it's about careerism in the department, but otherwis
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yep there are many private roads and driveways being shown as part of the road network. Google treats private roads as just roads. (Which is a pretty good analogy for how they treat private information as just information, but I'm bein
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Hmm, maybe, presentations are a distraction?
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Being made to nibble little bites of text one at a time is a distraction. Images depicting clumsy or irrelevant metaphors of easily understood things are a distraction.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
It's very ironic, isn't it. They're trying to protect kids. By spying on them.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yeah the researcher is already pretty far into the commercial realm with that kind of statement. I'm just saying, the point of science is to find out stuff or increase certainty about stuff. So even an experiment that finds another way

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