mmagin

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by mmagin 8y ago
At least in my experience, as a gen-X person in the US: For at least a generation now, organized religions have been doing a poor job of addressing people's personal spiritual needs, while at the same time being the bastion of various
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by mmagin 8y ago
Yeah, I had this experience a couple of years ago with someone trying to sell kitchen cabinet re-facing.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Is this because of patents, or is this because nobody wants to do the R&D?
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by mmagin 8y ago
One would expect that this is some kind of very hard to anticipate cascading failure in a distributed system. I find it hard to believe that it would be possible for something affecting all Visa transactions in a region would be deployable
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by mmagin 8y ago
Me too. I made a restaurant reservation using their site. It worked fine. Text message confirmation led me to a page to confirm or change the reservation, with some tricky language to make one think you need to confirm the reservation you
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by mmagin 8y ago
I had the same feeling when Chase redesigned their online banking and I had to upgrade my dedicated linux banking computer from an old Lenovo Ideapad to a somewhat more powerful old Thinkpad.
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by mmagin 8y ago
I suspect a lot of the polymer lenses are cast to a rough shape and then ground/polished a relatively small amount to reach the final dimension.
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by mmagin 8y ago
It just says it's under LA. And it says where it'll go. It doesn't say anything about where they specifically did 500 feet of tunnel so far.
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by mmagin 8y ago
It isn't really notable that someone makes <X> salary "at a nonprofit". Nonprofit doesn't really mean charity.
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by mmagin 8y ago
One interesting aspect of red pigment usage that I feel this article could have explained better is why it fares poorest under the sun: of all the color pigments, it absorbs the most of the short-wavelength (high energy) light. Now, you&#x
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by mmagin 8y ago
Not only is it fairly well encapsulated in plastic, the cadmium sulfide / cadmium selenide pigments are far less toxic when consumed orally than say the old lead carbonate pigment (known for being used as a white paint pigment) due to
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by mmagin 8y ago
I do not think that was the intended usage.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Some of the relatively higher mobility of capital is due to the policies which capital has persuaded politicians to enact.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Until the rise of SSL and IPSEC, I don't think it was the case that protocols typically gave you a choice of ciphers. Keep in mind that they're talking about over a decade earlier.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Well, I have one of the simple unheated hose sprayer-type bidet things which I installed during a period of let's just say discomfort at some point in the past, and that's what I do, but I assumed the hardcore bidet users had some
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by mmagin 9y ago
How do you dry?
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by mmagin 9y ago
(I live in the USA.) I have two credit cards (and one debit card, but I only use it as an ATM card to get cash, since you're still out the money until a problem is resolved). I mostly only use credit cards for online purchasing and ga
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by mmagin 9y ago
Unfortunately we're getting to the point where there's rarely any choice.
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by mmagin 9y ago
A fire, not a bomb.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Perhaps some lawyers are hoping to make an entire career out of just this one chemical, saving those lawsuits for later dates!
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by mmagin 9y ago
Interesting: http://schachtmanlaw.com/the-council-for-education-and-resea...
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by mmagin 9y ago
I once found a bit of wire in a sausage I was eating that I'd bought from my favorite local sausage maker. I've been too scared to try their sausages again :(
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by mmagin 9y ago
Fortunately (with rare exceptions) nobody uses well water in Santa Clara county (see https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/05SantaClaraValley.p... ) and a lot of these chemicals are relatively low toxicity,
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by mmagin 9y ago
I can't be the only one who would donate to a Kickstarter (or similar) to fund this. :) If you've already got it scanned, it would be easy to outsource some of that work.
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by mmagin 9y ago
It's kind of amazing it took so long for it to kill them.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Mostly what I'm aware of in the US is lead pipes from the water main in the street to the house. A fair amount of leaded solder in copper pipe joints, but lead pipes in the house is pretty uncommon. As I would understand it, maintaini
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by mmagin 9y ago
Also we vastly increased our intake of things like high-fructose corn syrup and sitting on our asses all day leading to "metabolic syndrome", which might play a role.
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by mmagin 9y ago
https://www.hakkousa.com/products/fume-extraction/hakko-fa-4... up close plus a HEPA filter in the room, and you're probably doing quite well. Use name-brand filter replacements and not some random crap.
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by mmagin 9y ago
A lot of these are vastly less dangerous than the use of tetraethyl lead in gasoline or other forms in which significant quantity can be easily taken up by the body (e.g. the old white lead carbonate paint pigment). While it's reasonab
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Pypi.org Compatibility with pip 1.5.4 (including Ubuntu 14.04)(github.com)
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