Anechoic

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by Anechoic 9y ago
>as long as there's sufficient wear, That policy has changed, they will replace your battery upon request for $29 no matter what their diagnostic tests say.
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by Anechoic 9y ago
> I have yet to use a phone in the last 8+ years that I didn't destroy the 3.5mm jack on over the course of <1 year of running Interesting. I have a similar issue, but rather than destroying the headphone jack on the phone (iPho
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by Anechoic 9y ago
> expected early next year. Those users are likely to be disappointed since Apple did not commit to shipping it in 2018. All they said was that the new Mac Pro would not ship in 2017.
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by Anechoic 9y ago
That explains the lack of decent infotainment systems these days, perhaps availability of CarPlay/Android Auto will help moderate this view.
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by Anechoic 9y ago
The MBTA in Boston does this with its commuter rail lines. Currently the contract is held by Keolis, before that, a consortium of companies led by Veolia Transportation. You can Google "MBTA commuter rail performance" to see how w
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by Anechoic 9y ago
*I thought Apple was detecting small movements in eyes to ensure that the subject in front is actually a living human Face ID does track eye movement ("require attention"), but you can turn off that setting. I haven't found a
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by Anechoic 9y ago
Of course while YMMV, I've found the same thing - I've been prescribed opioids for pain, and I found that Advil worked just as well, without the side effects. I do understand that opioids have their place - for example I was told
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by Anechoic 9y ago
Did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualify (or threaten to disqualify) Disney from award eligibility?
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by Anechoic 9y ago
>but that's also not representative One occurrence possibly. When it happens multiple times, I'm not inclined to attribute it to perceptual biases.
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by Anechoic 9y ago
> I think people get a skewed perception of the police force from a relatively small number of highly publicized incidents. Or perhaps people arrive at their perceptions based on personal experience? Certainly my own experience with poli
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by Anechoic 9y ago
When we talk about "disparate impact" in racism, this is the type of think we're referring to. Yeah, you clean-shaven policy seems fair, but but disproportionally affects a certain segment of the population. Similarly &qu
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by Anechoic 9y ago
>but does getting hugged on a street (not when confined in a car) supports a serious crime claim in the UK or US? It depends on what that "hug" really was - walking up behind a woman, wrapping my hands around them and grabbing
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Should you have to give up privacy to recycle a printer cartridge?(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by Anechoic 9y ago|1 comments
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by Anechoic 9y ago
>Just to name one, I don't have usually a smartphone, or a switched on smartphone, when driving, and the police officer should have a way to find and call my phone number, which not necessarily is linked to the car license plate. Su
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by Anechoic 9y ago
If you stick to the boring Thinkpads (T series and P series) Anecdotal, but two out of three T series Thinkpads has sudden motherboard failures. No problems with 3 MacBooks or 3 Inspirons. We're done buying Lenovo.
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by Anechoic 9y ago
> He may well be out of touch, but at least Musk's suggesting a real solution to current transit problems, even if it's impractical. He's proposing the transportation equivalent of a personal computer with perfect security
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by Anechoic 10y ago
they had three choices. Four choices - they could have upped their incentive until the doctor, or someone else decided to take. I'd bet someone would have gladly taken a $1,350 voucher.
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by Anechoic 10y ago
I nominate Isao Takahata's "Grave of the Fireflies" It's a great movie, but if you are going to watch, I highly recommend that you don't watch it alone and that you have something "fun" planned afterwo
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by Anechoic 10y ago
For those of you that don't speak "noise control": Leq is the Equivalent Noise Level, is the energy of sound averaged over a set time period (usually an hour, the BTS site is doing it over 24 hours). Ldn/DNL is the Day-N
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by Anechoic 10y ago
My experience is that people are very upset with the state and want their rights back. And that, one way or another, they'll get 'em. I think that's likely true with a huge segment of Americans, but the definition of "
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by Anechoic 10y ago
The other possibility is that the offense is reacting to what the defense is giving them. On a second-and-long, the defense might be anticipating a pass and responding with pass-defense personnel (lighter edge rushers, nickel/dime pers
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by Anechoic 10y ago
I think you can criticize Travis and management a lot in private, It sounds like that's what they've been doing ("We are speaking up now because we are disappointed and frustrated; we feel we have hit a dead end in trying t
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by Anechoic 10y ago
We had the celebrity iCloud hack, caused at least in part by Apple not using 2FA for iCloud logins. iCloud has offered 2 step authentication since 2013 [0]. From what I can tell, the celeb hack happened a few weeks before the public relea
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by Anechoic 10y ago
I'll add my voice as someone that would gladly pay $100/year for a few no-support type "licenses" (and I just made a long overdue donation to jwe). That said, I would understand if he didn't want to try an licensing
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by Anechoic 10y ago
... and traffic is still horrible. Compared to pre -big dig days? It's not even close. Boston traffic has mostly normal rush hour periods now. I can get from Somerville to Braintree in 30 minutes during peak periods. That same trip
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by Anechoic 10y ago
electric means less ventilation needed Ventilation isn't just for exhaust fumes, it's also needed for fire fighting. A tunnel geared for self-driving electric fans won't make much of a difference there (look at subway tunne
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by Anechoic 10y ago
So if you start on a piece of land you largely control, or can quickly get permits for, you could theoretically bore until where you need the next permit. It's not quite that simple - you may largely control the land you're tunn
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by Anechoic 10y ago
I really gotta move out of California... It's not a California thing. As part of my job, I spend a lot of time presenting at public meetings and in my spare time I do a fair amount of advocacy (for various causes) which also results
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Noise Monitoring for Airbnb and other short-term rentals(dallasnews.com)
2 points by Anechoic 10y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 10y ago
1.) Talk to the lawyer you previously had a relationship with (assuming you think he is competent) and ask him for recommendations for a criminal lawyer. Keep the name(s) handy. 2.) In a real pinch, call your local public defender. They lik

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