stametseater

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by stametseater 4y ago
> For years in the late 90s we played Quake 1 with a 150ms ping and had a blast Yes, that's right. But it's also a completely different sort of lag, you can't compare network lag to input lag. With net lag in a game l
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by stametseater 4y ago
Not just starvation, they also outright murdered people. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, were murdered during the 'Cultural Revolution' in Mao's PRC.
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by stametseater 4y ago
I grant IBM their fair share of the blame for the Holocaust, but their involvement does not somehow wash the hands of the Nazi Party. The Nazi government of Germany was responsible for tens of millions of murders. Trying to divide the blam
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by stametseater 4y ago
Governments perpetrate more wars and genocides than corporations do. In the 20th century they murdered tens of millions of people.
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by stametseater 4y ago
Should I be surprised that a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, in the intelligence wing, had access to these sort of documents? Or is this expected? Was this part of a larger organizational failure, or just one m
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by stametseater 4y ago
Correct, the lunar soil is itself radioactive because it's subjected to neutron radiation. What's more, the radioactivity of lunar soil increases with depth ; the Apollo 17 Lunar Neutron Probe Experiment found that the radioacti
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by stametseater 4y ago
The context was thermal energy received from the sun, not attention received from man. Your clap-back might make sense when somebody is criticizing Pink Floyd, but it doesn't make sense here.
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by stametseater 4y ago
Chemically neutralizing the shielding water should be trivial. But why would the water need to be refrigerated? Energy absorbed from radiation would be emitted as thermal radiation, and lose a ton of thermal energy during the long lunar n
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by stametseater 4y ago
60 microseverts an hour works out to about 525 millisieverts (mSv) per year. The general public limit is set very low, so for additional reference, the annual limit for emergency worker was raised to 250 mSv per year after Fukushima, half
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by stametseater 4y ago
I'm aware of such, but as it stands using ChatGPT is like talking to a person who's afraid to stop talking. Such people just keep yakking in a sort of continuous improve that constantly prompts itself. Ask such people to sit qui
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by stametseater 4y ago
That's mostly wrong, particularly in the context of the proposal above. Fallout comes not only from the unfissioned nuclear material of the bomb, but also from the fisson byproducts and from neutron activation of other bomb compone
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by stametseater 4y ago
The mind of a motormouth who won't stop talking long enough to think.
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by stametseater 4y ago
That remains a massive discrepancy.
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by stametseater 4y ago
90% of South Korean women have plastic surgery, but less than 5% of South Korean men do the same. Due to this, South Korean women now outclass South Korean men in attractiveness. The solution is simple; ban cosmetic surgery. Then ther
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by stametseater 4y ago
I usually go a week between charging. But then again I use my phone for checking and sending messages, not for gaming or browsing the net or anything like that.
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by stametseater 4y ago
> Okay, but tell me how it can be done if you want me to take the threat seriously. That is not a precautionary attitude. I don't know how a candle left unattended in the middle of my granite counter island could light anything o
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by stametseater 4y ago
A website would be hard pressed to emulate a keyboard plugged into my computer.
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by stametseater 4y ago
We badly need a DC electrical plug/jack standard that doesn't play double-duty as a data transmission standard. Innumerable small appliances and devices use DC power, solar panels make DC power, yet if you want to charge such
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by stametseater 4y ago
> Twitter themselves had a guide that explained why NPR and BBC were not labelled as such > "State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined
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by stametseater 4y ago
> It wasn't journalism. It was BLM protest using NPR as a microphone. Sounds like journalism to me. Journalism has never meant nor implied 'impartial reporting.'
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by stametseater 4y ago
This was the implication of the label from the start, when twitter created it years ago.
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by stametseater 4y ago
> The numbers I am last aware of, while ten years old now, were that Federal funding was roughly 10% of their operating budget, with 90% coming from other sources. If that's accurate, then I'd love for NPR to explain the orde
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by stametseater 4y ago
When Twitter originally created the "state-affiliated" label, the implied meaning was "propaganda rag that you shouldn't trust." It wasn't meant to be applied to any media organization that receives state f
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by stametseater 4y ago
"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons."
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by stametseater 4y ago
A woman of her means is not accustomed to life on the run.
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by stametseater 4y ago
> suitable for scamming some idiots out of their money. Agreed. Of course she deserves more prison time for scamming the patients, but she wasn't convicted for that.
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by stametseater 4y ago
Good, her children will be better off not being raised by a felon mother. The father's family has plenty of money, the kids will be well cared for without her around. With luck the father will find a new mother for the kids and they
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by stametseater 4y ago
I remember when everybody was telling me that the demise of "net neutrality" would force me to pay my ISP for special "packages" to use different sites. Want to use HN? It's blocked unless you pay for the "tec
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by stametseater 4y ago
> "the strength needed for the blades means they are also physically challenging to break apart." Obvious BS, just try harder. Crush them with a big steam roller or with a crane that drops a heavy thing on them. There are
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by stametseater 4y ago
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