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by beerandt 3y ago
The FBI lawyer who was convicted of lying on a FISA application barely had to go a year before getting their law license back. He has no concern about abuse.
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by beerandt 3y ago
I got this the other day after updating some apps via Samsung market, with Samsung Wallet. (An app I never use.) It was a system dialog that popped up warning that the app had 'malicious behavior', iirc. And was in language more c
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by beerandt 3y ago
Walking into Walmart now, if I see I've got to self checkout, it means I usually only get what I absolutely need. For my shopping habits (shop til the cart is full), that means I purchase maybe only 5-10% of what I'd normally spen
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by beerandt 3y ago
While the Navy's time keeping mission is fascinating on its own (and itself was(is) a prerequisite for navigational abilities) the understated 'read-between-the-lines' reason the Navy looks "outward" is because tha
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by beerandt 3y ago
Actually opposite. Many forms of trauma can cause these injuries (especially 'trio'), but alone and without matching external trauma, shaking becomes the most likely cause. Which isn't to say that shaking couldn't also c
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by beerandt 3y ago
>internal head/brain/eye trauma can have many causes But almost all have corresponding external trauma. The cases that don't have matching external trauma narrow it down considerably. Restrained in a car seat in a rollover
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by beerandt 3y ago
It's all about labels. To discredit and manipulate. Because 4th/5th amendment issues aside, if an interrogation or testimony via hypnosis is verifiable, who cares if hypnosis is 'real' or 'junk science'? If a
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by beerandt 3y ago
It is, but those claiming psedoscience aren't even claiming that the set of symptoms aren't "real", just that they don't deserve their own label because of the implication. "We can't explain this trio of i
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by beerandt 3y ago
Of course it's relevant. "We couldn't simultaneously argue two conflicting theories of defense"... Isn't quite the same argument when your revealed preference shows you not to believe either theory to stand on its o
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by beerandt 3y ago
Except a state judge had already given them the option to a retrial (based on ineffective counsel, not "evidence of innocence") before the appeal was made to the federal courts. They apparently didn't like their chances at re
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by beerandt 3y ago
> found evidence suggesting he was innocent. No, deciding to (not) call an expert witness to present a different theory (that conflicts with the rest of your defense claims) isn't "found evidence". It's strategy. It&#
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by beerandt 3y ago
>you can prove you have evidence that proves your innocence, No. This isn't a case of OJ finding the Real Killers(tm). It wasn't even "new" evidence. >Ramirez appealed to federal court where his federal public defe
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by beerandt 3y ago
One of the reasons for natural gas prices increasing is that the compressors that power the system have historically been gas powered, but all federal permits in the last decade or so have required electric compressors, even in remote locat
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by beerandt 3y ago
Electrically, I'd think the Faraday protection would be similar to current airplane lightning strikes. Ie, mostly survivable, if not damage free.
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by beerandt 3y ago
23 cents the bulk retail rate, not the actual cost. To get actual cost, you need to include monthly fees and overhead and other amortized costs, like that of upgrading your home to a fast charger. (Or even the amortized installed cost of a
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by beerandt 3y ago
>when a local code enforcement officer noticed that a garden hose was illegally attached to the back of the building. That led city officials to obtain a search warrant This scares me more than whatever danger the unlicensed might have p
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by beerandt 3y ago
It's not parallels to fracking, it is fracking. Except twice as many wells, and less isolated geology. Also, benefits of fracking is the generation of heat and positive pressure from the chemical reactions. If they aren't netting
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by beerandt 3y ago
Except drinking water (and lake tahoe water) is regularly tested. The dog that isn't barking is the lead level results of these tests.
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by beerandt 3y ago
No bluescreen level error when I click run? Resulting answer must be be correct.
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by beerandt 3y ago
Agreed. This is just fancy marketing for what is is essentially a battery with an obscure and overly convoluted password scheme to output >x amps. Also: Plugging in a battery booster down stream of the device's imposed amp bottlenec
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by beerandt 3y ago
Separately, the US has a problem in that activism has largely become its own industry, existing for the sake of itself more than for its founding causes. When an industry depends on problems to exist, problems will be always be found. When
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by beerandt 3y ago
Lead tends to stabilize in-situ in most installations over time to be fairly safe and non-reactive. Messing with it or changing the environmental equilibrium is often what what increases risk / makes it a non-negligible risk. See also:
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by beerandt 3y ago
It's not as simple as that. If the wetlands described don't fall under constitutional "Navigable Waterways" (via CWAs language "Waters of the US"), then congress does NOT have the constitutional authority to r
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by beerandt 3y ago
If you want safer vehicles across the board, get rid of cafe and other efficiency regulations. At this point in the current regulatory framework, safety and efficiency are in direct competition.
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by beerandt 3y ago
We don't need AI to add to our to-do list, we need it to cross things off.
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by beerandt 3y ago
The problem is that legally, zoning already is an "opt-in" protection of property rights. There is no taking, because the restriction is already voluntary, and in consideration of mutual benefit of like-zoned neighboring property
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by beerandt 4y ago
That's my thinking, but ignition is a staggered 6 second duration, so there's at least a window for adverse directional flow. But looking at that pad and the damage to it- without deluge dampening, I bet the RC spalling might have
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by beerandt 4y ago
Pretty much all serious science spending is actually military spending. People don't always like to admit that, though, even when it's obvious. More so when it's not obvious.
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by beerandt 4y ago
IP was always taught to me as a negative right. Easiest explained with patents: In that owning a patent doesn't even give you the right to make the invention described, it only allows you to prevent others from making it. Especially tr
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by beerandt 4y ago
Microsoft (zune) and then Google (music) have me not even trusting the convenience of paid subscriptions anymore. Even if you keep some music, you lose useful history, playlists, etc. on a whim. Even with the new YouTube music, songs I own,

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