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by evan_ 6y ago
Why does the news spend so much time on sports coverage? Only like 0.0001% of the population play sports professionally.
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by evan_ 6y ago
> I am seriously interested in a study that quantified the number of NPR news analysis stories that contain explicit commentary on race in 2020. I bet it is over 80% meanwhile the black share of the population is around 12%. Seems to me
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by evan_ 6y ago
Does using a mouse have something to do with general purpose computing? Does a spreadsheet program? You should ask your uncle (who's a Lawyer by the way) if he was using a mouse to work with dBase IV.
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by evan_ 6y ago
gas furnaces do not have batteries.
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by evan_ 6y ago
There was an incandescent bulb phase out over several years that was supposed to end in 2020, but Trump blocked it because he claimed that LED bulbs were too expensive and made him look orange.[0] You pretty much can’t buy them anymore at s
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by evan_ 6y ago
Memorizing the numbers is against the spirit of the assignment, and therefore is the ultimate expression of cheating.
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by evan_ 6y ago
ETag fingerprinting has been around for awhile, KissMetrics got sued for doing it in 2012. I don’t know if there’s a mitigation per se or if it’s just the threat of a lawsuit keeps people honest. Regardless, clearing the cache or using a di
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by evan_ 6y ago
Fwiw I use this a couple hours a day a few times a week for coding. It’s great for focus and completely comfortable/readable as long as the text size isn’t tiny.
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by evan_ 6y ago
...but that’s what you’re doing?
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by evan_ 6y ago
From the Wikipedia link you posted: > She is one of the primary authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-discredited paper[15] which advocated a focused response to the COVID-19 pandemic based on levels of individual risk.[1
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by evan_ 6y ago
people living in poverty don’t have “savings”
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Credit
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by evan_ 6y ago
I’m not familiar with magit but from a quick skim of the “visual walkthrough” I think you can get most if not all of the functionality either built in to vscode or with the free “git lens” plugin, one of the most popular in the extension di
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by evan_ 6y ago
There are a bunch of magnetic usb c adapters on Amazon for not very much money, I can’t speak to quality
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Just don’t make them out of plastic.
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any vendor in theory. The host, upstream provider, DNS provider, domain registrar, CDN, anti-ddos service, lots of options. I don’t know enough about ICANN but I think they only way they could do anything to a single site would be to lean o
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by evan_ 6y ago
Why not post the verb definitions directly below the noun definitions you posted? 1. To assault or capture suddenly: The troops stormed the fortress. See Synonyms at attack. 2. To travel around (a place) vigorously in an attempt to
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by evan_ 6y ago
In most cases attackers can use the signup flow to see if an email is registered so as long as it isn’t less protected (with a captcha etc) it isn’t any more of a privacy leak in that regard.
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by evan_ 6y ago
In fact it’s worse than that post led me to believe. > Add to this the increase in unappealing grooming habits such dying their hair and cutting it short, having large tattoos and piercings, and side effects from antidepressants and SSRI
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by evan_ 6y ago
It doesn’t matter to the people forced to drink the polluted river water if the person doing the polluting feels bad about it, or doesn’t. Feeing bad does not absolve the CEO of anything. This analogy also ignores that Facebook is putting h
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by evan_ 6y ago
There was very nearly a 16 bit VR platform for the Sega Genesis: https://gamehistory.org/segavr/
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by evan_ 6y ago
My “should” was intended in the sense of “I’m optimistic that they would find it”, not “if they don’t find it it’s because they didn’t try hard enough.” “You should find carrots in the produce section”, not “you should wash your hands after
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by evan_ 6y ago
That style of RV is literally just a production van with a new body dropped on, so I’d assume it has the VIN in the usual places. They have now confirmed that they used tips as well as the VIN to idwntify the owner: > Tips from the publi
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by evan_ 6y ago
That actually sounds pretty difficult to me. Is your position here that the police should not visit the RV’s owner? They haven’t said he’s a suspect it that he did anything and the initial tip that the police was investigating him came fr
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by evan_ 6y ago
I don’t think they would have gone to his house or received a search warrant based solely on those two details. They have the wreckage of RV, so they should have been able to find its VIN. That would have led to identifying the owner. It’s
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by evan_ 6y ago
In like 2011 or so a bunch of kids came to my door trying to do something like this. I don’t remember what they brought to trade but the only thing I could think of was a big CRT TV I was planning to take to Best Buy for recycling, which th
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by evan_ 6y ago
I think it’s just gone, like he’d set cash on fire... right?
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If it had only run for one year you’d be able to reconstruct the weather- or at least the cloudy days. 8 years probably mashes the data too much.
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Since you brought it up, for years isn’t all that “long”...
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by evan_ 6y ago
Ads on Wikipedia might take the form of a banner at the top and bottom of the page or they might take the form of suddenly the page for Nestle only talks about how great the company’s products are and doesn’t mention the Colombian death squ

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