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by rz2k 2y ago
How about if you say "settecento"? Maybe it is a new confusion that they drop a thousand years, and maybe it would imply Italian art specifically.
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by rz2k 2y ago
That’s pretty interesting. Would pumping fuel from wing to the other ever be a viable way to get out of a flat spin?
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by rz2k 2y ago
Are you making a specific distinction between prisons and penitentiaries?
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by rz2k 2y ago
How about informal treatises? There are a couple smart, incredibly creative people who regularly get front page here with their latest project, it does stealth for a year or a couple years, then it's later followed by an "incredib
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by rz2k 2y ago
Just throwing out ideas, but I don't think wealth flowing out is as much of a big deal as it was in the 70s. However, the opposite is the case with respect to concentration of wealth. Also I think that the US and Europe are very differ
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by rz2k 3y ago
An effect that was wonderfully illustrated in his book State of Fear , where he intended to undermine climate science.
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by rz2k 3y ago
Causing a net loss to the economy through waste and inefficiency is ultimately the same as contributing to world hunger.
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by rz2k 3y ago
On iOS/iPadOS Firefox and Chrome extensions seem to mostly work in the Orion browser.
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by rz2k 3y ago
Once you’ve created free accounts at each of the CRAs, here are the direct links to freeze/unfreeze your file. - https://usa.experian.com/mfe/regulatory/security-freeze - https://my.equifax.com&#x2
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by rz2k 3y ago
Before its 1919 "Melville revival", very few people would have been able to read Moby Dick , because gatekeepers would not have subsidized its availability. Moby Dick was a failure due to many chance events, such as reviews bas
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by rz2k 3y ago
This “just so” take reminds me of a classic “Hark! A Vagrant” comic: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=340
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by rz2k 3y ago
Why would American consumers purchase a car made in Europe without the tariff? It is never possible that the producers and their labor will benefit more than the aggregate harm imposed on consumers by a tariff. The cost of a tariff on the e
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by rz2k 3y ago
I grew up 15 miles away from a large natural gas power plant, but could rarely see it. Now that it is long since closed I can see its smokestacks almost every day, and now I also can see the mountain range that used to be perpetually hidden
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by rz2k 3y ago
The official death count is barely above 100,000. No one uses those data, and that is not the source of the 2 million figure. We largely understand the failures that killed a million people in the US; China was not confronted with the same
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by rz2k 3y ago
Our lives in the US would be significantly worse if China did not exist, and if trade between our countries were cut off we would lose manufactured goods, machinery, and textiles. China on the other hand would lose food, ores and minerals,
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by rz2k 3y ago
Do you know how Swiss financial privacy and credit reporting laws compare with countries in the EU? > Around 36 percent of the Swiss own their homes or apartments, the lowest rate in the West and well below the 70 percent average in the
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by rz2k 3y ago
That looks pretty cool. Do you know if there is anything similar for iOS, or do Apple prevent apps from accessing those data?
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by rz2k 3y ago
Take a look at the https://phyphox.org/ app for lower level access to the sensors on Android and iPhones. There is a GPS section that gives you coordinates but unfortunately doesn’t tell you about each satellite. The precis
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by rz2k 3y ago
Though not new, the well known example of Norman claims in France is a thousand years newer than this coin.
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by rz2k 3y ago
Just to add to this: Tylenol/paracetamol/acetaminophen can be a tragic method, because many people whose attempts fail in the short term, and who might otherwise recover, end up with liver failure and requiring a liver transplant.
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by rz2k 3y ago
For the net impact to the economy it depends on few things. What did suppliers do in response? If suppliers believed there was a nickel reserve that could potentially enter the market, they would be less likely to choose strategies such as
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by rz2k 3y ago
These unique personally identifying bits of information are not private keys. Private keys on the other hand can remain secret even when someone is confirming their validity. To oversimplify a little, the way it works is that the private ke
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by rz2k 3y ago
It can be used to apply for credit. You would think that lenders should be on the hook for handing out money to the wrong person, but they’ve framed accepting uniquely identifying personal information like ssn, or date of birth with postal
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by rz2k 3y ago
It’s not an unreasonable claim with long distance running. Combine that with theories about persistence hunting, and how we see many traditional people choosing very lightweight weapons when hunting even very dangerous game.
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by rz2k 3y ago
According to the lore, McIntosh was Jef Raskin's favorite apple cultivar. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
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by rz2k 3y ago
Isn’t scientism the idea that we have a set of knowledge that is conclusively known along with a heavy reliance on authority, while science is about inquiry, experimentation and searching for theories? A physicists dismissing philosophy as
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by rz2k 3y ago
Radiolab did a story on this, and the lack of critical thinking on their part was somewhat of a turning point. I realized that many of their stories were just a chaotic collection of impulsive ideas, rather than anything that was organized
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by rz2k 3y ago
At some point advertisers are going to say they don’t want to reach people who don’t pay the $2.99, and eventually the ad-free tier will become “limited ads”. Why would Amazon leave all that money on the table? Even PBS has about a minute
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by rz2k 3y ago
Many people outside of the finance industry first learned about SWIFT when it was in the news that Russian banks had been excluded from the network as a consequence of their country’s violations of international law and attempt to conquer U
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by rz2k 3y ago
I have the same phone and the performance never seems any better than when using bluetooth PAN. I mentioned the iPhone 15 Pro, because it will be the first one with more than 480mbps over USB. At 10gbps the wired connection should have enou

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