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Can Gettr Become the Online Gathering Place for Trump’s GOP?(newyorker.com)
3 points by caf 5y ago|1 comments
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by caf 5y ago
Perhaps surprisingly, the police force with jurisdiction here appears to be a private one, not a government agency.
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by caf 5y ago
The agency with jurisdiction here appears to be a private police force: the Union Pacific Police ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Police_Departmen... ). So their resourcing wouldn't take into account wi
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by caf 5y ago
Didn't Syndicate originate the "unit training" type mechanic in the RTS context, where you upgrade individual units?
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by caf 5y ago
I'm not sure I remember anyone cloning Doom with a setting of a Mars base infested by fireball-throwing demons, a marine as main character, puzzles consisting of brightly-coloured keys opening corresponding doors, the same slate of wea
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by caf 5y ago
I feel like they could have explained "minus times minus is a plus" using the distributive law. -1 x -1 = -1 * (0 - 1) = (-1 * 0) - (-1 * 1) Presumably at this point you were happy with "anything times zero i
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by caf 5y ago
Well yeah, because it means that I just message a contact in my default messaging app, and if they use Signal it goes over Signal, and if they don't it falls back to SMS (just like the experience of the system messenger and iMessage on
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by caf 5y ago
Thanks for the tip about the long press, I had no idea - this will be useful for some contacts that have installed Signal some time ago but forgotten about it (and haven't deregistered their number!).
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by caf 5y ago
If my experience is anything to go by, those other users see your wife's replies come in as 1:1 messages, not messages to the group.
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by caf 5y ago
You can download WhatsApp or Signal or Facebook Messenger or whatever else you might want, and have those work fine. Signal on Android is a far better experience than Signal on iOS, because the former allows you to choose it as your defau
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by caf 5y ago
Not a messenger, obviously, but they've done the same thing with OneDrive as well. This seems to be some kind of in-house Microsoft antipattern.
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by caf 5y ago
Only one of those people has Signal (not sure why they SMS'd me, but that just further illustrates the problem of how it's difficult to remember to contact people using the "correct" means) They are likely using an App
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by caf 5y ago
They're used in a generalised solution to cubic equations (analogous to the quadratic solution we all learn in high school), where they represent the side length of a square with negative area. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by caf 5y ago
Wouldn't you want to wait for at least two providers before rearchitecting your life around a product like that?
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by caf 5y ago
Yes, that is exactly what this is like, and if this was 1998 you could have joined us all in a rousing debate about the chilling implications of all this.
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by caf 5y ago
One thing we do know, however, is that the immune system has fewer tools available at the mucosal membrane in the respiratory system (where the battle against SARS-COV-2 happens) than it does in the blood (where the battle against HIV happe
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by caf 5y ago
..and then people in the year 2092 will wonder "why is it a specific crime punishable by 3 years imprisonment to deface a parking meter?"
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by caf 5y ago
Isn't that just going to bid up the prices for everything else? Historically, subsidising electricity has worked fairly efficiently, because it wasn't possible to effectively store and re-sell or export it.
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by caf 5y ago
You're out by 3 orders of magnitude, it's equivalent to an ~80MW continuous load.
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by caf 5y ago
I don't think governments care about this like they do about using foreign exchange to export wealth. If you have a pile of Fakeistan dollarydoos you wish to convert into USD, spending those dollarydoos in Fakeistan on electricity to a
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by caf 5y ago
You can buy diesel heaters for caravans, they seem to use about 0.6-0.7 litres/hour (eg. this sort of thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1JJ92S/ ).
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by caf 5y ago
You are confusing First Past the Post with Single Member Electorates. At the most recent House election, 12 electorates were won by the candidate that was in second-place based on the first preferences (ie, the result differed from that und
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by caf 5y ago
Probably could have made out the panicked expressions on the faces of the aircrew!
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by caf 5y ago
Maybe flight crews/maintenance staff should configure the machine randomly after a flight/maintenance, so as to force the next crew to actually run the checklist carefully? This reminds me a little of Adam Langley's advice
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by caf 5y ago
Never mind the passengers, this would have been pretty scary for those in the houses being overflown by a 777 at treetop height!
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by caf 5y ago
Stop this ride, I want to get off.
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by caf 5y ago
It's also out of bounds for brute forcing for any realistic amount of Dyson Spheres you throw at it.
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by caf 5y ago
The auroras aren't caused by the Sun's electric field impinging on the Earth, they're caused by actual charged particles from the solar wind entering the atmosphere and ionising air molecules.
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by caf 5y ago
Right, but when you say "this variable shouldn't have this value" , it doesn't imply that you doubt your observation of the variable - it is well understood that you are doubting your understanding of the code / in
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by caf 5y ago
Right, when you say, deep in a debugging session, "hmm, this variable shouldn't have this value" , this is shorthand for "according to my assumptions about the way this code operates and the initial conditions, it shou

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