remarkEon

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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Mail is terrible. The central conceit of Gmail, and unfortunately what made it immediately popular, is that you should not have to care about deleting emails because you “have enough” storage. Over time this evolved into an awful incentive
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
CTRL + F for “weight” returns one instance. Unfortunate, because that is the other thing that actually keeps these things from being truly viable in dismounted operations. You could solve all of the other problems with getting an augmented
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Yeah I don’t understand why the first priority of any policy maker isn’t to make the cost of electricity as low as possible. We certainly have the technology to do this.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This is a seriously impressive achievement. I wish there was a more comprehensive engineering deep dive, but I wasn't able to find one. So why is California's electricity the most expensive in the country?
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Can you name one? Because I can name dozens of examples of policy making based on expert consensus that ended up not only wrong but catastrophically so. That's not really the point I was making, however, which was more constrained on t
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
I do, in fact, know it. For five 9s of human history we did not need a bunch of nerds in a classroom to tell us what to do. I have no idea how this happened, where everyone is suddenly terrified of being confident in their own observable re
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
To people who have not grown up in extremely honor-bound societies and communities the idea sounds strange, yes. To those of us who did, however, events like this remind us of how fragile those systems are and that entry should be severely
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
I can assure you with 100% certainty that the American Right did not elect Bill Clinton.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
I don’t need 1000 studies from Harvard or MIT to confirm what I can see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears. Part of the reason we are in this mess at all is an over reliance on statistical modeling and peer reviewed literature etc a
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Democrats tend to be deadbeat dads? What?
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
In response to this question, my Sicilian grad school roommate says: "Sicilians are horny and lazy, it's not complicated, I'm not reading this." He now works in banking. Much to think about.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Is this actually true? I've heard this but have never seen evidence of this actually happening before. Are we saying that, theoretically, a sperm whale's ecolocation is so powerful that if a human was swimming near it within some
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
Courts don’t have the authority to do that.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
5k rounds is impressive, I will concede the point if that's true. I would like to look at the design of this. Do you have a link to the CAD files, or whatever you have that explains how they deal with pressure issues.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
We have not seen a non-compliant executive in this country since FDR. People need to actually read the output from the Court and the associated response from the Executive branch, and not the news. I realize we a swimming in a soup of chaos
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
This comment is hilariously incorrect. Courts stop the Executive branch all the time. You do not know what you're talking about.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
I don't think I actually did admit that, and I think the confusion lies in your assumption that someone who wants to do a crime is willing to accept the reliability issues. Perhaps it's worth pointing out that these reliability is
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
Are you kidding? One of the first things the Anglosphere did was enforce language customs. I think you should review a bit of the history here. Why do you think the standard language for flight is English? To the extent that language acquis
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
Countries are not just places you work, first of all.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
>You stated that there are people out there who would use it, so your statement that "no one" would want to is untrue. Huh? There is no evidence that anyone is using a 3D printed 7.62 weapon system to do crimes. Of the existing
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
You call these project[s], which I think is very accurate for the higher power cartridges. You sound like you've seen a lot of the videos of 3D printed firearms, and from what I can tell they cluster around 9mm and 5.56. There's p
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
If some groups are disproportionately benefited by certain social spending while a different group is disproportionately impacted by the associated taxes to fund said spending, you get a divergence in the ability to burden share across grou
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
Military spending is not the driver of the debt, social and welfare spending is. And yes, it is off the table.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
In a place as diverse as America, democracy starts to resemble a racial headcount. Elections start to hinge on explicit appeals to particular ethnicities or sub groups. Political parties are very loud about this and they don’t try to hide i
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
They demonstrably do, multiple of them, and none of them used 3D printed weapons.
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
Sure, I can imagine any number of motives and Rube Goldberg mechanisms for procuring a firearm to service that motive. My point is that if someone who is desperate to get a firearm has to 3D print one they’re going to pick a simple pistol l
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
I highly doubt that anyone who 3d prints a lower does so to “use” it (I.e. shoot someone) in order to procure a better firearm.
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I would not be surprised at how motivated a gang member is to acquire a firearm, no. So, I guess point taken, however a) I was responding to a claim that's slightly different from 3D printing lower receivers, and b) I thought YouTube b
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
What I'm saying is that no one is going to build a lower in this manner for a firearm chambered in 7.62 and do anything useful/important with it. Maybe the cartridge size here is a distraction, idk, but this isn't a specifica
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by remarkEon 6mo ago
The law is vague enough that a states attorney trying to make a name for themselves could interpret it that way, yes. However, the law is very likely to be challenged on constitutional grounds. I would not be at all shocked if a proper 1A c

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