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by dsr_ 7y ago
Which is why you outsource the tree planting to a place that has room for trees -- and it's more efficient because they can grow trees better than you can, anyway. nationalforests.org, the Arbor Day Foundation... there are probably lot
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by dsr_ 7y ago
If we assume that Ms. Thompson is generally terrible at opsec, then presumably she is also terrible at offensive security, which leads to one of two conclusions: Either: A: She is being framed. or B: Capital One's security was (and pro
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by dsr_ 7y ago
1. Racists don't agree with each other on who counts as what race. 2. Racists can't point to actual genetic variation to establish their ideas. 3. Racists can go fuck right off.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Nope. "Race" in humans is a cultural construct, of interest primarily to people who want to feel superior to other humans ... and the people who study those people.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Maybe? The annual water quality tests for chemical contamination look reasonable. But a quick check of boil water orders (i.e. bacterial infestations) suggests that Massachusetts needs five or six a year, and West Virginia needs five or six
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by dsr_ 7y ago
The Turris Omnia is actually a very good choice, because it is well supported by security updates. The number one flaw of commercial routers/security devices is that they don't get updated or can't get updated. If you don&#x2
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Sure. You'll just need to differentiate [i, j, I, l , 1], [o, O, 0, Q, G], [a, e], [E, 3], [S, 2, 5, Z], [A, 4, h], [B, 8], [L, 7, J], [6, 9, , [R, P, d, b, p, q, g, y] , [M, m, w, v, u, n, W, V], [X, x, k, K].
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Woad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Font IP is special! The names are trademarks, so you can't copy them exactly, but you can use suggestive alternates. Palatino => Palatable, for example. TeX Gyre Pagella is a very nice version. The code is copyrighted, so you can&#x
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by dsr_ 7y ago
That was because it was the only way people could buy computers that weren't pre-selected by Compaq, Dell or IBM. It was a 100% paid-placement catalog. Pretty quickly I figured out that articles by Steven J Vaughan-Nichols were worth r
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by dsr_ 7y ago
I looked at the photo and said to myself, "Is that West Lebanon in New Hampshire right before you get to White River Junction in Vermont?" And the answer is no, but it's pretty similar.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
We are notoriously unable to estimate the time required to complete software projects. Most of us have zero practical knowledge of civil engineering. Expertise in one field does not automatically confer expertise in another.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
When a company builds its product to tightly integrate with another company's product, I always feel like asking: - What will you do if the other company decides to change the way it looks/acts/feels without consulting you? -
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by dsr_ 7y ago
This is an excellent rule for cleaning up (a room, a house, an office...): touch any given thing once at most. In extreme cases, it doesn't work because you don't actually know where things are going to go, in which case a two-rou
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by dsr_ 7y ago
The prices will reflect the percentage of people who use this right -- and this is also valuable information to the seller.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
... and claiming it's not a privacy violation because they don't let the others search for martingoodson, they just offer selection criteria including your age, gender, geographical location, inferred income, inferred religion, in
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by dsr_ 7y ago
104 comments and nobody has mentioned that this is an extremely common problem for women.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
A kink is a thing which is bent; so if you describe majority sexuality as "straight", then anything else is kinked, or kinky, or is a kink.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Suppose you think the average article in The Economist is terrible. One might then conclude that it's not worth reading in general. But HN acts as a recommendation, and that might be a strong enough signal to interest you in reading th
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Do the people in Thailand who make $7/day generally have reliable access to the Internet for 8 hours a day, with a cost for network access and smartphone under $8/day? And a ready source of loans to cover the initial purchase? And
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Even more than that: Craigslist wasn't alone. Craigslist is the survivor.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
For most skills, I absolutely must have a small project in mind from the beginning. I have no patience for learning a new language or tool if I don't have a particular project that uses it.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Lossless encodings don't throw anything away that was present in the original source file; if you start with a recording chain that can store 200,000 samples per second from an adequate microphone, you can resolve 100KHz - epsilon freq
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by dsr_ 7y ago
9. We had difficulty accessing our own systems because of the outage and the bypass procedure wasn’t well trained on. Suggestion for future, learned from bitter experience: separate your control plane from your data plane. In this case, mak
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by dsr_ 7y ago
That's an overly romanticized view. Moving long distances was slow and/or expensive. There was little in the way of international banking, so if you wanted to have money in your new home, you had to bring gold or silver or sell ot
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Only if you're going to "no true Scotsman" ice cream. For anyone not subscribing to that view, ice cream can be made with or without eggs. French style, Philadelphia style, Gelato, and churnless all differ in whether there ar
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Taking all the visible cream from whole milk that has been left to stand and separate gets you 15 - 20% fat, depending on the breed of cattle and what they've been eating. That's comparable to what the UK calls "single cream&
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by dsr_ 7y ago
When most beaches are green, white ones will be more valuable real estate.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
The epubreader addon for Firefox is not perfect, but it is pretty good. It would be better if it would: - reflow on window size change - allow me to pick any system font to read in
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In 2010, Dieter Zapf and Claudia Gross took 149 victims of self-described bullying at work and taught them various conflict resolution techniques and studied the results. The effect? Victims tried various strategies and even altered their s

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