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by knodi123 4y ago
No, it was exactly that, and I misremembered some details. :-P
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Wasn't there a famous incident where the police assumed they were dealing with a serial killer because identical DNA was found at dozens of crime scenes, and only much much later did they learn it was the DNA of a guy who worked at the
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by knodi123 4y ago
Hell yes. A probably-innocent man in Texas executed for murdering his family, based primarily on the evidence of fire analysis which was later shown to be almost entirely bullshit. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues
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or just to say "hey", like the old far side comic with a canine decoder https://elorganillero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/canine-...
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by knodi123 4y ago
Ha, I remember ages ago, some guy in my computer science class was being a jerk to me, so when he wasn't looking, I leaned over to his Turbo Pascal IDE and spaced out past the right margin of the first line, and typed begin end. Whi
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by knodi123 4y ago
yikes!
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by knodi123 4y ago
> but you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs. That's such a benign metaphor that it barely even fits. Saying "you can't make an international peace treaty without murdering a bunch of random vulnerable inno
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those exist??
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> Don't put words in my mouth. ... nowhere am I suggesting he martyr himself. I'm not tryin to put words in your mouth. Perhaps think more about the ideas that the words coming out of your mouth convey? You said "If y
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We shouldn't listen to any whistleblower unless they are willing to martyr themselves? That seems like an unfair standard.
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> That seems exactly like the kind of thing that should get an agency canned But the article literally says she was killed during a commando attack ordered by Donald Trump. I agree the CIA has done lots of awful things, and that knowingl
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> I will take what he says with a grain of salt. Especially something like this, which is an opinion piece with no new information attached. What's the grain of salt, if all of the information he presented is already well-known? &g
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> occasional and unpreventable bad behavior That is a bold and aggressive claim, and I believe one unsupported by evidence. Can you prove that some of the famous, recent, dramatic examples of police misconduct were actually unpreventabl
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A plausible justification was given. It makes sense. It also has nothing to do with Hillary's decision-making. You can call all the people involved liars, or just deny the facts that have been presented to you - but the facts, as p
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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, dude, just take out the screws and toss the platters in the oven. you need software to retrieve data, but not necessarily to destroy it. I made a cool spiral chandelier out of fishing wire and hard drive parts. The platters don'
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by knodi123 4y ago
Yeesh, that's horrifying. Written 1965?!?!? Prophetic. I once had a similar deal when I lived in a house with several guys for a year in college. We divvied up the utilities, and I was in charge of the phone bill. I set up automat
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by knodi123 4y ago
The head of the Wagner Group (russia's mercenary corps) literally has nazi tattoos on his neck. https://twitter.com/sameralatrush/status/1365746097117921288... I don't know if we can draw conclusions abo
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> So what they've done is nearly completely untie compensation from the stock price. But it IS tied to the change in price- right?
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Yes, it really was. The FBI investigated and found as much. https://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/03/fbi-report-platte-rive...
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> I have seen routine maintenance being used to establish obstruction charges just to intimidate possible witnesses You're talking about Hillary Clinton, right? That's literally one of the arguments they used against her.
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> Instead, they could tax gasoline at $1/gallon (and do similar things for other greenhouse gas sources, such as coal, meat and concrete), and use the resulting funds for carbon capture. But you know there's only one political
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> Still, the level of ostracism in mainstream religions is nothing compared to, for example, what happens if you try to leave Scientology. Worldwide, a majority of muslims support the idea of a death penalty for apostasy (renouncing the
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> Now we are talking about mirrors, temperature control, salinity control, food sources, killing competing organisms, water intake and filtering lol, this comes across as FUD. Mirrors aren't high technology. They have no moving p
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> What is also nice about this story, is that it gives an official pronunciation for ‘char’. One thing I was surprised to learn is that people working with dead languages rely on puns and rhymes in order to figure out how to speak a la
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they ARE the techniques used on the space station. https://www.space.com/space-station-algae-experiment-fresh-a...
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> The algae didn't just convert the CO2 to O2, there needed to be an energy input for that. Yeah, but from the article, "MOXIE works its magic by sucking in air, filtering out dust, and compressing and heating the gases to 800
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I built a CO2 filter for my house, a "bioreactor" full of algae fed by an air pump! It was a fun project, although by my napkin math, I'd need about 200 of them to offset the breathing my family does. Still a good proof of
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> to make, say, iron ? but iron is an element?
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> The catch is that nobody can actually build a ladder strong enough. Yes, we've ruled out aluminum and wood. But don't give up! Got any single-crystal graphene? That might work! https://www.azom.com/article.
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I saw a video about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc

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