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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
The first "computer" I ever used was a Wang OIS 140. It had been installed in my father's office and he took me in to see it one day. After going through a three-week (!) course on how to use it he taught me how to use it and
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I went on a weeks-long sailing expedition as a teenager and realized after my first couple days at sea that I could smell land from over the horizon. If we were passing downwind of a landmass I could smell it even if I couldn't see it!
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Is this normal!?! I feel sorry for this generation. Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into "fuck up once and we'll destroy you". If the students would simply stop raping people and dying of fentanyl ove
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
You can see the prisoners toiling in the fields along every road a prison is located at, and there were several along the routes I drove weekly. The US-Korean SOFA (status of forces agreement) was amended in the mid-2000s to segregate US mi
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
That's a myth. Well, maybe it was true 30 years ago, but it is no longer. The vast majority of US states have transparency laws no different from Florida. https://granicus.com/blog/foia-101-public-record-laws-in-ea
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Korean prisons make US prisons look like the Ritz Carlton. This may have changed since I lived there in the early 2000s, but they shave your head and make you perform hard labor for 12 hours a day, usually farming to raise most of the food
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
First day on HN? When you ask for examples of this happening they get really mad and try to hide your question by downvoting it.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
By 2055, Japan's population is projected to fall to 90 million, with (medium fertility/medium mortality): 8 million being children aged 0-14 46 million being "working aged" 15-64 36 million being 65 or older Population P
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Are they? As far as I'm aware, there are only categories of people when it comes to "the invention of the GUI": 1. People who know it was a long and involved development process involving many people starting in the 1960s. 2.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>In my opinion, one of the best ways of identifying an authoritarian is to ask them their opinions on Snowden or Assange. As far as Assange goes I think he is a liar. The primary piece of evidence I use to support this is that he claims
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>That's 33 packets of Splenda or 5 bottles of prime energy drink assuming a 200:1 ratio compared to Gatorade's sugar. Hardly extreme. That seems extremely extreme to me but as a fan of water so >0 Primes and/or Splenda
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
> I'd say the Quest is pretty mainstream, no? I think most Quests are doing what mine is doing: sitting in a drawer unused. In my case it was because my pupillary distance is too wide for the Quest (and almost every other VR headset
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>if you don't see things a specific way you might get canceled for life. Every time I ask for examples people get angry, or if they're mask-off they reply with a very obviously drug-addicted hyper-racist, hyper-sexist, men&#x27
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex and pulled off one of the riskiest surgical procedures currently performed. Now I can walk. Hooray for god complexes!
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
We are very lucky that cryptobros are arrogant to the point of having a god complex. In surgeons it means they have the confidence to perform some of the most difficult tasks a human being can undertake and is a net positive even though it
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Many people change their phone every year. Very few people upgrade every year. The average lifespan of a mobile phone is 2.5 years. In the late 2000s that length of time was lower because phones were improving by leaps and bounds every
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>I don't remember seeing people calling out "genocide!" in any of the war campaigns of the United States Genocide isn’t just “killing” people. Look it up. And I don’t give a god damn about shit that happened 20 years ago.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>the Ukraine crisis is clearly a local one Genocide is very rarely a local crisis. "Russia isn't genoci..." Yes. Yes they are. They are committing genocide against the Ukrainian people by all legal and colloquial definitio
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
You mean besides every day of the last fourteen-and-a-half years?
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Every single morning I wake up, clear the haze from my eyes, shuffle to the bathroom, and stare at my aging face in the mirror. I run my hands over my stubbly chin and gaze deeply into my own eyes, wondering. "Why can't I figure o
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Traders trading amongst themselves isn't really a transaction. It's a bunch of bros moaning "arbitraaaaaaaage" while trying to rip each other off. The amount of crypto used for actual goods and services probably amounts
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>That handy defence which means you're not allowed to point that the accuser has committed exactly the same crimes as the accused. What accuser? Neither the Economist nor the commenter to which you replied is the United States of Am
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Individuals purchasing war bonds helped, but didn't pay for WWII. The war cost a little over $300 billion. $50 billion of that was through individual purchases of War Bonds, the rest came from banks and taxes. Bankers and merchants hav
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
> But that means you crossed a border illegally to get here which is in fact more than a non-criminal civil case. It does not. For the last 20 or so years, the majority of persons entering the United States without authorization entered
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Hacker News is a misnomer. Mainly it's people bitching about Apple, hawking their doomed startup, or pretending to know Rust but all of that is too much for a snappy website name. edit: Also, sometimes people will wax poetic about a sh
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
18 states issue drivers licenses to non-residents. This rule was to shield the identities of those people from the federal government, so that those states would participate. You may not like that but being in the United States without perm
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>How do we know aren't going to be a few trillion poorer in 20 years leaving Ukraine the same way we left Afghanistan? Because: 1. We aren’t “in” Ukraine so we can’t leave— they are fighting for themselves, and 2. It is unlikely the
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
We already spend enough to provide gold-plated healthcare to every single American. We spend more than any other country on earth. ($4.3 trillion in total, ~$800 billion in annual federal spending alone) Per-capita we spend the most but our
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
RUSSIA’S SYSTEMATIC PROGRAM FOR THE RE-EDUCATION & ADOPTION of UKRAINE’S CHILDREN https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/sharing/rest/cont... In the present Convention, genocide means any of the follo
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I travel for work approximately 120 nights per year, and have done so since 2011. The number of times room service has barged into my room without my knowledge and/or permission can be counted on 0 fingers. If this has happened to you

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