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by quesera 10mo ago
> A person who knowingly violates Is there a legal specification of "knowingly" that requires intent? Or is "awareness" adequate? E.g. If you know (or would be reasonably expected to know) that your license plate wa
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by quesera 10mo ago
Not sure what the original was (now edited), but it's actually "champing at the bit", historically. Chomping is also correct enough today, descriptivistically speaking.
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by quesera 10mo ago
> almost everyone refers to it as Postgres, because they do not actually value the descriptiveness of "PostgreSQL". Also because the original name was, just, "Postgres". Stylized as POSTGRES. PostgreSQL is an awful
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by quesera 10mo ago
Even more directly, in fact. "Google" is from "Googol", the latter being 10^100. Apparently, "Google" the corporate name is an accidental misspelling of the number. The number (googol) has no mathematical spe
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by quesera 10mo ago
How about something like "Yes, we have the resources to handle that project"? > Four people in a small business cannot really ever be a "category". Sure they can -- they are all employees, for example. I agree that
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by quesera 10mo ago
This one trips me up. Why are we sensitive about the word "resource"? Literally nothing about the word "resource" has negative connotations for me. Resources are finite and precious. They are protected and important. Som
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by quesera 10mo ago
"Collapse" is a dramatic word for "slow, orderly, decline". :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
The municipality charges all residents for all services provided. Citizens vote on which services are provided to them, and which they will have to pay for. The payment obligations are progressive by necessity, and indexed to assessed prope
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by quesera 10mo ago
I don't think it's as revealing as you suggest. Writers write, and editors edit, for an audience. HN is definitely not a perfect match for the New Yorker's intended audience. But most readers of the New Yorker would choke on
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by quesera 10mo ago
If insurability becomes a crisis, I'd expect it to reduce housing availability and raise prices for competing (insurable) properties. Of course it wouldn't happen in isolation, so there are other massive forces to consider. Maybe
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by quesera 10mo ago
A corporation does not provide services to shareholders. A municipality is charging residents for services. Obligations are progressive (by necessity), and indexed to assessed property value (as a practicality), rather than equity or income
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by quesera 10mo ago
Nit: stock ticker symbol is AAPL. APPL was the Type Code[0] for an Application, in classic MacOS (1984). 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork#Types
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by quesera 10mo ago
> when their standard requirements are 15 years out of date I swear half of my "compensating control" responses are just extended versions of "policy requirement is outdated or was always bad".
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by quesera 10mo ago
Disable JavaScript. Solves many of the problems on the net, including the ability to read this article. :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
That's a very strange way of looking at property taxes.
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by quesera 10mo ago
That arrangement will not pass IRS muster. Not that the system would not be abused, but the obvious exploit is not going to work.
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by quesera 10mo ago
I've never seen (noticed) an OV cert in real life, and no business I've ever been responsible for pushed for OV over DV. It was always EV or "huh?"
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by quesera 10mo ago
I was going to say the opposite. LE still feels like the "new" way, to me. :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
There was a time when EV certificates were considered more trustworthy than DV certs. Browsers used to show an indication for EV certs. Those days are long gone, and I'm not completely sure how I feel about it. I hated the EV renewal&#
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by quesera 10mo ago
Some critical differences, I think, are: - What we did on the Internet in the early 90s was not broadcast to our (real world) peers. If some big drama blew up online, we could escape it with the flip of a switch. - Similarly, we could escap
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by quesera 10mo ago
I'm more in the "Not in a million years" camp on this one. :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
Err, well, from the title, I expected it to be a garage experimentation video without practical information. Thanks for the correction. :) Video was published last week and reaches the same conclusions as this thread. Timely, and reassuring
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by quesera 10mo ago
I think you're thinking about it on the kettle side, and I was thinking on the breaker side. I think the kettle side would not care. It may be a ground fault in UK wires, but the kettle has no reason to detect it, and nothing sensitive
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by quesera 10mo ago
I think it works if the US neutral is left unused (terminated in the electrical box). E.g, something like this: (US proposed) (UK kettle) (UK standard) (2-phase) ┌─────────────┐ (1-phase) │
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by quesera 10mo ago
That does sound like a much better idea, thank you!
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by quesera 10mo ago
Hmm, yeah! I hadn't thought much about the differences between UK and US 240VAC service. In the US, it's 240V 60Hz, split-phase with center-tapped neutral, and an independent ground wire. In the UK, it's 240V 50Hz, single-pha
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by quesera 10mo ago
I agree. If I replace the wire, I'd get an assembly with the correct US molded plug (NEMA 14-30?), and perform the wire replacement inside the kettle itself. Your reason is good, but I'd do it that way for the aesthetics alone. :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
I'm in the midst of a kitchen remodel (in 120V land). I decided to pull an extra 240V line to the countertop explicitly for a tea kettle, which I have not purchased yet but seem to be available from Amazon UK for ~2x the price of an or
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by quesera 10mo ago
There's no doomerism in the article. It's just documentation of change, with a reference to temperature trends, and to another major cause (which they do not suggest, but might also be related to temperature change, as it is tho
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by quesera 10mo ago
Maybe not... Digital cameras were well-established in 1998. I bought one around that time (Olympus I think, sub-1MP), and used a script on Linux to extract the images. I was not a terribly early adopter.

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