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by ratsmack 4y ago
>pledges A pledge has the same value as good intentions.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>They are apocalyptic/UFO/meditation cult I didn't see anything like you describe[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Central_teachings
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by ratsmack 4y ago
> HN isn't the place for politics. It seems that if the politics meet a certain criteria, they are allowed ad nauseam. You also see where certain names are allowed to say things where others are chastised for the rebuttal of said th
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by ratsmack 4y ago
> There are already enough near-total-free speech zones on the Internet You must be referring to Facebook and Twitter.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I'm surprised this thread is on HN, and it actually gives me hope.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
But making huge profit in the tech sector is rejoiced, as seen in the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google.... and the list goes on. But farmers are seen as leeches for wanting to be paid for their labor.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Yeah, it's okay when we do it because it affects us.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>To go out in public and cry crocodile tears about my livelihood would be disingenuous Should we feel the same way about people in IT, programming and other computer related industries then they are laid off for economic reasons? I find
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>Based on measurements gathered by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission between April and September 2018, the image shows high levels of nitrogen dioxide in London, Paris, Brussels, western Germany, Milan and Moscow. Nitrogen dioxide pollu
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I'm sure your views on this subject would be completely different if you were a farmer.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It seems that sanctions are hurting people everywhere, except in Russia (aside from a few exceptions).
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Fruit juices are not the health panacea that people believe, but instead just a concentration of sugar with flavor. When you eat a fruit, you obtain the benefit of the fiber which helps to release the sugars slowly. also, It takes numerous
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Does that mean they are dumping raw sewage directly into the river? Treatment plants usually remove all solids before releasing effluent into bodies of water.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
This is a problem with almost all modern UPS's. I had some of the old APC's that had the aluminum case with the high quality circuit boards with adjustment pots. These units were purchased in the mid to late 90's and were roc
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I find it funny that vegans would even want to associate with food names of products that they abhor. Many vegans say that have never eaten meat, so why would they want 'steak' or 'sausage' fake meat?
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>What keeps us living paycheck to paycheck is that we spend more than we make on stuff we don’t need. This is still true, though. When I turned 40 in 1994, I decided I had lived with debt long enough. So I sold my plane. my boat and my 2
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It seems that the retail traders are doing better than the institutional types, so the "fix" is to hamstring the retail folks to maintain the status-quo, and make it look like they're doing a favor for retail by acting deeply
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I can honestly say that I won't be buying another Dell. A BIOS upgrade on my PowerEdge T40 changed something in the ACPI area which caused one CPU to spin constantly at about 50% load. I found others that had the problem and a fix that
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>officially denies climate change Actually, that is false. They deny the reason for climate change being solely caused by humans. Hopefully one day an honest discussion can be had on this subject.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The hxextract needs a '-' at the end to read from stdin, otherwise curl ends with error 23 indicating pipe closed prematurely. You also need a space after the '-A' or it sees the '-s' as the user agent name. Th
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by ratsmack 4y ago
A legacy can be a work in progress.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
My uncle worked at Hanford his entire life but his last few years of life were not good. He he retired with numerous health issues and was essentially a mental vegetable the last few years of his life. He was at Hanford from it's incep
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The corruption is deep and wide within our government (deep state?) and it doesn't matter which political faction is in power. The attack on the dissemination of information and transparency seems to be accelerating every day. It'
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The US Dollar is tightly coupled with assets, and tangible goods and services that provide a substantial portion of its stability. Bitcoin, however, is based on burning through terawatts of electrical power in order to "prove work&quot
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>tracked by someone who at least tries to have your best interests at heart I don't know if that was sarcasm or you being really naive.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>Revolution of Dignity More like Revolution of Installing Puppet Government by western nations.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>it encourages its appropriation by racial supremacists. When I got to this point, I quit reading and will disregard the article.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Anything that involves cryptography has to remain suspect.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
On our farm we would use an attachment called a ripper. It was a series of blades that would reach down 18 to 20 inches to break up the soil. Behind each blade was a 3.5 inch diameter bullet shaped slug (called a mole) that would create an
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Spending upwards of $100k or more on personal enrichment seems a bit extravagant. Unfortunately, the majority of people are coerced to go into debt when the return on the "investment" is very limited.

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