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by mwint 4y ago
Why not?
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by mwint 4y ago
This strikes me as bizarre: > A crowdsourcing campaign to cover the restitution has raised $330,000 -- more than double what Lewis owes. But Lewis' attorneys must determine whether Iowa law would allow the donated money to be used t
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by mwint 4y ago
Oh, it’s not accidental.
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by mwint 4y ago
Can you elaborate? I’m intrigued, always thought of it as a scalar
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by mwint 4y ago
Thing is, there are lots of things that are completely neglected by science and only some of them are new disorders.
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by mwint 4y ago
In 2019, the news wasn’t telling everyone they were complicit in killing Grandma, and didn’t have a live grandma-death-counter on every screen.
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by mwint 4y ago
> The upshot: There may be no correlation between the severity of your COVID case and the lasting effect on your brain. The simplest explanation here is that there’s also no correlation between COVID and “Long Covid”
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by mwint 4y ago
Would a good rubbing with a rare earth magnet clear the magstripe?
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by mwint 4y ago
Do you have a source for this provisioned access claim, or in fact that it exists at all? —- It says you can’t install new configuration profiles while lockdown mode is enabled, not that you can’t run lockdown mode with a profile enabled.
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by mwint 4y ago
Please, I must hear the Cadillac story. You can’t just drop that casually!
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by mwint 4y ago
This is about what we do in our house. Is it absurdly high or low?
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by mwint 4y ago
USAian here: > Protests should be allowed They are. > destroying public property Is illegal and you can be arrested for it. > advocating violence or hate Is illegal and you can be arrested for it. You just can’t be arrested for “be
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by mwint 4y ago
> they continuously cycle on/off and have worn out the bearings Does cycling a fan on/off wear bearings faster than being on all the time? Naively I would have assumed that bearing wear is a function of time enabled and speed,
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by mwint 4y ago
Aren’t those thermometers pointing the wrong way (towards the wrist)?
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by mwint 4y ago
By “provider”, do you mean internal Amazon recommendation services?
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by mwint 4y ago
> three initial doses followed by a booster a year later gives up to 80% protection. Can anyone ELI5 why vaccines in general have less than 100% protection? As in, what molecules aren’t connecting consistently with other molecules?
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by mwint 4y ago
Being suspicious of anyone wanting to tell you what to do is wise, yes. Especially if they want to use government (men with guns) to enforce their ideas.
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by mwint 4y ago
Are there any examples of countries that found a stable place within that canyon?
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by mwint 4y ago
That’s something I’d worry about on a Google platform, not so much iOS.
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by mwint 4y ago
Having moved away from Search and Gmail, I find the only Google tools I use now are Flights and Maps. Maps can be replaced in most cases by Apple Maps, but I haven’t found a competitor for Flights.
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by mwint 4y ago
Well, why wouldn’t they reply with $(way over book)+1?
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by mwint 4y ago
It’s terrifying that I can mostly read this —(r5d has me stumped)— yeah, and figured that one out with a bit of thought too.
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by mwint 4y ago
I wonder if iOS 12 is used in some weird special environment that doesn’t want to upgrade? Possible DoD-related or something similar?
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by mwint 4y ago
Apple’s shown themselves willing to abandon software as hardware needs dictate (3D touch, grr).
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by mwint 4y ago
Because there’s a bunch of legacy wiring out there that doesn’t have a ground wire, only hot/neutral. So if you’re designing an appliance that has to work with these two-prong outlets, especially if it has a metal housing, you want to
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by mwint 4y ago
But then my calls will come from the random area code too. It’d be neat if you could do a dual phone number, where your CID on outbound calls shows as your local area code, but you give out the foreign area code for inbound calls. But then
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by mwint 4y ago
Well, Jane Street paid them to do work they presumably wouldn’t otherwise have done, and that work appears to have made it into OS. So Jane Street’s profiting from this work is irrelevant, they paid for it and we have it.
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by mwint 4y ago
Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects. That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.
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by mwint 4y ago
> the moment we let the free market start making phones. Egads, are you suggesting we shouldn’t have done this? Sent from my OnlyTenYearsLate (™) Boeing GovPhone, now with 8-bit color! Starts at $19,995 for approved citizens.
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by mwint 4y ago
In free states, it’s common and not a big deal to tell dispatchers & police that you’re armed. Usually the cops will just ask where your weapon is, then say “cool, don’t shoot me and I won’t shoot you”. Not a big deal. They’re generally

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