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by evgen 2y ago
I love the notion perpetuated by American god botherers that Marx and Jesus do not occupy the exact same circle in the “economic policies” Venn diagram. Given the low uptake of Marxism in the US (either real or that which is imagined by the
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by evgen 2y ago
You can also get a mobile PIN device from the bank that uses the chip in your card to authenticate access and transactions. This infra has been around for a while and predates using your phone for this step in the transaction process.
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by evgen 2y ago
Bacteria contaminates the exposed surface of foods. Pre-ground meat has a _lot_ of surface area exposed so the potential for contamination is high. If you get your meat as a chunk of chuck roast or larger primal cut, follow good food safety
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by evgen 2y ago
You are correct, I was thinking of stability control. Both were mandated by NHTSA at the same time I think.
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by evgen 2y ago
It is one of those 'was it really that long ago? I am getting old' moments to actually look this up, but the last major safety features which moved the needle on keeping you alive in a car were the mandates for side-impact protect
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by evgen 2y ago
You are kidding, right? Twitter is hemorrhaging users and its ad revenue has cratered. Bluesky and Threads are picking up a ton of these refugees and over the past four months I have been seeing a lot of companies leaving Twitter and moving
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by evgen 2y ago
cough bullshit cough Don't try to be subtle. If you are going to lie, go for a big lie.
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by evgen 2y ago
Macs run decently as headless servers except for the limit that you cannot use full disk encryption -- the boot process stops and waits for you to provide the decryption key via local keyboard and there is no way around this. If you are con
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by evgen 2y ago
Then maybe the US should change that. Does not change the fact that other countries should be taxing US companies for their local online sales and revenue.
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by evgen 2y ago
> In the UK you also pay insane taxes and your software engineers make a third of what they make here. At my big tech, as an IC5 I was making more than our UK Directors. How strange. When I moved from US to UK within a FAANG I took a fra
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by evgen 2y ago
This is a common food labelling hack in the US when a manufacturer has a product like sausage or bacon which would normally be treated with sodium nitrate (curing salt) to maintain color and taste. When 'nitrate-free' became somet
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by evgen 2y ago
> I think companies will simply quit doing business in California Sure they will. Just like how the auto manufacturers stopped trying to sell in CA after stricter emissions regulations and just like how companies stopped trying to serve
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by evgen 2y ago
A claim that is categorically untrue and easily disproven. It takes less than ten seconds to google up multiple surveys that show the opinions of the Australian public. The most recent broad survey was conducted less than a month ago, but b
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by evgen 2y ago
It is one of the best systems available for realtime protection of windows systems against various threat actors. Prior to today you could probably have said 'no one gets fired for recommending Crowdstrike as the security tool for the
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by evgen 2y ago
One has to be completely ignorant of reality or an absolute tankie to make this sort of statement. Labour will be mildly hamstrung by the costs of a decade and a half of Tory failure, but to claim some sort of false equivalence between the
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by evgen 2y ago
> These two statements are at odds No they are not. As described so far, the system is on device or out to Apple's private computing cloud. If the system thinks it can use OpenAI then it will ask. It will ask _each time_. So far App
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by evgen 2y ago
The number of dumb hot-takes in response to this article is staggering. The system as described so far is opt-in for anything sending your data outside of either the device or a carefully vetted and privacy-first cloud system that was desig
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by evgen 2y ago
Well, it is not wrong... The Tories are not even going to be His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition in less than a month. Yes, somewhat funny that it is making the same assumption that all of the rest of us are making, but it is like Chat
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by evgen 2y ago
And now you have two problems...
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by evgen 2y ago
Definitely, but alcohol abuse definitely raises the odds of certain types of cancer. The specific type of cancer was not mentioned, but if it was liver or bowel cancer I would suggest alcohol played a role and if not I would classify this i
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by evgen 2y ago
No, he was a long-term alcoholic and that is why his final health report was so bad. Add in the additional calories he was drinking each day plus any DTs from a hard-core drinker trying to go straight for a few days while filming a movie an
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by evgen 2y ago
The article only tangentially touches upon his alcoholism without noting that the claimed effects of his diet in the 'documentary' was in fact not due to eating McDonalds for a month but was caused by drinking a fifth of vodka dai
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by evgen 2y ago
Yes there is: Dangerzone ( https://dangerzone.rocks/ ) Converts incoming documents into a PDF that is a sequence of filtered/optimised images. Dangerzone will also handle office docs, epub, and a lot of different image f
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by evgen 2y ago
Turn on Lockdown mode. I have had that turned on for my iPhone since it was first available and it is not really that much of an inconvenience. I think the only time I notice is when someone tries to share a photo album with me on family tr
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by evgen 2y ago
The claimed support for this (Cicero Institute) is a right-wing libertarian policy group that is rather notorious for is attempts to criminalize homelessness at the state and municipal level. I would take any policy suggestions they make wi
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by evgen 3y ago
> (1) Lunar holidays for the ultra-rich An incredibly small market given the cost of getting a human to the moon and keeping them there. There will be no economy of scale here for quite a while so this is an unlikely driver of any revenu
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by evgen 3y ago
The question was: could you expect to explain an atomic bomb and its power to someone at the turn of the 20th century? The answer is clearly: yes. Knowing the specific structure of the atom is _not_ required for this. The point was to prove
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by evgen 3y ago
> You don't know what you don't know. But we do know what is possible given the universe we can see. There is no magic left; the god of the gaps has been made so small that it can only live down in the quantum foam. > Nuclea
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by evgen 3y ago
You are going to catch a lot of downvotes for Atlas Shrugged unless it is added with irony. It is truly a bad book written by a rather horrible person with dubious morals. I strongly recommend anyone who has progressed beyond their angsty s
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by evgen 3y ago
Absolutely lqughing at anyone who thinks the particular colors matter. Ugly green? Calming blue? The specific color does not matter, the only thing that matters is that they are differentiated for the Star-Belly Sneetches hadbellies with st

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