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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Or how about reasonable levels of power? Ten watts per kilo is an absolutely nutso-bismol bonkers level of radiation compared to what real people and animals are exposed to. I don't spend twelve hours a day inside a magnetron. I'd
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Exactly. The past couple years have been an exercise in the inadequacies of the honor system. There are no consequences; we can't expect either industry or government entities to self-regulate out of basic human decency. Their efforts
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Helping out "small time inventors" is the convenient, reasonable explanation for patents. It's pure PR. In reality, patents benefit large players far more than small ones. It's just even more reinforcement of the status
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Exactly. It's the "match that ignites an industry" and increases competition in order to create an economic imperative for the rest of the industry players to make electric products. Supposedly this has been goal number one t
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Did you do it out of choice or necessity? This sounds so out of touch. Most of these people aren't doing it as an experiment to bolster their savings and achieve some kind of minimalist zen, they're doing it because real affordabl
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Since the stuff they're probing isn't included in the APIs, they gotta have some account info to provide insight into this behavior.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This is classic short-sighted engineering hubris. Realistically how much statistical threat is there from birds? And how long until this design malfunctions somewhere? If this is rolled out in scale and put in use at every airport, it'
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Awww they don't like it when you mine their data. Poor lil' guys.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Huh. When you look at the graphics which concentrate all the urbanized land on the northeast coast, it looks like our total urban area is close to the size of Mega-City One. Cool.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Return on investment I'd guess. HN is hardly a pipeline into the hearts and minds of the average US citizen. Facebook is practically the collective unconscious of our country, as disgusting as that sounds.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I don't know, as much as I respect you looking out for the "engineer as savior" bias and the fact that average users may have a distinctly different viewpoint than we do, in this case it seems somewhat disingenuous. People ha
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
He just built the machine from scratch. I don't think the very first bit of video rendered from after effects was something that made it on the criterion collection either, but you learn to use a new tool to do things of increasing sop
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
From your description, it sounds like this event made a sudden change in how you feel about it. It was a fear that sprouted up immediately after a definite source. You had an earnest fear that you were about to die because you didn't k
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
The mind is but a plaything of the body. There's more and more evidence that most decision-making takes place in parts of our brain we don't control, and our conscious mind absurdly takes credit for decisions that were considered
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Nah, steampunk has led a full life and died of natural causes. It's in a better place now.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
The tape deck manufacturers today know what's up. Nobody is trying to get serious hi-fi out of tapes anymore. There are cheaper and more effective ways of doing that today. People using tapes are looking specifically for the imperfecti
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I'm sorry, those are bad. The first is a joyless dissection of wordy music theory, which is to production of music as Freudian literary analysis is to writing. That's all made up post-hoc by the academics, the artist never has any
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Property taxes are indeed a direct tax on one of the most significant forms of wealth in the US. Most equity for the average American family is their home. It doesn't make sense to tax people with greater property and generational weal
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
If you reduce your definition of fascism only to actual, original Italians and Germans in the 1930s and 40s, you completely disregard lessons that we should never forget, to remain always vigilant against the causes of that era. It doesn&#x
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
No, the whole point of portraying it as a "culture war" of intolerance is to obfuscate and legitimize what it's really about. There's a reason he's so vague about what he's talking about and uses Japanese chara
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
That old saying is a special kind of unfalsifiable crud that's just used to either discard the views of young people or mock the views of old people as stupid. There's plenty of old people who aren't conservative, and tons of
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
"not boys, so it is not completely analogous to paedophile" What does this mean? Pedophilia is not somehow specific to males lusting after males. It's still completely analogous to pedophilia.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
"...depict an identifiable, actual minor." So this doesn't apply to cartoons of the fictional character Mitsuki, a tiny blue-haired girl in a school uniform who is totally 21 years old and not 9 according to the dating simula
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Yeah, the "neutrality" being touted here is so clearly a farce. This is ridiculous. I can't believe there's so many people discussing this pile of offal with such seriousness. "The coverage, all from Blue-aligned me
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I wanted to add something which is rightfully controversial and unpopular because it comes from an entirely different and somewhat naïve era. It's easy for us to overlook in this day and age what kind of context they had in 18th-centur
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It is obviously and demonstrably not. We have outrageous amounts of corruption, up to the point that it's been outright legalized. The amount of pay-for-play in our legal system and filthy regulatory capture by the regulated industries
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It's kind of a chicken or the egg situation on a long enough timeline. Unattainable housing combined with the fact that 40% of people in this country don't even have $400 in savings drives a lot of people out on the streets, and t
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Housing costs in places with good economies and lots of jobs are getting absolutely ridiculous compared to the median wage. I guess people are supposed to look at less glamorous cities, but if everyone affected by this did that then they wo
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Now to be fair, it would be a little absurd to build the most compact possible keyboard, yet get stuck carrying around some foot pedals like you're headed to a lan party with racing games or something. But sometimes a little absurd is
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
One of my favorite acquaintances from my days in school was a much older student from South Korea who often told stories of his time in mandatory military duty patrolling the DMZ, including a harrowing story of nearly setting off an interna

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