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It's a bad idea because that would leak, and then you'd have bad actors exploiting a zero-day prior to day zero.
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If this survey is to be believed, as of last year, nearly everyone is using either Java 8 or Java 11, with Java 8 being the overwhelming favorite with almost 60% of respondents reporting using it. https://www.jrebel.com/blog
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Avocados are another seedpod (technically a berry, believe it or not) evolved to be eaten by mammoths and giant sloths. Unlike the osage orange, however, it didn't adapt to their extinction and would likely have gone extinct itself aft
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>it will never be a viable currency at scale Uh... this has been said over and over for the past decade-plus, and yet it seems to already be a viable currency at scale. Unless you want to append a bunch of no-true-Scotsman caveats onto t
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Seems dangerous. The external server might base64 some fentanyl and send it along as a header.
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The "secret VIP" he mentions in the article is called VIP Tours, which cost at least $425 per hour for a minimum of 7 hours. They're the only reliable way to skip the line. So there is a pay-a-lot-for-the-best-experience tier
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5y ago
So when I point out that there are other use cases beyond "replicating an existing financial instrument while trying to avoid the eyes of the state", instead of walking back your claim that no other use cases exist, you simply mov
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>It doesn't help that I personally have yet to see a use for a blockchain which isn't replicating an existing financial instrument while trying to avoid the eyes of the state. I mean, there's a domain name system. There ar
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But very very expensive to contribute to.
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They'd still be responsible for killing millions and sickening billions of people via sugar addiction. I guess human bodies are exempt from being considered part of the natural world.
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To NIMBYs, there is no distinction.
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I'd like to be able to follow this advice always, but what about when, say, you're scheduling a call with your manager to let them know you're leaving the team? Do I lead with context by titling the meeting "Discuss my D
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There is literally no possible in-office benefit that can ever top never having to commute, or eliminating all time-sinks of office life and replacing them with casually doing chores, taking naps, and cuddling and sex with my partner (who a
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5y ago
Isn't that every tournament? Cheating is always "allowed" if you aren't caught.
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Wow. You should really, really write a blog post about this, and get some of them on the record about it. A Google search for 'Aneityum "yellow people"' returns only 4 results. However, one of those four is this disserta
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5y ago
A good buddy of mine did the same, but with the message "DOOM!" His punishment was community service, and the service was having to be basically an intern for the school IT guy. Smart administration, really.
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Yeah I'm not really sure why anyone uses Viagra when Cialis exists. As long as you don't have heart or blood pressure problems, it's perfectly fine for healthy people to take, and even if you don't have ED it elevates yo
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The arguments that Facebook is evil are really dumb and I'm kind of tired of them. The core mechanism of political polarization is that the internet inexorably pulled society out of its temporary state of mass media consolidation. For
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Monoclonal antibodies cost thousands of dollars per transfusion. A vaccine costs a couple bucks. We are not going to make the pandemic manageable with monoclonal antibodies. The reason governments made the choice to push vaccines over the
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It's an issue insofar as there are companies that have productized the ability to dodge some taxes and rules with a self-directed single-member LLC you invest in via your IRA. This would severely harm those companies, who presumably ha
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>Under these provisions, you would no longer be allowed to invest your IRA into private placements and single-member LLCs, regardless of your level of income or wealth. Huh. So under current law, you can take your IRA money and "inv
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The guy REALLY looks like the police sketches too. Almost perfectly the same, except for maybe a slight difference in nose width.
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>because they're not even attempting to refute anything she says Yes. So they're right but bringing up irrelevancies. It's a diversionary tactic, no doubt. But it's not a "smear".
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Okay, so Facebook has said she - worked there for less than two years and had no direct reports - never attended some sort of key meeting - did not work on the subject matter in question ...and therefore, she lacks context which undermines
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Has there ever been a product that isn't designed to manipulate your emotional state?
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>prison should be about rehabilitation, not punishment It should. But simply letting people out is neither.
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"Things are getting substantially better" doesn't mean "everything is fine".
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It's now possible to supplement C15:0 directly: https://fatty15.com/ Not C17:0 yet, however.
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It's weak evidence because COVID-19 observational studies are riddled with confounders due to COVID patients generally throwing everything at it they can to try and stay alive. The exact same pattern occurred with hydroxychloroquine. L
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Okay. I mean, that's bad, obviously. But is there any evidence this is something intrinsic to Instagram as a platform, rather than the general practice of posting photos on social media? If Instagram didn't exist, surely teens wou
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