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by mjrpes 5y ago
Everything in the bill is a highly progressive tax based on percentage of earnings/revenue by individual/business: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... $500,000 income (at 50+ org)
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Following radar maps can give you a hint of what's to come. Check out this doppler map of Mayfield right before it got hit: https://weather.us/radar-us/kentucky/radar-and-lightning/KHP... Notice it was r
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There's a large portion of the population who street park and don't have the luxury of charging overnight.
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Based on the headline I thought this was going to be a criticism of Android 12 itself. I am baffled by some of the changes they made to the UI in Android 12, specifically the large/text icons in the pull down bar that now gives you muc
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by mjrpes 5y ago
The few years our small business used Comcast Business were bad. There would be multi-hour outages every other month. It got to the point where I wrote up procedures so an office worker could log into our ASUS router and switch the gateway
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Apple compares the M1 Max as having similar performance to a nVidia's 3080 Laptop GPU, which scores around 16,500 on passmark. For comparison, the AMD 6900 XT desktop CPU scores 27,000, while the nVidia 3080 desktop GPU scores 24,500.
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I don't know what Bubble is trying to do, but it's certainly no where near as good as Access for data manipulation. In Access I can create all the tables I want, all the fields I want, define queries based on table relations, comp
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It sounds like your friend is less worried about consciousness in general disappearing and more worried about his consciousness disappearing. Consciousness as thing can never completely go away. Even if the universe dies out, given enough
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The video says the Taylor machines at other fast food places (Burger King, Wendy's) rarely break down, or at least much less than McDonald's. So you're saying this is untrue? If not, why the discrepancy?
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That might begin the next major exodus. Digg -> Reddit -> ???
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"Computers that are Four to Seven Years Old - Although Windows 10 supposedly goes on forever, your computer may not have the necessary hardware to migrate to the current version of Windows 10 during this time period (or in some cases e
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Recent studies have showed intermittent fasting can be a major factor in insulin/glucose levels: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intermittent-fasting-sur...
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To put it on even footing with the current Parler scenario, add this one: 5) Hire a mob and storm the capital of the United States in an act of sedition, linking the planning and encouraging of the attack to your competitor's platform.
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That core group of enraged users will move elsewhere. Parler is a tumor, and Apple has loped it off. What tumors will rise in its place? If hate is widespread and has metastasized, the US will not last much longer. But optimistically, 80% o
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How about "shouting fire in a crowded theater"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the... Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969 limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed t
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by mjrpes 6y ago
It's not just Fiber. It's also V/DSL connections including resold VDSL through a company like Sonic.
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Looks to be Minimum Advertised Price: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-minimum-advertised-pri...
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This is pretty amazing, so glad you posted it. It has layer blending options and shadow/highlights, two feature I can't live without and are often missing in free editors. The menus are exactly like photoshop. And finally an API t
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I thought back in 2013 Adobe made a download available for Creative Suite 2 that did not require an activation server for install: https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-releases-creative-suite-2-fo... However it looks like t
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Yes with Firefox Nightly.
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I sent their team an email two years ago with exactly that feedback, and their response was: "Thank you for the feedback. We are working on an update that will 'save' your preferred map view when logged in on the PurpleAir we
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If you bookmark the website after you have zoomed in on your area and toggled settings (unchecked indoor sensors, LRAPA), it will remember your settings.
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For Windows folks, now that Window 10 WSL2 has been released, running Wordpress locally in something like Ubuntu seems like a better way to go. I find the drawbacks to WSL2 is that (1) there's no one-click GUI that will install Ubuntu
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I've found one benefit to reading the bulletins is they give context to how they are generating weather probabilities. They may say there's a 50% change of rain 5 days from now, but then you learn this is because computer model &q
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Name parameters can benefit when you are reviewing code, beyond just when writing code; it makes clear what every parameter is for as you scan through code. This is most helpful with function calls with lots of optional parameters. Another
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That Fermi's lab link says all the neutrinos produced by the sun are of the same type, electron neutrinos.
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The article mentions that the sun produces 10^25 neutrinos every second. This felt quite off. I found an Ohio State PDF that mentioned 2 * 10^38 neutrinos per second. Elsewhere I saw mentioned 7 * 10^10 particles going through your thumb ev
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The sunshade will be a good dry-run to solve the unavoidable problem of increasing sun luminosity in the far future, which is expected to disrupt plant life in 500 million years and ultimately destroy all life within a few billion years.
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Also, in-show product placements.
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My orthodontist's name was Dr. Link. Nice, but Dr. Hurt would have been more appropriate.

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