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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
Or that GM is a bank that also sells people the collateral for loans (i.e. cars).
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
I may simply be ignorant of the details of this case, but I never heard James Comey's name until ~October of 2016.
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
Similarly, cold war geopolitics quickly overcame the allied effort at de-nazification even while the Nuremberg tribunals were happening. Many prison sentences were commuted by ~1950. West German cooperation was more important.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Right, that success story is only because there was "organic" (for lack of a better term) information from an original source. What happens when all information is nth generation AI feedback with all links to the original source
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
>Hopefully a teacher or guidance counsler can recommend it. Not according to this bill. >...prohibiting use of funds under the act “to develop, implement, facilitate , host, or promote any program or activity for, or to provide or
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
you know, every time i see this book cited as the worst example of what the book banners want to ban, i check it out. Skimming to the "pornographic parts", i'm reminded just how repressed we are to find this repulsive. You
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
>Because they're convinced that because they have nothing to hide, the law will never turn against them. Yeah, this is a tough one to counter for me. Trying to identify a specific thing they do that may become of interest to a s
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
This is perhaps a more common opinion than you think. Making it easy to catch bad guys is enough reason. I don't know how to effectively convince someone that the ease of law enforcement comes at the expense of liberty, which so many
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Good fiction writers seem to have a very deep understanding of human behavior, both as individuals and groups/systems. It's probably a combination of art imitating life, imitating art, and part prediction based on this understand
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
And google forum search, which is pretty great overall, is often full of facebook comments. I don't mind the reddit results, since they still usually (somehow) contain the best answers to my queries. It would be great if it could be
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
"It can't be that bad if everyone else is also doing it." I'm not sure how principled I would be if/when it comes to that. I hope I will be.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
I've wanted to try this on my old Pixel 5, but it has the dreaded screen/motherboard failure. It appears there is no solution for that short of replacing the screen/mobo, which i've already done once after cracking it.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
I'm glad there is a name for these. I remember once driving past one[0], but the combination of terrain, road curvature, sunlight and foreground/background around them made a pair of these antenna look like a pair of giant hawks
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Wasn't this the original basis for their justification of being a monopoly? And that the concession to the public was their mandate to operate bell labs and give fruits of their research to industry who did not participate in the mono
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Getting call records from the phone company, a private business that collects it's users' data, used to require a warrant. Why is it different now? Only because it's so trivial to hand over access to the database? I think i
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
"The common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Yes. I catch myself all the time when I wonder how people are so willing to place these spy devices inside their home. But, "oh yeah, I have a phone on my nightstand every night :-/".
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
BepiColombo [0] uses 581 kg of Xe gas for its electric propulsion. I remember reading at the time this was being built that it consumed a measurable portion of the global xenon production for that year. This post reminded me to look that
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
I wish I could properly cite it, but one of my favorite HN comments recently was, to paraphrase, "thing, but from the Internet". Which is to say that old rules don't apply, for some reason.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
> Eventually the parties rotate They're counting on this not happening.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
And Scarface was an inspiring rags-to-riches story.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
> I'd wager most accidents happen where the most people are. Cities. Sure, in absolute numbers. But.. In the US, highest deaths per 100M vehicle miles: 1.79 - Mississippi 1.73 - Arizona 1.72 - South Carolina And the lowest: 0.56 -
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
And your neighbor across the street, so there is now one of these watching you come and go 24/7.
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
As an outsider, how did silicon valley turn so fast? Or was it always ~50/50 with the dominant image reflected by what the powerful thought should be the dominant narrative?
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by hydrogen7800 8mo ago
Do you think he knows the difference? Or cares?
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by hydrogen7800 9mo ago
Trump himself, one of Epstein's most frequent fliers, was at one time one of the most openly vocal supporters of releasing the files when it was politically convenient for him to do so . He knew he was prominent in those files, but h
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by hydrogen7800 9mo ago
To some, anything sufficiently resembling functioning government is indistinguishable from communism.
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by hydrogen7800 9mo ago
Incredulity, like sarcasm, does not convey well in text.
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by hydrogen7800 9mo ago
Well, that's an interesting take. Even if a holstered weapon did discharge (no idea how likely this is for the specific weapon in question), why would someone suspect they are being fired at by a person with a holstered weapon? Poor&#
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by hydrogen7800 9mo ago
Nonetheless, it was successfully implemented for about 100 years in the US.

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