badkungfu

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by badkungfu 2y ago
I always thought calling it MDMA denoted more purity vs Ecstasy, but I was never a candy kid.
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by badkungfu 4y ago
> Legislation was passed under President Obama that made it a legal requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration. > The National Transport
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by badkungfu 4y ago
The ping has been around since '83.
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by badkungfu 4y ago
Sounds like ambergris.
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by badkungfu 8y ago
> Another way to reduce envy is to realize that, ultimately, it's luck all the way down. There are plenty of talented, hard-working people who will never see even moderate success Realizing that it's luck all the way down only
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by badkungfu 8y ago
https://www.americanoversight.org/watchdog-demands-details-o... "[F]lew to Barcelona to collect a bribe before passing this regulatory change" seems too strong a claim, but there should be serious questions after
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by badkungfu 8y ago
> A completely different question is whether vendors like Apple will refuse to support something like this because it circumvents the need to deliver via the app store (and the $$$ they collect through the Apple Developer Program) but th
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by badkungfu 9y ago
I'm glad to know other people have this experience and find ways to share it.
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by badkungfu 9y ago
> I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's (or self contained widgets) Convinced by what? Many do use it outside of SPAs.
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by badkungfu 10y ago
> Incidentally, insofar as "fake news" is real, it is highly unlikely to have any major effect I think this study is too limited. The problem is not that a single article changes minds. It's a well-poisoning problem. Stori
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by badkungfu 10y ago
> The idea of "fake news" is propaganda What do you call information that is produced to resemble reputable news sources but contains very little true information? Is there any support for the claim that it was reported, and a
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by badkungfu 10y ago
That doesn't list a lot of people who would have known him. Not hard to imagine people being committed to a cause while the lore is still being built.
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by badkungfu 10y ago
> I am reminded of Fulton Sheen's comments on Jesus - a man that claimed to be God is either a liar, a lunatic, or God; to say such a man is a great teacher but not God stretches the limit of rationality. That always sounded like an
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by badkungfu 10y ago
I think this is brilliant social satire come to life. Can there be a block chain of people who "trust" a source within the net and where central claims originate?
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by badkungfu 11y ago
Just looked into it and there is a Chrome app. It can be started from the Mac Launchbar and runs in its own window. Not native, but feels close enough for this type of thing to me.
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by badkungfu 11y ago
I definitely think we should if we can have very good plans for how the data is kept secure, how access is granted, and oversight- all from separate organizations that report to citizens in a useful way. But we'll probably do it anyw
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Eye in the Sky(radiolab.org)
2 points by badkungfu 11y ago|1 comments
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by badkungfu 11y ago
Even better than cell records would be this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ And I think I'd actually be ok with this method if our military/police/political leaders had a better track record
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by badkungfu 12y ago
Eh, yeah, I'm just not sure it's that simple. In the article, he points out that Tesla's been given a lot of taxpayer money plus a lot of incentives for buyers to make their product more attractive. And now they now get t
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by badkungfu 12y ago
Any dissenters around here? We're going through this stuff now in Georgia. I like the ideal of trying different market approaches than your competitors, and I generally think businesses should; but I did read a counter point[0] that at
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by badkungfu 12y ago
This is an ad.
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by badkungfu 12y ago
Yes, they're worthless, but, anchoring effect.
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by badkungfu 12y ago
I'm certainly not saying this was a fake post. Though it's possible, I guess. I'm just saying that the internet is a tool of war. And for those purposes, it's helpful that information can become rapidly-propagated Truth
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by badkungfu 12y ago
> Are war crimes what 'right to be forgotten' is all about? Of course not. I think OP is just pointing out that there are pros and cons. OTOH, if I were leading a technologically sophisticated country to war and had the ability
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by badkungfu 14y ago
Looks great and I was wishing for exactly this tool last week. It seems to be having trouble saving with Evernote, though. Is it just me?
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by badkungfu 16y ago
Yeah, I don't know either. Sounds like DNA is the strand/mechanism and using phosphates is all we know of so far. IANAS But if it's not-technically-DNA-anymore because it can use an arsenate instead of a phosphate, it's still part of our tr
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by badkungfu 16y ago
Wow, snarky. I had the same impression. This sounds really, really cool but it's still an organism that uses DNA, and we're still related to it. As a layperson, I don't see why this says a lot more about the potential for life elsewhere. If
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by badkungfu 16y ago
Maybe it's in the works. We'll see what the outcome of the rape charges are. Could give him a good reason to "off himself".
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by badkungfu 16y ago
It's worth mentioning WikiLeaks insurance file here, an already-distributed file which they claim contains some really juicy secret(s). http://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+insurance
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by badkungfu 16y ago
As they have no central dogma, I'm not sure how mass-hypocrisy by atheists would be possible unless they actually, secretly believed in deities.

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