bigbillheck

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by bigbillheck 2y ago
I've got no love for NPR, but as a result of the comments here I've had to do some self-reflection, and keep coming back to that saying about a table with ten people and that story about the bartender who kicked a dude out. @dang
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Huh, I wonder if climatologists might have based their analyses on more than just this single time series. No way of knowing.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
>"whatever done by consenting adults in the privacy of their own home is cool". For example, cooking meth.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
You've never donated to your local npr/pbs station?
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
He's been dead for 104 years, where's the piracy?
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Do they not teach the concept of linear time anymore?
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> If published someone like Terrence Tao could write formal proofs for them like he and his team did some improvements for the work by Yitang Zhang. From the second paragraph: > George Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt (2005, 2009, 2012, 2
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> There are too many high-level botanical terms here, I can't understand anything. That's easily fixable, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsAFpSXj7Y
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
I'm not really sure there's a singular "now" that encompasses both here and there.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> ...vertebrate...Before machine-mediated transportation— trains, planes, boats and cars—individuals were likely to be exposed to the majority of pathogens in their local geography by the time of reproductive age This hypothesis would be
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Are you of an age to remember a certain variety of picture in National Geographic? Assuming those ladies knew they were being photographed and were ok with it being published, where does that land in your flowchart?
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
I think if you thought the post was worth making in the first place it's a matter of personal integrity to keep it up even in the face of pushback, downvotes, or flagging.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Not all consensual photographs of ladies with their tits out are porn of any kind.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> Gotta love how women's breasts are simultaneously "softcore porn" and "women's rights", all depending on the type of news/propaganda utilized. Very strange. It's almost as if the settings in whic
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> cheap enough to not care about You can get a ten pack of 16gb drives for $25, which after inflation is in the ballpark of what I remember floppies costing 30 years ago.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
@dang get over here and do something about this.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Sure is! https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disandpath/fungalbasidio/pdl... > The white pine blister rust pathogen is a typical heteroecious, macrocyclic rust that produces five distinct spore stages on two d
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
It's a host for white pine blister rust.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> they deliberately didn't patent it If you'll check the historical record you'll find, for example, patents US2524035A (Bardeen&Brattain, Three-electrode circuit element utilizing semiconductive materials, oldest prio
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> Can’t the OS / environment provide a “features_available” That wouldn't be consistent with the "unix philosophy".
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> What if you apply the fourier transform twice? You're back in the time domain except reversed in time.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> same way we look at Polio today You mean "still present and due to the nature of the vaccines requiring eternal vigilance"?
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> Is AI gen or real? Why would you say such a thing.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> The consensus? He has tons of "red flags" for basically being "billy the beta" who won't excite the women who would come into contact with him. Hardly anyone is surprised that he can't get dates. Quoting o
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
For the record, the only actual tweet in the document is Happe saying "Looking fear in the eyes today as I'm using the ADA gender neutral restroom in the office and a r~~~ t~~~ in a wheelchair knocks on the door."
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
That's all true, but they wouldn't spend the money on those kinds of things, they'd just buy more fighter jets.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
It's hard to solve social problems (intentional voter disenfranchisement) with technological solutions.
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> Science Fiction is plagued with all the same problems facing comic books and tabletop gaming: the entire publishing industry only cares about representation and winning industry accolades for said representation and it isn't reson
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
> because they represented a counter-reformation to the "new wave" which made Smith look cool again (great!)= Tor didn't start until 1980, by which time the new wave was long dead. (Also which "Smith" do you mean
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by bigbillheck 2y ago
Two credited authors.

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