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by knaq 6y ago
I miss the days when you could reliably buy service from a corporation without fear that you might be denied for wrongthink. Business culture has gone down a very bad path when we can't just do business with each other.
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by knaq 6y ago
Then you forget about the domain registration, or you are unable to pay due to hospitalization or finances, and you lose it. Likewise for storage of data at home, there are floods and fires. Reliably keeping your stuff long-term, both secur
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by knaq 6y ago
Most amusing is that Biden will be 77. Emanuel has plans?
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by knaq 6y ago
Magnetic declination cancels out. Pretend magnetic north is true north. Walk a mile north, then walk a mile south. The error cancels out perfectly, returning you to your origin. Outside of national parks, the land is usually either featurel
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by knaq 6y ago
Bow, atal, and sling are all inferior to traps for hunting. Populated areas have pigeons and squirrels, not sheep. Enemy humans are a very different problem. Humans are smart, and sometimes they hunt you.
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by knaq 6y ago
Ordering people to wear masks and shut down businesses is like ordering people to exercise, avoid alcohol, eat vegetables, avoid tobacco, and wear sunscreen. It might be fine as friendly advice, but it becomes dictatorial when the leader re
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by knaq 6y ago
It is "impossible to prevent the military from being used for elective wars" because most people disagree with that goal. (according to observed preference, not stated preference) We just tossed out the only president in many deca
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by knaq 6y ago
No, large aircraft have pitot tube heaters. Flying in non-visual conditions without working pitot tubes would be crazy. There are aircraft, for example the B-2, that can't fly at all without working pitot tubes.
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by knaq 6y ago
It sure looks defective to me: It was controlled more by pressure than movement, using joysticks instead of the traditional huge yoke. When one person was screwing up, the other could not observe this. On a Boeing, each person would feel th
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by knaq 6y ago
Critical internet infrastructure services just did that to conservative-tolerating sites like bitchute. It's worse, because "go build your own site" is tough when really standard services cut you off.
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by knaq 6y ago
I just want the precursors. Iodine... really, iodine??? Getting more than 2 ounces of iodine per year is now restricted.
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by knaq 6y ago
That's nothing. In 2018, Nevada elected Dennis Hof. He was a dead pimp, but the alternative was a democrat.
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by knaq 6y ago
Basic economics would predict that H1B visas drive wages down. Anything different would be surprising, and would require extraordinary evidence.
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by knaq 6y ago
The old bash.org meme makes this HN material. "Hunter02" is very nearly "hunter2", which is pretty funny.
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by knaq 6y ago
Twitter blocked the nation's oldest and 4th-largest newspaper, the New York Post, for 16 days. This was election interference. Twitter's CEO was called to testify about it in front of congress, where he falsely claimed that the Ne
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by knaq 6y ago
It's time for a fact check: https://finepeople.org/ The short video at the bottom of the page is particularly interesting.
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by knaq 6y ago
That is just the observers being impatient and failing to understand evolution or exponential growth. The USA is on a path to become Amish. They have 85% to 90% retention and about 8 kids per woman. Exponential growth clobbers any sort of l
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by knaq 6y ago
This gets rid of workers, especially experienced workers. Other countries won't do likewise. This gives them an advantage. They pull way ahead in economic power. Because goods and services are traded across borders, the more-restricted
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by knaq 6y ago
The world has gone 75 years without real fascism or Nazis, so the definitions shouldn't be changing, yet they have over the last 20 years. Older dictionaries and encyclopedias very clearly contradict the newer ones on the left-right me
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by knaq 6y ago
You say "by definition a right-wing form [...] it uses class divides to build its political power", but how does that match the right? The very first thing I associate with obtaining power via class divides is Karl Marx. There&#x2
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by knaq 6y ago
A couple things to note: 1. Foster care in their own country would be most humane. That would have a language and culture that is familiar. 2. When the parents can be located, we find that most are unwilling to take the kids back. This is o
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by knaq 6y ago
That just moves the date, because responses hit that deadline. Without your proposed law: Stuff shows up 2 weeks before the election. With a 10-week blackout: Stuff shows up 12 weeks before the election. (2 weeks before the blackout)
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by knaq 6y ago
There certainly wasn't a hack. At worst there could be a copyright issue, but political stuff is very strongly protected for fair use. The drive legitimately changed ownership, according to the repair contract, after 90 days of abandon
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by knaq 6y ago
I wouldn't say so. Israel is thought to have nuclear weapons, but they don't admit it. There could be others. There is a huge incentive to publicly support a ban while secretly having the weapons.
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by knaq 6y ago
This makes the common and terrible assumption that humans don't change as they age. The fact that Millennials seem more to the left of Boomers is presumed to mean that the country will move left as the Boomers die. We must remember tha
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by knaq 6y ago
Being practical, the extremes are bad. It should be possible to hit the ceiling with a normal fly swatter. It should be possible to stand on a normal chair to change a lightbulb. As long as those requirements are met, taller is better. Heig
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by knaq 6y ago
And if they disapprove in some way...? Nope, nope, nope. I wasn't born yesterday. If I'm struggling, I sure don't have a spare $30,000 to spend on a family law lawyer.
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by knaq 6y ago
There are streets below airport concourses. The streets near the aircraft are used by baggage handling vehicles. The streets farther from the aircraft may be used by buses and taxis. Large malls have lower space, often on only two sides, fo
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by knaq 6y ago
When I needed help feeding my family, I found that many possible sources of food had strings attached. They wanted to pry into my personal life, possibly even invading the privacy of my home. That was a hard "no". The government-a
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by knaq 6y ago
Somebody damaging America for his own gain is a serious problem, so it needs serious evidence. Here is some: News with explanation: https://streamable.com/bkv0up Full phone call: https://streamable.com/kdr19

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