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by magduf 7y ago
Solution 1: keep the town names separate (this means separate post offices and zip codes). Solution 2: change the street names.
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by magduf 7y ago
Obviously you've never driven on the roads in the nation's capital.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Why do we care what advertisers want? Use regulation to force ad-funded companies to allow people to... Why should the government care what users want? How much money are users going to pay for lobbyists to lobby for this regulation yo
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by magduf 7y ago
In a truly civilized society, people don't generally steal things from each other. If theft is a big problem in your society, then it isn't really that civilized.
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by magduf 7y ago
Have you looked at America's infrastructure lately? It's really no better than the "less developed world".
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by magduf 7y ago
>Usually the Ave/Street are mixed up There should be a federal law against this kind of stupidity. It's unbelievable that many towns and cities actually thought it'd be a good idea to have two different streets with the e
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by magduf 7y ago
Leaving it with neighbors seemed like it was much more common 20+ years ago. I remember it happening pretty frequently when I was in college. It seems to have gone out of style.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Condos can present a weird situation for packages delivered by small 3rd parties delivery companies. Amazon delivery services didn’t have the codes to get in like FedEx/UPS/USPS or keys to the lock boxes. I live in a condo wit
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by magduf 7y ago
>In China, you now have to submit your face to be scanned into a database to get a new phone. Is it not possible to buy a used phone there? I got my last several phones on Ebay; like cars, they depreciate a lot in the first year or two,
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by magduf 7y ago
I prefer CCTV. Then we can actually go look at the footage and see what really happened, instead of arguing pointlessly and having no neutral reference.
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by magduf 7y ago
Those are the towns that will survive. The ones with industries that dried up won't.
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by magduf 7y ago
>didn’t use any type of version control software What kind of incompetent fool doesn't use version control in this day and age?
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by magduf 7y ago
>but as long as one of the medium sized ISPs, Bahnhof An ISP named themselves "train station"?
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm not sure why you think you should deserve any privacy in a conversation when you have that conversation right next to some stranger. If you want something to be private, you don't do it in public. This should be self-evident
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by magduf 7y ago
>Who's been in charge for 16 years, and who just happens to be a military general According to this logic, the United States was a military dictatorship for a good portion of its history. Presidents Washington, Jackson, W. Harrison
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by magduf 7y ago
Small towns have no high-paying jobs; that's why they're mostly dying and people are moving to the metro areas.
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by magduf 7y ago
You spent your childhood in a time before helicopter parenting became legally mandated. If you let your kid run free and unsupervised today in America, you will probably end up with a visit from CPS and/or the police, and you might ge
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by magduf 7y ago
Japanese culture is largely a product of developing on an island archipelago where there's not much livable space (much of the land is mountains) and there's almost no natural resources. Add to that the various contacts with West
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by magduf 7y ago
>I would consider banning slavery as more civilized, but it is an expansion of civil liberties. It's an expansion of civil liberties for one group (the enslaved), at the cost of limiting the civil liberties of another group (the for
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by magduf 7y ago
They do stream from satellites; that's why it's called "satellite radio". That doesn't mean they can use as much spectrum as they want; they only get so much spectrum to broadcast in, so they can either have fewe
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by magduf 7y ago
>The US could also increase the price of petrol. No, it really can't. The voters would immediately vote for the candidate that promises to reverse this. Gas prices are a huge political issue in the US, to an irrational extent. Am
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by magduf 7y ago
Yeah, you're not going to get FM quality from 4kbps, so it's exactly like I said. It might sound better to you because you're only listening to the channels they allocate the maximum bitrate to (i.e., the most popular ones).
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by magduf 7y ago
If you look at the spectrum, however, the deep-pocketed corporations are only getting preference of a very tiny sliver of the spectrum. They should be getting preference, because they can do a lot more with that spectrum than the rest of
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by magduf 7y ago
>I was simply asking what the actual harm is. Setting aside the question of whether something that can't be measured exists, let's try for an easier bar: can a harm that can't even be articulated exist? It seems that for m
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by magduf 7y ago
The EU is in a much better position to cut emissions too: their cities are generally denser and have far better public transit than the US's sprawling cities and suburbs. All the EU needs to do is increase the price of auto fuel more
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by magduf 7y ago
Sure, but that isn't happening here. According to the title, the guy was in China, and got arrested there. It shouldn't be any surprise that if you enter an oppressive nation with material they've banned, you'll be s
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by magduf 7y ago
Basically, yes: some prototypes have been made in labs, but haven't really seen the light of day. Wikipedia has an article about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor As noted in the article, HP says t
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by magduf 7y ago
This sounds like a guy I used to know who told me about how, when he got married, he'd intentionally pour a bunch of bleach in the laundry and ruin the whole load, just so that his wife would forbid him from ever doing laundry again an
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by magduf 7y ago
Singapore had to import Nepalese Gurkhas to keep the peace, both because they're extremely militarily effective and also because they were seen as impartial by the different ethnic groups.
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by magduf 7y ago
Sorry, no, that doesn't qualify. The sound quality on SiriusXM is abysmal; it's something like a 32kbps bitrate. FM radio has far better fidelity. I tried out SiriusXM when I got my new car, because they had a free 6-month trial

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