burmer

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by burmer 1y ago
Naw, they'll get run over by a car and it'll be your fault.
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by burmer 3y ago
A walkman costs like what, $20? A cell phone is hundreds. Do you, as a teacher really want thousands and thousands of dollars of students' electronics stashed in your drawer?
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by burmer 3y ago
My circle is 90.6% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/ Edit: Wow! My circle is 96.5% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
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by burmer 3y ago
Also got 90
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by burmer 4y ago
you just have to get the pee into the urinal first...
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by burmer 4y ago
There are already too many problems with cars using roads as cars. Cars have monopolized public space in an unprecedented way that needs to be vastly scaled back.
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by burmer 4y ago
This is already not always the case, depending on which bridge they use.
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by burmer 4y ago
So strange there's no notch in the main picture on the announcement. The top bezel does not look the same as on the product page either, even aside from the notch, it's too thick. edit: the very last picture in the article also sh
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by burmer 4y ago
hm, interesting. Even better: potentially, instead of negotiating prices one on one, we could form some sort of large collective enterprise that was beholden to us so that it could negotiate prices on our behalf. I'd bet if there was s
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by burmer 5y ago
If musicians want to pull their music off of spotify in protest, they should. If spotify wants to keep Joe Rogan on their platform, they should. I think think spotify owes Joe a platform, whatever the case may be about his using the n-word
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by burmer 5y ago
I dunno. The boat is being built behind the bridge by a local company. I'd be pissed if it was just Bezos sailing through for fun.
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by burmer 5y ago
Ironically, people do kind of do this, with discussions about traffic, except that nobody benefits. Everyone wants to drive, and no one wants to be stuck in traffic. Restrictions on driving like tolls or special driving zones, bus lanes, et
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by burmer 5y ago
Yeah, that's why so many ships are registered to specific countries too, so they can operate with looser restrictions. It's basically "offshoring" but for the regulations. When I worked in fisheries, I remember seeing so
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by burmer 5y ago
People often conflate technological progress and some sort of overall bettering of society. Science/Technology have nothing, inherently, to do with morality, and people have not changed much. The future may be published by technology,
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by burmer 5y ago
A big part of the jokes I seemingly missed reading it in English, according to a friend of mine who read it in Russian, is that some of the landowners and other characters' names are untranslated puns.
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by burmer 5y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen some plants, when looking to buy, where they are described as annuals, or perennials if in the right climate.
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by burmer 6y ago
Homebrewers use them, for yeast culturing or making starters. I guess that's fairly lab-like, but they do it in kitchens.
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by burmer 6y ago
The article mentions fake or duplicate accounts but not those that exist for dead people either [1] which would seem to become more and more important over time. 1. https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/29/50-years-ther
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Police using DRM algorithms to stop videos of them being posted(interestingengineering.com)
20 points by burmer 6y ago|2 comments
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by burmer 6y ago
Yeah, lying is probably on the lower end of bad things HSBC has done... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-usa-idUSKBN1E50YA
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by burmer 6y ago
> What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists? Exactly, they should look at indy developers like Nate Hayden, Hollandspiele and others who make niche games, but professional
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by burmer 6y ago
Well that doesn't make sense. The sacredness of the capitol should demand that it be protected. Images of law enforcement preventing a mob from disrupting the act of signing off on the transfer of power would be a strong statement that
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by burmer 6y ago
How long does the account last? Are there any limitations?
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by burmer 6y ago
Vassal isn't a physics simulator like TTS, but it's a widely used board game engine.
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by burmer 6y ago
These bangs have honestly changed the way I browse. With Ctrl+T, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+W, and tab-switching, the browser feels like vim in a small way. Without my mouse, I can open a new tab or switch to a new tab and immediately search Wikipedia, A
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by burmer 6y ago
There will always be force in the equation. Do you think that your payments to the armed bands that would replace government would be lower?
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by burmer 6y ago
Excel functions
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by burmer 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing, if what the court was saying was that the land has always been a reservation, then, uh, get ready for the mother of all tax refunds.
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by burmer 6y ago
And w stonewalling from the administration, which really needs to be cracked down on.
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by burmer 6y ago
Not normally, but temperament depends on a lot of things. I've read that socialization and temperament of the dog's parents are important.

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