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by chipsa 3y ago
Tailscale hired the guy who wrote Headscale, for him to work on software, so they're sponsoring the programmer who's working it, but it's not "Tailscale" software, and they have no warranty, express or implied, beca
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by chipsa 3y ago
Free speech is not just the government. The first amendment incarnation of it applies against the government, but the first amendment isn’t the whole of free speech.
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by chipsa 3y ago
Free speech is about being able to say unpopular things, like that black people shouldn't be slaves in the early 1800s. It's not about saying untrue things. The tricky thing about "untrue things", is sometimes it's
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by chipsa 3y ago
What type of viscose shouldn't make any difference. They pull the cellulose out, liquify it, then spray it into threads, to make viscose (aka rayon). It just sounds a bit fancier to call it viscose instead of rayon.
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by chipsa 3y ago
Unless you know you have a flexy nib, you shouldn't. Too much force can cause your tines to sproing, and then you need a new nib (or get a nibsmith to fix it, which might be more). Most of my pens have nibs that aren't designed fo
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by chipsa 3y ago
ICANN hasn't even managed to get rid of the .SU ccTLD.
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by chipsa 3y ago
At this point, you’re likely to be about to finish the series, because it’s unlikely to get much longer. Eric Flint’s Wikipedia entry is now past tense. He died last year.
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by chipsa 3y ago
Do you expect Serbia to be able to conduct air strikes against Czechia? Last I looked at the map, there's at least two other countries in the way, at least one of which is a NATO member.
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by chipsa 3y ago
I'm aware, but the OP link was about British F-35Bs.
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by chipsa 3y ago
Biological weapons also have the distinct problem of control: you can release them, but you can't stop them afterward. So, you need to be able to keep your own people safe from the release, which means expensive vaccinations across you
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by chipsa 3y ago
A Boeing 787 needs 2.8km of high-quality concrete for a runway. A F-35 is known to have low maintenance stealth coatings, so you don't need extensive overhaul every flight. If you're fighting other countries from Czechia, the most
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by chipsa 3y ago
A SDB has a 93kg warhead. An RPG-7 warhead is 4kg. You're not going to get similar damage out of them. A SDB also has jamming resistant GPS receiver, which you're not going to get on COTS electronics.
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by chipsa 3y ago
It's vertical landing, not vertical take off. It's still a short rolling take off. I actually wouldn't be suprised to find they do a short rolling landing too (rather than go full hover, use the lift fan to allow them to land
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by chipsa 3y ago
Even if it did largely comply with FMVSS, it wouldn't be importable if less than 25 years old, because it doesn't meet US specific regs, including US crash testing. I couldn't buy a brand new Skoda and bring it over, even tho
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by chipsa 3y ago
When planes are on the ground, they usually are fully grounded with a tethered cable for ESD reasons.
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by chipsa 3y ago
> against the rules for one of your children to date the child of one of your subordinates [citation needed] Neither your children, nor your subordinate's children are in the military, so the military's authority over either is
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by chipsa 3y ago
Every commercially MFGd EV has an electronic interlock on the cable to keep you from busting the charge port.
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by chipsa 3y ago
I have a hybrid, and it’s definitely noticeable when the engine is on. Maybe it’s a lack of space for a decent muffler?
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by chipsa 3y ago
Example: Hatch Act provides that persons below the policy-making level in the executive branch of the federal government must not only refrain from political practices that would be illegal for any citizen, but must abstain from "any a
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by chipsa 3y ago
Elected officials set policies. Government employees implement those broad policies into action. You can change the policies your representative is pushing by changing the representative. I'm a little unclear on where exactly the FBI d
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by chipsa 3y ago
Elected officials are not government employees. It is not, in fact, turtles all the way down. They may be paid by the government, but the government does not dictate when they get hired and fired. It's possible that someone may be both
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by chipsa 3y ago
Someone said, "I want to do this," and the government credibly responded, "Do that and we'll take action against you." This equals standing for pre-enforcement actions, because the government is threatening to do so
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by chipsa 3y ago
If you're a private citizen, yes. If you're a government employee, speaking in the course of your duties, then it's not your speech, it's government speech. The First Amendment doesn't protect the right of the gover
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by chipsa 3y ago
The government does not have a "right" to speech, because the government doesn't have rights. Employees for the government generally have the right to speak, unless they are speaking for the government. If they are speaking f
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by chipsa 3y ago
You seem to be under a misapprehension of how free speech works for the government: it doesn't. The government has no rights. It has powers. People have rights, including the right to freedom of speech. If the government is barred from
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by chipsa 3y ago
He's not a member of the House of Representatives, but the word "representative" is larger than merely that.
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by chipsa 3y ago
Because Base32 is just bit shifting and then converting the 5 bits into a char, and vice versa. Doing Base31 requires base conversion.
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by chipsa 3y ago
I mean, you could use kWh/h....
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by chipsa 3y ago
Is a sculpture of a car a vehicle? The broken car is still a car because the intent of the thing is stop to be a car. A memorial tank is not intended to be a vehicle, but rather be a sculpture. A sculpture is usually not a vehicle, even if
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by chipsa 3y ago
A memorial tank is not a vehicle, it’s a metal sculpture. The intended use is no longer to move, but rather to sit there.

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