zelienople

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by zelienople 4y ago
It's not the ticket system that is broken; it's the people. The problem with stadium tours is that 95 percent or more of the seats are awful. They provide an extremely poor concert experience. The sound is very bad for most of the
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by zelienople 4y ago
Too. Many. People. True for the entire planet; the effects are not evenly distributed.
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by zelienople 4y ago
This is Volkswagen, so they actually got 20km and the rest was measured rolling downhill with the engine off.
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by zelienople 4y ago
Occasion-related giving is madness on a finite planet. It is one of the main drivers of the waste economy. We buy things people don't need and exchange them for things we don't need. I refuse, on principle, to buy or give or recei
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by zelienople 4y ago
That is a work of stunning arrogance and foolishness. Math is a game we play in our heads that represents a fictionalized ideal version of reality. An alien intelligence might have realized that two plus two never equals four not because th
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by zelienople 4y ago
I am dissapoint.
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by zelienople 4y ago
And that is the killer app! When you have 3 dozen 4GB DDR3 SIMMs sitting around doing booger all, it is overwhelmingly tempting to get a card like this, if it is priced aggressively, and run something really fast. Re-image the OS from slowe
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by zelienople 4y ago
Cheating... I'm not sure that word means what you think it means. Give a quiz that can be completed in your own time over the course of a week. That sounds more like an assignment to me. So... the cheating was violating the rule that i
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by zelienople 4y ago
I came across an "Eight Sleep" unit, which is a high-tech system for cooling a mattress topper. Apparently, someone had problems with leaks in the topper section and threw it out. I took it apart. It has a custom ARM board with a
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by zelienople 4y ago
Because market research has discovered that many customers are not price-sensitive, even when it makes no sense. Some people with limited means do not even look at prices. The ready availability of consumer debt allows them to buy whatever
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by zelienople 4y ago
One aspect of basic biology that is almost invariably neglected when discussing the possibility of the continued existence of cryptids like Homo floresiensis is that there must be an isolated breeding population. Plate tectonics puts a limi
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by zelienople 4y ago
They fixed it. Possibly indicative that someone from the USGS reads this website.
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by zelienople 4y ago
When are we ever going to learn that our activities are needlessly destroying the planet? Make a phone. Sell it. Make it repairable and upgradeable. Let people keep it for a long time. The only drawback is the company won't get all t
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by zelienople 5y ago
You need to make an account and then you find out you have to put in a credit card just to try it out? Oh, heck, go fuck yourself with a sharp cactus!
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by zelienople 5y ago
"You will be eaten by an aurochs. We don't know what that means."
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by zelienople 5y ago
I spent my childhood worrying about a nuclear attack on my city and now I find out that we didn't even make it to the map? I am disappoint.
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by zelienople 5y ago
We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor mental functioning in the parents, which would naturally resu
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by zelienople 5y ago
This man is illiterate.
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by zelienople 5y ago
It's matter and it's dark, but that means it's dark matter, not Dark Matter. That matters.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Or, and this is radical, we could just stop buying cheap Chinese-made crap like inflatable Halloween decorations made from petroleum products and shipped across the sea using bunker oil. Or, we could pass strong right-to-repair legislation
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by zelienople 5y ago
Why is learning anything so damned hard? Mainly because we are monkeys to whom a reasonably accurate reductive analysis can be applied if we label the axes "asshole" and "idiot". It was a good blog post by a reasonably i
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by zelienople 5y ago
The image that this brings to mind is the denizens of a post-apocalyptic hellscape fighting over an emaciated corpse.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Mobile yes; portable no. For bonus points, make it an actually portable executable. Then we'll be getting somewhere.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Too. Many. People. The corporations do bad things because you give them money. Your lifestyles are horribly wasteful because you buy too much stuff that you don't need, and for the wrong reasons. Then you throw it away. You buy new clo
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by zelienople 5y ago
Seriously? They couldn't make the content something standard like a .zip file? Or a zip file with a SQL database in it? Bloody monkeys always have to go and create a new standard for everything. They will argue it's for performanc
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by zelienople 5y ago
I read Prusiner's book a few years ago and I was disappointed with his inability to definitively satisfy Koch's Postulates. It looks like we can close the chapter on that one, horrifyingly.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Nonsense. Utter rubbish. People are fat because they eat more calories than they burn. The only reason that studies do not reflect this is that they rely largely upon self-reporting and people lie.
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by zelienople 5y ago
We've been ventilating rats with anal perfluorocarbons for years now and all we've really learned is that ten percent of them seem to like it.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Most new books are about people. A few good new books are about things. Very few great new books are about ideas. The decline has affected both fiction and non-fiction. Almost every book is a big disappointment these days.
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by zelienople 5y ago
Fearmongering nonsense. This was natural uranium ore, not explosive, not highly radioactive, not dangerous, cannot realistically be used for any nefarious purpose. This was a scrap dealer trying to make a little money in hard times. There i

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