LyndsySimon

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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Done; I’m very interested.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> Gun laws have only gotten more strict in recent years, not less strict This is definitely not true at the state level, and not exactly true at the federal level either. Every state to which I regularly travel is now "constitutio
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Not anymore. The firearms community is more inclusive than it has ever been. We - and I obviously count myself among them - see the racial disparity in access to arms as a key component of our legal strategy to get those laws overturned. Pr
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Location: Arkansas Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python(Flask|Django|Pyramid), Ruby, SQL, various ORMs and backend web stacks CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lyndsysimon Email: lyndsy@lynd
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> Instead, the FDA publicly retracted it's authorization for the use of HCQ and said it did more harm than good, Why? Are the data that the FDA relied upon for this determination public? There is a great deal of internal politics at
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’m in the “WHO is ineffective at best” camp, but I agree with you here. They have been conservative in their statements. I don’t recall them ever saying “it doesn’t spread person-to-person” - I do recall them saying “there is no conclusi
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I use hckrnews.com as my “front end” for HN, so this doesn’t happen for me - it shows submissions in chronological order.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’m actually not sure what I “normally” shoot at. I shoot manual and dynamically adjust my settings to the scene almost unconsciously. Now I’m curious to see if I can run some statistics against my Lightroom library. I shoot a Fujifilm X-E2
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I would love to see a follow-up to this in the form of an interview with someone (or as many people who are still alive) who worked behind the scenes at Simulmatics. The events in the article happened 61 years ago, so it’s entirely possible
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’m only a “semi-serious” photographer at this point, but I’ve spent thousands of dollars in the past ten years based largely on the subjective quality of bokeh.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Remington tried to pivot into the semi-auto handgun market with the R51. It’s a good design, but one that doesn’t mesh well with modern manufacturing techniques. They pumped a ton of money into getting it to market, and they just couldn’t m
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> rather the notion that they crash so god damn often Perhaps they aren't crashing on accident, but are shot down? I'm not saying I believe that, of course, but "crash" != "accident".
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
How would nuclear power do anything other than make it much heavier than it would otherwise be and let it stay aloft much longer?
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
As cool and revolutionary as that would be for the future of mankind in the long run, it wouldn't have any immediate or short-term impact. Anti-gravity/electrogravitics would make all kinds of sci-fi stuff possible. It would be a
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Apparently I’m just a moron, because i see no reason to believe your post was satirical. The advice is silly, sure - but I’ve seen worse advice posted here, and this very thread is full of people who are apparently fearful of carrying a pen
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
It pretty much did, until he started ordering fake IDs shipped to his house...
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Not necessarily. It’s possible that the necessary info was merely accessible through info that was posted on Slack.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
You have valid points, but I’d argue that Python looked like that for much of its life. It didn’t really start to see widespread adoption until Django hit the scene - from memory, 2012-2014 was when it started to go from “esoteric scripting
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> I cut myself once, as every boy must. My 12-year-old daughter would strongly disagree that this is gender-specific :) > If you are thinking of self-defense, you could always carry a firearm instead (or perhaps a sword or staff), sin
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> I'm surprised not at those uses, but that anyone would use a fancy steel knife for any of them. Speaking only for myself - I get enjoyment from using quality tools. That goes for knives, but it’s also why I invested in Milwaukee M
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> I posted that comment so people who might otherwise like to frequent HN doesn't get the idea that the median poster here is a transphobe. This has literally nothing to do with trans issues, as far as I can see. It’s about medical
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Ah, this strikes right at the core of the primary differences underlying American society today. I don’t care at all what the doctor’s motivations were - I only care about their actions . In this case, those actions were taken without cons
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> you're MORE upset because of the gendering interaction, that's wrong. I strongly disagree. This isn’t about gender as a social construct. This is about a licensed medical professional causing significant changes to a person’s
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
My understanding is that serum estrogen levels are strongly correlated to increased risk of heart disease in men.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
My lay understanding is that the absolute levels of testosterone and estrogen are much less important for men than their relative levels. I actually had blood drawn a couple of weeks ago to check for this very thing. I’m male, and while my
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
The reverse is also true - I recall reading an artucle that lists English names and their (often offensive) homonyms in Cantonese.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
There is a hypothesis, “nominative determinism”, that posits that people tend to gravitate toward professions that “match” their names. I don’t fully buy it, but it’s an interesting idea that has at least some evidence to support it. https
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Anyone have an idea what these are used in? I originally thought they might be used for 3D printing, but that doesn’t seem to be the case - except, perhaps for chamber temperature.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
The biggest thing that’s stopping me is that I can’t decide if I want to buy one that’s in pristine condition (and never want to use it for fear of damaging it) or one that’s beat up and has tons of imperfections (and feel bad about spendi
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I still want a Zero Halliburton briefcase. It would be wildly impractical for me, but I want it nonetheless.

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