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> Not quite as impressive, but four of the past 10 Illinois governors went to prison after their governorshipt Well, to maintain the tradition, Illinois voters doubled down, and just did this: >"... As Chicago's longest se
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> Is using your political office to benefit your spouse's business a criminal offense in California? If not, it damned well should be. This is pretty blatant corruption. Receiving bribes and 'integrating' them into economy
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Funny, I was thinking about this just recently... I rediscovered a way to slow down time, significantly. To do that, I all have to do is water-fast. That's that simple :-). Especially when folks around are eating normally. Perhaps, it
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> It's always baffled me as to why Russia gets so much attention when it comes to election hacking, when they have a fraction of the resources and economy as China. It is because the organizers of the coup against President Trump, h
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Epstein probably realized, that it is not difficult to buy influence at institutions and individuals, that are already corrupt in their core. Whether those institutions are politicians, educational facilities or other organizations... The l
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It would be interesting how specifically these panels are different from the ones announced by Kia. https://www.driving.co.uk/news/kia-hyundai-cars-will-use-sol... Kia/Hyndai panel produces 100 wh. So it would ta
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We are getting to a fundamental dissonance between different models of work engagement, and the cost (monetary and environment) of essential services that citizens need to rely on. Workers say 'I need to be able to choose when I work,
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It is a short story but here are 'summary exerpts' that perhaps will serve as interest to others, to read the full story. - The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell - When George Orwell returned to Barcelona for the third
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@mjburgess I think the debate on abortion is/was on when a life begins. And not , whether a doctor has a right to perform medical procedure, killing a child at request of a mother. To make the comparasing work for the debate on 2nd
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I think it would be ok for Apple to create apps that fill a particular, yet to be explored niche, or to create foundational quality and functionality standard for a given area. Sort of 'Apple-basics'. However it is very anti compe
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Relying on modern day 'journalists' to interpret weather (or anything else requiring domain expertise, for that matter) -- is very questionable. Why not use windy.com pick a model (the exceptionally well designed UI, makes it ea
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I would be interested in John's take/view on video games violence discussion. Does it translate to real-world behavior change, if yes how, what are characteristics of susceptible people, vs non-susceptible, and so on. General, vid
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My suggestion would be this. Assume that you have your intuition, already, and it is good. May be it is distinct from others, may be you will not be 'narrowing' to the right answer within seconds -- like many folks who do Olympiad
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This a very good article, and good comments here. Reading it, there is a quote from the person 'T': > "I understand that I’m in such an irretrievable situation because of my own fault, and I myself have to solve the probl
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I would not be surprised, if 2-3 weeks from now, one of the US Presidential candidates, will be talking how they would save money (and redirect them into other programs), by decommissioning this kind of wasteful military programs. And they
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I went opposite direction from you, as far as my own opinion. What makes things affordable is the price of those things. And I cannot see how any of the 'XYZ-for-all' makes the price affordable. In fact, I do not know of any polic
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Ah, never mind. I see that the comment section is visible to people in US ip addresses only. is that other's experience too?
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@JaimeThompson, is there anything in your 'good chance' assessment that has material evidence? I went to the article https://www.foxnews.com/us/nasa-astronaut-identity-theft-ban... But it seems that the comme
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Seems like one of the decisions a consumer should make, and not phone OS provider in this case. My overall sentiment is that any actively enforced regulation, is often used as a weapon against competitors, or as a weapon to racketeer money
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I liked the article's info on the background of the moderators. It was informative if anything. And made me feel that they are more human than I thought :-). However, I disagree with these nuance-avoiding characterization of participat
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> What features are you referring to? Multiple exposure bracketing Rear curtain flash sync Exposure compensation Overall -- the 'preview experience is not great, at all -- this should be picture-in-picture kind of view. Where
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> A very large number of would-be content creators (not just Instagram, either - YouTubers also) want the higher image quality, dynamic range, optical zoom, interchangeable lenses, I also agree with you. It seems that the most appealing
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Can Rust be used to develop a shared library/module, that's efficiently callable from C/C++, and such that the library does not rely on Rust's runtime? In other words, can Rust be 'incrementally' introduced int
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WRT to this bit: > truly every single app is built from source and therefore F-Droid’s build infrastructure is highly secured, with only Ciaran Gultnieks, who founded the project almost nine years ago, having access to it. What assurance
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
would be great for VS Code to add OpenBSD support (I am using VSCode on Linux and Windows, but would like to move to OpenBSD since I no longer do dev work requiring phone emulators (which are unlikely to be on OpenBSD anytime soon)). The ar
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While bicycles are popular, it is hard to imagine that human-pedaled versions will become a norm. It is impossible to imagine them used in a heat of Miami, or Atlanta (Georgia), or in Moscow. There well populated and mild-weathered megalopo
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Future, with computerized streets & highways (to assist self-driving cars) might help motorcycling. In terms of statistics. A non-trivial portion (34%) of motorcycle fatalities involves alcohol (at leat in US) [1]. Simply by not drinkin
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Motorcycles could ease traffic congestion(brusselstimes.com)
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Nope. I am reading the report I actually, cannot find anything in that report that establishes unquestionable links and outcomes that left was looking for. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf Selective-outrage,
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> You don't need to be a leftist But you do need to be a leftist, to think and argue that that type of interference, by same nations, was not done in 2012 or 2008. You also need to be a leftist, to still continue to claim that Rus

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