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by pasbesoin 8y ago
And how many competitors shrink as they compete on an uneven playing field (the basis of these "incentives" -- taxes and such) with these behemoths? If you're big enough to "break the rules", arguably you're a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Mine has been impacted by a few significant health blows, followed by the death of a thousand cuts. Health problems inhibiting, interrupting sustained focus and "flow". Environments that have become increasingly distracting. Audi
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It's going to be to kill people, this time around. The winners are going to want the resources -- and maybe a select subset of the losing populations, if opportunity provides.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Somebody or other's rule of action/expectation: If they can, they will. The only brake is significant enough fear of repercussions to themselves. I guess now I should RTFA. But seriously, put a monitoring device in your home (&q
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Try some real world events. Particularly outdoors, keeping your body busy ones. Maybe daytrips to canoe or kayak, or just hike. Maybe also indoor events, crafts or even computing, radio, maybe some maker things. You'll run into othe
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Remember a decade or so ago when the U.S. military was icing Middle Eastern "terr'ist" targets based upon gait analysis? Well, now it's you. And also, once again, brought to "the world" by China. (Maybe they&
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I used to use the Firefox extension Scrapbook. It saved items to a local archive (not "local storage", but user-definable and in the normal local filesystem). Then the Firefox rewrite killed it. In addition to news that I'd
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I don't recall reading of this. (I'm not a Mac guy, but friends...) The current, "lesser" MacBook Pro that retains the function keys, does not share the keyboard technology of the current, trouble-prone (dust, failed k
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I treat them as less secure passwords -- passwords that often a representative at the company has access to. (I've experienced instances of people on the phone (upon my calling the organization at a known number) soliciting their answ
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I thought of NIST. And of how many government deployed algorithms should be documented and evaluated, as a condition of use. For example, "risk" profilers that are being used to determine prison sentencing and parole/supervi
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I've been moving more of my purchases back to cash. Not that I'm purchasing anything nefarious -- well, until I consider how e.g. purchasing medication X may be used against me, something I consider to be nefarious on the part of
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
That, I don't have an answer for. However, I don't find it absolving what I observe in today's Google and all the "business" and "marketing" types who appear to have come to dominate it.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. Some things should remain inviolate. In this case, not just for the memory, but for the new children who continue to engage with Rogers' program (it will run in repeats and streaming for years an
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'm in circumstances (allergies, noise, etc.) that leave me feeling relatively poorly in the morning. They can clear somewhat during the day, leaving me feeling better and clearer headed in the evening -- except that then I'm fig
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Speaking generally (not to this specifically): Cable company offers customer package that has X. Then gets into dispute with provider or distributor of X -- a pricing fight -- and X goes away. Customer keeps paying for the package they w
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
My fault, for reacting more to another headline about "blackouts", than to the specifics. I've tried to clarify, a bit, in my original comment. Customers make commitments, both contractual and personal in terms of time and e
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Prefix: Speaking generally, with regard to "blackouts" impacting immediate and short-term, essentially already sold and "committed to" services. Pertaining to this instance, that would include taking on and honoring the
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Microwave and other non-ionizing energy can be used to influence rate of reaction. Chemical reactions depend upon orientation and bond state/dynamics, that are influenced (not necessarily broken, but, say, "flexed", stretche
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
You might want to hold onto it for a bit. I read the occasional "horror" stories about people getting big bills for "unreturned equipment" that they were previously told not to return. Or that was returned but never lo
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I've seen people using finger loops that are stuck onto the back, or straps. I managed to find a decent looking instance of the latter in a quick search (so, just the first I found): https://www.amazon.com/TFY-Security
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Not to take away from the larger concern, but in your mother's case, perhaps a case with a significant border would help. I suppose if there is not a ready-made one that suits, making /hacking one, the old-fashioned way or through
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Bad news. Sure, there are ways you could argue it could work well. But, IBM would have to change. Good luck with that.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
It makes me think they must be recycling old POS systems from gasoline pumps -- the ones where you twiddle your thumbs, waiting for the display to update. And, any kind of real QA should have / would have caught this. Anything simulat
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Hearing a 20-something Albertan casually reference "frogs" made the bottom drop out of my stomach. (This was the better part of 20 years ago.) They'd never call someone that, face-to-face out on the patch, but the disdain wa
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
The web site, to the extent I recall it, seems to just or mostly rewrite academic press releases and maybe abstracts. In that sense, it aggregates scientific "news". Here's what this article is talking about, from a quick Go
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I've found experiencing such "negative" emotions to be a sign to me that things need to change. The emotions are "healthy", in that regard. What isn't healthy, is when they are not followed by positive change,
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Except by e.g. switching from fiber to microwave -- in certain constrained and financially motivated circumstances, such as regional and local transmission for the purpose of electronic trading. Or so I've read; not my thing. But it&#x
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Try again. It just worked for me; I'm writing this two minutes after your post.
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Sunshades don't address other attendant issues stemming from increased CO2, such as ocean acidification. The ocean biosphere wholesale is threatened by acidification. (Among other things, bio-carbonate generation and stability are un
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yes. I was fine after that first week. During it, I'd just gone from intensive French (zero to third-year college level conversational and academic proficiency/placement in seven weeks) to a German class, with a week or two in be

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