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by cheese_van 3y ago
Is the US really "bracing" for this event? Girding their loins to brace in anticipation of this event? Bracing their bodies or their minds? Will the Walmart people make runs on toilet paper? If I want to properly brace, what d
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For me, I choose a field that I was not particularly well-educated about, and dove in - medieval history. It's a fascinating and deep topic, and I began to collect a library of the significant histories. Went off the deep end and col
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Deep in the granite mountain where the internet Kill Switch is located, there is also the US national Internet Reset switch. What exactly, in this fictional universe, is the restoration flow if it is pressed?
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by cheese_van 3y ago
How do you mean protest? Do you mean people in the streets? No, that didn't happen. Do you mean inter-governmental protest in the form of summoning an ambassador and dressing them down? In the form of sternly worded demarches asking
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by cheese_van 3y ago
With WI-fi and all connection turned off (except simple texting with no images), and with all apps deleted that can be deleted, I have 80% remaining after a couple of weeks or more. I suppose its somewhat of a privilege to use a modern phon
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by cheese_van 3y ago
"As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library.&
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by cheese_van 3y ago
I cost my company about 5 times my yearly salary once, long ago. I sampled an enormous amount of seismic data at 2ms instead of the proper 4ms. This was back when we rented IBM our mainframes for a pretty penny. The job ran for the entir
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>The US does not require you to be an accredited diplomat to get immunity - members of technical and administrative staff can also get it. Having had diplomatic "immunity" as a technical staff member, there are nuances. Technic
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Former State here. In a hurry so I only browsed a few of the declassified cables. My first blush take is that the "AI" is sorting and examining cables classified at or below the "Confidential" level limiting the danger
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Thank you for mentioning the "bat and ball" problem. Having neither a math nor CS background, I hadn't heard of it - and got it wrong. And reflecting on why I got it wrong I gained a little understanding of my own flawed min
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Eisenhower noted in his account, Crusade in Europe, that (paraphrasing from memory) that "Few really understand the relationship between America's safety and prosperity and events far away in Europe." Is this something that h
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Yeah, and a large number of clay tablets found were training tablets. At any given time, there may have been more students working on properly learning the mechanics of writing on tablets then tablets in circulation so a surprising number
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Never did. However, I discovered that unlike delivering a monologue about the subject, which unnerved me, answering questions didn't unsettle me. So rather than preparing a long speech, I just prepared a short "in a nutshell&quo
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Recommendation: The VHA is to implement continuous monitoring in all server rooms to detect compliance and risk issues associated with the organization's cats. Response: The VHA concurs with the recommendation.
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Oh man. That was 50 years ago. I do recall that my instructor that offered to put in a word for me so I could audit was Professor Flowers, very nice woman.
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Pulled into a rural Louisiana driveway visiting a friend. And out in the back yard, they were cutting off the tail of an alligator with a small chain saw. Apparently the tail is where the good steaks are, but I didn't stay for dinner
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Early 70's, UT Austin, my Eng lit instructor said she could swing it to allow me to audit the visiting author writing class next door that begin when our class ended. "He's writing in the Western genre," and I never both
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by cheese_van 3y ago
>I think the reasons are far more political than technical. You may be right but sometimes the local optics track better when a political reason is given and the local authorities might also expect better compliance with political reason
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Rolex simply wants to further their control over their brand. There has been a feeling for some time that authorized Rolex retailers, by poor customer service and unauthorized practices have diminished the brand's value. By extending
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Can confirm. In Germany, recipients of a US visa often complain that their title isn't used on the visa, only their name. Especially PhD visa applicants.
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by cheese_van 3y ago
Probably my worst memory of around 3rd grade was when I left the swing in such a high and terrifying arc, that I shat myself when I landed. Also my first introduction to Mother's Logic after I explained why I propelled myself into the
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by cheese_van 3y ago
>They aren't looking to unsettle the dollar, but be less reliant on it. The prominence of the dollar, aside from US productivity and scale, and the reasons why it is the most exchanged currency in the world, is due to its stability,
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by cheese_van 3y ago
>Best thing to do is disconnect and power electronic devices off prior to presenting yourself at the border. I might argue that unpowered mobile devices, including laptops, bring attention to the devices. Border inspection types are cert
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It's almost intuitive if you consider the distance from Bangor to LA is pretty much the same distance as Madrid to Moscow. Think of the diversity between Madrid and Moscow. Bangor to LA won't take you through an equal amount of
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I'm not sure the headline understands that scientists can be wrong their entire careers but still be excellent scientists, doing excellent and even influential science. "A black body claim for short wavelengths blew up academia.
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Poor journalism, and as such, click bait. The watches are non-functional and selling for less than 3 dollars in vending machines. Now, if Casio did manage to shrink their best sellers and sell them for orders of magnitude less than their
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In Alaska, I was told to never camp near where blueberry bushes were widespread. "It's like camping near a watering hole," I was told. "Every damn animal in the area likes blueberries, including bears and wolves."
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Around '84 doing seismic data. We just got a terminal in the office that would allow you to monitor the jobs running on the IBM mainframes downstairs. Completely new tech to all of us. It had a command line message capability. Beca
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>In practical terms, Ukraine would probably emerge very quickly as the leader of a hard-line group of anti-Russian nations, calling always for a more confrontational policy and more hawkish positions and statements about Russia. It seems
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by cheese_van 3y ago
For those who believe the US has a perfidious hand in every geopolitical event, by logical extension, Ukraine has no agency in the face of such tampering. It's clear to such thinkers that Ukraine seeking to avoid imperial conquest is

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