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by nanis 5y ago
> umber of reported human cases of TBE ... have increased by almost 400% Specifically, following the now routine mass bird/chicken massacres of the Bird Flu panic.
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NJ Transhit Excuses (useful site, actually)(njtranshit.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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Turkey offered to guard the Kabul airport back in June(militarytimes.com)
23 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
As I listen to him, I can't help but wonder if there is an exact figure on the number of people who are not the President of the U.S. to blame. Just listened to Biden blaming everyone else for 10 minutes, specifically the people who ar
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by nanis 5y ago
> We spent 20 years and $2 trillion+ trying to get Bin Laden and create a good government in Afghanistan. How much money did the U.S. spend trying to defend and rehabilitate Germany? Yet, recently as the 00s, the Nazis were burning peopl
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by nanis 5y ago
Because they abandoned Bagram in the worst way possible: > US left Bagram without telling new commander: Afghan officials > Before the Afghan army could take control of airfield, looters ransack barracks and rummage through storage te
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by nanis 5y ago
I do not know who Sean McClure is ... nor do I care. He seems to have a tune and he's going to continue playing it: 1) The author uses "penny pinching" to mean something other than its common definition[1]. 2) By definition,
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by nanis 5y ago
When you click the first link, here's what the U.S. Embassy tells you: > Event: The security situation in Kabul continues to change quickly, including at the airport. U.S. citizens should continue to shelter in place. U.S. citizens
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by nanis 5y ago
Assuming this is a serious question. Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Kabul[1] (archived[2]). US Embassy in Kabul shelters staff at airport after evacuation[3] (archived[4]). Afghans clinging to a U.S. transport plane[5]. Afghans clinging to a
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by nanis 5y ago
> You can't infer that the lack of public meetings on the topic means a lack of any action. I can infer from a lack of press conferences, public addresses, or any public explanation of what they are going to do that they do not inte
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by nanis 5y ago
It is good to be aware of history. > The capture of the city was preceded by Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of almost all American civilian and military personnel in Saigon, along with tens of thousands of South Vietnamese ci
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Fall of Saigon(en.wikipedia.org)
64 points by nanis 5y ago|75 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Clearly not very seriously. Neither the Secretary of State[1] (whose employees are in peril at the airport) nor Biden[2] has anything on their public schedules. Also, this is the kind of thing one has to plan for, not wing it and figure it
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U.S. State Department Public Schedule – August 16, 2021(state.gov)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
I tried to find the official public schedule on https://www.whitehouse.gov/ but failed to locate it. If it exists, it would be a more appropriate link.
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Joe Biden – President's Public Schedule(factba.se)
2 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> Once again, I want to acknowledge the clarity of purpose of President Biden’s statement and the wisdom of his actions. Hmmmm ... > I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republica
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by nanis 5y ago
He was also around for this https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/14270339972640563... Compare and contrast https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4804968/user-clip-joe-biden-s...
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by nanis 5y ago
... by the MTA! https://trademarks.justia.com/786/96/if-you-see-something-sa... SIGH https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-mta-slogan-undo... So, is the DHS paying MTA for the l
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by nanis 5y ago
Ouch! Do they have some Perl somewhere which fails to check for definedness instead of truthiness?
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by nanis 5y ago
The URL returns "Not Found" for me. This works: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/San-Francisco-laby... Separately, I am not sure this counts as vandalism: Surely, if people have the freedom to a
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by nanis 5y ago
This link took me to https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/
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by nanis 5y ago
Specifically, neither YAML nor JSON are configuration formats (despite everyone's desire to use them as such). TOML is a very good generalization of a simple, straightforward configuration file format which was the "best" unt
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by nanis 5y ago
Of course it is work. You need to at all times have an understanding of what is happening in the codebase you are working on. That doesn't mean knowing every nitty gritty, but it does mean being able to jump in and maintain that code i
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by nanis 5y ago
Yet it was Vox people singing the praises of "zero Covid" zealots ... https://www.vox.com/2020/12/4/22151242/melbourne-victoria-au... inter alia exempla . Ansd, now, they have this: https:&#x
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Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland(dhs.gov)
4 points by nanis 5y ago|3 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago.
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by nanis 5y ago
I flagged this and the other one[1] because two back to back postings of gushing articles about the same fund seemed odd. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28170436
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by nanis 5y ago
+1 ... You do (3) until someone hires a "data engineer" straight out of a bootcamp and tells everyone above you that the team is not following "modern practices" and using archaic approaches. Then, you get pulled into re
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by nanis 5y ago
> penny pincher for not wanting to spend thousands of pennies Yes, literally, the dictionary meaning of a "penny pincher" is one who does not want to part with his pennies. The author of the article, on the other hand, seems to

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