snakeyjake

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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I do not understand Akkadian so I must defer to the work of Adolf Leo Oppenheim, the editor of The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago for over 20 years and the translator of that tablet. He asserts mu
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
In the United States the average commute time is under 30 minutes. The vast majority of Americans live in suburbs and the door-to-door from their suburban rancher to the office by car is 15-20 minutes. If, in the United States, your commute
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
> Bronze age civilizations didn't know money. There is ample written evidence that Bronze Age civilizations had money and here's just one example. Ea-nāṣir!!!!! https://www.archaeform.de/wordpress/blog&#x2F
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
That was only common for a blip in time where NOTHING was normal because it was all being figured out and cost constraint, not personal or ergonomic preference, drove computing capabilities. > Even GUI wise, Amiga used a dark-blue backgr
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>don't live on a hurricane highway nor build houses made from firewood in an area prone to wildfires Fireproof concrete bunkers would be worse for insurance because when the firestorm blows through and shatters the 7-centimeter wind
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Every Saturn 5 was successful >Some people are really fetishizing iterative failure Subassemblies that made up Saturn V went through several hundred (inflation adjusted) billion dollars' worth of iterative failure before the Apo
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>The article also throws shade at him as a “eugenicist.” I looked it up, and again, the truth is more complex. You didn't look it up very well. >In 1911, Fisher became founding Chairman of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Soc
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I know this isn't the time or place, but international law doesn't exist. Well, it does but only by the consent of the participant and participants can withdraw their consent at any time, arbitrarily. It's like how internatio
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>you try to roll a million fair dice and get them to all come up six. That is not a low probability event; that is an impossibility. I think the problem here is that you think I am a digital electronic computer. I am not. I am a human be
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>This is exactly the same argument that Russia has been using to annex territories such as Crimea; How many times have Ukranian terrorists murdered a bunch of Russian athletes at the Olympics? Or hijacked a 3rd nation plane carrying Russ
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Low probabilities become certainties with billions of tests per year over hundreds of millions of years.
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>Everything nowadays comes packaged with excessive emote track. You may have never done anything that warrants an emotional response. Some of us have. We enjoy seeing others express the joy we ourselves have felt at the end of a long, wi
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
My US state, one of the ones NOT living in the past, does almost everything online. The only times you have to come in are: 1. for your first license, either as a newly-licensed driver or an out-of-state driver who recently moved 2. if you
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Men, of all kinds, are. Cowards posture. It's like when someone threatens to sue: they're posturing from a position of weakness and fear and almost certainly will not. Powerful, secure, people just do. That's what makes all o
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
All macho posturing comes from a position of insecurity and cowardice.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>"Any attempt by law enforcement to carry out civil asset forfeiture in any way is a felony." Civil asset forfeiture means a lot more than what you think it does. Do you remember a story a couple of years ago about a couple who
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>And even if Russia is not capable of MAD, what does that change? They should be thought of and treated like North Korea with oil, not the Soviet Union 2.0.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
> Mutually Assured Destruction is still a thing. My assessment is that it isn't. The only MAD-able nation states in the 1980s were the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian succe
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I don't really mind agricultural consumption because there has never not been enough water for human consumption. And agricultural water consumption produces food. You can't eat a lawn, or a swimming pool, or a long shower. Well,
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I find the act of banning someone from tiktok being equated with "de-personing" them extremely interesting. I think we have very different perspectives on what it means to be human, how much all of this (waves around hand in the g
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Dang. I wanted to see what "the youths" were watching so I scrubbed through a couple of those videos. The people in them make me feel like the world's most accomplished actor.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The machines and processes needed to package the individual integrated circuits are fantastically expensive but the margins are so low in that step that it's only profitable at massive scales. So you put the fantastically expensive mac
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Like many things with California, sensible policies that are very effective and will eventually be standard in other states are presented incorrectly for many different (usually financial) reasons in order to turn public opinion against the
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
An E5530 with an i5-3210m, 16GB of RAM, and HD4000 graphics cannot play 1080p YouTube videos without dropping frames. I tried. My current garage computer, a i7-8700 with 64GB and UHD-630 graphics cannot play a YouTube video without dropping
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
> Just do it directly It is impossible to do it more directly than at the point of sale. Literally every other method is less direct. A tax is ten thousand times less direct.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Did you read what you wrote or was it a stream-of-consciousness thing? Because you wrote: > This will increase costs for ISPs and likely increase prices for others. It will not increase costs. Which is what I wrote.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
This does not increase the cost to ISPs. It does marginally decrease their profits. A profit is not a cost, and despite what finance bros think lower profits are also not a cost. It is perfectly possible to supply 1000Mbps symmetrical fiber
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>making broad generalizations not supported by the data. There are psychologists who do not do this. There are not very many psychologists who do not do this.
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>I do worry what we are going to do with all the failed gearboxes and blades There are three companies I'm aware of in the United States who have commercialized, and are, today, right now, recycling turbine blades. Additionally, the
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I use Excel to run my life. I have PTO calculators, workout and nutrition spreadsheets, and tons of financial spreadsheets with predictions, records, what-ifs, etc. How much did I spend on prescription eyewear in 2007? I can tell you. I&#x2

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