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by metiscus 6y ago
Given that there are only 5000ish cases in a country of 300+ million, right now your odds are pretty good. Best to take precautions when you are in the woods because ticks have other nasty things they bring along which are also quite bad. T
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by metiscus 6y ago
So if they invent the first reasonable self-driving car, they can sell those and provide service for them. Ideally TCO would be lower than a human driven car so basically a third party could buy and manage the fleet for Uber and Lyft. Neith
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by metiscus 6y ago
I've got a theory about why it works. Basically you're tiring out parts of your brain when you exercise and activating others. Somehow that regulates the neurotransmitters at the heart of add for a while. If I only lightly exercis
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by metiscus 6y ago
For me, my add has been made much better with aggressive weight training. I started doing "Starting Strength" and transitioned into the Texas method but three pretty heavy workouts a week really helps. Normally I feel like I see t
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by metiscus 6y ago
This is becoming an example of frog boiling in action. The usual retort to mentions of frog boiling is that the frogs jump out but in this case, it's just bigger pots of boiling water all the way down.
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by metiscus 6y ago
I support the concept of USPS offering email services for official purposes. I don't really support nationalizing Gmail.
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by metiscus 6y ago
If you are homeless there are ways to get postal service from your local post office. Postmasters can grant free PO boxes at their discretion (1). You are also able to take advantage of general delivery (2). General delivery is available ev
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by metiscus 6y ago
You have to sleep. You have to get water and maintain certain other things outside your home from time to time. You may get sick and need additional rest. Or to go and get firewood etc. If 10 people really really want your food and supplies
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by metiscus 6y ago
There are a lot of people, some that I know in person, who live in a fantasy of surviving on their own. I've tried, through casual conversation, to get them to understand that you want to build a community around you for mutual benefit
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by metiscus 6y ago
While I suspect a certain level of sarcasm was intended, a valid point for discussion does exist within your comment - The idea that preparing is merely forwarding supplies to your local warlord. This basically assumes a TEOTWAWKI scenario,
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by metiscus 6y ago
There are a few reasons I've heard. The one I hear most frequently is that the electoral college is outdated and should be replaced on that basis alone. The second one is that it is undemocratic and allows disproportionate representati
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by metiscus 6y ago
I guess it depends on definitions - you can just type in the AACS number if the calculator has enough digits.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Anecdotal of course, but I've found myself getting out of breath significantly faster when doing squats wearing a cloth mask. Deadlifts, bench press, and overhead press not so much so there seems to be something particular to the squat
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by metiscus 6y ago
I'm not sure that $5000 goes a long way with senators. Can you even buy a full page newspaper advert in a regional paper with that?
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by metiscus 6y ago
Yeah somehow I got the names mixed up and can't delete now.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Yeah I mixed the names up and can't delete the original. This guy is correct.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Yes? Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24995266 Which at the time of writing read as follows "It's not open source because the open source "community" is a liability and you want them far away fro
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by metiscus 6y ago
While I understand the intent of your comment.. I think your unfortunate word choice may cause some bad optics.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Github is complying with a mandatory legal process. It isn't like they are at fault here. As much as I hate what has happened, folks are attacking the wrong company. Come out against the RIAA if you must do something. Better still to l
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by metiscus 6y ago
Stated without proof: I firmly believe this is related to the youtube-dl takedown. Look at the repo it was committed to as well as the timing. Similar things happened with Sony over Other OS. Sadly I bet there will be further attacks and le
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by metiscus 6y ago
Somehow got listed as being deceptive.
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by metiscus 6y ago
I'm not sure that is true in general. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/02/2020-19...
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by metiscus 6y ago
Point is, I think, that since federal law enforcement is part of executive branch a president could issue an executive order prohibiting federal agents to make arrests or take actions for certain drug crimes in certain jurisdictions.
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by metiscus 6y ago
The tech has existed at least theoretically since the 60s but nobody is willing to use it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...
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by metiscus 6y ago
Personal politics aside, I have to admit that this was a pretty brilliant move. When you are trying to reach nontraditional voters, you have to go to the new media. It is interesting watching the political class grapple with this generation
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by metiscus 6y ago
This link helped me understand it better. Basically they introduce an extremely redundant orthogonal code and since noise is somewhat random if your code is long enough you can reconstruct the signal despite the noise. https://el
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by metiscus 6y ago
Vault-Tec wants to know your location
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by metiscus 6y ago
Yes. Murdering people that you disagree politically with is wrong. Even the actual nazis were allowed to surrender and stand trial. Vigilantism is nearly always a bad thing.
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by metiscus 6y ago
So I'll be a cynic and say that it's often due to the actions of the company that prevent the user from "using" the code, at least on that device. How many devices have a linux kernel but lock the bootloader down for exa
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by metiscus 6y ago
Following along the stated lines, should all music creation be stopped, should artists only paint covid warnings, should sculptors only engrave monuments to the covid casualties? My point is, if art shouldn't stop because of the pandem

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