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by skylanh 4y ago
This is sort of my reference point from a salient and personal perspective on why government's have departments of defense. TEDxAmsterdam: Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjAsM1vAhW0 L
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by skylanh 4y ago
> In a 2014 case out of a Virginia state court that seems to have set off the current debate, police obtained a search warrant to search a suspect’s home and to seize various items, including his smartphone that had TouchID enabled. >
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by skylanh 4y ago
Taxis in my areas are a municipally regulated monopoly on fare-for-(uncontracted)-hire services. There are a lot of reasons why they devolved to the level of service that we associated with them: 1) lack of competition 2) internally there i
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by skylanh 4y ago
Potable water with nutrients, bioflavinoids, and antibiotic content is definitely an excusable reason.
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by skylanh 4y ago
Wait until you start looking at transmission values... f-stop doesn't mean much other than the maximum that the aperture for that lens can open. It doesn't indicate lens or element quality, or aberrations. There's a reason t
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by skylanh 4y ago
Boeing's issues were written on the wall about 2 decades ago when it moved it's hierarchy from an engineer-centric one to a Chicago accountant-centric one. That alone wouldn't have been an issue, but they had an immediate br
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by skylanh 5y ago
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/finance/fm081010.htm This is what it took to reverse 2008's recession. Every time I read this single page document I get a little shiver. Item #2 is by my interpretation has "any an
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by skylanh 5y ago
TV shows were scheduled for your local stations and there may be an alternate channel that would have an echo or rebroadcast schedule. If you wanted to watch "your show" you had to either have someone record it, or record it yours
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by skylanh 5y ago
(Speaking totally out of turn and without any sort of knowledge of the situation) The rapid response of the Yakuza may simply be opportunistic and predatory. Food, clothes, shelter, help to save precious heirlooms, those are all inflexible
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by skylanh 5y ago
I think... it has been. OTOH, if you cycle to the end, it's a collaboration by the developers or "community outreach" of those tool chains: "The tools we'll focus on are: Bazel (by Google), Gradle Build Tool (by G
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by skylanh 5y ago
Firstly, Random websites tell me that each Facebook user is worth on average ~$35/year on revenue figures--no indication if that was net or gross. So, ~$5/month gross costs is appropriate when comparing it to deferred "you ar
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by skylanh 5y ago
BSDL, GPL, MIT License. This has been an argument for at least 25 years that I've been around this stuff.
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by skylanh 5y ago
My clothes dryer was broken for a time while I waited for a replacement and to install the new one. In the interim, I replaced the dryer with a chrome (Ikea) shelving unit, a vapour barrier shroud (literally 5mil plastic), and a regular hou
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by skylanh 5y ago
I find when I have a strong negative or positive reaction and subsequent outburst, that I have some form of conditioned behaviour. This is usually a sign that I should try and catch that reaction, find the cause, and try to analyze link. A
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by skylanh 5y ago
https://goo.gl/maps/enoWjkuBjSsumt5J7
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by skylanh 5y ago
> author has thought a lot about materials and buildings > but not actually built anything. That was my impression. As soon as they started talking about unenforced concrete pilings (drilled? monopile?) to bedrock and stressed steel
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by skylanh 5y ago
https://ir.netflix.net/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-de... Consolidated statement of net income for each year (page 22 of the PDF): 2020: ~$2.7b on 200m members 2019: ~$1.8b on 167m members 2018: ~$1.2b on 13
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by skylanh 5y ago
This is a similar issue I have with Twitter. Direct link to the material--I can see it, if I'm trying to find additional material, nope. The negative patterns are too bold.
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by skylanh 5y ago
Do you mind sending me in the right direction for more info? I was around for the infancy of Linux (I remember a friend was running ~2.1.98 because it came out before Win 98 or something like that, even though it was occasionally unstable f
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by skylanh 5y ago
Trucks or vans with 4x4 drive are pretty common in Mexico, Brazil, the middle east. You're falling into the same trap that the article and GP's are highlighting: your experience that a FWD vehicle is enough "for me / my
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by skylanh 5y ago
I would personally use something like DxoMark's tests as a starting point to evaluate cameras and lenses. EDIT: and such things as the camera on a smartphone. That sets the starting point, and then I can compare as I go along. https:&
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by skylanh 5y ago
One day Will will while away Will's last wonton day, and a scheduled task somewhere will continue this repo.
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by skylanh 5y ago
Ah, then the cynical part of you will recognize that selling a widget is more lucrative then avoiding the loss of someone else's private data. Or at least that's what I just realized.
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by skylanh 5y ago
There are a number of responses that don't make me comfortable. The clearest reasoning for why anabolic or androgenic steroids' are NOT given in the context for recovery strength or function in a professional medical setting are
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by skylanh 5y ago
I think you have an interesting idea, but might not be thinking of the physics involved. > The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average
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by skylanh 5y ago
Another comment keyed onto a concrete example of why not, so I'll go with a presumptive reason: Some of those elements will be part of the major service windows, and have expected operational and standby lifetimes. So if a component wi
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by skylanh 5y ago
No, the BOFH is a ancient, self-indulgent series of comedic writings done partially as self-help.
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by skylanh 5y ago
> Here, we studied the effects of the disease in the brain using multimodal data from 782 participants from the UK Biobank COVID-19 re-imaging study, with 394 participants having tested positive for SARSCoV-2 infection between their two
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by skylanh 5y ago
I think it's interesting that you have a somewhat valid point for a few use cases, but are quite myopic to the different users. If I add in: - I have children - Temperatures range from -15C to +5C to -15C on the same day, and same outi
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by skylanh 5y ago
Anecdotes in support of this comment: I lived with a orthopedic surgeon doing a specialization in pediatric orthopedia. He was very very very good based on my understanding of the places he had worked, the offers he had to undertake his spe

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