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by plugger 5y ago
> but also against global warming due to the delicate nature of producing fine wine. Historically Burgundy had one or two warm (aka fully ripening) vintages per decade. In some ways global warming is helping marginal regions (from a ripe
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by plugger 5y ago
Liv-ex and the other people who are leading the 'wine as an investment' bandwagon need to f right off. I love burgundy, I've even gone as far as spending a week there tasting at domaines. And I'm sick and tired of the pr
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by plugger 5y ago
Not when the result would be them ransomwaring themselves. But I think it's pretty obvious I'm not going to be able to convince your superior 4D chess mind so I think I'll just bow out now. Good luck.
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by plugger 5y ago
It's in the malware, the most fake of all primary sources.
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by plugger 5y ago
Nothing to do with ideology, just the simple fact that once the US Capitol was breached the protestors were committing a criminal act and could be treated as such. Now whether or not that criminal act warranted a firearm discharge is up to
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by plugger 5y ago
> because four of those were either natural causes or self–inflicted: strokes, heart attack, drug overdose. Which most likely would not have occurred if the riot hadn't occurred. > The fifth was an unarmed protester who was shot
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by plugger 5y ago
I think it was obvious there was no plan but I'm not sure you can say it was overblown when people died.
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by plugger 5y ago
Maybe this has to do more with nationality? HN is a US focused site after all.
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by plugger 6y ago
> quite likely isolated or untrusted - were hacked. I disagree. From my experience there are many big corps out there that use VLANs but don't properly secure them. And even if they did I expect pivoting from these hosts would be tr
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by plugger 6y ago
Google already had a plan for this back in October 2020 (in terms of paying a premium for news). https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiat...
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by plugger 6y ago
> My most important message to everyone reading this is that it's not intended to compete with properly implemented wireline based services. I think the key word here is properly. I put my pre-order in Feb 9th and I'm in the Pe
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by plugger 6y ago
I think we can all agree that SF as well as Cali has a problem in terms of homelessness. I think we can also agree that homelessness leads to criminal behavior. I expect if I lived on the streets I'd do whatever I had to (illegal or ot
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by plugger 6y ago
> But the whole saga has played out exactly the same throughout the West. We went into lockdown today with our first case of community spread since April. The saga has 100% NOT played out exactly the same throughout the West. Australia h
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by plugger 6y ago
> So the percentage of 'terrorist' attacks that occurred have shifted towards right wing extremist groups... of course that either requires that we don't classify certain destructive behaviors by certain groups of people a
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by plugger 6y ago
+1. I must admit I find it a bit rich that people are raising free speech issues around this situation. I find myself wondering where these people were in 2014 when all the major social media platforms systematically removed ISIS accounts a
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by plugger 6y ago
> I'm linking you to a video showing a mob enacting an act of killing a symbolic cop Once again, BLM protests to my knowledge did not ever result in LE personnel being murdered. So I can't really see these sorts of things as co
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by plugger 6y ago
> It is not known how the account was accessed I don't think the question was sidestepped, I just think as of yet they don't know exactly how the account was compromised.
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by plugger 6y ago
> 5 in one event?
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by plugger 6y ago
This seems less like an answer to the question and more a statement of your position. Amazon is domestic so it's kinda hard to accuse them of direct foreign interference.
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by plugger 6y ago
Did they then storm federal buildings where the persons they were chanting about hanging were in residence?
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by plugger 6y ago
> It isn't good for the people considered to be the smartest in the world to be so rabidly against one political side. Who said that? > Here's documented evidence of violence of an appalling kind outside police precincts an
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by plugger 6y ago
Those examples can all be considered performance art and are protected. Erecting a gallow outside of the Capitol with a mob of angry rioters chanting about hanging Pence isn't really comparable. Those threats should be considered real,
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by plugger 6y ago
> Trump will be back, that's guarantee and he will be more popular than ever. Assuming he's still alive and mobile in 2024. Given his diet that's an assumption I'm not comfortable making. > These companies like Twi
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by plugger 6y ago
In an academic paper from 30 March 2010 from the United State Marine Corps Command and Staff College at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, Major Joseph T. Beals, USMC writes: "The elite Mexican Special Forces, Grupo Aer
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by plugger 6y ago
Despite the article not outright claiming this as fact I've never seen anyone seriously attempt to refute the statement.
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by plugger 6y ago
IIRC education is Australia's 3rd largest export.
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by plugger 6y ago
> What motivated Australia, Japan, and SK to sign on to this? Most likely the fact that the US becoming more isolationist forces traditional allies to enter into agreements that they wouldn't have considered previously. In this inst
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by plugger 6y ago
Even if you don't have a high net worth it triggers a 5 year tax audit and fees. My mate just handed in his passport even though he's been doing his W2's annually and he still had to pay $2k to renounce.
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by plugger 6y ago
We're using a ESP32 as the "brains" of a Rocket tracker. Having Wifi to confirm GPS lock is pretty nice. I flew it yesterday with a Quectel L-80/MediaTek 3339 chipset, seems to have performed fairly well. https:/&
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by plugger 6y ago
High Power = H Impulse and above. Also, if your M class flights rarely went over 1500ft those rockets must have been HUGE. I did my L3 on a baby M (M2250 - 9.4% M) and went nearly 20k ft AGL and Mach 1.9.

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