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by beezle 5y ago
I suppose then that it is OK for foreign governments to ban FB, Insta, etc? After all, we all know what lengths the US via NSA will go to.
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by beezle 5y ago
So if I win big at a Nevada casino should I immediately buy a Rolex or two?
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by beezle 5y ago
Speaking as someone who was nearly killed twice by trees (in a car and out walking), I'd say either trees just don't like me or they really are dangerous. Though a lot of people think I'm a bit of a jerk, my money is on the
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by beezle 5y ago
Even taking your figure as accurate, how many fires per vehicle-mile driven? (And is NA just the US? US+CA+MX?)
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by beezle 5y ago
The US is also very good at issuing travel warnings that are very explicit about the risks [1] I am not aware of the DoS ever going from 'its all ok' to 'see ya, y'all on your own now!' Anyone that was in Yemen p
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by beezle 5y ago
"Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born." It is not about where you are born, it is about where you have citizenship (and possibly
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by beezle 5y ago
Masterlock is still in business, right?
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by beezle 5y ago
Back in the 80s, TOPS-20 had a bug in the OS which allowed the output of a batch job to exceed the user's disk quota. If the batch job resubmitted itself recursively, the entire system could come to grinding halt pretty quickly as all
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by beezle 5y ago
Watch 'The Fall' mini-series for a good example
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by beezle 5y ago
I find https://finviz.com/news.ashx to be mostly useful. "Real" news on the left, "opinion" on the right. Some of the blogs, like calculated risk, are actually very cut/dried just the facts. ZH for
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Aging Hubble Space Telescope in Safe Mode Following Computer Glitch(gizmodo.com)
2 points by beezle 5y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 5y ago
Don't like congress critters sticking their nose so deeply in business. All of this was probably preventable if the SEC and other agencies had done their jobs. Don't change the rules for the future to address the current bad appl
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by beezle 5y ago
Exactly. It should be expected that (for many people) after 18 months there would be an excess of people who would have wanted to leave, if they could. Now that they can, there is a log jam at the exit door.
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by beezle 5y ago
Bottom line, it will take a death (or multiple) before countries even consider getting serious about this problem. Unfortunately, losing a bird would be bad and get headlines for a news cycle but that is 'just money'.
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by beezle 5y ago
The original idea with prime (for the consumer) was that they would get free two day shipping. Amazon already had free shipping for Amazon sold items starting at like $25 total (is it 35 now?) but back then it could take 3-7 days to arri
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by beezle 5y ago
My experience is that books are mostly still OK (US based) but the frequency of getting a new book that is slightly damaged has increased significantly. Even books that are shrink wrapped by the publisher sometimes come with corner or othe
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by beezle 5y ago
I would be fine ordering from a local store and waiting but not if they are going to charge me full price as if they had to keep stock on the shelves.
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by beezle 5y ago
I have bought various electronics and camera accessories from B&H with no issues (related to B&H). However, I buy all my new camera bodies and lenses direct from the manufacturer. I have found the price to be identical (or nearly s
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by beezle 5y ago
1600kg is not a lot of tow capacity - only 3500 lbs. A base model Mustang for instance comes in at 3600 lbs. Most campers are going to exceed it as well especially when you add in supplies, etc. And that is not using a trailer. Most peopl
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by beezle 5y ago
That rating is for a braked trailer. Hope your was that type.
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by beezle 5y ago
There are two types of truck owners: those who do truck things and those who show off. The latter are mostly what I call 'house' truck owners, most they might do is pick up a desk or chair. The first thing I did when moving to a
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by beezle 5y ago
I have had a 300 page, trade sized (6x9)soft cover book in publication since late 2012. Lightning Source/Ingram Spark handles the printing and distribution. It is a very niche title that has sold about 1500 copies with the only adver
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by beezle 5y ago
I think a salary range should be provided to candidates once the employer decides to start the interview process. This would greatly reduce discovery abuse by other companies seeking that info for their own use/gain. True, the candidat
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Octo-Tiger Rapidly Models Stellar Collisions(lsu.edu)
1 points by beezle 5y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 6y ago
Xilinx had significant revenue in China and is a leader in the FPGA market. Recent China history on mergers includes failure to approve the merger of Qualcomm/NXP https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/technolo
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by beezle 6y ago
And what of China? Have they approved? Because until then, none of the other stuff matters.
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by beezle 6y ago
On the BMW collaboration with the lattice qcd computational estimate - This is a pre-print https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12347 This is the link to the Nature publication: https://www.nature.com/articles&#
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by beezle 6y ago
You might also check on Perkins Intro to High Energy Physics which also links to experimental techniques.
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by beezle 6y ago
The Quanta write up is a bit more neutral on this announcement. There is a computational result that was not included in the theoretical value used to bench the test against. Once reviewed, this difference may yet go back to oblivion. ht
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by beezle 6y ago
Really didn't know how to submit this - US govt case cites entirety of a Signal message from phone of the accused. It does not state whether the message was encrypted or simply used the Signal app to send a clear text SMS.

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