Seenso

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by Seenso 7y ago
It's already happened . Ever since the coronavirus hit China , N95 masks have been sold or selling out in the US. I'm sure some were bought by preppers, but many were bought to export to China to help relieve acute shortages i
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by Seenso 7y ago
> You can extend the lives of writable and rewritable optical media by proper storage. The key is to avoid light and heat as much as possible, to keep the dyes stable. I'm not sure about 30 years, but you can probably get 10 out of
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> It's worth noting that the 1918 flu was unique in that it killed many young, healthy people. > There were two waves to the Spanish Flu. Wave 1 started like the standard flu - it was mild, hitting mostly the old and ill, and
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by Seenso 7y ago
I don't think so. Isn't a bastard a child born to an unmarried mother? In the cuckoo's child case, as far society knows the child has two legitimately married parents.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> To hell with that ugliness, go all-out and look for a torrent of Star Wars Despecialized Editions. As good as you can get the originals, these days. The true original is the one my parents taped off of TV when I was a kid, commercials
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I have 30 year old CDs that play as good as the first time, as well as older vinyl discs. Mass produced CDs are produced using a different process than the one consumer CDR writers use, and they are thus a much more stable storage medi
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Particularly with reference to "a human drug" Veterinary drugs are a thing, and it appears the FDA regulates them, too: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/resources-you/fda-regu...
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by Seenso 7y ago
> They’re not too expensive, the writers are available, they’ll last, and they could be reverse engineered if discovered in the future. IIRC, the writers for M-DISCs are special, but the reader can be any DVD or Blu-ray drive. Honest
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by Seenso 7y ago
> However, I don't think one good deed should excuse past bad behavior and one should be careful about glorifying someone to the extent that we ignore their misdeeds. I disagree. What you say is true in a lot of cases [1], but you&
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by Seenso 7y ago
> They are paying more than they have to for the low skilled workers. Which means that extra money is not going towards hiring better high skilled workers or just more workers in general. > Everything else being equal, an average busi
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The Vax 9000 had multichip modules with a very very special interposer for the same reasons. Pictures, for anyone interested: https://vaxbarn.com/index.php/feat/8-collection/394%20-dec-v...
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Well you should handle the error in the first place. That's like saying you should just write bug-free code in the first place.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I expected odd cycles or other misbehavior, but actually things were smooth and round. It was eye opening. How long did you map them? My understanding is that to see the "odd cycles and misbehavior" you need to make observat
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by Seenso 7y ago
> at the same time it removes the need for critical thinking while giving the best and easiest option for a solution in the first square. It also makes it a little fun so people might actually pay attention. Not everyone responds best to
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Yeah, the psychiatrist seems the easiest to explain since when choosing a medical professional people may ask their friends who they recommend. IIRC, connections like those were often explainable by addressbook data. Please assumed
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by Seenso 7y ago
> This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is apparent in more and more modern tech products. I find it pretty gross... It's even grosser than that. The attitude here is really "we did what was good for us
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by Seenso 7y ago
Very likely. IIRC, it's working its way into Chromium, and once it's there it will be everywhere. https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Firefox DoH is snake oil, plain and simple... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the concern I have about browser-controlled DoH is that it seems like it could make it harder for a tech-savvy user to assert control over their own networ
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by Seenso 7y ago
> If your whole test is "This gets called, then that, then that", you aren't actually writing a test. You're repeating what the code already says. Yeah, mocks are just a way to zero out the dependencies so you can foc
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by Seenso 7y ago
> So essentially I've had the opposite conclusion. Unit testing to me is a symptom of bad engineering practices. If you rely on it, something is wrong. I think that's being too extreme and dogmatic. Unit testing and small-sc
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by Seenso 7y ago
> All US ambassadorships are political appointment, therefore option 2 is the only answer. These positions are almost always ceremonial. They are there to execute the will of the president. Not really, a foreign service officer can be ap
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Is there any other reputable site for a US citizen to buy crypto quickly with a credit card or bank account? You can buy it here: https://www.axcrypt.net/ and http://www.cryptoexpert.com/ . However ther
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by Seenso 7y ago
The title is misleading. This doesn't sound like it will do anything to help make crypto safe for those people who need protection from government backdoors and key escrow.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Did the author mean "US", or "UK? > This article seems confused. I don't think the author knows what they are writing about. They meant US, and the authors clearly weren't confused: > If British Google us
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The UK has all the EU laws it had before Brexit. It needs a new law in the UK to remove existing things. UK will not lose protection until the UK decides upon it. Not quite all of EU law will be retained: https://researchb
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> He'll be on the debate stage tonight as a legitimized candidate -- having not participated in the competitive process at all, and without a single donor (doesn't need 'em), and levering his billions to flood media. &
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by Seenso 7y ago
> But countless doctors and the UN specialist have witnessed, reported, and endorsed that he has been tortured and I don't know what else you want. I don't think that's true. They don't say he was tortured, they say
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The very real and substantial claims about torture and mostly about his time in prison in the UK - not his time on the asylum Can you give details of the actual practices of torture alleged here? Scanning this and a few other things,
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by Seenso 7y ago
Honestly, stuff like this just debases the word "torture." Waterboarding is clearly torture. Undergoing prolonged periods of solitary confinement while in detention is arguably torture. However, choosing to avoid needed medical
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by Seenso 7y ago
> One wonders if you could drop a battery operated GPS beacon reporting by satellite on these things to report back their position once a day once it has been abandoned. Something like that should be able to run for a couple of years at

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