Tyrannosaur

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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
If by "held in hands" you actually mean "sit on top of your lap " then you may understand why laptops aren't called handhelds .
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
While Justice Clarence Thomas suggested a rethinking of Lawrence v Texas in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, it hasn't yet been overturned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._T
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
I can attest my copy has the same error- the blue light page is the NOT gate, which doesn't require a button press. Perhaps a dying battery or decalibrating light sensor thinks it's on the NOT page?
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
That doesn't make sense though. The fuses aren't to protect the load; they are to protect the circuit. It's up to whatever device you are plugging in to not draw more current than it can handle. If I have a 3 Watt doohickey,
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
Blades in the Dark does a hybrid model: for small things (the example given is bribing a doorman) the player rolls a fortune roll with their lifestyle quality . For larger things, there's coin . One coin is "A full purse of si
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
Even if you want to differentiate "who" and "whom", "Whom were you speaking with?" is more natural.
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
A publicly documented part of a system that explicitly states that its purpose is to compromise encryption and privacy may not technically be a "backdoor", but that's a distinction without a difference. https://www
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
It is possible, and often appropriate, to simultaneously denounce both a system that is easily abused and people who abuse such systems.
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
For exactly the same reason the river exists in the first place. Why does the water flow to the ocean and not just sink into the ground?
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
Every so often I try to use OsmAnd again for navigation. It's... sufficient for most things. But I can't understand why it still fails at a basic address search. Why can't I just copy-paste an address into the search bar? I&#
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
As far as wildfires go, so is carbon dioxide. CO2 is not a typical reactant of combustion.
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
Wait, why would carbon dioxide levels have any effect on wildfires more than, say nitrogen? For wildfires, I would expect the proportion of oxygen to matter much more than other gasses not involved in combustion. Perhaps there's a diff
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
https://youtu.be/uxPdPpi5W4o?t=403 Veritasium video about Los Angeles' reservoir black spheres project. They used black because - The goal was light-blocking more than anything else; black worked best - The black pigme
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
That is a pretty wild thread to read. Also funny to note the update- > Special thanks to @bennettf96052341 for his gracious feedback I remember a youtube video from years ago explaining this problem with photoshop's gradient tool (
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
The Plaid disaster hasn't waited- it's already started. They've already had to settle at least one class action lawsuit for deceptive practices https://www.plaidsettlement.com/
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
It blows my mind how badly Zelle has failed. It already is integrated to US bank accounts. It started as a cooperative venture over a decade ago by several US banks with the explicit goal of being integrated with your bank so you don&#x27
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by Tyrannosaur 4y ago
I frequently ask people "If all major American banks got together and implemented a system where you could send money from one bank account to another in a payment system much faster than ACH, would it be big news?" And yet they d
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by Tyrannosaur 5y ago
I 100% agree, but that doesn't mean we can't still administer placebos: I've read elsewhere that you don't have to lie to the person to still have a successful placebo effect- they can still receive a benefit even knowin
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by Tyrannosaur 5y ago
What about the human tissue procurement industry rules needs to be fixed?
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by Tyrannosaur 6y ago
Oh, worry not, I firmly believe that sometimes the government absolutely should take your money under threat of violence, but we should always remember that's exactly what taxes are. Every time we propose the government spend money on
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by Tyrannosaur 6y ago
Why is a country's moral system so broken that instead of charitable giving you take from people under threat of force instead?
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by Tyrannosaur 6y ago
I miss Opera 12's tab groups. https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/9738/opera-how-to-stackgroup...
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by Tyrannosaur 7y ago
What are the guesses as to how this happened? At the risk of sounding conspiratorial I propose that sometimes these "accidents" are less accidental than they claim. So much hype over this has got to be worth something.
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
That's not an undisputed fact. https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-us-leads-the-worl...
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
Your comment actually made me read the article. That is a direct quotation, and pushes the whole thing over the edge in my opinion from "very poorly thought-out plan" to "just barely pretending"
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
I've imagined a world where prisons and homeless shelters look almost identical, save the prisons don't allow you to leave.
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
What a racket. There is a problem with people spoofing voip phone calls calling in hoaxes and the best they can come up with to fix it is "oh pay for this protection service and we will send a normal police response instead of a murder
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
It speaks volumes that we find it easier to redefine time than to go to bed and wake to earlier.
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
I've had practice for this test- had this android game recommended to me a couple months ago. It's not bad. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zutgames.i...
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by Tyrannosaur 8y ago
Interesting way to put the blame on someone exposing the crimes, instead of those actually doing the crimes.

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