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by srslack 4y ago
I live close to East Palestine, less than an hour in PA, and downstream as far as the air is concerned half of the time, but upstream from the water. Also, I used to work right outside of East Palestine, years ago, before I switched careers
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by srslack 4y ago
> tell me about Markov chains > [CLASSIC] A Markov Chain is a mathematical model that represents a sequence of events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state of the previous event. It is a type of probabilisti
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by srslack 5y ago
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo... >“Just to be clear, a financial contribution either through a crowdsourced platform or directly, could result in their bank account being frozen?” Lawr
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by srslack 5y ago
Have those who are vaccinated figured out how to keep their now asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 to themselves?
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by srslack 5y ago
Wouldn't the Space Weapons Ban treaty theoretically cover the launching and parking of a bunch of these in space/Low Earth Orbit? Ignoring the toothless nature of most treaties in general.
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by srslack 5y ago
The UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) has an article stating that, essentially, this development is not that special and is probably just defense hawks (paraphrased) wanting to go off and spend billions more all over the place. https:&#x
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by srslack 6y ago
>another bogus claim that the virus was produced in a laboratory (it came from Nature) Seems the "expert" opinion is entirely dismissive of any claims contradicting the narrative that it came entirely from nature/naturally
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by srslack 7y ago
I'd been without a Facebook account for four years as well, but created one for testing/verifying the behavior of an application we'd recently gotten approved. As far as I'm aware it would not let me create an account wi
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by srslack 7y ago
There is practically no difference in these requirements versus what Facebook is requiring. Try to create a Facebook account and they will soon flag your account to require a photo for facial recognition. You can't signup for Facebook
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by srslack 8y ago
It's described as anti-feminist by some critics, namely the critics who are being disingenuous in their use of statistics lacking proper controls, or outright lying or misrepresenting what the statistics mean. It's not the brand
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by srslack 8y ago
>But again this isn't about the NSA, this isn't even about the US This has everything to do with the US, and the NSA, because the legislation in question is part of a broader campaign orchestrated by the Five Eyes.[1] [1] http
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by srslack 8y ago
More seriously: Syncthing exists, and it is beautiful. I set my grandmother up with Synctrayzor and she doesn't know the difference between that and Dropbox. It is missing the ability to share things with a direct link, or share a repo
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by srslack 8y ago
The LG Prada is certainly worth some words of acknowledgement, but acknowledging it wouldn't fit the narrative that page is attempting to cultivate. There are also examples going further back, such as the IBM Simon, and of course Apple
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by srslack 8y ago
I'll give you accessibility and decent touch controls in a pretty package. But I can't let this slide: >How long would it have taken to get the App Store? That single innovation (making it trivial for people to find/buy so
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by srslack 8y ago
>"The technocracy" is not in fact responsible for creating law, at least not yet. They lobbied specifically for this compromise, because they don't give a shit. These companies are begging for Congress to come in and give
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by srslack 9y ago
>might be missing the boat Valve's goal was to hedge against a "Windows Store" model for games at a time when it seemed that it was inevitable. Also, and I don't mean to sound dismissive, but that streaming model simp
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by srslack 9y ago
While I certainly tried to avoid any flavorings, or vendors that couldn't tell me what was in their flavorings when I did use a vaporizer, the diacetyl scare is overblown. Regular cigarettes contain diacetyl in orders of magnitude grea
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by srslack 9y ago
I know all about the liquidators, and I sympathize, but that's why I stressed "general population" several times. It's a given that the cleanup crew isn't part of the general population. >These people were worked
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by srslack 9y ago
>It will be impossible to re-populate land up to six miles from the Chernobyl There are still humans living within the exclusion zone, still humans working at Chernobyl where three reactors continued to operate after the accident, the va
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by srslack 9y ago
It can be federated (and was in the past) but Moxie has complained about federation holding development back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Federation
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by srslack 9y ago
If we go by your definition, "true speech" is always intended to persuade others of your opinions or positions. I don't believe that to be the case. Your reference to the last presidential election is nonsensical, if you&#x27
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by srslack 9y ago
>the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons They threw out their integrity as a publishing platform when they updated their ToS a month ago: https://news.ycombi
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by srslack 9y ago
What's happening right now in anticipation of the legislative package is the very definition of a chilling effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect Of course there haven't been any "unreason
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by srslack 9y ago
>You can say what you think plainly Clearly this isn't the case, since we're already seeing the chilling effects on platforms. The legislation is so intentionally vague for the benefit of prosecutors, and the very fact that it&
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by srslack 9y ago
"UFOs" are most certainly experimental US craft and airframes, and the UFO myth is fueled by Air Force psychological warfare, disinformation, and the public's vulnerability to it. A good read is Mark Pilkington's Mirage
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by srslack 9y ago
Around the time of the Snowden revelations there was a lot of chat about the west's efforts to further their interests with sockpuppets and paid trolls, but this conversation vanished, as usual. The sockpuppetry isn't exclusive to
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by srslack 9y ago
Yeah, there is. It's called the spirit of free speech. Utilizing your rights to the fullest extent allowed by law to protect your users, no matter their opinions. And make no mistake, these users were banned for opinions. There were no
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by srslack 9y ago
That's entirely their right to police their own platform as they wish, even if they're not honest about it (which seems to be the case here.) The line for me, personally, is the line that the Supreme Court of the United States has
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by srslack 9y ago
>“We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation . We may consider off-platform actions in assessing a Medium a
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by srslack 9y ago
The only water available to me is well water and I do prefer to fill up several Aquatainers at a local spring, but it's just water to me. There are seasons where the springs around me appear to "flunk" the drinking standards

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