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by p_j_w 5y ago
Why is that check mate for the Israelis but building settlements, a gross violation of human rights, not check mate for the Palestinians?
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by p_j_w 5y ago
They will never do this in areas where that would threaten their vendor lock-in.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>By not rejecting Hamas, Palestinians make themselves a military problem rather than a civil rights issue. Why does this statement not work against Israel for supporting governments that build settlements? Surely the war crime of buildin
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by p_j_w 5y ago
No, you were always able to install Netscape. It was indeed bundling that they were fined for.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>Strong democracies don't assure that atrocities don't happen, it just means that governments are able to be held accountable for them. Has any government been held accountable for the "Residential School" system? No.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons Unless this guy was sexually harassing people, I'm curious how this is going to protect anyone from any kind of liability. >you should remember that
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by p_j_w 5y ago
No spiders were involved.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Geometric Unity, Eric Weinstein's supposed Theory of Everything. It's likely a bunch of nonsense, but the man won't release a paper, so we can't know for sure. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktai
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>How WOULD we know? Antibody tests after the fact would reveal whether or not these were Covid cases. You'd have to be tested before the antibodies disappeared, though.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
There are plentiful anecdotes (including this very comment section) of people with similar stories just assuming they had caught covid early. Yours is the only one I've seen where the people involved took a rational/science minded
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by p_j_w 5y ago
The best propagandist makes it a little believable, right?
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by p_j_w 5y ago
All 3 of the accounts listed regarding Agrippina's death are subjects of the article in question and suspected of outright making things up. Your own link even puts forth the fact that all three accounts are unbelievable. I don't
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>most people are completely unaware of the foundation of irrational nonsense that their worldview is based on Maybe I live in some kind of intellectual bubble, but me and the vast majority of my atheist friends are all too aware of the f
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>you only have to assume physics totally different from ours You don't have to assume anything is true if you don't want to, but if you want to consider whether we're living in a simulation, it's probably worth consid
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by p_j_w 5y ago
There are an unfortunate amount of people out there who think everyone else should do their jobs out of love of the work and not worry about pay. I've found they rarely hold themselves to this standard, though, and try to find excuses
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Everyone saying it would be computationally expensive to simulate our universe is failing to put their mind outside of the box of our universe. Imagine for a moment that there's a universe which compares to our universe similarly to ho
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Tesla has gimped range on cars that were already sold with an OTA update. This is far different from a mid-year refresh.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
duxup was a fairly prolific user on kuro5hin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin ).
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>This is called a minimum noise match, along with associated noise contours where noise is traded off with impedance match. You also get to trade off your impedances with gain and stability. RF design is fun!
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by p_j_w 5y ago
I appreciate the offer, but I honestly don't know where the RAW is anymore. I've been quite the slacker about taking photos the last couple of years.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
The crazy thing is that no grand conspiracy is required, this is just a function (and an entirely predictable one) of the ever increasing levels of wealth inequality that we see. No political "pincher" movement required, it's
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by p_j_w 5y ago
I have a Canon point and shoot that I use for underwater photos and Darktable really doesn't cope well with some of the RAW files. I believe it's related to the zoom. I also vastly prefer Lightroom's overall workflow. That ma
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>I'm not sure the "militant students" framing is very fair here You may want to re-read the article. There's at least one passage of a group of the protestors approaching a surrendering soldier with pipes, rocks, and
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by p_j_w 5y ago
People replying to this comment: beware of Fundamental Attribution Error when trying to differentiate when your country is responsible for deaths versus when another country is.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
And then there are people who think wearing a mask is a worthwhile thing to do to protect other people when they have some contagious respiratory disease. You might call this category "people with a sense of common decency."
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by p_j_w 5y ago
I think problems like IRQ conflicts and DMA address issues are completely orthogonal the the things mentioned in that other post.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
You left out the most important action: vote for people who want to deal with the problem. Individual action is nice and all, but this is a problem that is caused collectively and needs to be dealt with collectively.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>When I was in HCMC, I visited the The War Remnants Museum. It is on the same level as Auschwitz in my mind. It made me physically ill. I'm generally pretty stoic about these sorts of things, but that museum really did a number on m
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Do you have an example of such a website? I'm genuinely curious if such a thing exists. I've been doing some CSS+HTML tutorials lately, and the ones I've been reading, I don't see how you would without style attributes i
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>I disagree with the (current) top post in this thread saying it's "likely parallel construction". It could be, but the claimed story also sounds pretty plausible Others have pointed out that this happened in the UK, so it

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