dbasedweeb

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Tesla “Streamlines” Board of Directors(thedrive.com)
1 points by dbasedweeb 7y ago|0 comments
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
Nothing about SpaceX except marketing hype has to do with Mars, can we just stop it with the Mars talk? It belittles what SpaceX actually is about, which is amazing in its own right. Launch demand, cheaper LEO/GEO/GTO, and a willi
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
Jeremy Clarkson really really doesn’t represent the world of “car enthusiasts” or journalists in general. He’s an entertainer, part of a latter day Three Stooges and tarring an entire branch of journalism with his brush is like saying tha
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
It is when they’re not even owned by Time! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678982
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
At least the conspiracy theories have moved on from “the shorts” to a more typical group.
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
It is bad, but I’ve seen one worse: metacritic. That site is hot garbage.
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Vandenberg AFB's Space Shuttle Facility Now Has a Mysterious Mission(thedrive.com)
2 points by dbasedweeb 7y ago|0 comments
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Fact Checking Tesla's “Impact Report”(thedrive.com)
40 points by dbasedweeb 7y ago|46 comments
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit. ...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
GR was amazing, but it wasn’t well known and accepted until the first measurements confirmed it. Quantum Computing is still very much up in the air, but it’s also weird to bring it up in this context, because QM is one of the most tested th
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
Please just stop. Even your attempt at mitigation through edit is wrong, and it would have been trivial for you to correct your misapprehension. There are an estimated 10 million Catholics in California compared to between 27-58 million in
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by dbasedweeb 7y ago
I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across som
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
They’ll also be damned disturbing if you tilt your head at all, and screens start fading in and out of existence.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
I’m a mere consumer, and my only option in reaction to the abdication of personal responsibility is to never use the product again.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Adding to Tomalpha’s list (I especially endorse The News Quiz, and the new host Miles Jupp is hysterical) I’d add Victoria Coren-Mitchell’s run of ‘Heresy’, ‘Cabin Pressure’ (John Finnemore is a genius, and Cumberbatch does a great comedic
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
I think you may be confusing synapses and neurons.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Thanks so much to everyone who responded! I’m going to try (over time) all of your suggestions, including DIY. This is a great community and I appreciate your help.
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Slime molds remember, but do they learn?(quantamagazine.org)
42 points by dbasedweeb 8y ago|11 comments
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
It’s not that I didn’t hear you, it’s that I don’t believe you. Your own behavior and manner of presenting yourself raises manynred flags that are only confirmed by the activities you admitted to.
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Ask HN: Can You Recommend a Good Brand of Jerky?
9 points by dbasedweeb 8y ago|12 comments
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-channon-2 Basically he was nailed for wire fraud and his defense was... exotic. Upon conviction he sought a writ of certiorari so that the SCOTUS would hear his case on some pr
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
I wonder how the people who thought the concern over what seemed likely to be a permanent “vacation” will spin this? Some were downright conspiratorial, selling the usual “shady forces putting out hit pieces” and “most shorted stock” limes.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
It’s been axiomatic for a while that if you care about privacy and security, a generally paranoid outlook is helpful where telecommunications are concerned. Just assume that unless it’s e2e encrypted and you trust the recipient to be as par
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Dissipative Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) Model(nature.com)
1 points by dbasedweeb 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Japan is also a unique case in that they have a 99% conviction rate in criminal cases. The best research I’ve seem explains this in terms of extremes of prosecutorial discretion: only sure-win cases are taken to court. If you end up in a Ja
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
...which vampire hunk is going to hook up with which vampire babe (or so I presume -- I actually haven't read/watched Twilight or any other supernatural romances). With the sole exception of an added vampire /werewolf hunk
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Off this topic, Is this article flagged for being politics, or some other reason? With a few exceptions the discussion seemed substantive.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
He lost the presidential election, but was then appointed chancellor by Hindenburg after the Nazis won most of the government through the electoral process. Chancellor of Germany is roughly equivalent to president of the US (Angela Merkel i
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
IIRC Mythbusters had an episode about this “son of a gun” myth and concluded that it was essentially impossible. It still makes an amazing story. Like all virgin births I expect the truth was either that it was entirely fabricated, or it wa
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
It would be mean-spirited to want that to be the case, it’s somewhere on the skeptical-cynical spectrum to think it’s likely. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

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