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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Meanwhile the old game (ra2) runs pretty well with enhancements from cnc.net to allow easier installation on modern windows systems and net play.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Anyone else miss sites carefully edited by a small team like longform.org?
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
The DOJ statement has more detail on the fraud: >Under government contracting rules, there must be a nexus between the costs charged to a government contract and the objective of the contract. Thus, a contractor may charge to a governmen
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
I've got the Virtuoso. The '586 (?) model with improved burrs. It's bulletproof. I did have to replace a few of the plastic parts that act like mechanical fuses when I tried to grind a batch of coffee that had a pebble in it.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
I have one. It’s made my machine so much better. Once you find a grind setting and dose weight that works well for your beans, you get perfectly reproducible shots.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Obligatory Simpsons reference to the "Lisa's Wedding" episode where the airplanes of the future are "reevaluated" "wacky old designs." https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E19/376809
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
I got an SL and regret that I can't now replace the fancier touchscreen with an aftermarket unit. I'd get CarPlay, but I'd lose the 360 camera view and EV-specific features (charge timer, range estimates, etc.)
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
I always assumed that the reference to Spirograph creator "Dr S." on the Simpsons was just something the show invented. Interesting to see the actual person behind the toy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSG5JE
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Gross. Unencrypted OTA TV is one of the last areas you can enjoy a modicum of fair use with respect to personal recordings. DVRs, skipping commercials, transcoding to watch on a different device or in a different place. Too bad this is bein
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Reductive or oxidizing?
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Correct. This is called "third party doctrine," and the theory is that since you've voluntarily entrusted this data to the third party, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in it and a warrant is not needed.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
That's right--in the U.S., some utilities are "investor-owned." Others are cooperatives (owned by customers) and still others are owned by various local governments.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
I work as a lawyer for a business that has lots of lawyers. Compliance with differing state laws is indeed very expensive. I would personally like to see a federal privacy statute that preempted these various and sometimes inconsistent stat
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Came here to make the comment that there are certain industry specific contract forms that are very deeply embedded in very narrow domains, including things like NAEBs (natural gas commodity sales) and the AIA Contract Forms (construction).
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
This is the amusing hobby of some of the characters in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang .
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this, OP. I enjoyed The Switch by the same author so I just bought the kindle version of this. For those that didn’t see the chapters of McDonald’s earlier book posted serially here, it is a sort of pre-history of the c
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Perhaps the mechanism is to explode the bomb close enough to the surface of the asteroid to heat it with the x-ray pulse and cause ejection of debris from the surface--that would impart a reaction force on the asteroid. That's suggeste
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
The Disney Imagineering videos are pretty cool...you should check them out. Sort of the "making of" for the parks.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Boy that takes me back. I liked to think that Roy Scheider was playing the same character he played in Jaws .
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
There’s a bit of a “Pluto problem” [1] though with labeling NPR and not explicitly government supported media organizations like Voice of America. This suggests to me that the decision was based on some personal beef the owner has with NPR
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Thanks--these are good criticisms. I agree with you that the strength of the Water Knife was more in the conceptual parts and the imagined world--often these were just mentioned rather than fully built out, like certain events that are just
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
This is a good occasion to point to the excellent novel The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. I think I first heard of it here on HN, and it was described as a "Sci-Fi" novel--sadly, we're approaching the point where we&#x27
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
This is so true. Another factor: when there are people in pictures, they're often looking at phones. My Dad ( https://petermcgrath.me/#/people ) is a great enthusiast of "street photography." He doesn&#x
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
Which is a bit silly as the price per share of the last preferred equity financing round and the authorized number of shares are filed in the corporate charter which anyone can access. That gives you at least a lower bound on the valuation.
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
For U.S. public companies, at least, the SEC views greenwashing as securities fraud matter. There are examples of the SEC bring enforcement actions for misleading ESG statements: https://www.sec.gov/securities-topic/enf
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
That's certainly true--oars are by far the most common configuration for human powered boats. I was thinking more about human powered boats that set speed records, e.g. the Decavitator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
I use this and love it too. I've been using both the Dragonfly DAC/headphone amp (works with iPhones and iPads) as well as RooPiee on several raspberry pis with HifiBerry Digi digital output devices. Installation was very simple,
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
It's no coincidence that other human-powered transport mechanisms (aircraft, boats, etc.) commonly use pedals for the drivetrain. It's a lightweight way to use the body's strongest muscles, especially when high power is criti
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
Many have called the sailing ship era the time of wooden ships and iron men. I'm not sure where this phrase was first used, but this website attributes it to a 1930 poem: https://www.madisonhistory.org/madisons-iron-men

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