stmfreak

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by stmfreak 7y ago
Exploration of the failure envelope is a human instinct.
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by stmfreak 7y ago
Plus they priced them the same despite the extreme limits on portability, lending, resale, etc. I love ebooks, but I don’t buy ebooks with DRM.
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by stmfreak 7y ago
I’m sure Boeing knows of many problems with their aircraft. The question is whether they are a serious threat to life and safety. In this one, they miscalculated.
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by stmfreak 7y ago
Treason from the high court.
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by stmfreak 7y ago
Considering that the fifty states are writing unconstitutional laws faster than the SCOTUS can make room on its calendar, it seems we have a Denial of Service exploit for the constitution.
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by stmfreak 7y ago
Yea, this smells like a coordinated hit piece to erode any public support before trial. I expect we will hear much more about what a terrible person he is on a regular cadence now.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
I think this is an issue for the universities to settle with their employees that are diverting funds away from the universities for personal gain. It becomes a government and criminal matter when those same private institutions benefit fro
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Are you willing to apply that logic to all other directives from your doctor? Like exercise more, eat less, cut out booze and smoking, lose weight, etc?
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by stmfreak 8y ago
I find I can either listen to music or think deeply. Not to say one prevents the other. When I emerge from a session of deep focus I am often surprised by the songs on my playlist—specifically, not being able to remember hearing any of thos
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Sometimes key employees need to be reminded to schedule a real get away vacation. It should be part of the Managment 101 mentioned in the article. This seems like a non problem to me.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Yea, I went looking for the same thing. I find it misleading to claim that steel melts in high rise fires and collapses (only three times in history) but wood chars and becomes fire resistant (at same temperature to melt steel??). I would n
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by stmfreak 8y ago
My $2k NAS holds over 2,000 movies and 20k tv episodes. The cost per is negligible.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
We are individuals, not a blob of goo. Self preservation and acquisition of personal wealth are some of the fundamental drivers that have ultimately benefited our species.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Why? There are many, if not the majority, of examples of mobility across outcomes. People don’t have to be born rich to become rich. Nor poor to remain poor. So many millions of people have taken advantage of equal or even unequal opportuni
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by stmfreak 8y ago
So some CEOs defer cashing out for one year and then it’s back to regular business as they cash out last year’s comp at capital gains rates? It’s basically a no-op. This sort of talk is just pure envy driven fantasy.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Voyager’s stated velocity is relative to the solar system, which imparts its own velocity relative to the Milky Way to Voyager. Another quick google suggests Sol is swinging around the galaxy at 200 km/s so Voyager’s 17 km/s is re
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Another plea to change the behavior of the many because of the criminal actions of the few. Can we please go after the criminals and not remove a parenting tool from the law abiding?
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by stmfreak 8y ago
This is such a frequently peddled lie it has become a cultural truth. The saying neglects to mention that same volume of drivers on expanded roads is always better for traffic—which is why we ask for more lanes and better roads. Since drivi
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by stmfreak 8y ago
I wish liberals and conservatives could reconcile the intellectual dishonesty around their views on vaccines and abortion. They are on opposite sides of both issues. Either a person’s body is their own or it isn’t. I know I would prefer my
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Unions were great for workers at one point. But for the majority of my life, they seem to have taken worker’s rights to the point that it is consistently enticing for CEOs to at least attempt to offshore huge amounts of jobs. No matter how
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Assuming you can build a laser bright enough for your detector, you are forgetting about the time & distance problem. We don’t know how far away this Planet X sits at any given point in time. You would have to pulse your laser at a spot
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Because, somehow, more globalization will be sold as the cure.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
With legalization, the drugs would be cleaner and dosing more predictable. We could then focus on helping addicts recover instead of worrying about the legal trouble and violence they might bring to our homes if we try to help them.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
I think taxing phone service is horrific. But what is worse is the mention of a five year retroactive tax in this new plan.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Imagine a cone with a fixed diameter for the base. That represents the black hole’s external event horizon. Now stretch the point of the cone away from the base... forever, as the singularity warps space time more and more. The volume of th
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by stmfreak 8y ago
Chicken Pox is a harmless right of passage as a child. Better to get it young than old when it has serious complications. I don’t know why we need a vaccine for this except for adults who missed it as children.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
The fact that my kids can get illegal drugs more easily than alcohol is what worries me. Making drugs illegal isn’t helping. Addicts need support services, not punishment.
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by stmfreak 8y ago
The journalist reports on the effect had on the “blood glucose score” of around 6.5. This sounds like an A1C score which measures long term levels of glucose. It is nice that it went down a small amount, but inconsequential. What is not men
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by stmfreak 8y ago
CO2 follows warming if you look at the data too closely. No one has proved that mankind’s contribution is material to the underlying trend, nor proved that warming will be as bad as claimed. So what if Greenland becomes green again?
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by stmfreak 8y ago
This would cause me to turn around at the border and cancel my reservations. I won’t be going to New Zealand either. And yes, I am aware the USA treats incoming visitors just as badly.

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