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Sure but you need to be able to get to “someone” when say the owner skips town or dies or… plus this firewall makes it so people will be more willing to build businesses.
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It also allows them to be sued. I suppose we could have other mechanisms to sue companies but this is what we’ve come up with.
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Verily! The composition and control over Asia Minor was very different from today. There was lots of movement around the Caspian sea, Asia Minor, the Volga, the crescent, etc in those times.
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Kind of. The empire was multi ethnic and so are modern Americans however often the question is about the foundation. Who are the descendants of the foundational Romans. Did they get diluted into oblivion? For Americans it’s easier as we
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Apache is doing pretty well despite them being deathly foes to the Comanche and Texans but I doubt either Texans or Comanches object to the name because of something that happened hundreds of years ago. I mean I guess we have stop calling t
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Price is nice to see. The cab design is from before the '90s though. That's to say, not much space and rather plain. Also, like many contemporary vehicles it still has that snubbed nose design that limits vision of low profile o
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Do you realize how many people live in China, India, Subsaharan Africa? That would be the "standard" of the world population-wise.
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True but like regular document scanning software there can be errors in detection.
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Things become generic if you stop defending them/enforcing your IP. I think the iPhone at one time defended the design of its “squircle” corners. Eventually settling out of court.
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What are the alternatives people rather avoid considering?
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4mo ago
one issue with tilt and turn is getting window screens for them. It's possible but mostly they get installed on the inside if you have the proper wall spacing that allows window to function without interfering with the screen. mini spl
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If I don't have $30K to $50K to invest in an HVAC for the home, the next best is a relatively efficient Window unit that costs low hundreds and will help me stay alive in the heat. However enticing the price of a single duct portable
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You don't need to get central A/C or mini splits. You can use an efficient Window unit (not those single ducted portable units that are just barely better than nothing. if portable do dual ducted for efficiency) Those window uni
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They have passed decent laws like the privacy law although my preference would be a nation-wide law for this to benefit all Americans. That said these politicians have pushed: The ban on disinfectant soaps Stop Shirley bill (charge you for
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Parent suggested or intimated that their sole market was the USA.
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You missed the step where a DMV-clone of a state bureaucracy reviews the LLMs output before nixing the request a few weeks after the LLMs result.
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Why does California since Arnold left office feel the need to regulate above the average other states regulate? [in fairness gov Brown would veto some of the crazier ideas that arrived at his desk] Why do the pols feel like they have to pi
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The homemarket websites for Mecedes (Geländewagen), BMW (X series), LandRover (defender), Toyota (LandCruiser, Lexus LX), etc. have the large SUVs for sale. They are not as popular as they are in the US but they are available.
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Surely someone somewhere will bring to bear a solution that will disable all but voice calls on smartphones while the smartphone is paired to the car and the car is moving but allow for the devices of minors in a moving vehicle to still fun
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At the same time avoidance systems have become much better on those large new cars… so would it have even worse had collision avoidance not come into being? Also interesting that often people tend to imagine F-150s, Silverados ,etc., but if
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In a community of 20 people you have one person who commits robbery, that's 5% of the pop being a robbers. One _could_ extrapolate that but we'd fall victim to the law of small numbers.
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If they do sensitive work for the government, it'd make sense that they'd do those back-end references. Also if they are in high end finance where you want to weed out people who have demonstrated moral flexibility was well as tot
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Self expression at the workplace where you bring your home self to the office hadn’t been much of a thing if you were not your own boss till you had the likes of Sun, Netscape, etc where people were allowed liberties like bringing their pet
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There is always the risk of a data breach, but if you have vast resources but outsource key operations to low cost vendors who often commingle client data (as they often share multiple client data on systems for easy handoffs) the likelihoo
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Remember when the technologists and the media told blue collar workers to "learn to code" [to adapt to the digital economy] and then when layoffs hit media and other white collar jobs those blue collar workers turned the phrase ag
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Here you go: https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d... Now, there is one big issue for a couple of countries and that's that Russia and China probably don't report on the same level
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Also the UK arrests people for online posts more than Russia, China or Belarus. It seems clear the gov wants to control all forms of speech and if they could control speech at home they would too further, I have little doubt if they could
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THere are parachutes for small aircraft these days. If I were flying one and had their money I would get that installed. Of course that doesn’t protect against crashing into mountainsides or losing ones orientation, but it does help again
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Perhaps but using that quote to describe that relationship seemed very forced and ill-fitting. They tried to make it work but came up short because it wasn't an apt application of the quote.
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I wonder if the EFF had something specific to say when various PACs and a former president tried getting Spotify to take Joe Rogan off the air for his Covid opinions?
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