davmar

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by davmar 5y ago
So you're saying that if we did live under perfect capitalism, these problems wouldn't exist. But it's impossible to live under perfect anything, so it seems that instead of trying to become more capitalist, we ought to pick
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by davmar 5y ago
If the capitalist mindset you described were accurate, then we would have the kind of society you described because we’ve had a very capitalist economy from the start. But that’s not what we see, so unfortunately what you assert cannot be t
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by davmar 5y ago
So I went to https://anarchapulco.com/ in 2018. There I met a guy who claimed to know who Satoshi is. He said Satoshi was from LA, and that the keys to the wallet that hold all those unclaimed bitcoins are buried in a backy
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by davmar 5y ago
same here. do you have the extra attachments? i've got the track ball and i can't live without it.
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by davmar 5y ago
i have an older macbook pro (only for another week until my new one arrives), and i found switching from iterm2 to kitty improved performance of my computer drastically. i think i have some other HD corruption issues going on, but kitty ext
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by davmar 5y ago
Really happy to read this accurate comment. Also, I appreciate how this scholar rebrands "cultural appropriation" to "racial plagiarism" so the term is more precise: https://twitter.com/minh81/status
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by davmar 5y ago
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c05025 "Materials were microimaged and tested against size selected NaCl aerosol with particle mobility diameters between 50 and 825 nm. Three of the top five best pe
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by davmar 5y ago
I agree with you on that point. Fauci told a noble lie about the N95 masks and it really harmed credibility. Perhaps I did miss your point. My intention was to say that, outside of Fauci, the science around mask efficacy was well-known beca
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by davmar 5y ago
Not all cloth masks function the same way. If you read the studies, it depends on the weaving and the material. Cotton vs. denim, for example, is studied. None are as effective as a non-woven material. But they are still more effective than
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by davmar 5y ago
> It started with masks. The studies that we had about masks really were not great, but they did a risk-reward calculation behind closed doors: worst case scenario, the surgical masks don't impact the spread and it changes nothing;
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by davmar 5y ago
+1 for vim. I also spent a lot of time resisting it. Now it's all I use because it's just so much better.
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by davmar 5y ago
I don't think this is accurate. If they're just specifying a font (e.g. 'Helvetica') in their CSS, it's loaded from the users' machine and doesn't cost anything. Otherwise every site on the internet would
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by davmar 5y ago
We can only blame ourselves for Spotify's bad UI! (jk) Spotify uses an internal experimentation platform that guides which features they determine are successful, based upon how our usage moves their metrics: https://enginee
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by davmar 5y ago
i love it. this is brilliant.
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by davmar 5y ago
If you rent, you can't put an anchor screw in the drywall. Who rents vs. who owns is political!
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by davmar 5y ago
Well, my used 2016 Nissan Leaf was $11k so while you're correct that Telsa appeals to the well-off, not all EVs have the same market.
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by davmar 5y ago
I have the exact symptoms as you - no headache but visual aura. I think my triggers are a lack of food/hydration and bright lights.
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by davmar 5y ago
Well, if there's a nuclear attack I want to be the first to die. Can you imagine what the world would be like after a nuclear war? Count me out.
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by davmar 5y ago
I use this companies services (seed.run as well). Frank and Jay are doing something truly special in this space. Also, this guide they put together is definitive: https://serverless-stack.com/#guide Had I found that years a
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by davmar 5y ago
You're quite welcome! Do you have any Bollywood films to recommend? I'll google Aamir Khan in the meantime.
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by davmar 5y ago
Yeah it's a legal site from Rakutan. They have an app and everything. Not that having an app always means it's legit, but maybe it's some kind of signal? Anyway I subscribe to it. Don't know what you mean by "just s
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by davmar 5y ago
Ok, I want to give my highest recommendation to this non-netflix show: https://www.viki.com/tv/22943c-nirvana-in-fire It's one of the best shows I've ever seen. From the plot, the acting, the music, the visua
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by davmar 5y ago
100% spot on. i would like to be your friend IRL
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by davmar 5y ago
yeah, this was my reading of the article as well.
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by davmar 5y ago
"Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal" -Rage Against the Machine, Bulls on Parade
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by davmar 5y ago
LOL @ rabois being a harbinger of things to come.
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by davmar 6y ago
i've completed 2 goenka retreats and i would describe the experience very differently experience from how you did. first, the nightly videos. not cultish and not metaphysics. don't believe me? view them all here: https:/&#x2
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by davmar 6y ago
serious question: what informs your opinions on this topic? i ask because cities are, in fact, already paying for settlements. however, the problem is deeper: settlements often times in results in the cities going into debt that wall street
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by davmar 6y ago
Oh. Interesting. Thanks for the clarification
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by davmar 6y ago
Googled which weapons cops have out of curiousity and the AR-15 isn't in the top 10 according to this list: https://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/popular-guns-for-la...

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