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by parshimers 7y ago
Their return policies are not good. Amazon will take things back, without fuss. Newegg will charge a very hefty restocking fee, or might not even take it back at all. It is very unfortunate to see this have happen, because I remember in the
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by parshimers 7y ago
No one (in this thread at least) is claiming it's a weapon. The point is that the research lab at the center of this pandemic has, and continues to, research and collect viruses just like SARS-CoV-2. The authorities in Wuhan also tried
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by parshimers 7y ago
It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened, either. Russia accidentally released Anthrax[1] from one of their facilities in the late 70's, and it killed over 100 people in the neighboring town. Of course they tried
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by parshimers 7y ago
Yes. I have an Atom on one end of the pipe as well, but it's over 10Gbe and to a 6 drive mirrored and striped vdev. Using SSH as the transport it would only approach 100MB/s, using mbuffer it can max out the storage at about 250-2
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by parshimers 7y ago
I wanted to use this tool for backing up my laptop to my NAS, however it only allows SSH to be used for data transfer, which is a real bottleneck for speed. It basically means you can only transfer as fast as one core can decrypt or encrypt
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by parshimers 7y ago
Query languages that came after it that weren't concerned with compatibility realized this. XQuery has "for" first, which is to a first approximation FROM, and "return" last, which is like a more powerful SELECT. SQ
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by parshimers 8y ago
What absolute garbage, it defies the entire point of tipping. Is this even legal? If a restaurant got caught doing this, they would definitely lose many customers or even get run out of business.
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by parshimers 8y ago
It's pretty funny that we still talk about HSR in California as a hypothetical, over 10 years after it was approved. Obama wasn't even in office yet. There's not a single piece of it you can ride, anywhere, despite the $9 bil
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by parshimers 8y ago
>In the past 30 years, the biggest coal seams were mined out in Appalachia, leaving thinner seams coursing through sandstone. ... >And because there's no coal, it is considered development mining or construction. So sampling the
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by parshimers 8y ago
> . While Sayoc carved out ugly niches on Facebook and Twitter, Bowers found even safer harbor for his racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic passions on Gab, a two-year-old social network that has served as a nursery for white nationalists
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by parshimers 8y ago
Seriously, dealing with cash is a hassle, especially on a self-checkout. Arco has tried the same nonsense and I avoid them at every turn, because it requires me to a) have cash and b) stand in line to pay , rather than it taking a moment to
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by parshimers 8y ago
I really wish Google was less opaque about problems like this, rare as they are. The only way to know this is happening right now is to get frustrated enough to search around reddit, the only official indication is through Twitter, etc.
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by parshimers 9y ago
>At the very least, you can have a fun biology experiment. I think amateur dentistry possibly resulting in turning a $50 filling into a root canal, implant, or worse, isn't most people's idea of a good time. It's great tha
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by parshimers 9y ago
The Wire has it, though it's not a card exactly like this, it's just a detective's card. If I remember right, Omar tries to use it to avoid being thrown in jail.
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by parshimers 9y ago
I'm pretty sure someone at Amazon is an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOd7HQoKxcU Oglethorpe: We have successfully traveled eons through both space and time through the Fargate. To get fre
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by parshimers 9y ago
If this piques your interest, you might want to give shellshape a look as well. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/294/shellshape/ . It lets you tile your windows in a more advanced way than simply side b
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by parshimers 9y ago
Best thing would probably be a lot of water. Here's a video of someone willingly pouring 98% sulfuric acid onto their hand, they just wash it off: https://youtu.be/XeVZQoJ5FdE?t=284 . Plus, if someone pours a random li
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by parshimers 9y ago
"Nice hiss." They really should mail it to him considering it smelled OK. I think he'd try eating a bit of it. I doubt it'd be the worst thing he's tried on that channel, even if the nuts are a bit rancid.
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by parshimers 9y ago
>There's a video where a Monsanto lobbyist spouts circular talking-points about how glyphosate was safe to drink, offered either Round Up or glyphosate and refused to drink it. But, you can actually watch a video of someone else dri
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by parshimers 9y ago
> Audio, not so much. " Haldeman: That the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters call Pat Gray and just say, “Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don’t want you to go any further on it.” That’s not an u
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by parshimers 9y ago
Because it's awesome! You've never had to rewrite a query for some sort of reason other than the results returned (e.g. performance) and really wondered if the original and rewritten query were exactly the same?
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by parshimers 9y ago
> " First of all, we've seen in the data from many of the pilots across the country that are using alternative math pathways — that are just as rigorous as an algebra course — we've seen much greater success for students b
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by parshimers 9y ago
> This assistant district attorney operates on the theory that if your prescription was expired on the date of the alleged conduct, you no longer “possessed a valid prescription” at that time and therefore cannot avail yourself of the af
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by parshimers 9y ago
+1 for Coup. It's easy to teach and very fast.
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by parshimers 9y ago
This is cool but I really don't get why one could call this actually creating "Professional-Level" photographs. It's more like a very good auto-retouch. There's still the matter of someone actually being there, real
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by parshimers 9y ago
The forgotten beast Asmodeus has come! A great centaur. It has a pair of dragon-like wings and it squirms and fidgets. Beware its deadly dust!
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by parshimers 9y ago
Where they're effective I think people already tend to use them due to how cheap they are. The article mentions the regions that are starting to buy the most A/Cs are places like India and SE Asia, all of which are humid and hot.
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by parshimers 9y ago
"This is great! And all I've done is enter my name-Thrillhouse!"
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by parshimers 9y ago
That's not why the site is broken if you're using uBlock/NoScript. It's broken because it loads everything (even the text of the site) from 3rd party domains and scripts.
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by parshimers 9y ago
He was the first person to (formally) propose the idea of an ice age, and find evidence for it. That's pretty impressive. I don't see how what you pointed out about his beliefs detracts from the point the author was trying to make

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