AftHurrahWinch

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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Yes, I've tried two different hearing aids, and they were both worse than useless. They often amplified the wrong voices in the crowd, and not even consistently. It was like listening to the radio and having someone constantly changing
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Really great comment! You noted: > The problem is that the two sides have very different ideas of what "loving the USA" means. Among the first group (liberals) the USA is envisioned as an inclusive melting pot where all are wel
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
> This sort of critique of diversity would be considered hate speech by some. How wonderful that we have the diversity of thought to find someone who will object to anything, and how fortunate that we have mechanisms to overrule and igno
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
I apologize if this comes across as 'how dare you talk about pancakes when I prefer waffles', but I just want to mention that, like a lot of people, I destroyed my hearing when I was young and now I struggle to hear on busses and
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Thanks for the heads-up, I'm excited to attend this session as well as: Mapping the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and their Relationships with FOSS https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/277&#x2
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
In US law to establish standing, you have to demonstrate injury-in-fact, causation, and redressability based on the Article III limit requiring courts to address "cases" and "controversies." This makes us great at redres
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
This discussion on federal disclosure requirements for zero-days is really interesting: https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/news/us-government-and-zero-da... "The policy also includes all vulnerabilities (hardware or
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
This is in regards to the SUNBURST malware delivered via SolarWinds' Orion platform. I like the Qualys blog for a detailed technical analysis: https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2021...
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The President Ordered Board to Probe Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did(propublica.org)
79 points by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago|19 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Agreed, and it is a microcosm of the discussion in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908142 ) about who benefits from tourism spending. Perhaps if people were spending €8 at Abuela Rosa's Tortas instea
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
"I like eclipses and want them to stick around for a while longer." "The Moon ...has been slowly drifting outward at the rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year. Once it makes it past 14,600 miles (23,500 km), it’ll appear
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
You can see 2 seconds into the video that the people getting sprayed with water are eating at a Taco Bell. Geoguessing, I think it's this Taco Bell: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GqhrRobgQx6XUATo9
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
The facts are on page 44 under the heading: "Israeli Security Forces counter-offensive and the application of the ‘Hannibal Directive’" It's a version of the prisoner's dilemma. If you give something someone wants in exc
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
Citizens' Climate Lobby is a bipartisan group that includes former US congressional representatives. They advocate for a tariff on fossil fuels at point-of-entry into the US of $15 per ton of co2. The fees would be used to boost domest
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
archive: https://archive.ph/wip/PLIlh
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Scientists face impossible choice: Let vital medicines wither or endangered bird(fortune.com)
3 points by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago|1 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
I don't think so, but there were gryojets, which were half way there. They were bullet-sized rockets fired from a gun with an unrifled barrel that accelerated as they flew, exceeding Mach 1 at terminal velocity. Supposedly you could li
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
> 6G is approximately 132 miles/hour^2 Imagine stop-and-go traffic if this were true TT
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/1msh1 "Here we present the identification of cosmic time dilation in a sample of 190 quasars monitored for over two decades in multiple wavebands by assessing various hypotheses through Bay
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Detection of the cosmological time dilation of high-Redshift quasars(nature.com)
1 points by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago|1 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
There's the theory that a significant reason why mammals superseded reptiles after the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass-extinction event is because the cooler, darker planet prevented reptiles from sunning themselves to clear fungal infe
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
Interesting thought! I think it's inarguable that online discourse is intentionally argumentative in some cases, at least as I understand it that's the definition of trolling and it's trivial to find people who self-identify
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Russia accuses mercenary boss of mutiny, he says Moscow killed 2k of his men(reuters.com)
50 points by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago|4 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
Correct, it had nothing to do with the injunction the judge made. It was in response to the original poster's orthogonal idea for graffiti bounties.
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by AftHurrahWinch 3y ago
> Bounty hunters will immediately start surveillance wherever necessary, graffiti will plummet, and you'll be saving $10 million per year (even if you pay out $25,000 every day). I can imagine this leading to a perverse incentive&#x
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
@hn_throwaway_99 72. hn_throwaway_99 51136 A particularly respectable throwaway account. :)
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
I couldn't have hoped for a more informative answer. Thank you for your time.
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Thank you, I appreciate the advice. I hope you don't mind my asking... but you're a lawyer, and a computer programmer with experience working in a government institution with a rigorous chain of command. Do you have any pragmatic
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
> The Washington Post reports that Paxton’s office made a verbal request to the Texas Department of Public Safety in June for a list of everyone in the past two years who’d changed their gender on their drivers license. Texas has strong
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Texas AG Paxton Wants to Build a Registry of Trans People, but He Won't Say Why(abovethelaw.com)
35 points by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago|13 comments

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