anon2775

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by anon2775 8y ago
When I was at the Stanford cardiac unit last, they let me sleep. That wasn't the problem but they had a problem giving me privacy: door wide open, curtain wide open.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Cults and other extreme forms of magical thinking take root whenever survival seems difficult. Chris Hedges' latest book delves into paths to anomie, self-destruction and insanity that are more likely as a civilization crumbles and slo
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by anon2775 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip Also note that Telegram and WhatsApp are insecure and horrible. I would use Signal, OTR and maybe iMessage if you trust the Apple bean-counter-turned-CEO.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Get your Clipper chips! Steaming hot Clipper chips! Chocked full of vitamins, backdoors and laughably lazy intelligence agency bungling!
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by anon2775 8y ago
The word "literally" is misused, unnecessary and annoying.
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by anon2775 8y ago
It sounds like a recipe for anticholinergic, Parkinsonian-like tremors, nausea, vertigo, sweating and other dysfunctions.
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by anon2775 8y ago
The 1% don't care how money is made (who it kills or destroys the planet) so long that it flows. An existential threat from externalities is just another new inelastic market to exploit.
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by anon2775 8y ago
0. Take all concepts, modifiers and verbs 1. Make a histogram of their usage 2. Huffman encode them based on what sounds/inflections/etc. are easiest to make and most distinct 3. Add an ECC syllable to each word or phrase 4. Set s
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by anon2775 8y ago
We played the beta and first release of CS in college (UCD). Ah the memories of AWP and skywalking (jumping up on crates with aid of a buddy and walking on top of the map's bounding box "sky").
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by anon2775 8y ago
Yes. What's missing from modern life is somewhat intended by corporations and the political elite: the atomizing of people from each other via glowing screens and burning down of community that churches functioned to anchor people toge
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by anon2775 8y ago
Many organizations are in dire need of departmental NAT firewalls and VPN solutions. I had to beg, bitch and moan before a Pac10 uni would offer such a service to protect our users.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Yup. I have a horrible GPA due to a bunch of personal and disability stuff but they never look at it due to experience. If they did, I wouldn't want to work somewhere that favors GPA and/or nonsense certifications. In fact when I
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by anon2775 8y ago
It's important to both suspend disbelief to enjoy fiction from reality and take fiction with a big grain of salt that it's often missing considerations of reality. It's when people confuse and conflate fiction with reality m
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by anon2775 8y ago
Where to eat, University Ave PA: - Cafe 220 $ - Oren's Hummus $$ - Crepevine $$ - Il Fornaio $$$ - Coupa Cafe $$ - Local 271 $$ - Sprout $$ - Madera $$$$ (Sand Hill Rd) Man-bod approved.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Hello? It's 1993 calling. Will you buy these discontinued NSA Clipper chips? No. phreak'n. way. Sunshine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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Deputy AG calling for encryption backdoor(wired.com)
1 points by anon2775 8y ago|1 comments
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by anon2775 8y ago
Glorified Tweet.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Satellite imagery from a BBC investigation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...
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by anon2775 8y ago
Estimated mass: 1.51e10 kg - heavier than the Great Pyramid of Giza but lighter than the Three Gorges Dam (4/3) * pi * (213/2 [m])^3 * 3 [g/cm^3] Mean diameter: 213m Kinetic energy is 0.5 * m * v^2, so figure 10 [km/s] w
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by anon2775 8y ago
Long period waves and their decay signature makes me suspect "water hammering" of a large volume of magma came to an abrupt stop inside a magma chamber or tube.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Balance the competing tyrannies - individual / majority - class - age - ability - and many more The messy reality of balancing interests tends not to fit to any impossibly idealistic -ism, but somewhere in the middle between the unwork
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by anon2775 8y ago
On average, Dutch farmers tend to use the least water per mass of product sold.
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Happy Bottom Riding Club – aircraft pioneer ranch(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by anon2775 8y ago|0 comments
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by anon2775 8y ago
No, it's not. 1. Latent VZV causes shingles in later life; a horrible, painful, debilitating condition. 2. It's a signal of intentionally creating other unnecessary, preventable epidemics of treatable, disfiguring and deadly disea
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by anon2775 8y ago
This is clickbait based on old news. The MTA hired an unconventional transportation turn-around guru. It's going to take time to make things better.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Everyone who's family has lived in North America for more than a few generations has at least some of both European and African ancestry. This means, that of these people, "black" Americans have European ancestors, and "
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by anon2775 8y ago
Disclaimer: I barely survived the Camp Fire, with all the credit to our neighbors for letting us know. That's a chick-little, strawman and blame-the-victim argument. The issues are: 1. PGE likely started the fire. They should be held r
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by anon2775 8y ago
I heard about a mayor from there at one time, nobody's ever heard of him because they were too busy showing empty podiums. ;)
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by anon2775 8y ago
24 hour donut shops: I've seen them baking all night and morning. It's a rough business.
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by anon2775 8y ago
Czech Post https://goo.gl/maps/txNY4VB7Pfz Is that the right one?

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