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by njovin 4y ago
And after you possibly have assets seized, which you may not even get back even if charges are never filed (in the US).
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by njovin 5y ago
At some point there needs to be a supreme court decision that reconciles the legality of no-knock warrants with castle doctrine/self-defense/second-amendment. My understanding of the current state of things is that in some jurisdi
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by njovin 5y ago
Also "starter pistols" used during track meets.
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by njovin 5y ago
I have a fond memory of camping outside a Target from ~10:00p to 6:00a when the Wii was launched. We hung out with a group of strangers in camping chairs, talked about our favorite games, and tried to keep warm. When the Starbucks bakery
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by njovin 5y ago
I'll second this recommendation. I started using Anylist last year and it's incredible. My weekly grocery flow goes like this now: - Skim a few recipe sites for anything new I want to try - 1-click import them to Anylist (using
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by njovin 5y ago
If you're using something that supports it (like Github) a good middle-ground would be auto-merging PRs. Branch from main -> code -> PR w/ automerge -> move on to the next task. This would give you speedy merges to main
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by njovin 5y ago
And it's being paid by the state, presumably in no small part by tax dollars the victims themselves contributed to state funds. It's a slap in the face all around.
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by njovin 5y ago
Spotify allows it, I've contacted their support team about it. They claim that as long as the creator is the one inserting the ads that they allow it.
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by njovin 5y ago
Same here. Spotify claims it's the podcast producers' doing when ads are inserted this way. It still miffs me. One of the conditions of being a paid content provider for Spotify should be that you provide an ad-free experience
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by njovin 5y ago
Even the Spotify paid tier has ads in podcasts. There's no escape.
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by njovin 5y ago
There are multiple separate registrations of "Meta" and "metacompany" with the USPTO. There is the only one linked to Chicago[1] and if so they have less standing than the others because the name is "metacompany&qu
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by njovin 5y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I am super-impressed with Home Depot's e-commerce experience on the web side, and completely the opposite with WalMart. As I'm standing in a Home Depot store struggling to find an item, I can pull up the s
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by njovin 5y ago
I had never heard of this record until now. Cross-country flying in small planes like this can be incredibly tedious and the refueling sounds very dangerous. I can't imagine doing it for this long. Apparently, neither can the guy wh
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by njovin 5y ago
California's vehicle registration fee factors in several things, the most influential (I think) being price, which is probably why Tesla registration is higher than most gas cars. I've seen $500+ registration fees on ICE trucks.
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by njovin 5y ago
So do bicycles which pay no road taxes :)
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by njovin 5y ago
Similar in California and other states. The states typically tax gasoline and since electrics don't use any they are implementing special fees on electric vehicle purchases to make up for lost revenue. One would think that the savings
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by njovin 5y ago
I'm not following why any of that matters to the cost of an x-ray. If there's a gunshot wound and there needs to be a nurse attending to the patient while the x-ray is being taken, the nurse is an extra cost, separate from the x-
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by njovin 5y ago
These laws continue to be abused by law enforcement to bully business owners who are operating in gray areas of the law, whether the gray-ness is caused by misaligned state vs. federal laws or unclear licensing and operation requirements.
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by njovin 5y ago
Forgive the naive question but why doesn't the US government fund several foundries in the US immediately? $20B over 3 years is a drop in the bucket compared to a lot of military spending and these chip shortages surely have downstream
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by njovin 5y ago
It's odd, though, that Rogan's podcast only started doing mid-episode ads after the move to Spotify. Prior to the move the only ads were at the beginning of the episode.
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by njovin 5y ago
Yes, it's pervasive. I get 4-5 calls per day, most of them scams trying to sell auto warranties or cheap vacations. All of them spoof the caller ID of the caller so it looks like somebody from my area. We have a national do-not-call
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by njovin 5y ago
Maybe if enough businesses did this it would drive a societal shift. I've had the pleasure of firing a small handful of customers from my very small SaaS business when they were outrightly rude or vulgar. I feel terrible whenever I s
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by njovin 5y ago
With XBox I'm unable to play offline games if Xbox knows it needs an update, even if I have the network connections disconnected. There's no logical reason for this. I was in a situation last year where I had purchased an Xbox w
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by njovin 5y ago
They're not going to be unemployed, they're going to find a better job. In my mostly-uninformed opinion I think that remote work has allowed a lot of people to search for work in other locations and this has radically changed the
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by njovin 5y ago
I look forward to the day that we punish corporations by removing their freedom (ability to operate) instead of fining them laughably small percentages of their yearly revenue for serious violations of laws and regulations. In reality I und
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by njovin 5y ago
I had a similar experience in the US with a large private healthcare provider at a large regional hospital. They did some quick health checks but then quickly left the baby with my wife and I for skin-to-skin time. This was planned ahead of
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by njovin 5y ago
From the parent comment's link: > A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes t
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by njovin 5y ago
I assume that participants in the videos sponsored by Western governments have not been detained/kidnapped and coerced (or worse).
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by njovin 5y ago
I beg to differ. Controllers are not ultimately responsible for the safety of a plane and its passengers. The pilots not only had a right but IMO a duty to make sure they understood the situation and the request before making any decision
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by njovin 5y ago
The IOUs are the draw of Splitwise for me. Planning group vacations it sometimes helps for people to be able to pay back at different times or on different schedules. When you're dealing with a trusted group of people this works very

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