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by rmcpherson 7y ago
It’s really not always connected in the way of internet or satellite two way communication. The beacon’s are only there if you need them for emergencies and do not allow people to contact you. There are some like the Spot devices that allow
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
Atlanta is a big dot though. With the growth of the Atlanta metro it may eventually make Georgia a blue state in national elections, similar to how the Twin Cities with ~60% of Minnesota population make it vote democratic.
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
The linked article does not show it extending 100 miles from international airports. Nor does the text say that.
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
I’ve never heard this happen on US ham bands. I’m sure it has but the FCC takes violations seriously and will track down offenders.
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
This is true although you can turn off location sharing with apple for all these services, under Location Services->System Services. This includes Maps, Analytics, traffic, and Apple Maps improvement.
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
Agriculture is also more intensive than hunting / gathering, supporting more humans per area. When the two conflicted, the agriculturalists won by strength of numbers. Generally, more intensive civilizations outcompete less intensive
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by rmcpherson 7y ago
This is often impossible when bike lanes are adjacent to parked cars.
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
The debris found in Reunion island was likely handled by France as it is a French overseas department. Debris photos here: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mh370-l...
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
They do, but it's only possible to apply for CO status when drafted. You can not become a CO when registering with selective service. https://www.sss.gov/consobj I know because I tried.
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
You could become a conscientious objector, and it’s even possible to get out of the military this way (my father did). Unfortunately, the Selective Service does not recognize conscientious objectors when there is not a draft so it’s hard to
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A Man Threw Away a Napkin Last Month, Used to Charge Him in a 1993 Murder(nytimes.com)
2 points by rmcpherson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
The difference is that it’s illegal to drive a motor vehicle without liability insurance. With other vehicles, that can be just as lethal to pedestrians or cyclists, there is no such requirement. In my case, the driver who hit me was homele
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
Exactly. This just happened to me when I was struck by a moped in a near-fatal crash. Because it is not a motor vehicle by insurance and Legal standards in the USA it does not require a license or insurance to operate. If you are hit by one
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
Because it is not a motor vehicle by insurance and Legal standards in the USA it does not require a license or insurance to operate. If you are hit by one of these, you’ll find there’s no insurance to cover you other than your health insura
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
True but the U.S. has contributed hundreds of millions to the LHC and still does. https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-...
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
It does get better with age in that your circadian rhythm will shift as you get older. It's a crime that we force adolescents to wake up far earlier than they are biologically wired to just so their parents can get to their jobs. Accor
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
This is something I’m interested as well. How are you making the transition?
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
While that was true to some extent 5-10 years ago, that is not the trend now nor has it been for several years. Hop flavor and aroma are the focus now of craft beer breweries, with significantly less bitterness.
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by rmcpherson 8y ago
There are MRI-safe ICDs now. So they can be designed to avoid heating and mechanical displacement in MRIs. For ones not designed for this, such as yours apparently, it can be deadly though.
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Why Track and Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by rmcpherson 8y ago|0 comments
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
It is more of a problem if you want to run the VPN on your router upstream of your devices, which simplifies management and ensures all devices are protected from ISP snooping, including devices where I don't control the software like
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
That makes sense. I was thinking masters might be tested even at the amateur level but I guess that's rare even at the high levels of competition.
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
One of the problems I've run into with using a vpn service is that many services block IPs from common vpn services. While this may be due to abuse originating from those IPs this still seems like a lazy approach to abuse prevention. O
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Do you know why that is? It seems possible that it could be because masters racers started doping back before testing was prevalent/sensitive and now can't stop without a precipitous drop-off in performance that would raise eyebro
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Baryonic matter accelerating into black holes also emits electromagnetic radiation vs. dark matter which does not interact electromagnetically by definition (and observation).
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Some scientists are using github as github for science, including development done in the open. For instance, this is just one particle physics project I happen to be aware of https://github.com/DisplacedHiggs Open developm
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
For a fascinating and realistic exploration of what that might look like, I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. In the series, a longevity treatment is developed that significantly extends lives. Beyond the strain on resourc
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Scihub has made virtually all academic papers freely accessible.
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
This is all true, however even among all-malt beers there is significant variance in the quality of ingredients. That doesn't mean that there is no pretense but that high-quality beers can be measurably better (GCMS, blind sensory test
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
An acronym for The (fucking) article. From RTFM/RTFA. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA Despite the expletive it's not usually used in anger.

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