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by avar 5y ago
America doesn't have a poll taxation system, what's the spread on that $100 if it's adjusted for progressive taxation?
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by avar 5y ago
Where does it say that the amount consumed is taken into account? That guideline is referring to the number of consumption occurrences per-week, not the amount used. Which is the tobacco equivalent of classifying someone as a heavy drinker
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by avar 5y ago
Health insurance in various places goes up if you consume tobacco products, and doesn't take the amount consumed into account: https://www.kff.org/faqs/faqs-health-insurance-marketplace-a...
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by avar 5y ago
Probably numerous sources, but for what it's worth my own recollection on this subject is based on this article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/pregnancy-drinking...
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by avar 5y ago
The "no amount proven safe" mantra is refuted by epidemiological studies on the subject. There's no evidence that modern drinking is something to worry about. It's well known that pregnant women become more risk avarse,
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by avar 5y ago
> It’s hard to find any benefit to smoking, first hand or second. The same is true about recreational travel. People expose themselves to high levels of radiation and travel risk purely for recreational purposes. Smokers inhale carcinoge
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by avar 5y ago
The LKML is still the right place to send patches that don't fall under one of the other subsystem mailing lists. When in doubt you can ask the LKML about the right place to send a patch.
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by avar 5y ago
The premise of this article is that a trial involving a crash with a level 2 system[1] is fundamentally different than one involving a level 1, without making the case for that. In both cases the driver is responsible, and expected to monit
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by avar 5y ago
Why would having "gifted" classes detract from other students? In the case of OP's daughter giving her permission to simply skip math class and self-tutor in an empty classroom (by e.g. self-studying a more advanced textbook)
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by avar 5y ago
The strbuf library that's part of git.git is a pleasure to work with. It's C-string compatible (just a char /size_t pair), guarantees that the "char " member is always NULL-delimited, but can also be used for bina
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by avar 5y ago
The experiment is flawed and doesn't prove anything either way. There's no way[1] to know that whatever landscape they tried this on doesn't have a subtle upward curve that might just as easily "prove" the flat eart
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by avar 5y ago
Indeed. It somewhere between sad and amusing for those of us who care about i18n that encoding issues in various software that we'd been pointing out for the better half of the last 20+ years suddenly became no big deal to fix in the l
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by avar 5y ago
The GPDR is explicitly not about trying to get you protection from state-operated intelligence agencies, and in fact within the EU state agencies like that are explicitly exempt from it.
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by avar 5y ago
I don't know about unions in the UK, but in some other European countries your union won't have anything to do with your salary negotiation or setting industry-wide salary ranges. They might if you're in a teacher's unio
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by avar 5y ago
It helps everyone involved in fuel delivery, airport operations etc. Don't underestimate the government incentives to maintain the status quo. If you switched this over to a tax you'd also need government programs to deal with the
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by avar 5y ago
It's also not illegal to drive drunk in many jurisdictions. It's illegal to do so while on public roads (or roads accessible by the public). Which means you'll need to add the lack of perfect geofencing to the list of potenti
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by avar 5y ago
I was replying to your claim that "a street name, a city, a city name etc. are determined by who currently has control on the ground [...] the sole exception to this is the Crimea". The linked page specifically addresses this, and
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by avar 5y ago
You started that they were making an exception to "[on the ground rules] where a street, a street name, a city, a city name etc. are determined by who currently has control on the ground". This falls under criteria #3 on the linke
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by avar 5y ago
Your summary seems inaccurate per https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DW... I.e. they ruled that any mass changes based on administrative declarations weren't OK, but changing street nam
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by avar 5y ago
I was referring to the wagon version of the VW passat. It has around 35 ft^2 of cargo space: https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/volkswagen/passat-wagon/...
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by avar 5y ago
I had an iBook G3 that I used with Linux PPC. I'm not sure about your model, but I think that entire line had hardware suspension, so it had little or nothing to do with OSX. It was one reason I got it, fast suspension was all over the
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by avar 5y ago
Just a personal anecdote from dealings with rental companies, but that doesn't seem to be the only reason for this. They're also seemingly cost-optimizing by advertising car A, and then hoping to give you an "or similar"
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by avar 5y ago
The usual ways to do that are to open a connection to the things you need at startup, and then drop your privileges, set ulimits or whatever. Or you don't have network access at all, but pipe your logs to a local process that does. Alt
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by avar 5y ago
That famous Oppenheimer quote is from 1965, not 1945. After the Trinity test he went on to work for the US government for some years on nuclear weapons, which goes against the usual "what have we done?" sentiment that quote is mea
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by avar 5y ago
It's also an interesting form of a regressive tax in the form of a confirmation bias in selecting richer debate partners. Maybe the GP is just more well-off than their interlocutor, who might not make rent this month if they'd los
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by avar 5y ago
I replicated the relevant part of the design. I put the same 4l axle into the same sort of Technic slot, it's specifically designed to be flush with those, so there's no easy way to pop it out other than to push it out from the ot
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by avar 5y ago
It's also common to say "just google things", but I'm fairly sure (and the domain is even free!) that if I buy justgooglethings.com and setup my own search engine there that Google will find issue with that sooner than l
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by avar 5y ago
It really won't require damaging anything, you just gently stick a sewing needle into the small gap and leverage the axel out. Annoying? Yes. But "can't be taken apart" seems rather overblown. I've got a 42043, Merc
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by avar 5y ago
It can't be taken apart because you'll need something like a sewing needle to pry an axle out of a Technic piece? That seems trivially surmountable. I've had much larger problems just prying two small 1x2's apart.
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by avar 5y ago
> Passworded sudo is just another roadblock to give you more time. The problem with this world-view is that it's a fallacy. You're assuming that people won't be bothered by having to re-type their password all the time, an

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