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by papa-whisky 4y ago
> So, one bad/corrupt juror could render anyone not guilty? No, they need to unanimously agree on either guilty or not guilty. A hung jury would result in a retrial.
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
https://archive.vn/xZKGZ
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Australian stock exchange's blockchain failure burns market trust(reuters.com)
2 points by papa-whisky 4y ago|1 comments
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
I always thought this colour was named "Crayon" by Porsche? Maybe they use different names in different markets...
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
From the other comments here it would appear that this site uses imperial units, but I see it as metric. And no option to switch... Is this being inferred from my location? Anyway, most deaths I've been able to get is with a gold aster
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
Tangentially related, the urban planning focused YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes" recently did a video on the decline of the "third place" (i.e., places other than home and work) in American cities: https://yo
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
Discussed at the time it was published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28138844
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
I think the point is that coinbase is struggling to compete when there are tons of exchanges out there offering low/no fees and ludicrous interest payments on coins kept on the exchange. Even if those other 'exchanges' do all
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Build a shelf-size vintage computer museum made of paper(arstechnica.com)
2 points by papa-whisky 4y ago|0 comments
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
I have also been using this extension (redirector) for a long while, for the same purpose. One thing I like about OPs extension is that it can randomise which instance of teddit/nitter/etc you get redirected to. And it's also
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
I can't tell if "waste of bytes" is referring to the blog post shared by GP, or to proof of stake as a whole. If the former; as someone with little knowledge of cryptocurrency the post read fairly convincingly to me. In what
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US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design(arstechnica.com)
829 points by papa-whisky 4y ago|742 comments
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by papa-whisky 5y ago
Ignoring the questionable end-goal here, the 'crypto' aspect of this is apparently completely orthogonal to the fund-raising effort[1]. What's the point? [1] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/
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by papa-whisky 5y ago
This user has now opened another PR[1], owning up to their trolling and suggesting that the CoC changes should be reverted. This whole thing is pretty juvenile but I must admit I found it amusing. [1] https://github.com/ruby&
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by papa-whisky 5y ago
>I used GitHub’s configuration wizard to create a config file. I wonder why this config UI never made it out of the beta. Sounds kinda handy...
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by papa-whisky 5y ago
Very neat, I'd never heard of this! Here in Melbourne we have a much smaller version set out along a ~6km walk by the bay: https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/media/svodom2p/solar-syst...
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by papa-whisky 7y ago
Not really a 'village' like the one in the article, but I recently discovered that there's a row of townhouses on top of a shopping centre in central Melbourne: https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8256146
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My secret shame: I am (still) addicted to Pokémon Go(theguardian.com)
2 points by papa-whisky 7y ago|0 comments
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by papa-whisky 8y ago
I can't help but wonder if the 'free email' thing hurts the company more than it helps. A couple of years ago my parents wanted to trial individual email for their very small business (just a few employees). Google had recent
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
Kenji Lopez-Alt's method is the best I've come across[1]. His book is mentioned in the linked article as well, I've not read it but it sounds good! [1]: https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/how-to-poa
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
The title refers to one of Fowler's quotes in the article: >Turgid flabby English is full of abstract nouns; the commonest ending of abstract nouns is –tion, and to count the –ion words in what one has written, or, better, to cultiv
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
The name is clearly just `jrnl`: https://github.com/maebert/jrnl
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
There are quite a few, mostly German. For the hubs themselves look at Schimdt SON, Shutter Precision, or Shimano. For lights, Busch & Muller, Schmidt, or Supernova. Most dynamo lights use a reflector (more like a car headlight than a no
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
I find it somewhat hypocritical that this is in The Guardian, considering that they frequently publish the kind of questionable nutritional advice that the article lambasts.
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by papa-whisky 9y ago
Super handy, thanks for this!