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by shabble 13y ago
Why? I've had a number of minor biking accidents that ended in a few scratches or grazes to me, and moderate damage to the bike - things like snapping both brake lever mounts, buckling the front wheel, etc. Even having to fix those thi
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by shabble 13y ago
> Law's complexity is not by design. Much of case law and legislation is about refactoring existing principles into something simpler. Although it seems like there is also the accretion of "legalistic debt" (c.f. technic
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by shabble 13y ago
For example, IBM have a robot tape library that can store 900PB[1], Quantum can fit ~5PB per full rack equiv[2], and there are many many more. [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3500/index.h
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by shabble 13y ago
How do you determine the waitservice quality upfront? You can't trust reviews, since the super positive ones might have all been written by people who 'looked like high-tippers' and got the special service, and likewise the &
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by shabble 13y ago
If they manage to depress the cost-to-orbit sufficiently, they'll maybe be able to take more shielding along. It might even be dual-use stuff like carefully placed water tanks or stacks of prefab building materials, which can then be
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by shabble 13y ago
Another interesting possibility would be to use a Star Tracker[1][2] for absolute fixes to sanity check GPS / recalibrate the INS periodically. And it has a long and storied naval tradition! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by shabble 13y ago
Speaking of OMEGA, there's a Navy training film from 1969 on Youtube[1] which explains some of the theory and is helpful in understanding where GPS came from. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFAemn1pSw
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by shabble 13y ago
Have you seen the "Homemade GPS Receiver" project?[1] I imagine it'd be a whole lot easier if you already have gear to receive and sample the RF side, but still an interesting challenge. Don't forget to implement CoCom r
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by shabble 13y ago
I think second world[2] might be more accurate, although really the distinction is more about economic policy than freedom. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World
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by shabble 13y ago
I've wondered in the past why there isn't something like: <script src="https://elsewhere.example.com" digest="<SHA-$foo>" /> that refuses to load the referenced script unless
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by shabble 13y ago
Since they're already dousing the place with herbicides anyway[1], they just need to release Roundup-Ready Coca plants! [1] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Drug_War/Monsanto_DrugWar....
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by shabble 13y ago
Does anyone know whether participating in a public forum like this could used in future proceedings against the user or their employer as evidence of 'willful infringement'? I vaguely recall something about large corporations disc
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by shabble 13y ago
I've never really understood why drugs are often considered as mitigating factors in crimes, rather than (IMO) aggravating ones.
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by shabble 13y ago
Metabolism can go either way, for instance Codeine is thought to be mostly a prodrug[1], which is converted to morphine in the liver. So it's only really effective when taken orally, because it relies on the first-pass metabolism for i
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by shabble 13y ago
I think the main argument is along the lines of "If people could get [amphetamine/cocaine/drug of similar effect but better safety profile] legally and cheaply, they wouldn't be using random shit whose number-one design
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by shabble 13y ago
One of the major downsides to most of the diverted licit opioids is that they're intended primarily for oral use, and hence contain all sorts of things that will do terrible things when injected directly into a vein. Tiny particles of
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by shabble 13y ago
I would have gone with 'moot'. But this approach is like solving teenage alcoholism by sewing their mouths closed until age 18 (21?), and only permitting specially authorised containers of nutrients to be attached to their nasal f
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by shabble 13y ago
It is perhaps possible, but currently neither quick, reliable nor cheap. You'd need to check that: (a) it's not immediately toxic, (b) there's no immediate metabolisation that renders it inactive, (c) it can enter the bloodst
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by shabble 13y ago
How do you know it's mind-altering ahead of time though? They're sold as "bath salts" or "incense" for plausible deniability. Actually banning any abusable chemical in any form would have a massive impact on a
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by shabble 13y ago
> I like my internet uncapped and unthrottled. Which, for an ISP aiming at a market segment of people like you/us, is a fine way to lose all your lucrative business contracts because it's almost impossible to predict capacity
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by shabble 13y ago
https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037 A way to navigate to new unread entries would be nice. Sometimes I really wish NNTP wasn't quite so dead.
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by shabble 13y ago
The original doesn't appear to be dated, but archive.org[1] has the same thing going back to at least 2003. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030805143958/http://cr.yp.to/tc... Edit: HTTP Last-M
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by shabble 13y ago
The fusion itself is (afaik) essentially a solved problem. The trick is extracting net energy from it, since you use a lot in generating the plasma, massive magnetic fields to keep it contained, etc. But if you just cared about the byproduc
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by shabble 13y ago
The Beal seed viability experiment[1] has been running for 120+ years, and iirc they keep increasing the interval between trials because there are only so many seeds stored, and so far they haven't had a significant failure in germinat
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by shabble 13y ago
what are the implications of serious damage to the pipe/waveguide? Either explosives from the inside or outside, or just damaging the support struts. If it's using the air-hockey principle, I'd expect reduced forward pressure
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by shabble 13y ago
Many US military personnel go through SERE[1] training, which includes some rather unpleasant things, and other countries have similar programs (The UK RTI[2] for one example). Obviously a group less concerned about the long-term health of
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by shabble 13y ago
Given the sheer number of people with clearances[1], which I assume has grown primarily over the last 11 years, I wonder if demand or scaling problems has hindered the background check and psych evaluations that would normally try to reject
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by shabble 13y ago
What actions do you think you would take if you were in his situation that would be less reckless or selfish?
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by shabble 13y ago
> Show me (in Greenwald's own words) where Greenwald claimed this of Snowden. From TFA: > Asked about a so-called dead man's pact, which Greenwald has said would allow several people to access Snowden's trove of docume
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by shabble 13y ago
> It too was scattered with lights; of small towns, villages, individual houses, lanterns on beaches and smaller aircraft, most of them come out to welcome the vacuum dirigible. > The two slowly revolving gondola sections slid grad

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