war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
The name reminds me of the website NuklearPower, and specifically the web comic 8-bit Theater [1] that I followed back in the day. Off topic, but also a pleasant reminder of something I used to enjoy quite a lot. [1] http://www.n
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by war1025 6y ago
That seems quite upstanding of them and changes the dynamics of the situation quite a bit in my opinion.
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by war1025 6y ago
Coronavirus policy has really helped me understand David Hume's point that you cannot derive and "ought" from an "is". You can't follow the science on something as complex as pandemics and lockdowns. There are
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by war1025 6y ago
We self-isolated just as hard as anyone from March - May. I was looking at my Amazon orders and I'm coming up next week on the 1 year anniversary of when I bought a pair of pulse oximeters as a diagnostic early warning measure. In the
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by war1025 6y ago
> if I was, you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X. Unfortunately, we can't really count on people being at all competent lik
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by war1025 6y ago
> has everybody forgotten the massive protests over the police killing peope last year? Just because that was the most vocal faction doesn't mean they are the only faction, or even the majority.
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by war1025 6y ago
Does anyone know if the terrible framerates in the different games are typical or just an artifact of the way they recorded the video? Maybe they were just demoing the resolution scaling stuff?
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by war1025 6y ago
I tried to use the nub thing once since I have a Thinkpad through work. Really not to my taste.
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by war1025 6y ago
> the 21st century equivalent of a girdle. You give up a certain amount of comfort, but hey, at least you look sexy. My wife does a lot of sewing and garment making. She has convinced me that a properly designed and fitted girdle is actu
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by war1025 6y ago
My personal feeling is that the pendulum is very much swinging back towards ideology and the feeling that we need to "purify" society, often through state-sanctioned violence.
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by war1025 6y ago
Care to elaborate? I'm having a hard time figuring out what point you were trying to make.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The average consumer has to have the latest and greatest every 2 years whether the old phone still works or not. My experience is that my older relatives get new phones frequently because they get their old ones so malware laden that t
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by war1025 6y ago
Steve Inskeep is the worst offender in my opinion. I wouldn't say he did it single-handedly, but I went from tripling my monthly donation in the Spring to cancelling my membership and getting rid of my radio in October.
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by war1025 6y ago
> What turns me off about NPR’s political programming lately is simply that it’s become boring, predictable, and repetitive. I think the focus on "diversity" or "intersectionality" is largely to blame. If you need to
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by war1025 6y ago
I had a Facebook memory from four years ago commenting on how I was proud of NPR for covering the beginnings of the Trump presidency in a fair and balanced way. Could only look back and laugh. Not sure where they took a wrong turn, but &quo
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by war1025 6y ago
> with gender neutral toys Our pediatrician made a quip once about a family that came in and said "Our girl only plays with the dolls and our boy only plays with the trucks" despite the parents doing the whole "gender neut
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by war1025 6y ago
A way that I handle this, particularly on Twitter, is I have a couple people that I think do a good job of curating other people's content and retweeting it. So I just go directly to their page, and I check in often enough that I know
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by war1025 6y ago
Personally, I turned off the news in mid-October and that has improved my quality of life tremendously. I always told myself that since I was listening to NPR it wasn't the same garbage as cable news channels. Nope. Same click bait gar
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by war1025 6y ago
PBS did a great documentary on Clarence Thomas recently. Was interesting to see him portrayed as a person and not just the farce that media seems to usually make him out to be. [1] https://www.pbs.org/show/created-equal
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by war1025 6y ago
> While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Our neighbor has a "scraggly little white dog" as you describe. It bit my (then three
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by war1025 6y ago
America's version: Conveniently remove your own relatives from nursing homes and long term care facilities, then institute forced lock downs and mandate that they accept Coronavirus patients. The people can't get out, but do your
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by war1025 6y ago
Sadly enough, I'm more likely to believe basically anything posted to the web over a story run by any of the major media outlets.
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by war1025 6y ago
What are we supposed to take from this? That it's run by conservatives? That seems hardly surprising given the content.
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by war1025 6y ago
> pinpoint people's homes In the context of a city, I guess it makes sense that this is fairly anonymous. In my moderately more rural part of the world, where owning a home is much more common, a person's house is part of the p
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by war1025 6y ago
> already full of poop cause thats where its made. Your intestines are full of poop. Your stomach isn't full of poop. Your throat and mouth aren't full of poop. Vomiting is very unpleasant. Vomit isn't poop. The thought of
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by war1025 6y ago
I'm really not sure whether I'd rather have a poop enema or willingly swallow poop even if contained in a capsule. I would guess it's "possible" but also there is probably a lot of logistics involved in "take m
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by war1025 6y ago
We interact with IBM from time to time at my work and in general they don't seem like the most competent people in the world. But also it varies quite a bit depending on which sub-group within IBM you are interacting with. The nice thi
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by war1025 6y ago
In my experience, when people say "blockchain" what they actually want is something closer to a Merkle tree like what Git uses for its commit hashes. It's great to be able to say "here is the list of changes, and I can r
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by war1025 6y ago
Got a real kick out of this quote: > "The Clintons have always been very careful to walk about two inches inside the line,"
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> Then again, we've invaded foreign countries and sacrificed our civil liberties ("war on terror") for way less deaths than that. Makes you wonder why we are always so quick to trade away our freedoms...

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