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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
It really bothers me when they spit on days where it is below freezing. It becomes a slip hazard on sidewalks.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
That's the whole reason I refuse to install Google Drive or Dropbox's desktop applications. I only use the web interface so I know exactly what gets uploaded and when. I assume that anything running on my computer gets access to
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
> Nobody, at the time or since, said that Schiavo "wasn't really alive" but rather, some people wanted her dead I'm saying it. She was in "an irreversible permanent vegetative state". That is as close to d
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
> But it is disingenuous to invoke "rightwing government", when a Franciscan friar was sneaking into the hospital trying to feed a starving woman [Terri], who was so hated by her husband that he would take extreme measures to g
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
> The well meaning, naive proponents of legalisation of euthanasia have actually made things a lot harder for those who want it. That sounds like the actions of a politician who wants to claim they are for something while secretly trying
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
https://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-pois... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clean_Room
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but if they don't appeal and win, it will set a precedent that they'd (and other companies) have to pay out on any other employees fired for this reason. That will cost them more in the long run.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
If you want to claim "we have the lowest prices in town" in advertising, you can't increase the "price".
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Better than having to do it with human hands. They had to do that when the bees died in Biosphere 2.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
The original link did not work for me. It displayed the article for a couple of seconds and then popup said "register for free to continue reading this article." When I clicked on the popup's 'x', it redirected me
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Yes, you are basically just buying the land underneath.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Thanks for providing it, but Sectors chart seems wrong. "The Information sector includes some of the nation's largest technology and entertainment companies like Apple, Meta, Disney, and HP." Putting Disney in the Informati
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
I know nothing about nothing, but I always assumed that all the money was from Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Outside of those two highly localized industries, is there really much more money than other states have?
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
From what I learned from Apollo 13, even with O2 in the air, CO2 can still be poisonous.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Typos can happen.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
I've been following the Russia/Ukraine war and satellite internet has been pretty important there. For first world countries not currently being bombed to death, you're probably right. But for everywhere else it is better t
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Now the government has an extra incentive to get rid of unions entirely so that the company (and the government shareholder) makes more money. So yes, option B. They also have an incentive to use legal pressure to suppress competitors. But
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
They make stationary bikes that fit under a desk. I've never used or seen one, but they exist. I considered getting one during 2020, but they seemed impossible to source. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=desk+stationary+bike
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
This is what Stephen Colbert called "truthiness". People want to believe what they feel is true even if it is directly contradicted by evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
dupe (kinda), Yesterday, 9 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674244
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Or they don't even know the camera is there. I've heard of landlords doing that in tenant's private spaces, including bathrooms. When caught, they like to claim they are just keeping an eye on the property, but everyone kno
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
It is actually a Nazi thing. (Not kidding.) https://duckduckgo.com/q=recorder+instrument+nazi https://www.thestar.com.my/news/true-or-not/2025/02/19/quick...
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
The celebrity news items to the right of the article are mostly just gossip. That is enough of a reason to consider it a trash tabloid.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
The building's name is China Zun Tower, aka Citic Tower A link to AP News for those who don't trust dailymail. https://apnews.com/article/china-citic-tower-beijing-damage-...
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
I think this is a good example of Kafkaesque.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Even emptiness can be plagiarized. See Cage's 4'33" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#Plagiari...
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Specifically, there is a reason the US military still vaccinates for smallpox, a virus that was eradicated world-wide 50 years ago. As a civilian, you can't get it even if you wanted it, but as a soldier, you have to take it even if y
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
> Compare to: "Well, the car I was driving is wrecked, and it's all your fault! You should have known that I don't like being told what do to, so by telling me to slow down you forced me to accelerate into that barrier to
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Guy who sells trips to space says we need to put more stuff in space. AI is hot now, so he has to connect his business to AI. Remember when he put a car in orbit? This is more of the same.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
and submitted by the same user sva_ https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sva_

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