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by hapless 5y ago
The NYPD does actually maintain tanks God only knows what they expect to do with them
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by hapless 5y ago
Unlike Mexico, New York City does not need to maintain its borders or enforce a monopoly on the use of force and a supreme law -- because New York City is not a Westphalian state, it is just a municipal government covering a few hundred squ
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by hapless 5y ago
I didn't say anything about "fake news," and I didn't make any claims. It is my opinion that the group described in this piece probably recruits people for Kurdish nationalist causes. Lucky for them that Reuters picked
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by hapless 5y ago
Zoroastrianism isn't typically a conversion religion, nor is Yazidism, one of the indigenous religions of the Kurdish peoples. I suspect this "Yasna association" and their placement of a Reuters article are both efforts by Ku
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by hapless 5y ago
Manufacturers sell through dealer networks to the buyers of new cars, who are a very small fraction of the population, who tend to buy cars rather more often than the average person In other words, they primarily care about the first owner,
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by hapless 5y ago
How, exactly, has anything improved in manufacturing? As a rule of thumb, any time you see a Phillips head or Pozidrive screw, you are looking at a product that was assembled by hand, the way things were done 100 years ago.. If that seems
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by hapless 5y ago
That's not particularly true Inductive stoves are vastly more efficient than the old fashioned resistive coil stoves, so your 3000W of input power can yield cooking heat similar to a 40,000 or 50,000 btu gas stove. They also reach temp
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by hapless 5y ago
They bury the lede in the last fucking paragraph. The reason this toaster is immensely better than the toaster you have at home is very, very simple: this toaster's 1949 price would be hundreds of dollars in 2021 terms. You can still
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by hapless 5y ago
If interest rates go up, homeowners are instantly underwater on their mortgages. Purchase cost on housing is very, very tightly correlated with the interest rates, because shoppers' budgets are determined by their monthly payments, n
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by hapless 5y ago
POWER was not originally open for use by others, under any license terms. It also was on the trailing edge of performance for many years. The original POWER 1 and POWER 2 boardsets were enormous power-sucking bastards with price tags to m
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by hapless 5y ago
In the 1990s it actually made some sense. If you go back to, say, 1993, every RISC vendor was selling chips that were much, much faster than x86. It was working like gangbusters. The problem is that development costs rose and rose an
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by hapless 5y ago
Sun experimented with an UltraSPARC-branded ultra-wide CMT design in their last days -- Niagara. It was very unsuccessful, because, realistically, what can you do with 32 low-performance cores that you couldn't do with 8 high-performa
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by hapless 5y ago
ISDN was very, very popular outside the United States. Hell, Tokyo's payphones used to have ISDN jacks for laptop users. Tadpole later became a vendor that almost exclusively targeted the US military, but it didn't start out that
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by hapless 5y ago
SPARC rapidly became a performance loser to x86. And, at the time, Intel had no process advantage. None at all. Intel Pentium II was almost exactly 100% as fast as UltraSPARC IIi, on the same process (350 nm), at about 1/20th the cos
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by hapless 5y ago
I don't think it will surprise anyone to hear that Northwell is based on Long Island. Other hospital systems were not obliged to fire so many staff.
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by hapless 5y ago
You are seriously misreading the story at hand. https://www.fox46.com/news/investigations/government-seizes-... The threatened "investigation" in was the civil asset forfeiture procedure. They were aski
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by hapless 5y ago
"Surrender your cash & no investigation" is pretty plainly an extra-legal demand -- a civil asset forfeiture process was the threat in that discussion! The officer's preferred option was that the money was seized with
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by hapless 5y ago
In the incident described in the local news story, an officer of the law demanded the money extra-legally, and only resorted to civil asset forfeiture after the victim refused to play along. I think it's important to note that it bega
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by hapless 5y ago
Oops. I had already edited my post to change "DoubleClick" to "Google Adwords" and I got the product name wrong!
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by hapless 5y ago
If you want to make money on display advertising, you will grasp for whatever pennies you can get Google Adsense is not always the highest-paying option for a given impression There are entire companies that do nothing but figure out quietl
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by hapless 5y ago
Fixed-rate mortgages are government-subsidized by a range of mechanisms (Fannie, Freddie, FHA, etc) Adjustable-rate mortgages are not.
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by hapless 5y ago
Fixed rate mortgages are subsidized by the US government, that's why. The mechanism of the subsidy is extremely complicated, but it is not a small effect. Before the creation of the enormous state-owned insurance corporations and go
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by hapless 5y ago
Facebook are infamous liars, but journalists keep covering Facebook as if their various PR statements are true This is like, the 100th time Facebook's public relations has been caught lying about pretty much every god damn topic they h
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by hapless 5y ago
It appears to have been banned when the author offered an illegal sweepstakes. Contests and sweepstakes are carefully regulated in America, with slightly different regimes in all 50 states. You should not run one unless you have gotten leg
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by hapless 5y ago
Don't worry, it's equally shit on Linux.
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by hapless 5y ago
From an Indy owner, for folks who may be interested: * The Indy was meant to run IRIX 5.x. It does this pretty well with 64M of RAM, and really well with 128M or 256M installed. * IRIX 6.5 was not designed with the Indy in mind, and, wel
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by hapless 5y ago
Assuming they were not struck dead by future shock (photo, radio, television, telephone, mobile handsets), they would lose their damn minds that Black people have escaped slavery, non-landholders can usually vote, and the Presidency is (mos
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by hapless 5y ago
Read the papers published by Apple. The target database is (intentionally) designed to make it impossible for Apple to know what the targets are. This is a complex cryptosystem designed to keep Apple out of the loop. There is a target d
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by hapless 5y ago
There are no details in the whitepaper. The "1 in 1 trillion" figure is accidental flagging on the target database, but there is no validation whatsoever on the target database. How can you, or I, or any other citizen, know whet
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by hapless 5y ago
There is something like a 0% chance this program wasn't co-developed with representatives of the government entities you least want rifling through your data.

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