voodoomagicman

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by voodoomagicman 2y ago
PFAS are different from soap in that your body can't break them down or excrete them well, so they bioaccumulate. Eating soap is absolutely not good for you, and if it also built up in your body people would be really worried about sm
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by voodoomagicman 3y ago
This is sort of begging the question why? There must be an interesting story behind the need.
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by voodoomagicman 3y ago
and Trader Joes / Aldi
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by voodoomagicman 4y ago
It's not correct to say 'inflation went up'. While inflation was not 0 and prices went up, inflation went down.
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by voodoomagicman 6y ago
There is a really useful free tier - I think the paid tier mostly includes collaboration features.
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by voodoomagicman 6y ago
This is newly interesting in light of the recent pentagon UFO revelations ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-... ). While these have low credibility, and even if true are l
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by voodoomagicman 6y ago
What non consensus and correct views are you thinking of?
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by voodoomagicman 7y ago
I was curious too - "Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's new car radio, and created the name “Motorola” by linking "motor" (for motorcar) with "ola" (from Victrola), which was
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by voodoomagicman 7y ago
This is pedantic, but RADAR relies on photons as well - radio waves are just a different frequency of EM radiation vs visible light. A RADAR system emits photons that are reflected and hit a sensor like LIDAR does (or like a camera with a
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by voodoomagicman 9y ago
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but FB certainly CAN pay 15% raises to their lowest paid employees - I imagine w/ very little impact to their bottom line.
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by voodoomagicman 9y ago
This implies race by referencing stereotypes in a way that I find objectionable - noticed you getting downvotes and figured its worth giving some constructive feedback.
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
clickable links: [1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter [2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/727902623597105153 [3] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
edited to correct spelling
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Is Peter Thiel still a Y Combinator partner?
90 points by voodoomagicman 10y ago|10 comments
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
Thiel is supporting Trump, but I don't think anyone is suggesting he would be vice president.
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
This is a good point, but I think individuals care a lot more about their percentile than you would expect - their benchmark for whether their income is 'a lot' or 'a little' is how much they see the people around them m
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
I'm a 23andme customer and the aggregate data being used like this is exactly what I expected and is a big part of the reason I signed up. There is a lot I don't love about Pharma companies, but when they use this data to develop
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
It's my impression that the Chinese have more of a maker culture than almost anywhere else - it's a country full of people who grew up in villages and have now built factories and started companies that manufacture most of the wor
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
I don't know why you would confidently write 8 paragraphs on something you clearly don't know much about. Here are a few corrections: - tesla does have hands on wheel sensors - tesla does not use stereo cameras (autopilot uses a
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
Sharing has some different meanings: - give a portion of (something) to another or others. - use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others. The first one has a lot of positive connotations, and 'sharing economy'
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
Well there is this (extreme poverty to fall below 10% of the world population for the first time): https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/05/world-bank-e... I think globalization played a big part.
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
Not at all - I think that is human nature, and how we all behave. I just don't think its justified - if you asked most people to describe their moral frameworks, I don't think many would say 'the value of a human being is a
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
I would answer no to it - a blue collar worker from india absolutely deserves the same opportunity as a worker in Europe. I agree, we are a long ways from the public accepting open borders. I just think its important to point out - as a soc
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by voodoomagicman 10y ago
Yes, I think that is bigoted.. Why does the blue collar worker from Eastern Europe deserve less opportunity than a blue collar worker from Sheffield? How is discriminating against some group of people based on what country they were born i
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
> 6. Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women. This is awful - I think it would be good to have some discussion around what we can do as a community to improve this?
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
It doesn't seem like a myth at all - tesla could be the Apple in that its vertically integrated w/ a tightly controlled supply chain and an ecosystem producing lock-in (superchargers), capturing the high end of the market and most
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
Yeah, but maybe that is all brains are too?
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
Neither of these things seem 'sociopathic' or 'psychopathic' in any way - maybe 'ignorant' or 'misinformed'?
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
I think from the demos, it's pretty clear they won't be ale to 'draw black' - BUT - I think thats probably OK. Additive only AR could still be a really cool product, could still be widely adopted, be worth $5 billion, c
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
Want to register some support for what I see in the video - the banner looks cool, but I'm a lot more excited about the more detailed procedurally generated terrain in the video.

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