tmuir

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by tmuir 9y ago
Do you contend that human beings have not empirically measured the spherical, or roughly spherical shape of the Earth?
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by tmuir 9y ago
I'd like your opinion about this particular subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/ These 20,000 odd people unequivocally lack the type of critical thinking skills GP is referring to. I find it hard
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by tmuir 9y ago
I submit to you, a subreddit I've found in the past week that is absolutely horrifying, and I think stands quite counter to the "variety of opinions" model you put forth. This isn't anything visually graphic, but the opi
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by tmuir 9y ago
If you follow any "authority" to its logical end, it largely boils down to a consent of the governed, or various degrees of coercion. Its the idea behind "fake it until you make it". People accept the "fake" l
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by tmuir 9y ago
Thanks for the excellent answer. Something else this reminds me of is Node Red, which is a project I would have thought HN would have eaten up. I'm not sure I've ever seen a post on here about it. Maybe for the same reason that
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by tmuir 9y ago
I do embedded development for a living, and this reminds me of Arduino in some ways. I mean that in only the best ways. The main problem I see with Arduino is that there are several hard ceilings that prevent a beginner from growing into
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by tmuir 9y ago
As an embedded developer, I would agree that there is this sentiment that arduino is somehow inferior, bigger code sizes, worse code quality, training wheels, etc. However, I've recently used a couple different Teensy boards in some pe
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by tmuir 9y ago
thanks, thats an interesting link.
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by tmuir 9y ago
I've always wondered where the line is on a product's FCC certification. Obviously US retailers such as Adafruit and Sparkfun have sold fully assembled unlicensed radio equipment for over a decade. What subtle changes could these
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by tmuir 9y ago
Any linux board that has a USB A port, runs the bluez stack and node js, can do this with a $5 bluetooth dongle. There's a really nice set of node.js libraries, noble and bleno, which allow you to communicate in both directions. Noble
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by tmuir 9y ago
I can't speak to pretending or not, but at the bottom of this NanoPi/FriendlyElec page, there are very similar looking pdfs for fcc, rohs, and ce. http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp
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by tmuir 9y ago
But you are marketing this to "Makers". The Orange Pi, Raspberry Pi, and other single board computers, are maker-friendly, because of their adherence to the standard of 0.1" headers, USB or wall wart power, and a large commu
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by tmuir 9y ago
There is also the Nano Pi Neo 2 [1]. $18 for Allwinner H5, 512MB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet. Haven't used the Neo2 yet. But its predecessor, Nano Pi Neo is $10, has excellent Armbian support, and is on par with a RPi3. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by tmuir 9y ago
Does anyone remember about 10 years ago, maybe 15, there was a guy somewhere in Europe that created something similar, as his graduate or doctoral thesis. He demonstrated it by taking the video of Michael Jackson denying sexual abuse alleg
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by tmuir 9y ago
I've generally used it to sort data in some way that's not available on the original webpage. Either into a csv file, making large lists easier to view, or to determine some optimum, such as the best price. - Which squares have h
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by tmuir 10y ago
I think that can be explained by who Donald Trump is. He is financially independent, held no previous office, and already had a reputation of making baseless claims. Whereas most politicians are self preserving, Trump has nothing requirin
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by tmuir 10y ago
That's certainly an interesting theory, that voting for Trump gave people the illusion of agency in bettering their lives. I've often thought of a Trump voter as akin to a Bernie Madoff investor. Madoff's investors were prom
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by tmuir 10y ago
No shit. A story like this makes me realize that even with the "problems" I think I have at work, that get me all riled up, I have it made in the shade with lemonade compared to this woman's experience at Uber. I started rea
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by tmuir 10y ago
If the information is public, why can't it be scraped and sorted by a third party?
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by tmuir 10y ago
Obviously, the most important skill for a programmer to learn is dogma. Dogma provides a perpetually frictionless path back to the primacy of your own ideas. Dogma obviates the need to become self aware, allowing you to pop out such gems
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by tmuir 10y ago
The fallacy you are touting is that it is established fact that the media is misleading its viewers with respect to the pizzagate conspiracy. For this to be the case, both you and the media would need to possess the truth. Since that is c
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by tmuir 10y ago
Perhaps the DC police are part of the pedophile ring? I haven't heard anyone disprove that yet, and it would make the conspiracy even more evil. I'm stunned that you haven't made this obvious leap of logic. The hysteria ste
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by tmuir 10y ago
I thought vast consensus by scientists was proof of conspiracy, like in the case of climate change.
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by tmuir 10y ago
We can't know for certain if there has been an investigation, but you will notice that some people are desperate to declare that this has not been investigated by the relevant authorities.
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by tmuir 10y ago
This really gets at the heart of the allure of conspiracy theories. If you are already predisposed to believe that something nefarious must be being discussed, the simple presence of ambiguity in the discussion becomes "evidence"
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by tmuir 10y ago
You said the magic word: drivers. There are already plenty of boards with superior hardware to the Raspberry Pi. But one of the Pi's advantages is its driver support. That support in itself is a function of the enormous community th
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by tmuir 10y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you.
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by tmuir 10y ago
I interpret that as follows: The fact that nearly everyone is ignorant of the effects technology has on our minds points to the technology itself being responsible for those effects.
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by tmuir 10y ago
I've read about this theory as well. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were something like the 29th and 30th Japanese cities that had been completely leveled by bombings. Thus, the Japanese were not necessarily moved by more of what had been con
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by tmuir 10y ago
As insane as it sounds, the brutality and extreme loss of life in the Battle of Okinawa was a deciding factor in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to wikipedia, every male citizen over the age of 18 died over t

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