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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
Non-related? The article is about institutional actions under authoritarianism and the holocaust is the bureaucratic apex of the most studied authoritarian regime in history. TFA mentions Hannah Arendt in the introduction and discusses the
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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
In lots of places that get very cold, even if the heat source is combustion, electricity is still used for ignition, control and distribution through the house.
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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
Do you know if there has been any progress on conical-bore brass? From what I recall (I did some graduate work in instrument modeling in the late 2000s) reed instruments could be modeled convincingly, but the feedback oscillator with the l
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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
I work in hardware manufacturing. Our PCBs have QR codes both on the silkscreen and on stickers, but they don't encode websites. Rather, they are part numbers and serial/lot numbers for traceability and to assist manufacturing&#
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by InitialLastName 5mo ago
It's extremely common in lots of creative and technical fields. It is usually restricted to work related to the employer's field and the employee's function, but one could imagine some employers of folks in the creative arena
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
If you mean adding the years of the events to a timeline to match to, I think that's too much information. In this case, I knew the rough dates of all but one of the events in the list; adding years in a timeline would have given the l
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
I suspect that the later (Win 7+) versions of Windows solitaire (and minesweeper, for that matter) did, in fact, cull the unwinnable games.
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
Draw 1 is much more winnable than draw 3. With perfect knowledge (or an infinite undo stack), evidently ~80% of Klondike games are winnable. With imperfect knowledge but good strategy, humans win about 11% of draw 3 games. So given they
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
If your time is so important that you can't wait for kids to cross the street, get a helicopter.
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
We have National Monuments and National Historic Sites/Parks for "this isn't nature but should still be a site maintained by the Federal Government".
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
> If you were breast-fed, you drank raw milk as a child If people were drinking raw milk directly out of the udder, in a clean environment and blessed with a baby cow's immune system and microbiome, that would be pertinent, but they
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
I know a number of people who have allergies to some animal products (notably eggs or dairy). Given the growing familiarity with (and catering to) vegan diets, they find it much easier to use "is it vegan" as a shortcut to "
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
If I have trillions of monkeys on typewriters generating every possible combination of characters, and then from what they "produce" I carefully select what I want to show everyone who comes to my website, how responsible am I for
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
> you're just average SWE on $120k / year and absolutely no money for hiring small army of guards FWIW, in this instance Adam Back is also a non-secret billionaire, mostly from his public involvement in a number of ventures wit
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
Seriously, push notifications, requests to review the app, gratuitous permissions, ads that bypass my ad-blocker. Why would I want to do this?
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
> Isn't this true for every safety measure? Every safety measure faces a question of whether the resources allocated to it are an efficient means of achieving that reduction in risk. To GP's point, we probably can't preven
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
Thanks to risk compensation, making things "safer" doesn't necessarily improve safety. What are the odds that people drive their kids around more (increasing their risk) because having kids in car-seats reduces the perceived
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by InitialLastName 6mo ago
Putting aside that judges can make exceptions when circumstances warrant, one would think that this function (providing live captioning of the proceedings) would be a reasonable accommodation that courts should be able to provide. Especiall
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
As far as I can tell, Valve makes significant contributions back to Wine via Proton development. Isn't that essentially them supporting their upstream dependencies with their own profits, by using some of those profits to pay people t
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
Don't forget: - the enemy had plenty of material, technical and financial support from adversarial superpowers who were all too happy to see American lives, money and military resources wasted. That external support is not fully scaled
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
People complain about police unions all the time, it's just their complainants don't overlap much with the people who complain about private sector unions.
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
Note that in this case, you are getting what you pay for: I had a FIIO DAC that sounded amazing but was really bad about full-scale turn-on, sync and desync pops to the extent that it damaged my speakers. Yes, perfect power sequence hygien
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
Easy for that to be true: just set your expectations to zero.
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
The Libertarian Party is solely focused on reducing the liabilities side of the balance sheet in the interest of reducing the income side by lowering taxes. Try showing up to to a libertarian convention with "give me some money to inv
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
One might argue that this war is a free hand-out to foreign interests.
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
> I even wonder if it has been developed seriously- I mean the study of antimemes as a communication/ propaganda technique. Tell me you can't see the fnords without telling me...
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
> UK number was 12000 per year. "Arrested for social media posts" including things that aren't protected speech anywhere (harassment, threats, incitement to violence). >Tucker Carlson is under the gun for allegedly bein
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
There's a big difference between the first chunk of this account's history and their posting over the last ~2 hours. Either they suddenly adopted a very different and, frankly, dramatically more literate-but-vapid writing style,
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
Confirmed, that's the last paragraph in my 1996 Signet Classics copy.
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
CSI and Law and Order as well contributed to the perception that the majority of police officers spend their time diligently and righteously investigating real crimes (usually resulting in finding the culprit) instead of spending their days

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