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by pooper 5y ago
> >Another man, Eric Eisenberg, had a similar experience across town last year. An Amazon driver and two colleagues noticed Mr. Eisenberg pointing his phone’s camera at their idling truck, knocked him to the ground and held him down,
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> Thr meter maids in NYC were brought under the NYPD because they used to be routinely beaten up when they were a civilian agency issuing people tickets. Now I don't condone violence, but this just sounds really risky. A lot of thes
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>> This amounted to a total loss of 824,097,690 IQ points, disproportionately endured by those born between 1951 and 1980 > At the risk of stating the obvious, IQ points aren't a measure and adding them up doesn't yield a
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> I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article. For those on Mozilla Firefox[note], please also give the reader view a try. Reader view is also available on other browsers such as Safari on the iPhone.
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by pooper 5y ago
Sorry for the naive question but is it likely that the EU members will do nothing if Finland, a member of the EU, is under attack? If Germany decides to engage, it will most likely be in consultation with the US, right?
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> Note this is amending existing law, so think of it as a legal diff. There may be important context not presented in this text. Thank you. I thought it was strange that it seemed a little vague what happens when I fail to report an inci
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Yeah, I am confused as well. Those three claims are logically consistent. They may be in poor taste but they don't fit kettle logic as far as I understand.
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> Resistive heat (like a light bulb or space heater) is terribly inefficient. My personal concept of resistive heat is effective comes from a YouTube channel called Technology Connections. The argument is that almost all of the energy ta
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I watched the rules for rulers CGP Grey video [YouTube] again recently. One takeaway is that corruption is a tool of power. If there are a lot of "keys", chances are that you are a key and if a bribe demand is so bad that it is li
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That's even more sinister than what I had thought. So you could take two job openings in two towns and two good candidates in those two towns and get 2x the bribe just by doing the inefficient thing and sending them to the wrong post.
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» I know many people who seek government jobs just so they can earn through bribes. » In India, from the lowest level of administration- from ward (a few blocks of town/city) councillor and village board members to governor's of s
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My practical concern is many people are uplink choked. Technically, on 200 Mbps down, I was supposed to get over 10 Mbps up on Comcast Xfinity but practically it was closer to 5 or 6 Mbps. This is already problematic if you have more than t
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I can't reproduce it anymore however when I last went there it somehow took me to one of those shady background check websites. I, too, can post spam websites if we want to go down that road
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I flagged this submission and recommend this post be deleted and the submitter penalized.
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I would even feel better about adding one more word "some" as in Toyota suspends some domestic factory operations because by default it sounds like it suspends all domestic factory operations. I agree. The title is click bait.
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> One question is, would that 800K + $100K/year go further somewhere else? Where is that money going now? Who gets this money now and why would they give it up?
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I like the ideas behind taler. » GNU Taler is an open protocol for an electronic payment system with a free software reference implementation. GNU Taler offers secure, fast and easy payment processing using well understood cryptographic tec
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I am scared to ask another team question about my work without checking documentation twice because I'm scared I'll ask something that's already covered in detail somewhere. I am very good at asking stupid questions. Thankful
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> If your battery was almost dead, you could plug it into a charger and swap out the battery for a fresh one. Yes, it does the same thing on my old ZTE z959. However, the phone boot loops if I try to boot it without a battery.
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> I don't think it can. UPS's store energy too, and stop holding charge after a while. It would be nice to bring back easily replaceable batteries, since they're basically a consumable these days. I don't know anythin
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> Phones are not designed for continuous power draw (and consequent heat dissipation) - contant-use power dissipation limits are very low. Maybe someone here can help me understand how power draw works on Android. I have a ZTE Z959, a Cr
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> How exactly does one know of one's phone is being snooped on? You will definitely know when they tell you.
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I like the 14 + 14 a lot better even though I think it is still too long. > The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation sec
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Sorry for my lack of knowledge but from your link it looks like the Governor General John Kerr was a piece of shit (or an idiot at best). The Wikipedia link makes no mention that I could find of the Buckingham Palace's direct involveme
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I see no way Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, ... would join such a union. And if they did, would they have way too much influence on the union?
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>> - Developers should get a “cut” whenever Apple makes arbitrary changes that completely break 3rd-party apps. If the app’s code doesn’t change but Apple does change something, their behavior is literally creating problems for develo
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I can't exactly explain why but in my mind, Alphabet and Google make sense. My thought process is that Google makes money that it then uses for other things which are not Google. I don't understand Facebook's name change. It
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Thank you for your reply. I went back to look at where I had mentioned that I had used an iPhone but you're right. I have an iPhone and and Android phone but I use banking apps exclusively on the iPhone. Interesting idea. Probably stil
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People used to have offices. Not anymore. You'll be lucky to have a cubicle. You'll more likely work in an OpenOffice plan. Some unlucky ones will probably learn the term "hot desking". Ffs stop this nonsense and just le
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A certain national bank which I shall not name had a banner on top of its app. The link opens a web page that goes to double click and then opens the bank's website. Why would a bank app take me through a double click link just to take

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