GLGirty

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by GLGirty 2mo ago
I recall shake/tilt was most useful in the sections of the field where rolling over a sensor would toggle a light, and lighting all three toggles yielded a prize. There is one cluster at the top centre, and another in the left purple p
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by GLGirty 3mo ago
This reminds me of a quote from Peter Schiff, circa 2008 housing crash. To paraphrase, “too-big-to-fail eventually becomes too-big-to keep alive"
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by GLGirty 5mo ago
In practice, it opened the flood gates for corporations and oligarchs to pour money into the electoral system. [1] Do you like technocracy? Because this is how you get technocracy. [1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publicat
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by GLGirty 5mo ago
> This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history. You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."
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by GLGirty 2y ago
For single parents, this is the choice between working or not working.
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by GLGirty 3y ago
I checked the source and confirmed no one in the car was seriously hurt. So I will say it: The way the tire shows up again after the mega damage: just slowly rolling up into the accident; was a pretty good comic beat.
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by GLGirty 3y ago
> a never ending arms race Did you mean, "the great filter?"
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by GLGirty 3y ago
I remembered the Satan-themed sneaks, and assumed that was what your link would be for 'wild shoes'. Nope. TIL they also made Strongbad cosplay boots. Mschf and Improv Everywhere have done some endearing stunts over the years.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
> Facebook started off GREAT! I'm glad early fb was a good experience for you, but studies have found that when fb was just opening to universities, lower grades and higher demand for mental health services would follow. https:&#x2
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Tomorrow's follow up: Scientists Discover New Form of Brain Freeze.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Dennis Tito might pay $20M to eat one.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
They didn't even wink...
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Lawrence Lessig attempted this, raising over $1M dollars with a kickstarter campaign. So successful that only polysci nerds remember. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harvard-professor-larry-less...
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Legally, this has been true in the USA for more than a century. (Which I take as evidence of bad law, not acceptable practice.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Search for 'Brondell swash nonelectric', available at costco and jeffazon. I have this and the electric version, and I find the non-electric is good enough and a fraction of the price.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
> The food is the problem Quality of food is certainly declining, but we are also seeing weight increases in lab rats with extremely controlled diets, so food probably isn't the entire story. There's no accepted explanation for
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Are you the original author? This is a really fun exploration of an old premise, thanks! Great little easter eggs with color zone and the wedding. (But I'm completely stuck in the hard rain, after 'Emergency - connect to snake&#x
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Your Platform Is Not an Ecosystem(crookedtimber.org)
2 points by GLGirty 4y ago|1 comments
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Maria Farrell explains why "plantation" is a better term.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
That doesn't sound conspiratorial at all. All sorts of features drift from being 'luxury items' to 'no one will buy a car without it.' In my life time time this has happened with air conditioning, power windows, hea
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by GLGirty 4y ago
I watched Goddard's lectures a few years ago, and he talked about different price points for the mill--'tiers' of processors that differed mainly, (iirc,) by the size of the belt. He made some claims about porting binaries fr
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by GLGirty 4y ago
It's a shame they haven't got anything to market. It's such a clever re-think of how instructions operate. If anything, they are probably too far ahead of their time. Reminds me a bit of Transmeta. "Code morphing" s
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by GLGirty 4y ago
If Satoshi is cryptohacker turned drug lord Paul LeRoux, you can wait a while for that.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
And build one unit of transit next to them, it doesn't matter if the road or rail is connected.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
They underestimated the ability of new media to manufacture consent.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
I'm in Canada--if I want to buy a pair of jeans made here, my options are boutique brands starting at $150. Your prescription to buy domestic is a noble end goal, but it's out of reach to the working class. What do you think are t
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Lower class people are the ones being exploited for fast fashion. If you buy a $10 shein tshirt and own it till it's thread bare, it's less environmentally destructive than tossing it after 3 wears, but some desperately poor peo
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Gawd those haunting eyes... I wonder how many people donated just to make them stop.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Believing that the data is recoverable seems to be as optimistic as believing that bitcoin will still have value by the time it's found. Did he recruit his financial backers at a TedTalk?
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by GLGirty 4y ago
In the linked article, Strong Towns doesn't say much about the nature of these deaths, but in other articles, (e.g. below) they explore how many of these killings are vehicle-on-pedestrian deaths, and how we've normalized blaming

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