skeptikal

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by skeptikal 4y ago
There’s the joke that the real national sport of Argentina is “joder al próximo”.
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Im someone who doesn't strut. My cousin in law has the walk, quick smile, devil may care laugh
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by skeptikal 4y ago
My house has 9 skylights, a 20 sq. m deck, a pool and a quarter acre lawn. Add three kids ages 8 mo to 7 years. I get plenty of sunlight.
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Of course. And the SCOTUS under FDR was ruling under the threat of court packing. A lot of rulings from then are risible. My favorite is telling a farmer his homegrown pig feed is illegal because it effects interstate commerce. The one that
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Truncating. OP is right
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Our industrial base is gutted and we don't have enough resources. Not enough to sustain our extravagant lifestyles. Europe has to find a way to buy Rubles quickly or choose between freezing or damaging capital goods (there are industri
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Well, I would be one to argue that the US de facto defaults all the time. But Nixon’s gold window was the most egregious.
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by skeptikal 4y ago
The problem is that the adjective “United Statian” is a mouthful; Yankee (my dad’s favorite) unfair; gringo refers (used to?) to Italians in Argentina. United States doesn't have an adjective. Colombian would be nice, but its also take
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by skeptikal 4y ago
I have never heard a Canadian say that, in fact as a (also) Latin American immigrant it was made clear to me that “Canada is not America you retard” in high school. I agree with Latin Americans, for what its worth. USA is “United States of
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Ive grown to love Americans (of all walks of life) in way I have never loved the people of any other country I’ve lived in. Not even the people of my parent’s country - the loss of which I still mourn. Canadians, Ive loved least despite hav
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by skeptikal 4y ago
LOL. Touche. Im a quarter inch shy of 6’2’’. So, indeed, 6’1’’. My old man is 6’4’’ and when I was young he’d rib on me that I never got past 190 (we’re metric background). Now I don’t care much about height. At 70, he’s shrunk to my eye le
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by skeptikal 4y ago
As a Canadian who’s (very) thankfully becoming American I can guarantee you that American government is very incompetent. At least in comparison to a Commonwealth one. The wait times, the level of uncaring, the general attitude was jarring
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by skeptikal 4y ago
The idea that the US will de jure default on its obligations is risible. De facto its happened at least once before when Nixon closed the gold window overnight.
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by skeptikal 4y ago
OP wrote (admittedly wordy), “metrics like debt to GDP indicate they're currently fighting a bigger war than WWII,” Meaning that the GDP trends as if we’re in a WW3 situation and loosing, not that we are. I.E the GDP/debt metric
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Even if we assume the measurers of inflation are honest, using honest metrics, inflation is hard to measure and the measurement has a natural skew downwards. We’ve all heard about shrink inflation by now. Theoretically that’s measurable by
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Interesting, but we were both 19 in college.
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Ya, that happened to me once (Im almost 6’2’’). A guy who couldn't have been 5 10 was insisting he was 6 and that I was taller than stated. What was weird was that we were alone. He was only lying to himself. And you know what, he was
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Its not the height, its the strut. Online women cant see you strut so heights the proxy. My wife's cousin’s 5’6’’ but Ive seen women go up to him and strike a conversation by the way he walks. Ive been in parties where he’s nailed ever
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by skeptikal 4y ago
OP was ironic restating verbatim what “conservatives” have been told over the last four-five years when they got ostracized for disagreeing with “liberals”. “Build your own Twitter!” “Build your own ISP!” “Build your own DNS” “Build your ow
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by skeptikal 4y ago
changing company structure while the assets remain in Germany (in fact they are immobile) is peanuts. Pretend change. If they (the Russians) had tried to vent Germany’s gas reserves (which wont happen because the employees are German) to kn
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by skeptikal 4y ago
This is Germany doing something to not be seen doing anything. Doing something for lack of a plan is usually a mistake. Everything of value of this subsidiary has (pipelines, stored gas, etc), is physically in Germany and already subject to
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by skeptikal 4y ago
The answer to your actual question is rather simple - Maxwell’s law. But there’s a more interesting point in your question “how do you reference a signal?”. If you want to really understand this, Id read about diff mode and common mode sign
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Well thats the decay, aint it? GPA is a great predictor of ones ability to work hard, finish the stated goals, etc. Basically its great at predicting a good busy bee. But I think its perhaps poor at predicting orthogonal people; people that
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by skeptikal 4y ago
“ The thing that really spins my head about this, is that since you never get concrete feedback on whether you're meeting the goals you need to meet, this system forces you into over-committing to the course.” I think this is a problem
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by skeptikal 4y ago
In high school in Italy (at least where I was from) your final grade was basically decided based on the teacher’s belief of how well you mastered the class. For example: In Latin class (chronologically) I had a 6, a bunch of 5s, and a coupl
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by skeptikal 4y ago
No forgotten, but definitely hard to get info from. You can find some books on the internet archive. Subs use them, high T and rad places still use them (Im told).
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by skeptikal 4y ago
Does it though? At what frequency? In the limit of f=DC this is trivially not true. Also, if that were the case, an airplane couldn't be made into a Faraday cage. Also, the cage+Earth system would itself be an antenna. If you need grou
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by skeptikal 4y ago
I keep hearing that for Faraday cages but its not clear to me why. Why should it be grounded? The cell signal in the Faraday cage causes a mirror signal on the cages inner surface and the cage’s conductivity ensures that the potential is ze