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by brbsix 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but can you really make any sort of meaningful comparison between the various entities on PolitiFact? I can only imagine that most politicians and public figures are making several thousand statements
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I assume you're not very familiar with local politics then. A NIMBY town if there ever was one. Good luck renting out a room, yet alone starting a business.
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A week or two ago I was trying to determine what cities were underneath a flight path. It was particularly difficult, whereas it wouldn't have posed a problem prior to these changes.
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It it really 'systemic entrenched sexist bias' if it's true, to the best of our available knowledge?
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I bet you didn't make many friends 10 years ago. Let me guess, they didn't welcome you in open arms when you were proven correct? People aren't generally too kind when it comes to revealing painful truths.
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CloudFlare will make sure the browser can run JS, which in the case of this service I assume it won't. There are ways around this of course, using headless browsers (e.g. PhantomJS), tools like cloudflare-scrape[0] (which uses PyExecJS
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by brbsix 10y ago
Right near the top of `tar --help`: tar -xf archive.tar # Extract all files from archive.tar. If you work with lots of different types of archives or have a hard time remembering the various tools and arguments, I recommend dtrx (
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by brbsix 10y ago
Large sport bikes have governors. Want to guess the limit? 186 mph.
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If the enviornment kills off 6.9 billion people, that's not much of a choice. If you have a choice, you find another way.
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by brbsix 10y ago
An ebook is still a physical good in a sense. The data (or some portion of it) rests on a medium in your possesion (even if only temporarily). As we all know, there are significant costs involved in creating, advertising, distributing, main
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by brbsix 10y ago
There's another explanation (among many) for $n aspirin, that is to cover shortfalls from public health program reimbursements. It's a similar story with life flights. Not exactly a problem borne out of the private market, unless
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by brbsix 10y ago
A free market is denoted by the absence of intervention by government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. Under what circumstances are these $500 aspirin being purchased? I have a strong suspicion that some sort of cartel is involv
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Were such systems widespread (and known), people would be pissing and shitting out in the streets. Or you could move to an undeveloped country lacking such infrastructure and encounter more of that same. Interesting case of blowback. Of cou
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by brbsix 10y ago
While not an issue in Zsh, one bummer about using shell aliases in Bash is that auto-completion won't work. That doesn't really matter with an alias for `git status`, but it's annoying for plenty of others. You can get around
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by brbsix 10y ago
Is mail sent from foreign embassies within the U.S. protected in any way, similar to the contents of a diplomatic bag? Does it make any sense that someone associated with the Saudi Embassy in D.C. would use an official letter to exfil sensi
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by brbsix 10y ago
I realize this is blasphemy to some, but perhaps it's time to consider further use of DDT.
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by brbsix 10y ago
I know we're supposed to be focused on the end-result, but I'm really just in awe of the code. Everything is so incredibly well documented, tested, and structured. I already see a few things I want to borrow... will definitely be
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by brbsix 10y ago
> if I rob a bank at gunpoint and then give the money to my children, the bank can recover that money despite it having passed out of my hands. It would help to have an expert legal opinion, but I don't believe this is true, particu
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by brbsix 10y ago
Taken to this extreme (wherein private property is selfish), human life is selfish. In living, you consume resources that no one else can use. As such, arguing that reallocation of your life (e.g. your death or enslavement) is selfish would
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The wording is vague, but I believe it's also in reference to the number of slaves shipped. One of the Wikipedia page's sources is "Islam's Black Slaves" by Ronald Segal. He estimates the total number of African sla
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The difference with Putin is that calling him bad names and attempting to inflame latent guilt won't provoke the desired response. Said tactics only work on people suffering from pathological altruism.
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A very cursory search would reveal that to be completely, utterly wrong. The Arab slave trade was at least as large (in terms of sheer number of victims), for a much greater duration, and as recent as 50-60 years ago if Wikipedia is to beli
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by brbsix 10y ago
Here's a quote from the "Son of Sam law" Wikipedia page: In certain cases a Son of Sam law can be extended beyond the criminals themselves to include friends, neighbors, and family members of the lawbreaker who seek to
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This is something you'd really want to be sure about. If the cause of said income gap is instead cultural, genetic, or something else altogether (e.g. drug war, single motherhood), reparations have the potential to make things far, far
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To make reparations (specifically of the non-voluntary sort) to one particular group is to cause harm to another group. This should be self-evident, but we can look at practical examples (e.g. World War I reparations which harmed both sides
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The city of San Francisco doesn't need to accommodate anyone, they simply need to get out of the way to let others do it.
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You'd expect property owners to be entitled to build on their titled property, yet somehow this has turned into a pejorative. It reminds me of people arguing for higher taxes accusing others of being selfish. Yes, it's completely
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by brbsix 11y ago
No more difficult to produce than many illicit drugs. Potentially much easier even, with the right parts. Besides, there are plenty of other countries you can smuggle arms into the U.S. from given sufficient demand. Of course the knife anal
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by brbsix 11y ago
Is it still called "traffic policing" if it's using IFB to shape incoming traffic on a virtual output? https://github.com/firehol/firehol/wiki/FireQOS-Tutorial#con...
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by brbsix 11y ago
You can install an ingress queue and apply a filter to inbound traffic. There are few other more arcane techniques but you're right that control is quite limited. Here's an example for something I was working on yesterday (traffic

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