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by billfor 1y ago
I think antibiotics also have a lot to do with the initial gains.
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by billfor 1y ago
There are no new modes to switch to. We can’t fly supersonic passenger airlines anymore and haven’t been to the moon since 1972. The new Accela trains run slower than the old ones.
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by billfor 1y ago
You know what kills or harms people in NYC are the motorized bikes driving the wrong way and putting people in the hospital, with no charges against the operator because they are usually an illegal alien. Not sure Waymo is going to fix that
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by billfor 1y ago
If your point is that giving a truly stupid person money won’t solve their problem, that’s probably correct. But not all poor people are stupid. It would be interesting to quantify “stupid” further, in support of your opinion.
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by billfor 1y ago
No different than Tesla track/performance mode which is also a software switch.
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by billfor 1y ago
Those people will go back to doing whatever they would have been doing before the technology revolution, which actually wasn’t so long ago… Like maybe go work at a shipyard. We can only build two ships a year it seems…
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by billfor 1y ago
The pinnacle of notes and task lists was achieved in 1997 by the Palm Pilot. It’s been downhill ever since. I realize some people need or want something more integrated and elegant, but simple really does suffice for the vast majority of ca
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by billfor 1y ago
There’s not enough land that has enough water resources.
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by billfor 1y ago
All of that is broadcast / one direction. Social media is two-way. We've never had two-way mass communication. The rate of communication was an order of magnitude different also.
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by billfor 1y ago
Is it really a lot of water? There are significant variations but I thought, as a broad generalization, an average fracking well uses, in its lifetime, about as much water as an average golf course in two weeks.
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by billfor 1y ago
> "Ahmed, a Westchester resident who is Palestinian and grew up going to protests with his family,...."
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by billfor 1y ago
This was written before the Pixel 8, 8a, 9, and 9 pro. All of those are just slightly larger than a iPhone mini, at about 6.2".
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by billfor 1y ago
At least with the older devices, all the app does is a upnp broadcast to find the wemos, and then issue SOAP requests to turn them on/off. The app will work without an internet connection - you can verify this by disabling your intern
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by billfor 1y ago
They don't require the cloud if all you want to do is turn them on or off. You can send SOAP requests to them, or use OpenHAB, HomeAssistant, etc... to control what you have, but longer term it might be a good idea to invest in Tasmota
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by billfor 1y ago
I wonder if it has to do with the type of HDD. The red NAS drives may not like to be spun down as much. I spin down my drives and have not had a problem except for one drive, after 10 years continuous running, but I use consumer desktop dri
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by billfor 1y ago
On the east coast the coyotes interbreed with wolves and form coywolves which are really huge and can be nasty. Look at the picture on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote . It's only a matter of time befor
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by billfor 1y ago
Cold still kills at least 2x the number of people in the same region. 363,800 deaths are attributed to cold exposure. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/21/heat...
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by billfor 1y ago
We didn't have universal injunctions for most of the republic. They started around 1916 and even then prior to Nixon, federal law required 3 judge courts for injunctions against govt. actions. So this idea of a single judge halting som
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by billfor 1y ago
It's OK.
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by billfor 1y ago
If you are willing to take the risk that if China invades Taiwan your car will no longer work or be serviceable.
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by billfor 1y ago
The people complaining are the ones that used it in the early 2000s when it was useful (ie not social network and marketing crap) and you didn’t need to spend 80% of your time cleaning it up just so it’s useful again. It’s truly like a game
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by billfor 1y ago
Count how many times they use hard-left vs hard-right, or how many times they use hard-right vs any other kind of right.
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by billfor 1y ago
Does the SNI tunnel trick (changing the SNI to match the AP) not work on cruise ships?
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by billfor 1y ago
Johnson also called up the guard in '65, without the governor requesting. So is your issue state sovereignty? I say without bias. Just trying to understand the point. If Newsome asked Trump for the guard you would then be OK with it?
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by billfor 1y ago
They have been used in the past to quell protests (in LA), by Bush the senior in 1992. Actually he sent in more than the current number.
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by billfor 1y ago
George Bush called up the National Guard and the Marines in 1992 for the Rodney King riots. At least 4000....
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by billfor 1y ago
It's great for your master bathroom. I wouldn't put them in a guest bathroom because over time the wand accumulates poo - might be unsanitary after a while. I clean mine every couple of weeks.
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by billfor 1y ago
The administration has previously contemplated imposing duties under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows for tariffs that counter unfair foreign trade practices. That is the provision Trump used to underpin his first term tar
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by billfor 1y ago
Author makes this point in a related post: At a glance this “feature” seems like an incredibly bad idea, as it allows possibly unknown information to propagate blindly through systems that do not understand the impact of what they are forwa
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by billfor 1y ago
Yes it's prohibited I posted a few corrections (one positive , one negative) to his technical review, and it got downvoted, as will this probably....

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