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by saxonww 4y ago
This is probably not true. Most studies showed no significant increase in radioactivity at all outside the plant. Some very motivated anti-nuclear groups argued otherwise, but... I guess it depends on who you want to believe.
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by saxonww 4y ago
Is this true? With the recent decision, we can see where it goes back to e.g. the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982, how nearly every conservative Supreme Court nominee since Scalia has been a member (Roberts is disputed but the ot
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by saxonww 4y ago
Yeah, to be clear I would rather not invest at all than have Yotta do this for me. That is a bad pattern and clearly the company cares more about visibility than customers or they wouldn't even offer it.
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by saxonww 4y ago
Yeah, this is crazy. Do not have 3rd parties do this on your behalf. That said, I just tried to sign up for a Treasury Direct account, and while it was 'successful,' I immediately got an email saying they could not verify some of
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by saxonww 4y ago
That's what DEC did, they ported VMS to Alpha. No virtualization necessary. OpenVMS is still out there and used by people, but VAX is dead. As is DEC :/.
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by saxonww 4y ago
Maybe relevant to this discussion, "A Historical Look at the VAX": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27527140 And also "The VAX": https://yarchive.net/comp/vax.html I don't
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by saxonww 4y ago
Note: uMatrix is not dead, it's just no longer updated. It's still available from the Chrome web store and Firefox add-ons sites. I am using it in Firefox right now, it still works as well as it always has.
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by saxonww 4y ago
Possibly? I expect we'll figure out how to do this with a high chance of success within the next few decades if not sooner, unless for some reason every country capable of supporting the research bans it.
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by saxonww 4y ago
Do you believe that's what this requirement is for? This has not been my experience, although I have never dealt with Rogers. Whenever I have canceled service from a similar vendor in this market, they want me to talk to a representati
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by saxonww 4y ago
Yes, good point, I don't typically think of that as spyware, but it is.
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by saxonww 4y ago
> for the privilege of installing spyware on your machine Not sure about this. Firefox and Opera both support 720p. But, because of their choices here - or the terms of the content deals they've signed, idk - Netflix doesn't ge
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by saxonww 4y ago
Kodi didn't the last time I checked. Note that unless you're running Windows or Mac, 4k from Netflix is not available anyway. In fact, 1080p would not be available, according to their system requirements. Linux tops out at 720p
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by saxonww 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I think there are published lists of domains used by e.g. mailinator, so if they see a match they just reject you with a "please use a valid email address" message.
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by saxonww 4y ago
The worst offender for me is an email address I used to get a fishing license from the state fish and wildlife group. As soon as I did that, I started getting advertisements from some outfitter/prepper type places. Not sure if they bou
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by saxonww 4y ago
Sure. I think our society uses money as a medium of exchange, and that trade helps communities of all sizes fill gaps in skill and supplies that they're not able to provide on their own. And I'd also argue that talking about someo
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by saxonww 4y ago
No they really don't. It was a terrible attitude and a bad comment. The poster would be bringing money into the community. They would be paying taxes; if they buy a house, there will probably be property taxes, which typically support
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by saxonww 4y ago
Sure you can. They are not trying to make the point that no food is edible, they are trying to make a point that depending on who you ask, you will end up hearing that any and every type of food is inedible. I get what they are saying. If y
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by saxonww 4y ago
This comes up over and over again. There is a brand that sells through Wal Mart in the US (Sceptre) which tends to not have smart features. They are not high end sets. You can also get 'commercial' sets intended for signage that a
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by saxonww 4y ago
This is so funny because they don't even do a good job themselves with their own service. I'm a Google phone user on Google Fi, and make heavy use of the web app (message.google.com/web) in addition to texting via the phone.
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by saxonww 4y ago
A valid question, I wondered the same. In the US, at least in my state, search warrants have to be specific about what is being searched for, where to search for it, and when the search should occur. So I think the warrant would likely have
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by saxonww 4y ago
I was wondering the same. Was 'pedant' at the time more like what we'd call 'peasant' today?
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by saxonww 4y ago
Genuine question: is this a nuclear power failing, or a business failing? According to the wiki article, several issues from the inception of the plant through the failure were ignored, all of which either made the failure worse or would ha
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by saxonww 4y ago
Like Microsoft Update and Windows Update?
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by saxonww 4y ago
Which is pretty funny because Intel probably knew it was a smart move; AMD probably wanted to do this earlier. They spun GlobalFoundries out in 2009, but only after a settlement with Intel allowing them to do so. Part of their patent cross-
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by saxonww 4y ago
Strictly worse than using a password manager with a built-in generator.
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by saxonww 4y ago
The issue with this and any proposal is that the people making the decision have no incentive to make it. Politicians limiting their own fundraising, establishing term limits, eliminating gerrymandering, etc. - it goes against their interes
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by saxonww 4y ago
I'm more wondering how much actual chocolate you have to consume to get 862mg of flavanols. On the other hand, as pointed out by the study, these are flavanol supplements purchased from Amazon (Mars/CocoaVia brand). A quick look a
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by saxonww 4y ago
I think it's more likely that you can see something other people can't. I have this page open on macOS on identical monitors side by side, one in Chrome, and one in FF, and I legitimately can't tell a difference between the t
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by saxonww 4y ago
Chuckling a little at the prominent "Security Grade: A+" display on their privacy page. It's the Qualys score for their site, which they are kind of implying is an overall security metric for their business. Not very inspirin
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by saxonww 4y ago
Only if the software is published for ARM. See my other reply in this thread - you may be stuck using some older software that was never published for ARM, so while you can get it working, it may be on you to backport fixes and compile pack

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