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by generj 8mo ago
I’m in favor of amnesty only because we have allowed employers and households to hire people without immigration status for decades. It’s absurd to punish the supply of labor and not the demand of it. At this point entire key sectors of our
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by generj 8mo ago
The Nazis didn’t start by massacring ethnic (and political, sexual, and religious) minorities. They started by massacring mentally handicapped people. But then they made noises about getting rid of undesirable people by shipping them out of
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by generj 8mo ago
Regardless of if there ought to be some sort of consequences for a civil (not criminal) infraction, the consequences shouldn’t fall on a 9 yo girl. I have no idea how the operators of the for profit detention center sleep at night. Usually
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by generj 1y ago
What was fabricated?
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by generj 1y ago
Digital letters of marque ought to be a thing.
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by generj 1y ago
It depends, if the political take is sufficiently shitty it’s a betrayal of your morals, friends etc to continue to associate with your family spouting it. Typically that has to be some extreme form of bigotry people won’t let go of after
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by generj 1y ago
I’ll comment before this inevitably gets flagged. Federal agents intimidating a sitting governor is an affront to the United States federal system. Anyone failing to protest this only reveals they have no actual allegiance to federalism and
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by generj 1y ago
Potential buyers should also be aware the fountain pen community on Reddit has soured massively on Goulet. In addition to deteriorating service and slow shipping concerns compared to alternatives, there’s a view that purchasing from the com
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by generj 1y ago
Not necessarily, there are still lenses being produced today with vignetting, especially wide open. Avoiding vignetting is a trade off between complexity, cost, weight, and other optical flaws. That said modern optical design and manufactur
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by generj 1y ago
Worse for SoaceX than losing StarShip, I think the pad is lost. Ground Support Equipment is often harder to replace or rebuild than rocket stages.
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by generj 1y ago
Idk about Toyota moving away from Kaizen, but they certainly have moved away from JIT. Toyota pioneered Just In Time (JIT) part inventory which dramatically lowers inventory costs and makes balance sheets look far more attractive. What Toyo
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by generj 1y ago
I’ve heard private jets goers barely get bothered with customs - I’m curious how much smuggling starts happening via them.
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by generj 1y ago
They are expensive for larger boards however. Great if you only need a few square inches.
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by generj 1y ago
Oshpark is still decent for small PCBs, since they are made in the US. From what I’ve seen the biggest impact is just the carriers requiring a huge fee (relative to my $40 worth of PCBs) just to deal with the tariffs at all. I almost wonder
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by generj 1y ago
Adafruit does their own assembly (pick and place / reflow) but not sure what PCB providers they have. There are US based PCB fabs. Cyber City Circuits does small scale assembly in the US and seem like a cool company (ran into them from
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by generj 1y ago
I don’t disagree but it at least raises the outrage from the court(s), media, and people if they were lying.
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by generj 1y ago
I2C is nice because it is (with Adafruit and Sparkfun’s Stemma QT/Qwiik) literally plug and play for beginners, with a wide variety of sensors available. Plus not needing to dedicate a control pin per device added to the bus. Though of
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by generj 1y ago
This display is the modern 16x2 display for hardware hackers: cheap and versatile. One of my favorite hacks is running this display over HDMI [0]. Note that it’s possible to refresh it at higher rates by using partial refreshes. Or even hig
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by generj 1y ago
The government said on Saturday he’s alive. It’s not worth speculating beyond that. From a purely cynical view, it’s better for the rule of law if he is alive as he can be a test case. If he’s dead, that is likely a different court case tha
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by generj 1y ago
The government thus far refuses to even admit there is a contract, let alone if it applies to the prisoner in this case. I think the judge is beyond frustrated and I would expect contempt charges to start flying pretty quickly, particularly
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by generj 1y ago
The Judiciary can deputize anyone to be their Marshals, if the executive prevents the existing Marshals to faithfully follow legal court orders. If that fails, the Judiciary could also in theory declare the executive in breach of their oath
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by generj 2y ago
It creates a lot of incentives for corruption though. It’s not at all uncommon in Latina America from my understanding for wealthier people to fly up to Miami, buy a ton of iPhones for family and friends, then bribe the customs agents to lo
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by generj 2y ago
There’s a 0% chance other countries were charging tariffs across the board on US goods at the rates claimed. The EU simply doesn’t charge 40% rates on the bulk of US goods. Let alone the random countries that all somehow have 10% tariff rat
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by generj 2y ago
If you bring back goods worth more than $800 it has to be declared and a duty paid. Judging from the changes (currently paused) to the de minimus shipping rules (also formerly $800) I’d expect the threshold to be lowered substantially. Poss
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by generj 2y ago
For China maybe, I doubt any serious analysts were expecting this high of tariffs on most other countries, like Mexico, the UK, and Canada. The methodology of counting non-price barriers on certain goods then applying it across the board on
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by generj 2y ago
I guess I didn’t want to buy any new tech anyways. Thanks Tim Apple.
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by generj 2y ago
The Aquabats are another band that are kooky magical fun for all ages. Why don’t all concerts consist of a band of superheroes getting into fights against comic book villains?
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by generj 2y ago
It’s a massive difference to SpaceX who were awarded the de-orbit contract and would need a massive amount of extra funding to suddenly bring that project’s timeline forward three years. Also a large difference to all of NASA’s internation
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by generj 2y ago
At one point I made a simple extension that maliciously edited Google and Adobe Analytics tracking requests, alongside setting the DNT header. Junk data (especially page names slightly off, etc) is infuriating for analytics users. If enoug
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by generj 2y ago
A Merlin’s lifetime run-time, even with 25+ reuse launches, is just a hair over two hours (162 first stage time times 25 times two for the static burn). That’s assuming the high reuse stages keep all the engines even. There are likely some

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