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by slackfan 5y ago
"once or twice in our lives" flu is a seasonal illness, unless you're a complete shut in, you get it much more frequently than that, considering the modern diets and vitamin deficiencies.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Oh man, we're starting to repeat Obama-era articles now!
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by slackfan 5y ago
Fun thing about religious belief, there is no requirement for it to be anything except a belief. No proof required. Remember that religious liberty, the freedom to believe whatever you want, is literally written into our laws here.
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by slackfan 5y ago
"Some of us" Nobody on HackerNews.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Like father, like son.
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by slackfan 5y ago
There will absolutely not be a war. Both sides got what they wanted (oil prices over a hundred US a barrel, and a significant bump to defense stocks), meaning the milindustrial complex can continue for a while longer and Russia gets out of
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by slackfan 5y ago
Recent? You mean dating back to at minimum the Spanish-American, and possibly the Civil war?
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by slackfan 5y ago
False Flags and Crisis Actors are a dangerous conspiracy theory.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Pity n-gate seems dead, they had the best writeups.
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by slackfan 5y ago
both designs are equally good a blocking road.
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by slackfan 5y ago
https://ww2.motorists.org/issues/speed-limits/truth/#:~:text... . well, you can take it up with the National Motorists' Association, they have the stats.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Speed limits are primarily environmental regulation and have little to nothing to do with safety. By extention, they happen to be anti-fun. The Autobahn is still not a 24/7 disaster zone of dead bodies and scrapped cars last time I che
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by slackfan 5y ago
>hopefully we've learned prohibition doesn't work As a world, we absolutely have not. And any insane policy will be backed up by very reasonable scientific evidence.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Geocities was dead by 2005, and web 2.0 was in full swing.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Headline question - do they believe, or do they know? If the former - I worry for any space agency that can't do basic math.
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by slackfan 5y ago
I tried the whole streaming thing, it ended up not being for me. I still buy physical media, often on formats that are long dead because partially, it's fun to tool around with dead formats, and no silly copyright dispute is going to s
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by slackfan 5y ago
Other evidence suggests counter to your evidence.
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by slackfan 5y ago
"People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" I think that this is where this premise is entirely incorrect.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Most organizations with nuclear weapons most certainly do pay bounties. Generally for foreign intelligence, but I believe it applies. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi...
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by slackfan 5y ago
Considering that Garmin sells a full kit that integrates wit their displays ( https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/135561 ), and autoland systems are just becoming available, I think you're incorrect in your assumpti
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by slackfan 5y ago
It's definitely going to be interesting to see, considering the replacement cycles of 15-20 for the batteries, and 20-30 for the solar array what the scaling, the costs, and what the net environmental impact is going to be.
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by slackfan 5y ago
So what are your plans for when your batteries go kaput in 15-20 years, or are you planning to sell before then?
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by slackfan 5y ago
Security consulting seems like a thing.
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by slackfan 5y ago
..."and here is why this is a good thing!"
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by slackfan 5y ago
The Amish are the fastest growing population group...
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by slackfan 5y ago
Nah, that would require doing work and something that is outside their comfort zone.
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by slackfan 5y ago
-conform to html4.1 spec -stop using JS -compress images Done.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Good for the feelings of the UK legislature I suppose, however, they're all still quite delicious.
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by slackfan 5y ago
"Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows. The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from h
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by slackfan 5y ago
Hackernews is not different, except most of the posters work in a single industry.

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