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by cronix 5y ago
Yes, I get 10-20 calls/texts a day wanting to buy property I own in TN. I get the personalized texts too addressing me by name. I'm guessing they're just pulling property records and calling/texting whoever is listed as
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by cronix 5y ago
> As you probably guessed, this is not how I write SF — in fact, it's the antithesis of everything I enjoy in an SF novel So he's comparing a TV show, to novels. I wonder if he ever read the actual original Star Trek books? The
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That was before there was an invasion to blame it on.
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It doesn't really affect them because the tenant is defacto paying the mortgage, and there is no shortage of tenants. It will just further increase rent rates during the next rental contract renewal, but buried in with all of the other
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Does an individual cherry picked tax matter in the grand scheme if the total tax burden (all taxes added together) is higher?
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Thanks for that. Was a big PWEI fan in the late 80s/early 90s but had no idea of their connection to games/graphics.
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How much of the video has to be watched to be considered "a view?"
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I also love that they now have "subscribe" as the default option for purchasing things and you have to manually select "one time" to only purchase once.
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Here's a 60 Minutes piece discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY Here's a 4 hour interview with the pilot, David Fravor, on Lex Fridman's show where he goes into much more detail than you&
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> I cannot imagine ~18,000 views is the top 1% We're comparing the wrong numbers. If it was a 1 minute video, probably not. If it was an hour long video, well, there's quite a difference in bandwidth consumed per view. The isol
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> Happily, there is induction, which uses electromagnets to efficiently heat cookware without the inherent pollution of fossil fuels like natural gas. Yet about half of the electricity in NY is generated with natural gas[1], so most of t
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My MBP disconnects from BT speakers several times a day. It's 2 feet away, both are stationary.
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Use nitter.net to view twitter. Just http://nitter.net/username . It barely uses javascript (except if you want to watch video), no ads, no popups, no login, no "trending" section. Just the content of the person yo
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by cronix 5y ago
Silent majority....of what, Axios? Twitter users? Article never says. > 75% of people in the U.S. never tweet. The above is also a link in the article, which if you follow it, it states > roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever u
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Now look at how much fertilizer Russia produces (~23% global supply of ammonia, 14% of urea and 21% of potash). That affects a lot more than just wheat. Food costs are going to soar way beyond what they currently are, world-wide. > Natur
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A lot (most?) of them are. Trojan, in Portland Oregon, wasn't. It left a bitter taste in the mouths of many Oregonians, especially the main population center of the state in Portland, to the point the basically banned it. Also a lot of
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> it is well known that things like Disney/Hollywood movies (that were still circulating in a sort of samizdat way) and mundane consumer products like Coca-Cola or Levi's did a lot more at bringing the Wall down than the entire
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> Also: what bidets require electricity? There are some with heated seats, and some that heat the water to a comfortable temp and also some with pumps to supply more pressure. There are dozens on Amazon.
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"Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack on supplier" would be far more accurate
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It's a benefit only in terms of publicity. In the same way if someone killed someone with a knife and left a "Jack the Ripper was here" note would get a lot more sensationalistic press than no note. Anonymous was a household
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"information wants to be free" goes back even further
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In that scenario, wouldn't Ukraine, a non-NATO country, be the aggressor against NATO? How would that deter anything? It seems that would turn NATO against Ukraine for threatening their energy supply.
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> “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. This individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.” So, "view page
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> someone died usually someone of note to the tech/HN community
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I prefer heavy duty felt pots which have the advantage of "air pruning" the roots. Once you've seen the root system those develop you won't go back to anything plastic. Instead of just curling around the bottom of the co
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Damn, they finally figured out that 867-5309 isn't our phone number.
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I still have the whopping 5 meg hard disk that my dad bought for his model 1 in my garage. I vividly remember him yelling "tell it to park" before shutting it off. It's huge. The hard disk was about 6x bigger than the actual
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So I never created a Twitter account. Over the years, there are a few people that I liked to read their thoughts on Twitter, so I'd manually go to their wall and read occasionally. They're all verified. Over time, it became cumber
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What was the default up until they gave users that choice?
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That's been around for quite a long time, at least the late 1960's. > A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being

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