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by thecabinet 1y ago
Someone on Twitter made the excellent quip, “Every government program is either too big to change or too small to matter.”
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by thecabinet 6y ago
The story I’ve heard was that GPS was invented due to Sputnik. The Doppler shift in its beeps proved its speed and thus its orbit. Somebody (in the Navy?) wondered if the “reverse” could be done: could you listen to various shifting beeps
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by thecabinet 7y ago
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
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by thecabinet 7y ago
“They are uneducated, backwards, mouth-breathing bigots! My tribe was tricked by using words that we have a negative reaction to.” Oh wait.
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by thecabinet 7y ago
I’ve been telling people this for years. Bookmarking is for dynamic data. You bookmark the weather website. You don’t bookmark recipes. Personally I use Evernote and its web clipper. Unfortunately it doesn’t download images, but I wrot
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by thecabinet 8y ago
The Lizardman Constant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
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by thecabinet 8y ago
Sure, but much of the fairness we argue about as adults is due to fundamental disagreements about morality or how the world should work. “It’s not fair that tax cuts benefit the wealthy.” Republicans think it’s not fair to take money from
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by thecabinet 8y ago
Fair is a word for children. It’s unfair to the Italian restaurant that you’re eating Mexican. It’s unfair to the grocer that you’re eating at a restaurant. It’s unfair that you’re buying groceries instead of seeds. As adults have told
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by thecabinet 8y ago
No, it’s not unfair to treat it as bad without any other evidence. When all you know is “Mexican restaurant” you judge by that. You can’t live your life only making judgements once you have “all” the facts, as if that’s even possible. Th
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by thecabinet 8y ago
Does anybody actually take the SPLC seriously anymore? Violent racism having been largely eliminated from the US, they accuse ever more moderate and irrelevant groups with being the reincarnation of the Clan. I don’t want a dozen idiots w
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by thecabinet 8y ago
It’s impossible to avoid relying on third parties. Somebody has to lease you the DNS name; we’ve already seen that used to punish sites. Somebody has to host your server or sell you an internet connection. Moving to Tor is the only way t
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by thecabinet 9y ago
Assuming lithium reserves work anything like oil reserves, the quantity of reserves depends on market process. When oil sells for $20/bb, oil that costs more than that to extract doesn't count towards the reserves. As the price
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by thecabinet 9y ago
Since reading doesn’t actually involve a letter-by-letter examination of the material, I wonder how a lossy compression algorithm that used words with the right shape would do compared to lossless compression?
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by thecabinet 9y ago
A magnitude 7 earthquake releases approximately 5 PJ over less than a minute, so let's say 100TW. A Tesla supercharger provides 120KW, so even if the braking system is equivalent, you'd need 1B cars.
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by thecabinet 9y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. (Or this article is just FUD.) $30B over ten weeks? That's no money. Total AUM in the US is over $50T.
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by thecabinet 9y ago
Always nice to be able to log your bodyweight when you exercised
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by thecabinet 9y ago
To not diminish his voting power
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by thecabinet 9y ago
"Just like a biological brain the system is designed for extreme energy efficiency, It requires only 10 watts to power all 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses." A real human has 100B neurons and the whole body is only 100W,
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by thecabinet 10y ago
FreeNAS 9.10 includes 28 plugins. Docker Hub has 500,000 images.
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by thecabinet 10y ago
What principle is that? Prices reflect reality, not the other way around.
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by thecabinet 10y ago
Just use any David Attenborough documentary. There are several focused on different things depending on what you want
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by thecabinet 10y ago
Poised doesn't mean "here's some wild ass speculation". Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't make things true
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by thecabinet 10y ago
No. The article says Trump's nominees probably want more powers. The only bill under consideration is S.3475 which is being delayed to allow more debate. A more honest title would be "We Hypothesize How Trump Will Be Awful But
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by thecabinet 10y ago
I contacted their support and got several replies very quickly. Looks like they kind of slapped together the coupon thing. You can't apply the coupon until after you switch to a paid plan, so it doesn't take affect until the nex
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by thecabinet 10y ago
NewsBlur does something similar. Forward your newsletters and they appear as an RSS feed. Works with any kind of email...
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by thecabinet 10y ago
Girl? It's outrageous that you would deny her agency!
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by thecabinet 10y ago
To summarize SSC: If Republicans agree with you, it doesn't do anything to prove your SJW bonafides. Your dad probably thought the killing of Eric Garner was awful, yawn. But defending Trayvon, now that's a "fuck you".
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by thecabinet 11y ago
More like 100W: 2000 Calories is 2000000 calories is 8,400,000 Joules. Divided by a day is 97W.
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by thecabinet 11y ago
What clickbait pointlessness. We don't even really understand what causes GRBs, but they're calling this as feature? Why not call the ring much farther out in the picture a feature to? That seems only slight sillier.
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by thecabinet 11y ago
To summarize: 1A was good when it was being used by liberals/Democrats, but is bad now that it's being used by conservatives/Republicans.

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