quintushoratius

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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> What's up with the plumbing and heating? Not sure if this is what GP meant, but Britain has a history of using separate taps for hot and cold water, rather than a single tap that mixes hot and cold to give you a range of temperatu
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> it does not give you the best change, but gives you the heaviest change. "Best change" is an ambiguous term, but also subjective. > 4-way traffic management guaranteed to cause a huge traffic jam in the name of health and
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
I think part of the reason for using wire was for fire proofing. The recording would be salvageable even after intense fires. Later recorders used plastic tape but also have a water vessel. As the water boils it keeps the interior from go
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
There is. It's called "projection." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
It depends on the car, really. My 2000 Saab required you to shift to reverse in order to remove the key, regardless of the incline.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
You can both give a person a fish, and at the same time teach them to fish as well. It is not, and never should have been presented as, an either/or argument.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
At it's core "modern medicine" is not actually a science. We've added a veneer of science, there's science at the edges, but at it's most basic form it remains an art from inception in the 19th century to toda
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
I've read similar accounts, including people who are themselves on oxygen, dying of covid, insisting that it's just a hoax.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> you are also limited to having at most one service of each kind per NATted network That's not entirely true. It's possible to assign source port/address combos that route to different hosts. For example, I can say that:
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
"Find a new job" is equivalent to "move to a different country". It's a bullshit response that implies that a certain group should be allowed to do something controversial. If you're going to exercise except
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> Is it really a better world if all the tasks are performed perfectly, but if almost everyone's reduced to a deskilled, mind-numbed, burger-flipper? In your metaphor you're assuming that the captain becomes a low skill automo
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
Not OP, but - It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. * I keep my savings, checking, and loan accounts at a local bank, which also issues a debit card. * I have credit cards from Discover and BoA, so that I get big-bank se
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> It baffels the mind that none of Tesla's competitors has cried foul yet. They won't because they're either doing the same, or hoping to do the same in the near future.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
How interesting that the Soviet government didn't mind. Another commenter in a different thread relayed that the French government found the books "subversive" and banned faithful translations; the hacked translations that w
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> If I ever hear of someone admitting to being diagnosed with this personality disorder I would do everything in my power to disassociate myself from them -- which I believe to be a rational decision when self-preservation is the goal. T
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
Maybe they're testing the waters? Perhaps there's a political problem with open-sourcing a current product that nearly every company has sunk a sizeable amount of revenue into? OPs hypothesis isn't totally outlandish.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
That's a terrible analogy, for two reasons. 1. Post and phone have an expectation of privacy so the government can't review them (in the US, at least) 2. There is already a system in place to review all phone calls in real time.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> Not only is inflation extremely low, but we were at serious risk of a deflationary spiral without all the funny-money that the feds are pumping into the economy. Was reading just the other day that inflation is actually underestimated
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
What competition is there for any of those services? Bing, whatever MS brands Hotmail as these days, Yahoo, Firefox & Opera? They're all small potatoes. Apple mail and maps isn't really competition, either. Similar problem i
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> Central banking and monetary policy lowering interest rates? The relief package earlier this year? Those are examples of politicians reacting to events that were already occurring or had occurred. Counter-point, most respectable econom
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
It's also worth mentioning that older folks alive during the Great Depression had a perspective on it vs the panics during the 19th century. Many observed that the Great Depression, which was the worst in a generation, was tough but m
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
When have factories ever sprung up without cities? Historically never, since you need convenient access to a population of workers. Rural areas are too spread out. In modern times car companies, in particular, have built factories in the
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
No one is entitled to use another person's body for sex, or anything else, and it is improper to expect it. If you need sex, most people have at least one working hand that can take care of that urge for you. Humans are social animals,
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
One could argue that a journalist's duty is to be critical of the government, regardless of the specifics. The ABC might still be considered neutral.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
...and that's different from new, unproven technology how? Unproven technology has all that in spades.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> Why can't they just take loans like most Western countries do to balance their budget? Who, exactly, is going to loan them money? If Iran were a person they'd have a sub-600 credit score while seeking a no-documentation car l
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
I think he meant that your percentage is off. COVID by itself has a 1-2% mortality, not .1%, and has a rapid infection rate. The combined direct and indirect mortality is trending much higher, perhaps double.
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by quintushoratius 6y ago
> I suspect nobody really sees something visually when thinking/imagining something, I suspect that you may have some degree of aphantasia. Visualizing something encumbers the same visual processing as sight does. Personally I have
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
Supposedly, the February break that New England school districts follow was designed to stop the flu. Take everyone out of school for a week to stop the spread, hope that everyone that shows symptoms by the end of the week stays home. Of c
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
You contract with a tunnel broker (most, if not all, are free) to give you an address. If you have a lan then you can set up radvd (or similar) to distribute addresses. You may need to replace your router though. Your ipv6 packets head out

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