NotYourLawyer

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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Lots of dark patterns at domain registrars in general. Just had to deal with Network Solutions and it was like navigating a series of expensive traps just to do something that should have been trivial.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Cell phones are new enough that they still change noticeably in a couple of years. Refrigerators are not.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Or, as the Chinese say, Chinese. Kidding, and Icon tools are quite decent.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
What a mess. Was it just a historical accident that for a few decades in the 20th century, brands really meant something?
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
The title is a little silly. It’s from outside our solar system, but there’s zero evidence suggesting it’s technological or made by aliens. It’s just a meteor that was going really fast, and it was made of something that was sturdy enough n
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
A huge proportion of the Twitter blue checkmarks, maybe. I like to think the population at large is a little more sensible and circumspect. It’s great to arrest those other people for saying things one doesn’t like. But in 30 years, diffe
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
The First Amendment is pretty unpopular with progressives in the US these days, but I’m not sure this is the result we really want.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
He does do stress testing, dropping tools, etc.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Yep, this is because the earth spins the same direction as its rotation around the sun. So each year, there’s a discrepancy of one day. And 24 hours / 365 = about 3.9 minutes of discrepancy per day.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
> covid, which is dangerous but not anymore so than many other preventable causes of death … if you’re vaccinated.
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/05/dark-matter-situati... > Then there are collisions of galaxy clusters at high velocity, like the bullet cluster or the el gordo cluster. These are difficult to explain w
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by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, we’ll use more government regulation." Now they have two problems.