grumblenum

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by grumblenum 5y ago
Getting a request for a provocative picture of eating a corndog was definitely the most funny to me. The Chris Hanson moment was usually when the victim suggested a real date or offered to send a pic of his willy. I'm not THAT committe
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>Emotional damage Just for clarity, I'm talking about adult males whose job description is essentially "jump out of planes and kill people." We're not made of quite such fragile stuff as, apparently, you are. It sound
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by grumblenum 5y ago
That depends. Do senior CDC or NIH staff stand to collect patent royalties on its administration? The former (and probably informally mandatory). If not, then the latter. Given Stéphane Bancel's and others' recent trading, then I
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Fun prank if you have some young male friends: 1. Create profile with hot babe pictures 2. Set search proximity to lowest setting 3. Swipe furiously until you find your friend 4. Wait for a match 5. Screencap the ensuing conversation I did
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I think the number of people killed in the world each year by personally owned novelty military vehicles is approximately zero. Hundreds of people are killed in the United States every year by unarmed assailants. When will we wake up and pa
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Ah, so we just eliminate low-cost transportation, agriculture, textiles and consumer goods and consequently starve billions of people. A modest proposal for such an ill-specified problem with unfalsifiable causes. I like it.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I've never dealt with a city in my region that didn't have variance procedures for building and land development permits. In my own experience, these committees are nearly a rubber stamp unless an adjacent property owner expects t
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago. Creating a belt of failed states in Central Asia has been a
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I think the refugees are motivated much more by the financial incentives those governments provide. They usually pass through multiple safe countries to get to places like Germany. A modernized Plantation of Ulster has been the policy of ev
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>It isnt about money, I am juwt ashamed to have an American passport and know my tax dollars are being spent on war and murder in the name of christ and oil profits. You know Bush isn't president anymore, right? That hasn't bee
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by grumblenum 5y ago
The allure of becoming a billionaire with almost no productive effort spent is the heart and soul of the pop-tech. Crypto that you have becomes more valuable only if more people decide they want it after you have your position. If you&#x2
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Do you think the folks with real decision making power (I'm thinking people invited to Davos, rather than people in mostly ceremonial political roles) in the United States actually want a future without global Chinese hegemony? As far
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by grumblenum 5y ago
The HN server or moderators promote literally anything with “Rust” in the title to the front page. Yes, Neo, you’re in the Matrix.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Comments like this are why I read HN before the left coast wakes up. As for the article, it reads like teenage-angst Marxism.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Is there even a clear line where intelligence agencies end and Google begins? Google was an In-Q-Tel baby, after all.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
A Malthusian crisis has been “imminent” since the 19th century. I think that you should try writing down what facts you think support the a priori assumption that our sinful ways are leading us to a future, sudden disaster. I don’t think yo
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Having observed the quality of the commentary here, particularly my own, I would not want to be friends with someone who posts here. Game-ified bloviating is no virtue.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I don't think there is an absence of software with the purpose of convincing the public to consume the right pharmaceutical products. I would say every owner of major internet property has adopted some kind of feature or process to pro
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Exactly!
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Buoyant forces apply to things in the ground. HDPE pipes without adequate backfill or anchoring will float out of the ground, like zombies, in flood conditions where the pipe itself contains air. Your local street department has probably se
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>$ 888 M Google, is that you?
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I was really curious about bearing capacity of this material, and I found this spec sheet: https://my.civil.utah.edu/~bartlett/Geofoam/EPS%20Geofoam%20... The compressive strength is actually pretty good if you us
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by grumblenum 5y ago
HN meta question: When I see all these double-returns at the end of each sentence, should I assume it's because someone is using Slack (or another chat program where mashing return after every statement makes sense) and a bot/scri
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Exclusionary rights to make, use or redistribute a thing. I’m under the impression that patent rights allow one to sue to prevent others from making, using or redistributing a thing without a contract or license from the patent holder. I wo
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by grumblenum 5y ago
The manufacturer is making food production at scale possible . John Deere does not “fuck with” you when you buy its products. Expropriating their trade secrets because someone decided this was a special case seems capricious. Why not nulli
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I think it’s relevant to plug OSE https://www.opensourceecology.org/ There are free designs for a large number of useful machines, but the trade off is that you have none of a manufacturers’ warranties for safety or useful
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Given a 15 year retrospective, would you say that Rails lived up to the hype? If you think so, then there is nothing “disparaging” in that comment at all. If you don’t think so, then doesn’t that mean a reader should not regard such promoti
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I mean that you are one of several. Hence the running joke is the "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" and not "that one rust guy." An evangelist/growth focused role is exactly what a promoter is. If you spend large numbe
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Well, I certainly wasn't speaking about you specifically. However, did you not say that language promotion is what you do and that you quit Mozilla for not paying you enough for it here: https://steveklabnik.com/writing
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by grumblenum 5y ago
SML has signatures. In the absence of HKT, I think it's not a fair comparison. Most popular languages have interfaces even if not by that name. Haskell, Scala and C++ are special in that you can describe an interface for interfaces. I

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