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by derekp7 5y ago
This also depends on how much wall space is in common between the bedroom and other parts of the house. In a previous house I lived in, the door was at the top of the stairs, and you would need a ladder / scaffolding to get to the par
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by derekp7 5y ago
Fair point, but I was just thinking of a way to buy some time. Thinking of cases where a tactical entry (to a wrong residence) startled the resident while they were sleeping, and the startled reaction lead to a bad outcome (multiple storie
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by derekp7 5y ago
On the topic of panic rooms in general, it is probably more practical to turn your bedroom into a panic room by having a reinforced door frame and solid door. And possibly either less-breakable windows, or window shutters that can be autom
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by derekp7 5y ago
It really doesn't work like that. As proof of the large barrier to entry, look at the number of people who follow the religion they were raised with. The rational decision is "These people I know and trust have this belief, so m
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by derekp7 5y ago
If someone gets cut in your no trespassing sign, you can be sued.
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The answer to your question is simply linguistic shortcuts. That is, the question could have been phrased such as this: "I am but a casual reader with an interest in this topic. I have read about Gravitational Lensing, and the patter
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by derekp7 5y ago
Something I was always curious about, but I lack the legal background to find the answer. What if public information showed that you should sell the stock, but you decide to hold it instead (i.e., not do anything at all) because you have i
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by derekp7 5y ago
This sounds like an opportunity for multiple long-form video producers to join under a single co-op owned channel. The channel can meter out a video a day or so, from a group of several dozen contributors, each one getting a share of the p
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by derekp7 5y ago
You have a double whammy, because houses are priced based on monthly payments. So when the interest goes up, the market price of the house goes down. Which means that anyone that bought recently will have to wait quite a while to get enou
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by derekp7 5y ago
I was thinking of that, so I just signed into my ComEd account and brought up the last several days readings from the smart meter. This reports usage hourly, and most of the days didn't have any hour exceeding 1.5 - 1.6 kWh. I did se
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by derekp7 5y ago
1800W is (grabs calculator) 43.2 KWH per day. Just checked my usage and it is less than 30 KWH per day. So that's not bad at all.
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by derekp7 5y ago
A guy my Dad knew had a business, and the parking lot could hold about 4 cars (his, and 3 customers), all right in front of the door. He couldn't blacktop the lot, because if he did he'd have to paint a designated accessible-only
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by derekp7 5y ago
So the problem with some fruit plants is they have to be cloned to get the fruit. For example if you plant an apple seed, chances are good that you won't get a desirable apple. You have to plant a bunch of them, wait until they devel
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by derekp7 5y ago
I actually got to wondering why some dead accounts got killed, when I see acceptable to good content from them. It is only when I go back through the comment history far enough, I can sometimes see what got them pushed over the edge. But
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by derekp7 5y ago
I see this in situations similar to sudo where you need to make sure it is the same user that signed on when elevating privileges, vs letting in anyone who sits down at an unlocked user's terminal.
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by derekp7 5y ago
One I did when I was much younger was after a trip to a Cracker Barrel restaurant. They have these golf tee peg games (triangle shaped board with holes and golf tees inserted). There are rules for doing jumps and removing pegs, with the g
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by derekp7 5y ago
Adblock is not much different than getting up from the couch to make a sandwich or whatever when a commercial comes on TV. Some commercials still get through to you because you don't really need to get up and do something on every com
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by derekp7 5y ago
For a controller, look at the Cycle Analyst from Grin Technologies. It is somewhat hackable, can hook up to a crank based torque sensor, or use a cadence sensor. Personally I just use a throttle that "remembers" a given setting
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by derekp7 5y ago
My numbers may be a bit out of date, but I feel are still somewhat in the ballpark. A battery that gets you 300 miles on a charge (90 kWh?) can be charged 1500 times, and costs $20,000, so that is $13 of wear per charge, plus about $12 wor
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by derekp7 5y ago
I've started upping my woodworking skills. For years I would cut and screw together boards cut from construction grade lumber (cheap 2x4 pine for example). I now work with at minimum Poplar (still a bit on the soft side, but works mu
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by derekp7 5y ago
The in-laws' computer had a similar issue, in that it was getting a bunch of shady popups piling up from the bottom right corner (Windows notification popups), where eventually it would cover 1/4 of the screen. Tracked it down to
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by derekp7 5y ago
I was wondering if there is a file format that can be used as a defense against bulk scanning, but isn't necessarily an encrypted file where you would need a key to decode it. What I was thinking is encrypt the file, but store the key
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by derekp7 5y ago
From what I understand (I don't have sources for this, other than memory): Processing the DMCA notices has a cost. Nothing requires the DMCA notice to be in a machine readable format (although AI is getting better at this type of task
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by derekp7 5y ago
Do you have any apps installed that have permit to access your dialer or contacts app?
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The one and I think only time I hit the front page (after a couple years of submissions) was a title that was extremely dry -- just the name of my project, without trying to say what it was (other than what is conveyed by the name). And ha
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by derekp7 5y ago
Pasting a picture of each page from a PDF in the Word doc works too, to keep them from editing it. Not sure if there is a way to hide the keywords in it (paste it in white/on/white text, 1-pt font, and have the picture overlay th
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by derekp7 5y ago
The Turnpikes were like this back in the day. You got a timestamped slip of paper when you got on, and you paid based on mileage driven when you go off. And if the times showed your average speed was too high, you would get ticketed also
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Show HN: GNE, a tar implementation with public key encryption extensions(github.com)
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by derekp7 5y ago
I think their house was made of earth (rock).
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This reminds me of an episode of Jim Henson's TV series Dinosaurs where a space rock hits the Sinclairs' house, and the insurance refuses to pay out. Because they had "meteor" insurance, so their house would only be cov

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