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by brewdad 2y ago
Do we really want to spend our time in the legal system litigating what a table is? What if I use a chair as a place to set my dinner plate while eating on the sofa? A reasonableness standard is the only practical way to start defining a la
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by brewdad 2y ago
My local paper is about 9% local crime stories, 1% local politics stories, and 90% AP story reprints. For that, they want $10/mo for the online product or $20/mo for a 4x a week delivery of a dead trees product. AP will give me 90
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by brewdad 2y ago
My problem with NPR is that is the spirit of remaining unbiased, they allow both sides of the political spectrum to say their piece with little to no push back. Whichever side spews the best lines of BS wins regardless of the actual facts o
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by brewdad 2y ago
It's the Air Force. Really it should be the Navy or the Coast Guard cleaning it up, right?
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by brewdad 2y ago
Paracetemol proves the original complaint. In the US, we know it as acetaminophen.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I really wanted a 12 mini but the shortened battery life made it a no-go for me. Ended up with a standard 12 and am still happy with it years later aside from it being slightly larger than I would like.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Yeah, I'd imagine the helicopter is where the big expense lies and those are mostly private hires. The SAR teams around me are first responders already on duty or volunteers. They still have expenses when launching a mission but drivin
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by brewdad 2y ago
Are there cases of people actually being charged for their backcountry rescues? I know it's theoretically allowed many places but I'm not aware of anyone actually being billed. Generally, SAR teams would rather the R continue to s
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by brewdad 2y ago
You actually need to run 6:51/mi to break 3 hours in a marathon. Source: Guy who once ran a marathon in 3:00:06. I did eventually break 3 hours multiple times but that near miss hurt for a long time. And yes, anyone who can run that fa
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by brewdad 2y ago
If “I thought they had a gun” is a free pass for cops to murder why won’t cops simply say “I thought I heard a cry for help” when they kick a door down without a warrant?
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by brewdad 2y ago
In states with a sales tax, you do pay sales tax on the labor charges.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I assumed my city wouldn't accept drinking glasses due to safety issues. The assumption being that the most likely case someone would recycle a drinking glass is after breaking it and they don't want their workers getting cut. Tur
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by brewdad 2y ago
Taking "Let me just toss these dishes in the dishwasher real quick" literally.
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by brewdad 2y ago
For the right user, the Chromecast is the perfect device. Trouble is, for multi-user households or other users that don't fit the perfect mold its flaws quickly become apparent. Hopefully this device can fix most of the flaws while sti
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by brewdad 2y ago
I mainly use Proton to get around geo-blocks. FWIW, I tried this new protocol out on BBC iPlayer and it failed horribly. I tried the Wireguard UDP I normally use and streamed without any problem. It's a single data point but if the goa
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by brewdad 2y ago
So then this gambit worked. It sucks and I hate it. I will continue to use DDG/Bing first but it looks like I'll be hitting up Google more often too.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Agreed. I have both types and they are both fine. The one with heated water and a heated seat and different spray options is obviously nicer but the Amazon special does just as good of a job getting me clean for much less money. Personally,
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by brewdad 2y ago
The corporate tax structure was different back then as well. Much higher tax rates and it was far more difficult to simply ship your profits off to another more tax-advantaged nation. If the choice is spend the money hoping to find the next
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by brewdad 2y ago
Certainly not everyone, but a lot of the people who have entered the field in the past decade are chasing the money. The never had the passion for it but they were and are good at it, so here they are.
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by brewdad 2y ago
It’s funny. I am left handed but I have always worn a watch on my left arm. At some point, when I was told that was “wrong”, I tried putting it on my right wrist but I couldn’t deal with it. I also mouse right handed because in the early da
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by brewdad 2y ago
They must be doping them with something because I’ve encountered chicken bones that aren’t even fully formed inside of chicken thighs that are above average in size. My MIL used to be a food scientist and spent a few years working with Tyso
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by brewdad 2y ago
Like everything else in this article and thread, it probably used to be. Now it’s mostly natural and artificial flavors held together by food chemistry from New Jersey.
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by brewdad 2y ago
> This is precisely how we end up in a world where we’re all running twenty five year old software. Linux?
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by brewdad 2y ago
Is Cree considered higher quality? I had one of their CFLs try to burn my house down about 10 years ago. I smelled burning plastic from the adjacent room and found a bulb in an open fixture with a completely blackened base. I haven't b
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by brewdad 2y ago
I use Signal's Note to Self. It's often easier than dealing with a notes app or file syncing for one offs or interesting links I want to read on another device.
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by brewdad 2y ago
If you live in a place where downloading is a gray area legally, it could save you a lot of potential hassle. Even if you win in court, it is far cheaper and better to have never been summoned in the first place.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Because you aren't uploading like you are with torrents. In many (most?) jurisdictions downloading for personal use is ok. It's the uploading that exposes you to legal liability.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I mean the patent is public information. If you want to have a go at selling it, buy it or license it from me and have at it. Otherwise, invent your own idea or wait for mine to expire.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I moved to 2FAS Authenticator mainly because I didn't want my 2FA tokens linked up with my Bitwarden account. I backup my tokens in an offline KeePassX vault to ensure I won't lose access to them.
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by brewdad 2y ago
There used to be a roundabout (unsupported) way to export from Authy Desktop to another app but Authy discontinued the Desktop app and Windows at least won't let you launch it anymore. I'm not aware of a way to export from the Aut

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