sbzodnsbd

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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
“Hubris and self hatred?” Can’t disagree on our hubris, but self-hatred? I can’t think of any time more narcisist than ourselves! I want it rebuilt as close to the original because we are incapable of self-reflection. Surely nothing we buil
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Yeah, and a some of us are still annoyed that Mussolini razed a neighborhood and destroyed Rome just to build a modern boulevard.
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Far more faithful to the original than a glass roof. The guy who did the spire did add his own touch (like any cathedral that took several centuries to build). But with subtlety! There is nothing subtle about another steel and glass monstro
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
There is no more humility. Nothing is holy anymore. Why can we rebuild it the way it was (as much as possible) and make the fire (and therefore ourselves) an asterisk in the Cathedral’s history? Why must we etch ourselves into everything? W
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
So? Better a far away government w/ little ability to harm me reading my txt than my local government.
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Agreed. I don’t want to buy an iPhone. But I really don’t want to buy Google. Now I’m looking for a dumb phone.
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Guys, thanks for all the refrences!
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
DSSP, what’s so special about it? I sense LISPers and Forthers sense of “enlightenment” (which I have not obtained). But what is so special about DSSP that it’s considered a generalization of Forth? Setun: just about everything! I read it f
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
What I wish the Russian speaking HN readers would provide some history or documentation on is: - Setun, a ternary (as opposed to binary) computer - DSSP, a Forth like language that users seem to gush about in the same manner Lispers gush ab
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
I wasn’t making a value judgement; just stating that my land vale does affect my taxes
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Hence the “de jure” Anyway it’s complicated. Some in ROC want independence. Some don’t. Some would like to join Beijing (many investors from ROC). Most probably want the whole thing to be on the low and the ROC ignored lest the dragon is aw
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Well I don’t think they should be down voted, but it is wrong. Taiwan is de-jure a part of China. China just happens to be in the curious state of having two competing entities claiming to be the legitimate government. Both ROC and Beijing
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
No but the assessor can - and in every place I’ve owned property, does - give you a breakdown. Heck, the breakdown is required information in your federal taxes if you want the depreciation expense. And for all of us who don’t live in craz
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
“The difference matters” I don’t see how, but I don’t fully understand how your assessment works. My city’s assessment is close to the market value [1] for the whole property, so it’s a mute point. Either way, they do give me a breakdown, w
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Parents are hard to cut off. My parents are as paranoid as I am (grew up in a US enabled dictatorship) so it was easy to get them to use Signal. If they weren’t so cool, I’d use FB or WhatsApp But my aunts and uncles and cousins (who, ironi
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
It is. In my city at least. And at the federal level for landlords as well. My local taxes depend on my land value + my house value. Larger land, (or more desirable) more taxes. In federal taxes, for a rental unit, you get a depreciation ex
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
What’s the problem with Christian or comic bookstores? Do the same problems apply to the Muslim or Jewish bookstore in my neighborhood? Should I be concerned with them - there’s funny symbols! (I don’t think there’s a Christian bookstore)?
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
For the property owner they are
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
“Coal” plants burn carbon, making carbon dioxide. It’s colorless and pretty much harmless, excepting it’s inpact as a GHG. However, coal contains (depending on the source), mercury, sulfur, radioactive elements, tars, rare earth elements. S
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
He’s not a troll (I.e. OP is sincere, not just trying to provoke) he’s probably a libertarian that forgot that HT usually refers to forced prostitution. (As opposed to coyotes moving ppl across borders) While the OP’s point was not well art
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
“Fortunately, EFF is an organization that definitely knows its rights and how to exercise them.” Exactly. Of all the orgs to send a BS take down notice to, the EFF would be the last I’d pick a fight with.
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
First they were made mostly to defend against the Yugoslavians and the Greeks. Also, the vast majority of them are the size of a small igloo barely big enough for two, with foot thick reinforced concrete - and they’re everywhere in an onion
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
- You can use catalysts - you can pump outside air and exhaust the ozone to the outside (creates smog though)
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
A black friend of mine lived in Savanah, ATL, NYC and in the Midwest. She said that you find just as many racists everywhere, but she “appreciates” the (urban) Southern racists ones more because they don’t try to hide, so she knows where sh
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
10% of Americans do not eat their own food exclusively. I think it’s more likely that 10% buy exclusively organic, and that the organic label is more honest than I thought. But that stretches the imagination too (do these high income indivi
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Disclaimer: I find this super cool. I love analog solutions to engineering problems. This is about optical wavelength length scales -> feature sizes << 1500nm for infrared 3D printers’ feature sizes work for giga hertz waves (as
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
For a 2D structure, maybe. What is the depth of the feature though? I saw those pictures as light shining along the plane, not across it (am I wrong?). If it’s across it’s not obvious that CDRW’s features are deep enough and the “empty” spa
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Only 90?? What does the other 10 do to avoid pesticides????
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
Assuming these structures can be changed like an FPGA. It’s not obvious how you can change the microstructure of a material to something you like in minutes.
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by sbzodnsbd 7y ago
I don’t know much about analog computing, but how well can analog computers solve PDE’s in 3 spatial dimensions? I know that until digital computers came along, structural analysis was done with strains lacquer techniques, so the circuit wa

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