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by sverige 8y ago
Not just any old postmodernism, though. This is blockchain postmodernism.
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The relatively recent change adding an entire month of DST originated with Congress, not the states. That's more than nominal.
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1. Various studies of energy savings have reached mixed conclusions. Energy savings from DST is not necessarily true. [0] 2. The 'saving' in the older form 'daylight saving time' certainly referred to 'saving daylig
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Except there is federal law on this that affects their decisions. [0] I wish we would at least call it "summer time" instead of the lie "daylight savings time." There's no daylight "saved." [0] http:&#x2F
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Thank you!
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That actually happened at least once, of course, with disastrous results for one of the candidates. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/24/1717221/-Can-you...
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I've long had a dream of taking the source code for the original SimCity and changing it more to my liking. The newer version was nice for streets with curves, but inferior in almost every other way compared to the original. But I doub
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Even most liberal women become Burkean conservatives when it comes to planning their wedding. I mean, why are flowers required? Why does there need to be some sort of feast? Why is music and dancing required? Why have a public event at all,
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I am too. The unstated sales job that has been so effective for hooking and keeping so many is fear-based, specifically the fear of missing out. I don't think I've missed anything at all important by never having had Facebook. But
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The attention they're receiving continues to decline. Ratings for the Oscars have been on a long downward trajectory, and that seems likely to continue as long as the show is more about political virtue signaling than it is about the a
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I guess I'm a dinosaur. I tried a Kindle once for about 15 minutes and have never used one again.
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You never know when you're going to die. Realizing that it could be today can change your perspective on life. Losing your fear of dying will make you dangerously honest.
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Trucks are further because a) they are heavier and require much more distance to stop, b) they are longer and require much more room to turn and maneuver, 3) they are much more likely to carry large quantities of hazardous materials. Drivi
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My favorite bit from this: "You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque language that exposes raw memory addresses? Why not use a modern language with garbage collection and functional programming and free massages a
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My personal favorite creepy "kids promoting a toy" video is the Kazoo Kid from 1989, [0] which has been in turn used as the basis for hilarious mocking remixes. [1] The Kazoo Kid has grown up and was evidently unharmed by the expl
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Fair enough, though I'm more concerned about the claims for fully autonomous vehicles without driver controls. How many times in those billion miles did a human driver intervene? Or rather, would it have been two billion miles on autop
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And the rear of a dry van truck is 8 1/2 feet wide by 13 1/2 feet high, so if it can't detect that, how is it supposed to avoid another car, let alone a pedestrian? This case (truck perpendicular to travel path) should litera
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It seems obvious that there's room for improving a system that can't detect an object that's 75 feet long and 13 1/2 feet high directly in front of it. Self-driving cars are decades away from reality, and self-driving tr
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by sverige 8y ago
The observation that the cultural distance between the author and Uyghurs is less than that between the author and Han Chinese rings true for me. I've never been to China, but I've had a similar sense of the distance with Chinese
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The 'sober curious' movement takes off in Chicago(chicagotribune.com)
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There are really two separate but related things here. Communes didn't work, but many of the ideas from that movement are still useful. The people involved with or sympathetic to that movement exposed just how wasteful rampant consume
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I stayed at the W hotel in Chicago on a business trip once years ago. The music sampler they provided was like listening to some mix made from my wife's playlist. So yeah, I don't plan to take her to the W, or that will be the onl
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Reminds me of Col. Bat Guano refusing to shoot the Coca-Cola machine so Col. Mandrake can call the President. "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you
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It has the TrackPoint, which is sort of a famous love/hate feature. (I love it.) The ThinkPad is my favorite all-time laptop design. No surprise to me that the author is still using it after getting his MacBook back from the shop.
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Warning issued over attacks on internet infrastructure(sg.news.yahoo.com)
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In fact, the Keyhole satellites those agencies used were state-of-the-art at one time. And "Google" is a much less scary name than "NSA Surveillance Tool," though there's little practical difference between the two
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Then we have to hope that someone leaks a cell phone video of the incident as it plays on a screen in a security hut somewhere. No way any airline is going to publish video of airport security dragging a paying customer down the aisle of an
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The problem is that "the government" is made up of people who have the same problems rooted in human psychology, and those people are a subset of the general population self-selected for the specific problem of wanting to tell oth
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That is the case, and it is absolutely stupid. It is also one of the reasons marriage rates have plummeted. There is a tremendous need for reform of alimony and child support laws to reflect the social changes that have happened in the last
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I'm surprised quartz was willing to call it pink slime in the headline. That cost Disney/ABC a lot of money. ABC didn't coin the term, incidentally. It was coined by a regulator at the FDA some years earlier.

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