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pdx

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About pdx

email: portlandhacker@gmail.com

Interested in hardware start-ups, creating consumer electronics, and VoIP.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #23026354

    20 Patients in Study with COV19 * 65% of them went to ICU (13 patients) * 35% of them did not (7 patients) Of the 13 Patients in the ICU 84.6% (11 patients) had VDI Of the 7 Patien…

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    Comment #18854707

    So a politician would not be allowed a webpage, unless that webpage allowed comments?

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    Comment #18321312

    What places? Like houses?

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    Comment #18321046

    Regulation often leads to regulatory walls around businesses, protecting them from competing with innovative new solutions, leading to lower quality of life for all. How does your …

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    Comment #17611308

    Yes, but the poster loves his dog more than any human has ever loved their child. He does not merely conform to societal norms with such love.

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    Comment #17508639

    > The Oath Keepers are more extreme than nearly all other > white people. Just a fact. Read up on them and I think ? you will agree. Are they more extreme than nearly all other non…

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    Comment #17156124

    Yes, I believe that there is a non-zero probability that could happen, just as there is a non-zero probability that all the air molecules in the room you are in, which are bouncing…

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    Comment #17155880

    For SAFE Network, this is handled, I believe. Other networks that implement PARSEC will need to address it in some similar way. In the case of SAFE, you can generate as many nodes …

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    Comment #16735498

    I am delighted to hear on HN, somebody admit the possibility of propaganda in the USA without being downvoted. That you did it as an attack on non-left-leaning thought is fine. At …

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    Comment #16735448

    Except they're not "mouth pieces". Local journalists are much more independent than national ones. This instance by Sinclair of attempting to combat the national news broadcasters …

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    Comment #16569021

    Dropbox is ycombinator alum. A ycombinator alum doing an IPO is worth bragging about on the front page.

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    Comment #16532791

    This is a common question. I suggest you think of it like stocks on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Does every IPO decrease the value of the already listed companies? Just as Comcast and Dish …

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    Comment #16432992

    That's called a "dollar auction" and it works because the rules are such that the 2nd highest bid still has to pay the money they bid, even though they won't get the prize. Given t…

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    Comment #16395167

    It seems that the goal was to promote discontent in general. There were anti-Trump activities as well, such as the post-election NYC protest set up on Facebook.

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    Comment #16395127

    > The article also says that Russian agents organized and funded political rallies. I remember the one after the election in NYC that was supposedly set up by BLM against Trump, bu…

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    Comment #16395055

    You may have read it, but the states that were touted as that happening in, quickly debunked it, and it was then retracted.

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    Comment #16363459

    > why shouldn't a corporation, effectively a person... Why shouldn't a corporation, effectively a person, use the vast wealth at it's disposal to influence elections and steer gove…

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    Comment #16345135

    - Soma - pending - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon - negotiable

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    Comment #16278246

    I think you're talking about Shell Oil in the 1990's, and their requesting the Nigerian military to help them deal with violent protesters, and allegedly peaceful protesters as wel…

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    Comment #16260935

    > I never said I was a big-government proponent, I just > pointed out that your attack against them was fallacious. You didn't? Hmmm, well, somebody did. Either you edited or I con…

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    Comment #16260083

    It seems like there's opportunity here. A little box with raspberry pi or similar device and two CAT5 connectors to be placed inline between the PLC and the network, as well as bet…

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    Comment #16259957

    That's true in theory, but rarely in practice. I'm surprised to meet a real life big-gov proponent that is against government interference in the free market. You are truly a black…

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    Comment #16259790

    > There's zero support for the notion that it was "Chinese" flooding You'll have to take that up with Obama then, since it was his administration that specifically targeted China. …

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    Comment #16259772

    Actually, the US has an entity called the Department of Energy that does foster solar research. [1] If you're not US based, you may not know about this. [1] https://energy.gov/scie…

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    Comment #16259751

    They do compete against each other. They also compete with other forms of energy generation. Did you think there was only a single company in USA that made solar panels?