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by istjohn 5y ago
Correct. A little parallel construction[1], and no one will ever know. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by istjohn 5y ago
Personally, I support imprisoning anyone who helps subvert sanctions against a despotic state pursuing nuclear weapons.
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by istjohn 5y ago
That does not explain SF's homelessness. >> 70% of people homeless in San Francisco in 2019 reported becoming homeless while living in San Francisco: 22% came from another county within California, and 8% came from another state.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Most people with drug addiction or other mental illnesses have no problem keeping a roof over their head in other parts of the US. 20% of Americans experience mental illness any given year.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Why on earth will it take 4 years?
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by istjohn 5y ago
Surprisingly it turns out that if you don't build homes, you get more homelessness.
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by istjohn 5y ago
What problem would that solve?
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by istjohn 5y ago
Maybe. The digits of pi appear to be completely random, in which case it would contain every finite sequence of digits, but it hasn't been proven. See: https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/03/12&#x
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by istjohn 5y ago
Yes, but banks shouldn't be using these insecure processes in the first place. I got a legit fraud text alert from my bank directing me to call a certain number. It should have asked me to call the number on my card.
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by istjohn 5y ago
There is a long-standing idea in American political thought going back to James Madison that the centralization of capital in too few hands poses a danger for democracy. In the Gilded Age, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act and later
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by istjohn 5y ago
Take 5 minutes to complain to your elected representatives every time you file taxes.
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by istjohn 5y ago
At the very bottom of the article: 8<-------------------------------------------- The current situation with fraudulent EDRs illustrates the dangers of relying solely on email to process legal requests for highly sensitive subscriber dat
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by istjohn 5y ago
Yes, it's a good thing. Otherwise there would be a great number of things our elected representatives would want to execute in law on behalf of their constituencies that they would be unable to do so because the burden of legislating i
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by istjohn 5y ago
As a rule, accessibility is an afterthought in our industry. I would be more sympathetic to complaints if companies were making an effort. Even large tech companies fail miserably. This just reads like FUD. The cupcake store can afford to i
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by istjohn 5y ago
Exactly this. I'd like to think architects take pride in building elegant structures that are inviting and accomodating to everyone. Where is our professional pride?
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by istjohn 5y ago
That there isn't an obvious place to draw the line does not in any way justify drawing the line at a patently absurd position like this court has done. Courts constantly make rulings on issues where the boundaries are somewhat blurry.
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by istjohn 5y ago
When Brazil is burning down rainforests to raise cattle, there are good reasons to care where your beef is coming from.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Spend 15 minutes looking into it and decide for yourself. The evidence really is compelling.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Sadly, there is maybe one comment here that engages with the actual article instead of the link-bait title. The nut of the article is: > Although there’s now a consensus that human activities have irreversible environmental effects, res
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by istjohn 5y ago
There really is no question that Putin was behind the bombings. This American Life had a recent episode about them. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/763/transcript
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by istjohn 5y ago
He has a number of good threads.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Unfortunately, your second point is just the tip of the sleaze-burg. All those sites they showed as having your information also seem to have info on "Notareal Personxxx": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30610
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by istjohn 5y ago
Just hijacking the top comment to point out that Optery's onboarding process is deliberately misleading in an attempt to get you to subscribe to a paid tier. I signed up as "Notareal Personxxx." I listed my city as "Detr
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by istjohn 5y ago
This is super sketchy. Even the modal you describe is misleading: >> “External links help with self-service opt outs and provide visibility into where your info is posted online, but are not always perfect.” That is 100% misleading
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by istjohn 5y ago
Unfortunately, everything I've read suggests it's quite unlikely anyone will be willing or able to overthrow Putin. What sanctions can do is diminish Russia's strength so it is less able to prosecute the invasion of Ukraine[1
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by istjohn 5y ago
Russia is holding the knife of thermonuclear war to the world's throat while it decimates cities full of men, women and children. Damn right we're going to do anything and everything in our power to cut them off from any source of
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by istjohn 5y ago
Good. Russia is shelling unarmed men, women, and children in Ukraine. If we are unwilling to directly intervene with our military for fear of nuclear war, we should do everything else in our power to cut Russia down at the knees.
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by istjohn 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
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by istjohn 5y ago
I don't think Russia is actually afraid of NATO aggression. They are running out of accessible gas and oil reserves, so the undeveloped wells in Ukraine are too tempting to pass up.
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by istjohn 5y ago
And we still use leaded fuel in aviation. [1] 1. https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas

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