adewinter

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by adewinter 2y ago
You're welcome to care about as many things as you desire, at the same time, friend. It's a question of perspective and relative importance. The reply didn't comment about A and B and C, only A - implying A was the most impor
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by adewinter 2y ago
Should your concern lie with individuals transcribing their own conversations, or with mass surveillance and wiretapping actively being executed by a broad range of official and corporate entities without your consent?
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by adewinter 3y ago
Kinetic energy scales with velocity squared (0.5 m v^2), so this result makes sense. Brakes dissipate constant energy, but the amount of energy it needs to disapate is going up much faster.
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by adewinter 3y ago
Make up a code phrase/word for emergencies, share it with your family, then use it for these types of situations.
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by adewinter 3y ago
In addition you're attempting to recycle space junk ("bullets") when you're quite literally standing on planet packed to rafters with junk. The energy required to harvest the material in orbit makes it extremely hard to
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by adewinter 3y ago
I'm sorry, "harvest space junk"? How on earth could that possibly be profitable? There is zero mystery why any VC, Midwest or otherwise, would not be interested in that business model.
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by adewinter 3y ago
Is that understanding based on any evidence or is it a personal theory?
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by adewinter 4y ago
I would take a citation on literally any single one of your statements
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by adewinter 4y ago
What kind of chair is that?
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by adewinter 4y ago
No, you definitely could not do it 20 years ago with hobbyist grade parts. The software basically did not exist and whatever tech there was was strictly hidden behind government arms control restrictions (ITAR) because of fears that the tec
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by adewinter 4y ago
"Military aviation accidents have killed 224 pilots or aircrew, destroyed 186 aircraft, and cost more than $11.6 billion since 2013"[1] "Combined with information from the Federal Aviation Administration, an average of 383 pi
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by adewinter 4y ago
>> I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenario. I don't think that's the _only_
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by adewinter 4y ago
I generally agree with your sentiment but do also think there is value in some degree of flexibility and recognizing some plans have more significance than other. E.g. if the friend bailed on a coffee break instead of a weeks-in-advance-vac
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by adewinter 4y ago
Sure, if you're operating under the assumption that a) he understands geo-politics and global defense better than the leadership of his country and b) he has better and more real-time information (than the leadership) about the situati
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by adewinter 4y ago
Hey fella, you're the one moving goal posts here. First you say it was "used by the executive branch to dictate any military operation"... ie the executive branch are the ones calling the shots. Now all of a sudden it's
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by adewinter 4y ago
Sure if you take the most hardcore literal interpretation. It's just short hand for "the enemies of the state" or "whoever my duly elected leadership consider to be the bad guys". Yes, people still willingly give up
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by adewinter 4y ago
It might be naive but doesn't make the statement any less accurate or true. Some people have a strong belief, and faith, in democracy and democratic leaders. To the point that they'd join up and go fight if called upon. It's
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by adewinter 4y ago
This article was about the author's reasons for joining the military, not sure why you expect it to also be about the detailed history of a particular unit or the general ethics of being a modern soldier?
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by adewinter 4y ago
I think that's a pretty disengenous take on the author's thought process. If you read the entire article it's clear that he believes in the concept of defending his country and trusting his leaders to correctly decide how t
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by adewinter 4y ago
Hard to tell if you're just trolling or being serious. * Nuremberg and "just following orders" was about actual orders to specific individuals to do things that were literal war crimes, and those individuals carrying those or
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by adewinter 4y ago
"status games" might be in the same class of things as "don't think about x". Even by not playing... You're just playing on a different level (lower or higher).
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by adewinter 4y ago
Maybe. From your examples, though, if you think you're going to make any money whatsoever from the "weightlifting status" game you are in for a rude surprise. Similar to other examples from the article (softball team, nightsc
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by adewinter 4y ago
You're saying that it's a guarantee that every single healthcare system (in the world?) will break down because of _sugar consumption_? Seriously?
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by adewinter 4y ago
It would only make sense if the company was able to offer a discount/different price when you use their billing system vs google/apple. Edit: though it's not clear if Google would even allow that in this case.
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by adewinter 5y ago
It's weird that CT scans cost hundreds (thousands?) of dollars when used in medicine but at the airport everyone's baggage is routinely scanned for approx. $free. Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expens
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by adewinter 5y ago
test
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by adewinter 5y ago
Hello and congratulations on launching! 1) It sounds like the scaffold+medium+environment is meant to replace a vascular network. Have you considered growing a vascular system in/around the muscle tissue (if that's possible)? 2)
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by adewinter 5y ago
> We pay most doctors and hospitals based on patient outcomes, not fee-for-service. I'm curious how you convinced providers to bill based on outcome. The metric seems very hard to quantify. How are the outcomes measured? How are ch
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by adewinter 5y ago
You're right, instead of treating them(secretaries) like a trusted confidant and rewarding them well financially - thus ensuring their loyalty (even after their employment!) and compensating them for their truly valuable contribution -
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by adewinter 5y ago
A grand total of 7 submissions to blog posts over the course of a month is probably fine.

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