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by ams6110 8y ago
As do the states. Commercial trucks pay a lot more road use tax than passenger cars. Whether it's proportional to the damage they cause I don't know.
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by ams6110 8y ago
CR is $7.95 a month. Sign up for a month when you're making a major purchase. If it saves even 10 minutes of research time, that's value enough for me.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Well? What's wrong with Consumer Reports? Sign up, pay for it, done. Why does valuable information that takes a lot of time and expense to produce need to be free? That attitude is the root of most of what's wrong with the web tod
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by ams6110 8y ago
Almost all criminal convictions are public record, unless sealed for a specific reason (youthful offender, perhaps). Please cite an example of a teacher convicted of child abuse where that conviction was "hidden from the public."
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by ams6110 8y ago
The police are almost never around to intervene in a crime in progress. They show up in the aftermath and investigate what happened, gather evidence, and eventually may refer a suspect to the prosecutor for charges.
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by ams6110 8y ago
You don't need to remove the microcontroller. You can reflash it using a utility, and the researchers showed that IBM was not resetting the BMC firmware between clients on that bare-metal server.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Not an expert but I would not think you would suffer much muscle loss in a short (less than 1 week) fast. It takes longer than that for your metabolism to transition into starvation mode. Maybe there's some risk if your body fat is alr
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by ams6110 8y ago
There is no diet. You stop eating. Drink only water (some people allow for coffee/tea but I think if you're being strict about it that should be avoided also).
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by ams6110 8y ago
Stay busy, distract yourself with interesting things. I have done 3-4 days water fast a few times out of curiosity. In my case, the hunger cravings diminshed after 48 hours or so. However, I've never feel better, worse, or different fr
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by ams6110 8y ago
A fool and his money are soon parted. We can't really fix that, unfortunately.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'd say he does a lot of bullshitting. That's pretty typical for any CEO type person.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I don't think the main reason for banning cars from city centers was to reduce noise and improve air quality, it was to reduce congestion. Noise and air quality improvements were a nice side benefit.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's not a problem the government can fix, that much should be clear by now. Trillions of dollars have been spent on fighting poverty. It hasn't worked.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Anecdotally I see the cops talking to white youth in "gangbanger" dress quite often. I'm not sure the lesson is anything other than "if you don't want to be treated like a criminal, don't dress like a stereotyp
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by ams6110 8y ago
I really should learn that. I often find myself maniupulating text data in emacs, turning it into CSV or something that I can then copy/paste into a spreadsheet for calculations.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I can't imagine editing any document longer than a sentence or two on mobile, regardless of the editor.
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by ams6110 8y ago
In comparison to the alternatives, nuclear has the fewest environmental drawbacks.
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by ams6110 8y ago
No, for the stated purpose (an "instant on" portable remote terminal with long battery life), a Chromebook is far superior to a cheap windows laptop. The Chromebook will go from out of the box to fully configured in about 5 minute
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by ams6110 8y ago
I have the opposite point of view. Far from being irrelevant, our planet and our life here is the only thing that is relevant. Galaxies we will never visit, cosmological phenomena totally beyond our control... none of it matters at all to o
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by ams6110 8y ago
Admittedly, I missed that. I thought this was a server lib.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes, but I get some satisfaction in making them go out of their way to do it. And no way in hell am I giving the information to Intuit first, so that they can mine and sell it (and probably leak it unintentionally as well)
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by ams6110 8y ago
I used a 12" PowerBook G4 daily up until a couple of years ago.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> Someone needs to make a modern day equivalent of a Model 100. By that, I mean a highly portable instant-on computer one can do remote terminal work on with seemingly endless battery life. They do. They are called Chromebooks.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> it never ceases to amaze me why some HTTP libs don't have TLS as a given Separation of concerns. TLS termination is something that can be done separately, and at scale you want to separate it anyway.
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by ams6110 8y ago
What about this tactic: find out what percentage they get if they sell the account to a collector. Offer a bit more than that.
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by ams6110 8y ago
This is a pretty good anecdote that supports why I don't go to doctors.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yeah but you can get a still-good small gasoline-powered car for a small fraction of that, and it will have 3-4 times the range of the Leaf and refuel time of 5 minutes at the nearest gas pump.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's like the apocryphal drug dealer who gives out free doses to unwitting kids until they are hooked.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I once spent an evening trying to establish an account on Zoho. It never worked. Free is not free if it requires hours of your time and causes frustration.
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by ams6110 8y ago
VoIP can be iffy with home ISPs. I have it and the quality varies from excellent to unusably bad. I assume it's due to inconsistent latency.

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