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by hn8305823 2y ago
yes, Oops!
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by hn8305823 2y ago
That damn food pyramid
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Traffic accidents and deaths are rising because of phones. I think we actually "won" the war on drunk driving, only to have a new more vicious war set upon us. Collision energy and thus damage increases with the square of speed (o
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by hn8305823 2y ago
If you are going to play the founders game (get rich slow, then all of a sudden), then you should not be surprised by the slow and painful part.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
It looks like we are at risk of losing another valuable brick-and-mortar resource. We already lost Radio Shack.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Go outside and touch grass every day. Go for a walk if you can. It will improve your mental and physical health, and can even help you solve problems. If it also keeps your eyes healthy, that is a bonus.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Why is it called "doomsday"? Neither the wiki article nor MW dictionary definition explain this etnymology/usage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Yes, they would tolerate it. Both because of the Government's monopoly on violence, and because citizens always rally to support a war when under direct attack. The latter effect was popularized by Randolph Bourne in an essay https:&#
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by hn8305823 2y ago
> I don't understand why people have such a big privacy issue with this. It all happens on your device. It's not hard to imagine situations where this complete and total information package can be exfiltrated or otherwise abuse
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Wait until you see what goes on at the county landfill.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
This article largely ignores the fact that there are common data center designs that use closed-loop cooling, and consume no more water on a daily basis than a barber shop. It's not even hard to build them that way.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
You could always bring your parents into this if you really wanted to. For some reason that rarely ever happened...
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by hn8305823 2y ago
In the 80's I had a walki-talkie confiscated till the end of the year also. It "just happened" to be crystaled for the same freq the school narcs/maintenance used.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
This happened when I was in HS in the 1980's I think it was around 86-87 that they outright banned beepers/pagers, no exceptions.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
Paying the plumber or janitor to spy is as old as dirt.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
It's amazing to me that regulators have not required a minimum latency, or random latency dispersion in orders/trades to level the playing field.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
How bad do you have to be before the Gov files an antitrust suit these days? IE/Netscape bad or this apparently.
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by hn8305823 2y ago
It's a routine random inspection of commercial freight. Gold is extremely dense. It's about the same density as Uranium and Plutonium (which is a big reason why they and/or software look for it in the x-rays).
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Since our entire perception of reality is a carefully controlled hallucination based on our fairly crude sensory inputs, this is not surprising at all.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Sometimes it’s music, like a full orchestral score For me it's usually something like a full orchestra. I assume that is because our brains are already trained on the erratic arrangements and multitude of different sounds of a rea
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by hn8305823 3y ago
I get a weird feeling reading these technical manuals from the 1940's. It feels like we used to know how to do things correctly, and can describe them with precise language, but somehow we lost those abilities? I know that doesn't
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Don't worry about the Internet, it will survive this just fine. It was designed to reroute around damage like the "Reddit IPO".
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Or, it allows consumers to make better informed decisions? The United app and website also show equipment type under the "details" expansion. You can also filter searches by equipment type. Yes, it can change but it's correct
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by hn8305823 3y ago
So what did the original statement mean? Are they going to target prices to individual customers based on how much the AI/algorithm thinks they will pay? That would be per-customer not per-demand...
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Also, the use case for quaternions depends on how many times you will be applying the same rotation. If it's a few or dozens of times then maybe not the most efficient. If it's million or billions then you are going to want to use
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by hn8305823 3y ago
https://www.indeed.com/q-Spacecraft-Assembly-Technician-jobs...
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by hn8305823 3y ago
It's actually swung the other way with multiple US Government agencies and even former CDC cheif Redfield admitting that a lab leak is most likely: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/covid
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> for unspecified reasons > my phone since it was on a prepaid plan That is likely your reason (burner phone). Did they ask you for hard evidence of your identity before unlocking your account?
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Top of market interest rates are a signal that the bank needs capital (yours). Be careful with more than $250k in any one regional bank right now.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
It's good to keep at least 1 year of salary in savings. Investing it in other assets can be problematic when the global macro environment falters because you won't be the only one trying to liquidate! It's not hard to imagine

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