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by firstlink 3y ago
> Spices in a stew will only ever possibly reach 212. When blasted on dry heat they can get higher. Some claim that this is a thing when making rice too. I've tried toasting the grains for a few minutes before adding the water to bo
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by firstlink 3y ago
"No one is teaching kids how to have oral sex, but if they are then they are not teaching them how to hook up, but if they are then they're only teaching them to hook up with each other and not adults, but if they are then actuall
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by firstlink 3y ago
Can you explain in detail how Grindr is an important part of Suzy's safe sex education? Reminder that Suzy is 11 years old, not a teenager. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/
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by firstlink 3y ago
On a planet where the book is being offered to/pushed on young children. That is literally what people are objecting to.
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by firstlink 3y ago
> there is no book for children that talks about oral sex that is was in any place where a kid could read it Yes there was, and your conviction that this must be an exaggeration shows just how completely out of touch the mainstream media
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by firstlink 3y ago
Let me guess, mandatory cultural education and engagement camps?
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by firstlink 3y ago
> to always using the most secure method available. If they can't use the method they were prompted to use, they can choose a different MFA method to sign in It doesn't work that way, and everyone who has thought about the prob
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by firstlink 3y ago
Oh yes, adding a form will definitely help people pay attention.
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a unanimous decision in the Twitter case Uh, what? Did anyone actually check with the other judges to see if they're okay with the most corrupt supreme court judge speaking for them?! It seems real
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by firstlink 3y ago
It sounds like you are advocating for the deeply fascistic concept of "personal responsibility". Not a good look.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Expect more 2-hour cutscene fests. As a recent egregious offender Hogwarts Legacy comes to mind,; I think actual gameplay lasted around 10 minutes in the first two hours and the rest was cutscenes.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Nor COM files apparently.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Because the person pushing this panic never heard of those.
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by firstlink 3y ago
That rule would make every adult in the 50 states and DC (*exceptions may apply in North Carolina only) police. The state has a monopoly on violence but it does not restrict the use of its monopoly to police; it graciously allows anyone to
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by firstlink 3y ago
Lane assist is a product of the pervasive "what works in urban San Francisco/other coastal cities is the right solution for everyone" mentality. Unexpected obstacles are far from the worst of its problems on rural roads. Lane
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by firstlink 3y ago
A clear accounting of what you have already paid is on your 1040, copied in from your W-2. People are ignorant of it because they want to be.
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by firstlink 3y ago
The IRS requires your broker to report a different cost basis to you than you are entitled to use. It is government-mandated disinformation, not a misunderstanding.
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by firstlink 3y ago
I never said anything about COVID vaccines. Why even bring them up?
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by firstlink 3y ago
> Astronomers reveal The scientism runs strong on HN. Astronomers and other scientists are not a priestly class. They revealed nothing.
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by firstlink 3y ago
I thought the bit where knitting hadn't been invented yet was pretty illuminating on the dodecahedron hypothesis.
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by firstlink 3y ago
How does this fit into the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_b... according to which RNA is short-lived?
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by firstlink 3y ago
> it's even harder to write correctly than it is to write sound C/C++/Zig/etc I have said very similar things in the past but I am beginning to realize that, just like with "zero-cost abstractions", this wor
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by firstlink 3y ago
> If you use mostly unsafe, at that point you might as well use any systems language and wouldn’t expect a CVE decrease really. Most systems languages that are actually being used out there in the wild have weak type systems that must b
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by firstlink 3y ago
> In our current world of SSH and HTTPS, it seems less likely the new generation will have the same experience. Pushing encryption into the transport layer a la QUIC could solve this, if not for the spurious dependency on user-hostile TL
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by firstlink 3y ago
Ugh TLS certificates are such flaming garbage. There is zero reason for them to be in a machine-first protocol like ASN. Here we are with billions of computers spewing human-first protocols like JSON at each other and we can't even use
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by firstlink 3y ago
"Censorship Industrial Complex" is a right-wing extremist (fascist) dog whistle for not being allowed to spew hate and white nationalism to quite as large an audience as they could before. That's all. Why is this term being d
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by firstlink 3y ago
> without any human trial data comparing the two Irrelevant distraction propaganda. It's a COVID vaccine. COVID vaccines are safe and effective. End of story.
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by firstlink 3y ago
I must confess I still don't understand why ads are not a CFAA violation. I mean, what are the website operators going to argue? That you voluntarily configured your user agent to display them? That argument is far too dangerous to the
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by firstlink 3y ago
Thanks, that's the clearest explanation I've seen.
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by firstlink 3y ago
Just wait until they learn which way SCOTUS rules; then we will learn that actually 95% of the public are staunch supporters of affirmative action who are absolutely horrified that the fascist court could be so racist.

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