elipsey

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   by elipsey 8y ago

   I wish those sink-sprayer looking things they have in India would catch on in the west. It's like a minimum viable bidet. I thought it works better and you never run out. Maybe a slightly damp butt would be more problematic in cooler c
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   I drove a couple of Hondas like that, and I kind of liked them. Ever try replacing a window motor? :)
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   Thank you. It seems to me like they are saying they already paid for permanent access to most 2018 or older articles: "What is not affected You can still access the following content in the same way you always have: Most Elsevier artic
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   This was not evident to me after reading the article, but perhaps I did not read carefully. Can you kindly direct me towards some textual evidence, or a citation?
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   Crashed my tab real nice.
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   I love the mood voting bar on the right hand side of the page. It's like a laugh track for the news, in case you're not sure how to feel. "THIS STORY MAKES PEOPLE: Angry"
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   I did something very similar, although I'm a US citizen, so I'm not sure how well my advice applies. With that caveat, I'll answer the questions I can: >> I would (hopefully) graduate at 32. Then what? Sounds like you w
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   Thanks for the link. If I'm understanding this correctly, we could say that _actual_ tobacco use by minors has decrease by roughly half in 7 years, with a slight over all increase in nicotine use by minors. This sounds like an improvem
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   by elipsey 8y ago

   Fantastic. In Ian Mcewan's novel 'Solar', the boorish physicist protagonist remarks that when people talk about "the planet" he assumes their remarks will be ignorant or frivolous and takes this as a cue to stop lis
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I suspect that many Americans do not actually compute their effective tax rate each year. I think this is happening because people I talk to seem to construct their beliefs about tax rates based on claims made in political rhetoric and by j
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    What do you think "fake news" means, and how would this statement qualify? "[...]the official, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, said that if the rule had kicked in, some two-thirds of borrowers wouldn'
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    This spate of reports about performance and reliability problems for electric cars in extremely cold weather has pointed out lots of problem with reliability and reduced range. To be meaningful and useful, these really ought to include comp
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    >> you can see that they began to campaign HN specifically about two years ago No, I can't see that. If your going to accuse people of things, please explain what you mean and furnish some evidence. EDIT: It looks like your accou
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I think that's an important philosophical question. Sackler was correct by definition. It is evidenced that people become addicted to oxycontin _while_ taking it as instructed. Then they get physically sick when they stop, and have bee
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    >> Maybe your parents were too laissez-faire and too lenient in how they treated your missteps This isn't quite what I mean. I don't think they should have been stricter, or more authoritarian or punitive (although they were
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I think it would be worthwhile to discuss more than just per capita cost. The way that these costs are distributed is important and, I believe, problematic. The problem here is not just that per capita cost is high, it’s that for reasons th
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I have a great deal of sympathy for that “damned if do, damned if you don’t” problem that really engaged parents describe, and I feel like I have observed this issue with an outsider perspective. My spouse and I live in SF now (I’m a progra
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    Following up. I was doing it wrong. They changed the config schema for this stuff as of FF63. This post explains how to use the new controls properly, which worked for me: https://www.howtogeek.com/341690/how-to-prevent
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    Yes, Launch MSRPs were $400 and $500 for vega 56 and 64 respectively, and it seems like those cards are just now beginning to sell for around those prices.* I suppose Nvidia and partners have no reason to compete with their last-gen invento
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    Thanks. What kind of effort? What did you learn? I put a small amount effort into this; digging around in the source of a few sites, reading event traces, trying to work out the relationships between elements and so on. I'm not really
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    Anyone know how to actually block autoplay video these days? I tried firefox's "media.autoplay.enabled;false","media.autoplay.ask-permission;true","media.autoplay.block-event.enabled;true" but none of this
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    --one driver per chipset (vs one per branded add-in-board) --smaller without crapware --just empirically true: tv@tv:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 28G 11G 17G
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I think they are doing a pretty amazing job of controlling prices and inventory considering the recent craziness of the GPU market. They apparently sold all they could make at very high prices until a few months ago, and since then they see
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    >> I bet they have already optimized for "what is the most we can charge", so I would be surprised if this even gets passed on to consumers at all. It's a surcharge (the bill is linked down-thread). It's passed on
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    What I mean by this is that I suspect that telcos are drafting this sort of legislation, and promoting articles to "Business Friendly" news publications that call surcharges "tax" in order to deflect blame. That is more
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    Thanks for that, the articles I've seen haven't linked it. Seems like the surcharge could be like MTS surcharge. The carrier is _permitted_ to apply a surcharge up to a defined maximum, ostensibly to defray the cost of mandated &q
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I don't know. Evidence is inconclusive, but suggestive. I'm throwing out my lettuce like CDC told me to, but I woundn't go pointing fingers on twitter just yet. :)
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    The offending strain in both the current outbreak, and a major outbreak in June, is E. coli O157:H7, which is a less common strain typically associated with cattle or other livestock.[1] CDC analysis (also helpfully linked by craftyguy) of
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    >> tinfoil hat privacy I thought privacy concerns around RFID payment and identification were more to do with abuse by private parties, like recording, spoofing/replay attacks, or just private collection. I think I remember some
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    by elipsey 8y ago

    I have pretty much given up on the prospect of running a full fledged FOSS OS on devices that don’t give access to the bootloader’s root of trust, or give you a userland that works with a kernel you can’t control (eg Crouton). It all sounds