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by regpertom 2y ago
Not from USA but the q’s seems strange imo: 1. Is spending as a % of GDP the metric used to determine whether spending is out of control? If so, 70’s was Vietnam and other things since, is that why the date starts there? Is all spending th
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by regpertom 2y ago
I go with critical thinking being thinking about thinking, or meta thinking. Which is to say have a thought, doesn’t really matter what, and then analyse it. Example is throw a dart at the board and then evaluate it compared to your expect
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by regpertom 3y ago
I’ve wondered what it would take to be able to create energy arbitrarily. Gravity and mass and light seem to be suss in that context. I’ve been having a laugh to myself about the aether, a comment in here mentions Hinduism also. But if ther
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by regpertom 3y ago
I think I read a lot of these Tesla comments, I don’t know if it’s just people hating Musk but I scratch my head remember a Darwin Award (maybe honorary) from 2000’s of a caravan driver who crashed because they thought cruise control meant
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by regpertom 3y ago
Tbh I think ‘they’ can still be used to describe what you say. I don’t mean it as a far out thing, just an abstraction. AFAI figure, there’s lot of different people doing lots of different things for lots of different reasons. Rather than t
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by regpertom 3y ago
Two puzzling things to me having read most of the comments: -‘It’s just a minor inconvenience/ why do you care so much?/…’ ~it’s just manipulation and social shaming ritual with questionable outcomes, that we’re going to eventuall
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by regpertom 3y ago
My pings roughly 60-80 no matter if I’m going to a friends server down the road or across the world. Before starlink, my rural internet would be lucky to get below 120. For what that’s worth.
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by regpertom 3y ago
Here’s one I remember from the permaculture or market garden ‘scene’ couple years back: There was a relationship where some would teach and provide food and accom and others would learn and work for no or little pay. Assume no one was force
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by regpertom 3y ago
Does anyone else get reminded of snow crash feds with stuff like this? I know when I’m sent a company document on company servers I behave like Yt’s mum. First except I found https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_
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by regpertom 3y ago
Hi sorry can I add Norm Mac Donald to the list? Ty.
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by regpertom 3y ago
I was taught that there was no difference and it was the Dutch that measured nose length and made the classification ‘arbitrarily’. But isn’t that false? In the time since I’ve seen side by side pictures and it seems trivial to tell them ap
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by regpertom 3y ago
Could be wrong but this was a bit in Silence of the lambs. Roughly that Clarice was hiding her southern accent to not invoke northernerns prejudices so she could advance her career?
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by regpertom 3y ago
Here’s a new one for me: At a swimming championship, some coaches had taken to quick sharp [fingers in mouth whistling] bursts on say a breaststroke when their heads come up, which then caught on with other punters. Sometimes I was reminded
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by regpertom 3y ago
Thanks so it is just a roadblock. Please excuse me to keep going: most things either play or don’t play depending on that HDCP (yeash HD CP :s), but if I strip it away using say the second output of a splitter it will play. Is it the case t
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by regpertom 3y ago
Hey, this thread is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone seemingly wanting HDCP, why is that? Isn’t everyone’s goal to strip it away from the video feed so it stops getting in the way? Is there some benefit to it I’ve missed?
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by regpertom 3y ago
Throwing out there that 16$ a week in coffee isn’t that much, make it two a day so you can be in the cool group, 16 goes to 40. Then chuck in a toastie because you deserve it twice a week now you’re at 60. A take away or two call it 100. I
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by regpertom 3y ago
Not just studio but also live sound, from the perspective of people who use it for work. And so there is no ideal. What does it sound like? Ask yourself. Also ask yourself what your objectives are. Is it reliable and consistent? Does it pla
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by regpertom 3y ago
One of my frustrations is incompetent but nice people, but defined more like: can’t be trusted to not have their work checked but is adept at social games. When your manager, you cannot ‘just do’ anything they ask because it wouldn’t of bee
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by regpertom 3y ago
I thought the market knows best was kind of a joke. As in all your best reasoning and prayers, but it can still go against you, the market knew best. Is it in the same vein as a wizard being neither early or late, he arrives precisely when
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by regpertom 3y ago
Anecdotally, here’s one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Building_Society Loose summary: Final payout 2005, collapse 1990. Depositors returned 51% of the dollar. As it was happening: govt says nothing to worry
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by regpertom 4y ago
Isn’t the pretence important? If I talk to a bunch of people at the pub I’m likely to get various answers, increase the size of the pub and I’ll get to hear all kinds of different stuff and since it’s just people at a pub I can take it or l
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by regpertom 4y ago
A skirmish thing happened a couple years back between India and China where a bunch of soldiers on both sides had a fight and bludgeoned and stabbed each other to death over some incitement or another. I think they weren’t allowed to shoot
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by regpertom 4y ago
Could that be 17 passes as a warning? Sometimes for example you hear tell of jets flying over ships to say ‘hey I could have bombed you but I didn’t’? I’m just not sure if you’d be able to miss 17 tries at a fuel dump or something. That’s a
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by regpertom 4y ago
How could they issue loans? 10 x 10$ deposits means you can loan 100$? Where as the modern way is more like 100$ in deposits means you can lend out 1000$ because chances are everyone won’t not pay it back? And then can’t you say that since
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by regpertom 4y ago
Which is to say something called RHA was the metric used for tank armour measuring, but it got gamed more and more and is now unreliable on the face of it except for rough jists? Do you think that marketing will drop to pico or zero point w
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by regpertom 4y ago
The 500% markup should also get you reliability and a decent chance that your tech is familiar with it were you ever to be on stage. Look around, everyone uses the same stuff, for the most part.
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by regpertom 4y ago
You said black America is a hate group. And now so have I. Dammit.
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by regpertom 4y ago
If those Republicans were chosen because of their anti-Trump or other pro-Democrac stances then he was funding enemies of his enemies.
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by regpertom 4y ago
There could be more to the story but I believe Elon Musk has said that he has autism. I’ve heard it said that autism is often misdiagnosed as bipolar because they are similar in some ways. That being said I would say there’s a difference be
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by regpertom 4y ago
It would surely be the flame war algorithm. Throwing some numbers out there, would this be too exaggerated? There have been 30 stories this past fortnight here with over 700 comments, mostly repeating the same love/hate musk battlegrou

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