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krisoft
2y ago
The question was “How exactly is post-death gossip going to dissuade other whistleblowers?” I answered that. Understanding and describing how it works doesn’t mean that the alternative of keeping silent about suspected deaths is prefered.
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2y ago
I’m not sure what you are asking. There is someone who knows some ugly secret and is considering if they want to publicly release it. If they can recall many dead whistleblowers who were rumoured to have been assasinatend over that kind of
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2y ago
> I got to push back on this Push back on what exactly though? I claimed that it is not hard to decide if one wants to buy it. I just decided that i don’t want to buy it. It sounds like you came to the same decision. So what is exactly t
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2y ago
Thank you for the explanation! I was totally confused about it. I thought the pump is at the other end of the tube. In that case I agree that a video where one makes coffee with it would be useful. That would have disabused me of my confusi
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2y ago
OH! I think you might be right. Oh! That explains it. Thank you. Thinking about it now, of course. What else would the power lead be for? It doesn't heat the water. The pump being in that part can be the only other explanation. > Th
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2y ago
> Cool concept, but hard to make a decision with so little information. It sounds like it is not hard to make the decision. I made my decision and it is a no. This is a cool thing for people who want to try the latest concepts but don&#x
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2y ago
> How does a research ban even work? It seems to me that at some point someone is going to research it; This is a function of how easy it is to do the banned thing, how easy it is to detect when it is being researched and what are the be
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2y ago
> He has "full body" shots in the actual store Is this the image you are thinking about? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642b16caa70131... Because the problem is that it is not the "
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2y ago
> The reason you’ve done this is that you’re very familiar with the design. Visitors are not—you’ve forgotten what it’s like to see it for the first time. Maybe part of the problem. I suspect that is not the whole reason. I think they ar
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2y ago
> I have placed very low bids on items in sealed-bid auctions for things I had no immediate need for, but would happily pay for if the cost was very low Would you think it would have gone differently in an English Open Cry situation?
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2y ago
> The hearings in the last 2 days seemed to have Lopez agreeing with the creditors and not Jone's FUAC. Yet, somewhat seemingly out of the blue, he decided to deny the sale. This is actualy quite common with judges. Or so i heard fr
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2y ago
> There is an entire industry that does pretty much that... today. Which industry runs C compilers on embeded devices? Because that is what the part you elipsised out was talking about.
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2y ago
> I suspect the billion dollar settlement will be overturned on appeal as being excessive Not a lawyer, but that didn't seem to have happened? Quote from this article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/appeals-cour
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2y ago
Context doesn't make a false statement true.
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krisoft
2y ago
> If you're not touching code you're not an engineering manager Surprise: Not all engineering is software engineering.
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krisoft
2y ago
> and the "vias" don't really make sense for any location I could think of Most likely because the board has been decommissioned and the flaps got flapped around randomly. Very likely that is why one can't find a pict
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2y ago
Not necessarily. Sometimes there are whole words on the flaps. Look at this example: https://stock.adobe.com/uk/images/split-flap-or-just-flap-di...
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2y ago
> Even if the cops didn't find anything on him they'd ID him for real Sure thing. They would know what the guy who kinda look like a photo of a wanted man is called. Doesn’t necessarily means they can pin anything on him. Obvio
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2y ago
> All he had to do was continue to fly under the radar for a few more weeks until everyone forgot about it. That is seriously underestimating the attention span of law enforcement. I’m not saying that they would have caught him for sure,
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2y ago
> because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that Then they should not claim it in their marketing materials that they will deliver it. What happened with the good old “underpromise and over deliver”? Besides she is not
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2y ago
We are getting confused here. The claim was "The saw manufacturers all blew off SawStop because they were worried that they would now be liable for any injuries which still occurred." Meaning that table saw manufacturers were worr
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2y ago
> I've had a broken bone that was visible in an xray and told to go home. Please tell us more. Which country would this be in? What bone was broken? The idea that a state engages in some grand conspiracy to spare the expense of a gy
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2y ago
> They may also recognize that eating humans comes with unknown risks because they are pretty observant of what humans are capable of. Idk about that. We have some skills but orcas see basically none of them. From their perspective we ar
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2y ago
They certainly increased the chances by replacing the burnt roof with an as of yet unburnt one. Not saying that that would have been the prefered solution. And of course they tried to mitigate this increase in flamability with a modern fire
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2y ago
The whole thing you are talking about is underpined by the fact that if someone else starts making ink cartridges the manufacturer can get the government to hassle them. If instead the government would say “though luck, better luck competin
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2y ago
> I realize that style of writing appeals to the "us vs them" mentality but I'd rather read about the underlying economics and finances. But this is the underlying economics and finances. They can use a "razor and bla
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2y ago
Why would Putin needs to call? The missiles announce themselves. It sounds like you think the dilemma can only appear in the spur of a moment. Once the missile is already in the air. But the dilemma also appears before that. When you decide
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2y ago
What does “healthier tire” mean and how will the taxman know which tire is healthier and which one is not?
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2y ago
> I don't really know of course (and presumably nor do you) whether he was a good employee or made substantive improvements or whatever. Yes, absolutely. I don't know anything about him outside of this article. I assume he is a
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2y ago
> By your definition, super-successful kitsch-meisters like Thomas Kinkade are great artists. And Vincent van Gogh is not. Or was not a great artist, then he died and become a great artist somehow suddenly after his death. (at least by t
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