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by Paperweight 6y ago
Rural counties are conservative, urban counties are liberal, and never the twain shall meet. I posit that there will always be this conflict until cities have a blue federation superimposed on a red countryside. But the constitution isn&#x2
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Did you even read my comment?
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Finance is always gambling, ponzis, and fraud. But hey, that's not a bad thing. Gamblers add liquidity, which is better for society than them hiding in a basement playing cards. Stocks are essentially ponzi scheme financing. They hav
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Yup, but at least they're better than the black market alternative. :)
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Since the curated boutique App Store idea got perverted, perhaps the cure is to go back to Steve Jobs' original plan to use PWAs.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
It's a simple model - make a genetically engineered S. mutans that slightly out-competes the existing, but without generating the lactic acid waste products that softens tooth enamel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Paperweight 6y ago
But will the drug approval agencies allow genetically engineered therapies for anything disruptive? For example, they've been blocking the caries vaccine for decades.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Same goes for myopia and crooked teeth. I've asked my optometrists and orthodontists what cause these problems and just got shrugs and big bills.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Where's the disaster menu?
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by Paperweight 6y ago
The only problem with YouTube is that it's not organized. It's not indexable or printable. Videos are on Google's servers - here today and gone tomorrow. Videos are GREAT for stuff that you can't put into text, and YouTu
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I love this! Is there a larger technologist wiki from which you can learn the principles of how to actually build everything from raw materials and generic tools? Examples: casting iron, making blades, making paint, making plastics, making
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Honestly, it was corruption. The FDA simply made the requirements for human trials so restrictive as to be impossible.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Life is a series of realizations that you were playing the wrong game.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Political theory: The study of how to maximize the knowledge of decision-makers while minimizing their conflict of interest.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I doubt their state education system is full of literature teachers who encourage a lot of looking past the surface narrative of things.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
If you push down the front of the learning curve, the back gets steeper.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I'd say the unit cost of running a proper streaming-rental service is about the same as burning a copy of a DVD (20 cents per movie). There's way more to it than just bandwidth. Sure you could still pirate (just like you could cop
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I used to help out a video rental store, which closed this month. I made them a mail-order rental catalogue ( https://rent.leosvideos.ca/ ) and looked into this whole fiasco. When you buy a DVD, you can rent it to others with
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Amazing! Thanks! We need this for YouTube as well, though the blacklist would be extremely large. In fact, I wonder if this could be implemented as a filter list for uBlock Origin?
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Weren't there single-button ones that would continuously drive forward unless you pressed the remote control button, which would switch it to reverse-left? So to "stop" you had to keep tapping the button.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
The UI design of calculators is fascinating. Where do you put the buttons? TI and friends have a randomish layout, let alone the TERRIBLE mobile calculator apps. (Self-promotion) I always wanted to design a calculator and finally got around
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by Paperweight 6y ago
Fine. Not garlic. But that's not my point.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I'm not suggesting trying to cure or prevent the disease, but to promote its symptoms to emerge in asymptomatic carriers so that they can self-isolate.
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by Paperweight 6y ago
I lieu of adequate testing, I wonder if we could use mild proinflammatory immune response as a way for carriers to self-detect - i.e. so that they feel more sick, quicker, rather that just carrying it around for days unknowingly. Perhaps ga
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Highly-automated, "clean" manufacturing is all well and good for billion-dollar highly-capitalized, politically-sheltered megafactories, but what about the other 90% of manufacturers? Manufacturing is a dirty, dangerous, manual bu
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Zed makes it clear in that book that he hates C and doesn't use it anymore due to its undefined behaviour.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Perhaps better than a book, can anyone authoritatively point to a few small-and-readable but best-in-class open-source C projects to use as a reference?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
"Surely this core cryptography library with 21 contributors and led by a superstar Node.JS dev with 9+ million weekly downloads and 1000+ dependants will be a great example to read and learn from..." Opens source code. Closes s
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Haha, I mean if they'd actually improved every part that prematurely broke on the Lada for the past 40 years it would probably be the perfect car by now XD But Henry Ford lost this argument 90 years ago when GM proved that styling newn
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Have they actually improved its weaknesses, though, besides upgrading the engine from time to time? For example, today I replaced a front wheel hub-bearing on a FWD car. These are designed with a cast steering knuckle that the axle goes thr

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