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by function_seven 3y ago
Mine told me if I unscrewed my belly button, my butt would fall off. I'm beginning to have my doubts about that, but I sure as hell am not gonna risk it.
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by function_seven 3y ago
Way back when Jet Skis had 2-stroke engines, you could buy an aftermarket exhaust pipe with water injection in a couple key spots. This allowed the pipe to be dynamically tuned to different RPMs by changing the speed of sound within the pip
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by function_seven 3y ago
From the Times article: > [Rinsch] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency. Guy sounds like a dummy > Unlike his stock market in
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by function_seven 3y ago
Good. His money came with no strings*. In fact, if they had run this past him before making their decision, that would have been a breach of their duty as outlined in their charter. They may have made mistakes with timing (making this d
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by function_seven 3y ago
Most high-risk investments still come with an understanding that the recipient will have a duty to the investor, making decisions that they believe in good-faith will lead to a return on that investment on some time-frame. This one is very
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by function_seven 3y ago
Those investors were appropriately warned of this possibility: > IMPORTANT > *Investing in OpenAl Global, LLC is a high-risk investment* > *Investors could lose their capital contribution and not see any return* > *It would be w
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by function_seven 3y ago
Yes, which is why I also don't want my phone data to be hoovered up by data brokers and appearing in evidence exhibits.
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by function_seven 3y ago
The board issuing an apology could easily be the settlement that ensures this stays out of court. "If you retract your statement, I won't sue." "Ok, we retract it." Just like that.
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by function_seven 3y ago
The dealership model and the States' protection of their business model has nothing to do with safety. These laws were intended to protect the business models of the franchise dealers from the rapidly-consolidating manufacturers. Deale
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by function_seven 3y ago
Thanks. I did actually mean to use "deterministic", but only as it sits in opposition to "free will". Is there a better word for what I meant? Of course there is randomness as well. So, yeah, I should clarify: We don&#x2
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by function_seven 3y ago
I'm in the same boat. It feels wrong to contemplate that our consciousness might not be a magical independent agent with supernatural powers, but is rather an emergent property of complex-but-deterministic actions and reactions. Like i
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by function_seven 3y ago
I get the same amazement when I think about an ant I see on a tree five feet away. A photon was born somewhere in the middle of the Sun thousands (or more) years ago. It eventually made its way to the surface and—at extreme improbability—it
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by function_seven 3y ago
50% would be a lot. I don't know what the optimum number is, but 0.02% (0.0002 rate) is just not plausible. One way to resolve this is to not have secret courts. Then we can judge the merits of these warrant applications in the light o
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by function_seven 3y ago
When a government makes a court secret, I tend to infer the worst interpretation of the activities they're hiding from us. We have no means of checking whether the FBI is putting any care into their warrant applications. We have no way
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by function_seven 3y ago
That's the literal definition of a "rubber stamp" process! That you won't be denied, that the granting of your request is essentially automatic.
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by function_seven 3y ago
True, but you must still contend with your observational influence. Whatever number you crown as "most interesting" will become even more interesting for wearing that crown! So you must take this duty with extreme care and thoug
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by function_seven 3y ago
There's definitely two worlds on Youtube. (1) The good ones who put out those 10 or 20-minute videos that just get to it. (2) The rest of them who have useless 1-minute intros, followed by 3 minutes of "Today I'm going to sho
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by function_seven 3y ago
This is a classic Netflix move. 4-, 6-, and 8-episode “docuseries” that could easily be a single movie. Lots of padding to drag it all out.
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by function_seven 3y ago
I remember it the same way you do. Maybe they had multiple versions of it?
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by function_seven 3y ago
They own Fusion360, which is the most popular CAD program used by hobbyist maker types. I think they see Instructables as a funnel of sorts?
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by function_seven 3y ago
Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI
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by function_seven 3y ago
That website gonna crash so hard on Tuesday… “Boss! We’re being dee dossed!” “No, son, it’s Tuesday”
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by function_seven 3y ago
> No TSA. Yes. > No license plate scanners. Yes. > No fare gates for trains. Sure. A lot of places will do the fare check on the train. > No locks on doors. Well, no mandated locks . I hope I'm able to leave my front door
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by function_seven 3y ago
When you're combining letter names with other commands, even in perfect recording conditions, there will be confusion. The command "back Q" sounds very very close to "back U", but "back quench" is differen
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by function_seven 3y ago
Oh yeah those days are long gone. At least on the strip. Back then you could find $5 blackjack tables, and $3.99 buffets. Now a typical buffet on the strip will be $80 a person or something like that. The cheap blackjack tables are $25 a ha
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by function_seven 3y ago
And to reinforce your point, the later seasons suffered (in part!) due to the plot armor that suddenly enveloped the main characters. Among other reasons.
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by function_seven 3y ago
I have no problem with going where the people are. But I think this is backwards. The information should be somewhere public, with links to it posted on FB, X, NextDoor, or whatever closed platform has a chunk of your audience.
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by function_seven 3y ago
If there's a button somewhere, there's gotta be a place I can splice into and pretend to be a finger, right?
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by function_seven 3y ago
What's old is new again! https://www.core77.com/posts/103681/When-Houses-Had-Built-In...
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by function_seven 3y ago
Would it be a good idea to first move the focus to an adjacent item before disabling the submit button? Like, have something that says "Submitting...", move the focus to that, disable the [Submit] button, and also tag the form e

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