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by bigbubba 6y ago
> most [...] nuclear power can't be easily or efficiently ramped down either. As you say, most, but naval reactors are very responsive. Responsive reactors can be designed when that property is desired.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Finally, a true use case for 5G.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Wouldn't local cops violating people's constitutional rights put them at odds with federal law?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
When a locally elected prosecutor refuses to prosecute local cops, that seems at least somewhat like a local problem. Also, it seems strange to me that there is so little mention of the role prosecutors play in police misconduct. Mayors a
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There have been apparent cases of police departments targeting local activists trying to bring about change through the local political process. When the local system is that thoroughly compromised, I don't see much alternative to bri
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's my understanding that the FBI is meant to handle matters of state or local government corruption, which I would think includes police departments that circle their wagons and protecting criminal cops. Probably they need to be d
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Isn't that one of the roles the FBI has?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
According to their FAQ, c-span.org's search uses closed captioning to facilitate search (but they don't provide copies of those transcripts.) Perhaps that might suite your needs though.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I anticipated somebody would mention this, it's a fair point and I don't mind you asking. Mild self-deprecation is a tool I use to combat self-delusion. I've lost some weight but still have more to lose. The name also som
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Given yelp's reputation for having a toxic extortionist corporate culture, I think it's naive to assume anything is beyond them. If you told me yelp flat out had somebody murdered, I wouldn't dismiss even that out of hand.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's obvious to you that corporations don't break laws because doing so is illegal? That's very naive.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe, but the yelp competitors seem dirty too. There's a pizza shop down the street from me that seems to have three or four websites masquerading as them, each with different phone numbers. Yelp executives being sent to prison would
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What if they fail? Would yelp retaliate against businesses that participated in the class action lawsuit? This possibility, even if unlikely, may dissuade many from even trying. 'If you come at the king, you best not miss.' -
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Well I've lost 30lbs in the past two years, but I don't think blaming others will help with the remaining 35 it would take to get me under 25 BMI (I'm presently a hair over 30.) Cajoling myself to reign in on my portion size
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Beyond subtitles, there is certainly video metadata that youtube might have a claim on but the RIAA does not.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
`youtube-dl --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download [URL]` (Then just use grep) There's all kinds of cool stuff you can do with youtube-dl. For example 'ytsearch20:kittens' will get a playlist of the firs
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The problem is yelp has more money for lawyers than a low-margin local restaurant. That's why this should be treated as a criminal matter, with state prosecutors taking down Yelp.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Subtitles are not video, so no. And I'd like to see you visit a thousand video pages with an RIAA approved browser and ^F on each of them. Nice joke!
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think I'd know better than you. Huge bowls of pasta I made myself, for myself, are undoubtedly the problem, as is my delusion that a large pizza is a personal sized pizza. Would you have me blame Barilla for making perfectly ordina
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yelp executives belong in prison for fraud.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Plenty of it? I regularly download the metadata and subtitles of entire channels or playlists so that I can search for specific words or phrases in thousands of hours of video. I know of no other way to accomplish this.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I was thinking more along the line of the people who actually deliver the pizza. It's an honest job, unlike being an RIAA lawyer or ad tech programmer. But next to either of those, even delivery app developers are saints.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Would they? They've not for Netflix, nor (to my knowledge) does youtube-dl support even the videos on youtube that you have to pay to watch.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The point is that youtube-dl does more than just download videos. It can also be used for downloading metadata. I use -J to download metadata formatted as JSON.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sucks for gluttons like me, but I only have myself to blame.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Fair enough, I'm all for neat hacks. Link shorteners in general make me concerned since I've encountered more than a few dead ones. It's frustrating to know that the content you're trying to access may very well still
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by bigbubba 6y ago
We have too many URL shorteners already. These things accelerate link rot.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Does use of youtube-dl to download videos from youtube really bump the view count? I have assumed that it doesn't, since it probably isn't passing whatever systems youtube has for addressing 'view count fraud'.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think you may be right about the fight not being over, I don't think they actually achieved any downtime. Youtube-dl didn't stop working for me while the takedown was in effect, and was even updated during that period.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
From what I understand, rebound is fairly rapid at first when the crust itself uncompresses. Then it slows down and gets exponentially slower as the exceedingly viscous mantle flows back into the region. I believe that's what's

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