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by lb1lf 5y ago
> This is a bizarre idea. > Scammers printing scam letters can just as easily print fake postmarks. -While that is true, it is impractical on at least a couple of levels: a) You need to get that fake mail into the postal system, someh
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> I'd be perfectly OK with e.g. Norway or Switzerland sponsoring a charter city in Nevada. -Oh, Norway's already got Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Minnesota sorted - not to mention parts of Washington. (It was surreal first time
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Studying EE in the late nineties, I can remember coming across EPROM microcontrollers a few times, but definitely not in new projects. IIRC, students recently graduated when I was doing my freshman year had used them for projects in their
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by lb1lf 5y ago
...and if you have a few more hours to spare, you could do worse than looking up Joshua Hammer's 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu', on the efforts to save these manuscripts from militant islamist rebels. I'll admit to
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by lb1lf 5y ago
This has been my strategy, too - and the takeaway was that you were best off going with Miele. If that was a tad too pricey, Asko offered pretty much the same quality at a slightly lower price point. I think Miele just rebrands Liebherr fri
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-While true, it would presumably be even better to not be executed in the first place - whether the execution takes place in Saudi Arabia, the US or any of the handful of countries still having the death penalty on its books.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
In Norway, there was a tax levied on blank media, as everybody supposed a significant portion of them would be used to make, ah, evaluation copies of copyrighted material. The tax income was put in a fund, from which copyright holders were
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-At that point, of course, they'd meet resistance from Russian forces which suddenly _have_ a good reason to fight, likely also being supported by a population which will not be thrilled at a bunch of mercenaries having a go at their h
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-What you are witnessing is not sanctions. Per Kremlin new-speak, it is 'special economic operations'.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Most definitely, but there'd be plenty to spare for Russia, too. Blown up nuclear power plants are equal opportunity weapons.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Unless the Russian forces have way better connections than we give them credit for, they can not control which way the wind blows. At the moment, the winds come from the southeast, so a lot of the fallout would end up in Russia.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
While undoubtedly true, one should keep in mind that Stalin first cynically entered into a non-aggression pact with the nazi regime, showing blatant disregard for Poland in the process. Not to mention that a significant part of the Soviet U
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by lb1lf 5y ago
I'll recycle a comment I made in another thread a few years ago: When clearing out my grandmother's house a few years ago, my uncle and I almost broke our backs trying to get the freezer out. It felt like it weighed a ton, even em
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-My wife's ancestor, likely the tribe dimwit, found an unoccupied spot around the time of the Black Death, didn't for a moment pause to wonder why this spot of land wasn't already spoken for, and started working the land. Tod
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Except the 'remote' part, this is basically what I've done - I work for an engineering company 2.5 miles from home, then tend to the land with my father-in-law on weekends (and evenings if something comes up!) We grow some f
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-You're never done with a farm, it is a constant battle against the elements. (It's just doubly hard if you need to break the land first, making it suitable for farming - but maintaining land comes with its own set of challenges.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
I am by no stretch of the imagination homesteading, but I happen to live on a farm. It is not an active farm - the land is rented out to a nearby farmer and the only animals to be seen are a couple of cats and deer like you wouldn't be
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Just a little north of the wall, at some 62N/6E.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
That we can, but we do not want to. :) We basically sold our soul to SIMATIC, Siemens' automation ecosystem long ago. While it does have its quirks (to put it charitably), it is utterly predictable; as a first-order approximation, the
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-We're at the other end of the stack, I'm afraid - Siemens S7 PLCs for the most part; whenever I code I basically write assembly code like it's 1979 - and it will never, ever be exposed to the web if I've got any say in
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Oh, they all arrived here as flotsam some way or other - through love or war, basically. (The catch being that we currently do not have any remote employees and it is nigh on impossible to hire someone from outside the Schengen area unless
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Recruiters are being given an unfairly bad rap, methinks. It is a shame that 95% rotten apples give them all a bad name.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast. The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-That it does, I zoomed in on my local area (I can see five sector lights just from my office window on the northwestern coast of Norway - they're all over the place!) - all are present in the map. I love this map; would be even better
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Well, Amazon got a €750M ($850M) slap on their wrist, which while not sufficient to put them out of business surely must have hurt someone's feelings (not to mention their bonuses...)
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I guess the brakes need power to be disengaged against a spring force; this is quite common on electric motors in industrial use. So, power fails? It stops. Quickly.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> (What is "normal" is of course culturally determined and varies by your local culture, social class, etc, and covers all sorts of things. (...)) -I've heard the quip -'Being considered normal just means you are as w
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Mitsubishi Hi-Unis in H/2H are wonderful for writing in my experience; lead is almost unbreakable, holds its point for a long time, very smooth to write with even for lefties like me.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
If you intend to use them for writing, my go-to writing pencil for years has been the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni in H or 2H; the lead is virtually unbreakable, it holds its point for a decent amount of time and is smoother to write with than just ab
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Oh, we were already deemed beyond redemption - we'd been a small company, quite successful in our narrow niche, only to be bought up by $MEGACORP. That was a culture clash. Big time. Nevertheless, I thought the same thing you did and

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