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by aksss 4y ago
Old DSLR - I think there’s an issue with latency that you’ll find on many older DSLRs - converting out to HDMI in real-time - that makes them impractical for use as webcams. Make sure you record yourself in a test conference first and verif
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by aksss 4y ago
The employee/employer relationship is what’s different, along with the context (workplace activity) of where the communication is taking place. Unclear on why this is being disregarded. When did we start presuming that freedom of speec
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by aksss 4y ago
Do you have any example of where a state labor dept. or court applied your logic to a closely matching situation in a sustainable/unambiguous way (meaning it wasn’t overturned on appeal or settled)? I ask because in your many comments
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by aksss 4y ago
TL;DR: earliest evidence of ancestor to Yersinia pestis found in Kyrgyztan. Not saying that's the origin, just the earliest known find of an ancestor so far. Condensed version: "People who died in a fourteenth-century outbreak in
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by aksss 4y ago
Not just some, 4 of 9 have turned over and Beyer’s replacement pre-appointed, oddly enough. The balance has also shifted. It’s a different Court than it was twelve years ago, and lazy to conflate them regardless of whether you think the res
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by aksss 4y ago
Their analogy is bad, and it’s valuable to call out the nuance. The statement is a reaction to blaming free market economics when the reality is a scenario of the opaque third party payer system in a highly regulated environment. Consumer g
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by aksss 4y ago
I paid $1.50 for a candy bar the other day. My earliest memory of scrounging change for a commercial transaction to obtain a candy bar was a $0.45. That would have been in the eighties.
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by aksss 4y ago
OMG, I’m no fan of Feinstein’s position on many issues - and am not her constituent - but yes. That teacher should be ashamed of herself, not only for trying to use kids as a front to push her own agenda, but clearly she’s been preaching ap
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by aksss 4y ago
> “this Supreme Court” Assuming you mean Citizens United, decided twelve years ago, the Court has had a nearly 50% turnover since then. It was still “the Robert’s Court” but hardly “this Court”. But the current Court would likely hold a
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by aksss 4y ago
Some thoughts that might blow the mind: A) price of oil/gas was going up well before Russia/Ukraine. Putin’s work is an aggravating factor, but hardly the whole reality of the market challenges. B) fuel demand is pretty inelastic
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by aksss 4y ago
No, God only knows what that service was intended for. :D I do remember our town had a local number, 8463, that we could call to get current time and temperature played back to us.
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by aksss 4y ago
Glad to know I wasn’t the only kid trying, by hook or crook, to figure out what was on the other end of those 900 numbers. :D
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by aksss 4y ago
I worked at a telco a little over ten years ago when they took out all the pay phones in our city. In the garage there were these enormous bins full of them, staged for some unknown fate. A couple colleagues and I had gone down to take a lo
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by aksss 4y ago
> “Turkey the bird is called by a different name in many languages, such as "peru" in Portuguese, while in Turkish it is "hindi".“ TIL.
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by aksss 4y ago
I think the down-board view is that Uber’s rating works because the drivers also review the riders. Are police able to rate the people (I hate saying citizens because police are “just” citizens too.)? Will this still work “like Uber” with o
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by aksss 4y ago
GoDaddy just for domain registrar and DNS (no other services). It has performed solidly for many, many years, Can reach helpful humans in support.
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by aksss 4y ago
This guidance has never changed, IME.
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by aksss 4y ago
Talent shortage, not human shortage. There’s been a severe talent shortage for many years. When we post jobs, we don’t have a lack of applicants, just a lack of decently qualified applicants, let alone stand-out ones we’d like to hire. Peop
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by aksss 4y ago
I find it interesting because I would not have expected it to rank at the literal bottom of the list. Many people’s relationship to fuel price is pretty inelastic, so it’s an income hit. As another said, fuel prices impact many other costs,
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by aksss 4y ago
Depends on the scope of “history”. You could also say that historically that’s when a civilization gets put under a feudal yoke for scores of generations. Successful revolution by “the workers” is more the exception than the norm in the sto
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by aksss 4y ago
Easy with the sarcasm! We all know the readers and posters don’t always handle it gracefully.
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by aksss 4y ago
It’s interesting that fuel prices are literally at the bottom of the list. Government/poor leadership is 19%. Inflation, 18%; Economy 12%. Then we’re in single digits: Top of single digits is Immigration at 8% - no clarity on what angl
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by aksss 4y ago
I don’t recall ever learning number lines in school. Was in eighties. Are number lines a new teaching tool or am I just not remembering this?
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by aksss 4y ago
Not that I’m terribly experienced with it, but a lot of home automation can be done without “IoT” — specifically without the crapware Trojan controllers that come with consumer solutions from Best Buy. ISY994 for example. Easy solutions for
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by aksss 4y ago
Some heretics were/are complete loons. But there’s an insanity in the religious devotion to “Science” in popular culture driving the word to take on a synonymity to “orthodoxy” or “establishment”. “Trust the orthodoxy” wouldn’t have ne
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by aksss 4y ago
Probably the fact that you’re breathing more oxygen when asleep while camping, vs a high CO2 level in your home bedroom.
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by aksss 4y ago
Yeah, I think I was pretty similar - games mostly, but I do remember making macros to edit/reformat files as well, adding white space, that kind of thing.
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by aksss 4y ago
I think in my lifetime I’ve started to see the articles morphing a bit more towards “pushes back the date for the first evidence of people doing X”, which is a better spirit of discovery to express. This may be the result of choosing better
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by aksss 4y ago
> total integration of religion with every facet of life is alien to most of us I suspect there’s still a lot of bias in this view. A fish likely doesn’t realize it lives in water. Similarly, we likely don’t appreciate the role of our mo
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by aksss 4y ago
Calling people “anti-science” now also sets off alarm bells for me. “Anti-science” is analogous to calling someone a “heretic” in the 1400’s, but with our benefit of hindsight into the fallacy of groupthink and servility to orthodoxy.

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