MertsA

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by MertsA 8y ago
My elementary school did have a process for corporal punishment. It was only done with the approval of the parents and in practice I can't imagine that there was more than a handful of parents that filled that form out. I know that in
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by MertsA 8y ago
Yeah I don't see how this argument holds water at all. If you have 10 kW worth of photons focused onto a square inch that absorbs 90% of those photons then that's 9 kW of power that isn't just going to magically disappear and
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by MertsA 8y ago
>A drone capable of jamming GPS in any useful area should carry a huge load of batteries to develop enough jamming power GPS is extremely low power and relatively speaking easy to jam. The received signal strength is far below the noise
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by MertsA 8y ago
You're mistaken on that. Electrolysis is going to be far too slow to actually amount to any substantial amount of hydrogen and even if that wasn't the case burning all of that hydrogen would release only as much energy as it alrea
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by MertsA 8y ago
I would love it if Google would identify sites that ask for notification permissions without any request from the user while crawling sites. Then just make a blacklist of those sites ala the safe browsing lists. There's no good usage f
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by MertsA 8y ago
No, for a battery fire it's quite the opposite. It's going to release all of that stored energy and burn up the electrolyte one way or another. Flooding it with water is the best way to deal with all of that energy.
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by MertsA 8y ago
Yeah the cold water side will look dramatically better. It certainly will have deposits accumulating but it's not going to be anything close to the amount of deposits that form inside of a water heater. Heating up hard water will chemi
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by MertsA 8y ago
In terms of dissolved minerals sure, but there's two important distinctions to make. The tank isn't just accumulating deposits, there's an anode rod inside that's designed as a sacrificial element to protect the tank its
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by MertsA 8y ago
I'm not saying make it literally impossible for an institution to fail, I'm just saying we should mitigate the risk by making sure there's some funds in reserve to act as collateral and mitigate cash flow problems while they&
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by MertsA 8y ago
This is what is in your hot water tank right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAzKts6Wp1Q&t=55s If your water heater is malfunctioning and not heating up all the way to 140 degrees but it's still heating up to
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by MertsA 8y ago
For the alleged murder for hire plot that absolutely meets the definition of entrapment. In a court of law in the United States there needs to be two elements of an entrapment defense. 1. The police have to have induced the crime. 2. The de
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by MertsA 8y ago
>If not, then they are refunded all costs for the time spent at the failed institution. I'm currently just one semester away from earning my bachelor's degree. To do so, I resigned from a reasonably decent sysadmin job. If I wa
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by MertsA 8y ago
Oh absolutely, but it's still pretty chilling that the prosecution effectively levied those allegations against him yet never charged him with them and gave him no possibility of defending himself. He might not have been convicted on i
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by MertsA 8y ago
Not only was it dismissed, it was dismissed with prejudice. He cannot be charged with that now or ever in the future.
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by MertsA 8y ago
The authenticity of those messages is not a given. Keep in mind, that's the task force that had multiple agents independently of one another steal thousands of BTC and launder the cash. That whole investigation was shady as hell even o
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by MertsA 8y ago
I was once doing some SEO work for a client and noticed something similar. Any URL that contained an apostrophe would return a completely blank page. I asked my manager if I could spend a little time investigating that as a security vulnera
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by MertsA 8y ago
>Nobody is going to try steal the hot copper wires connecting my house to the grid. Especially considering the wires connecting your house to the grid are actually aluminum. Is PV theft really a problem though? I mean they could sell the
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by MertsA 8y ago
What a sad state of affairs. Predatory contracts are one thing, but why on earth do we as a society more or less ignore white collar crime? The article just glosses over the fact that in the Duncan's case, the agreement sent to the cou
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by MertsA 8y ago
I'm not as familiar with the GPLv3 but for v2 it's very clear that you're only allowed to charge what it cost you to provide the source code redistribution. Section 3 subsection b makes this very clear. > Accompany it with
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by MertsA 8y ago
Not all of them do, you're right about that.
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by MertsA 8y ago
>The GPL has explicit provisions for allowing access to the source code only if you pay, for example. This is plainly untrue. The GPL allows you to charge a nominal fee for distributing the source code, so you could charge $5 for the cos
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by MertsA 8y ago
MSRs that use lithium in the fuel salt do in fact need enriched lithium. The problem is that lithium 6 has a much larger neutron absorption cross section than lithium 7. It's on the order of 10,000x greater IIRC.
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by MertsA 8y ago
There would be an increase in the amount of Radon pulled out of the ground. Usually the way an HVAC system is set up is that you have the filter, then the evaporator coils, then the fan, then the ducts to the rest of the building. To heat o
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by MertsA 8y ago
As a neat coincidence, molten salt fueled fission reactors also need enriched Lithium. However, those need Lithium 7 which would essentially be the depleted Lithium from enriching Lithium 6.
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by MertsA 8y ago
Fair enough and a good point, but by the time a body is interred that's irrelevant. There's obviously a fair bit of viruses and bacteria that will thrive (or just survive if a virus) in a corpse but stuff like HIV, Hepatitis, Syph
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by MertsA 8y ago
It's not the body itself, it's the embalming fluid, caskets, paints, etc that make up more mass that the body that are the problem. There's nothing fundamentally more toxic about the corpse of a human vs. the carcass of a cow
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by MertsA 8y ago
Because when you initially pressurize a newly installed portion of pipe, it's not filled with natural gas, it's filled with air. Air doesn't burn, something like a natural gas burner with a pilot light is going to detect that
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by MertsA 8y ago
>Ceph can provide block (mostly used for VMs), object and file targets, in that order of maturity. That's a little bit backwards. Ceph's block storage is actually built upon objects internally.
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by MertsA 8y ago
I'm not sure that's even possible. I could be mistaken but brakes are designed to be resilient to failure to the point that there aren't really any common single points of failure in a modern car. Brake circuits are actually
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by MertsA 8y ago
That's irrelevant and it doesn't change the fact that no one drives with the intention to brake hard enough that ABS activates. There's zero chance of anyone becoming dependent on it.

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