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by starbase 3y ago
I want to build a rifle that's 25 inches long, or a 51 caliber pistol. I want to shoot big fireworks on my own land on the 4th of July, as long as the noise and smoke doesn't carry over to my neighbors. I want to be free to risk m
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by starbase 3y ago
At $21B, it's still undervalued. Coatings matter. I have a high-end garden hose that leaves goo on my hands when it's hot outside; a cooktop that's ridiculously hard to keep clean; a windshield that requires way more polishin
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by starbase 3y ago
I'm giving my testimony. Doesn't mean it did or didn't happen, just means it didn't happen to me at the time I checked. Maybe it happened and got rolled back in 3 minutes. Maybe it happened to some users and not others.
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by starbase 3y ago
Besides the cultural taboo that some non-agricultural societies had, there's the European fear of new world tomatoes that persisted from the 17th to 19th centuries. Wealthy folks ate the (acidic) fruit on pewter platters, the acid leac
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by starbase 3y ago
If it happened, it was (1) in effect for less than 3 minutes after taibbi posted about it and/or (2) affected only a subset of users. I happened to be on twitter when taibbi's tweet mentioning it was 2 minutes old, and it caught m
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by starbase 3y ago
The common ground, IMO, is getting government the fuck out of people's personal business. I support anyone's right to do what they want in life, as long as that individual doesn't impinge on another individual's liberty
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by starbase 3y ago
We are right here. Supporting your right to modify your body, modify your consciousness with drugs/molecules, end or extend your life, go full cyborg, or whatever you want. Is that support reciprocated for the things I want to do? Genu
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by starbase 3y ago
IDK what the authors envision, but heat will do the trick quite well.
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by starbase 3y ago
> cannot be completely removed from groundwater with the methods currently available That's not remotely true. We have many methods to purify water.
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by starbase 3y ago
Fake news. Taibbi's account remained visible throughout.
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by starbase 3y ago
There is win-win outcome for water shortages: abundant, clean, inexpensive energy The technology to purify water from the ocean is quite basic, it just takes a lot of energy so water produced this way is expensive. When we have abundant cle
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by starbase 3y ago
Humongous gravity-defying boobs?
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by starbase 3y ago
This feeling of dread seems to occur every time there's a leap forward in technology or another event that threatens to change the world in unpredictable ways. In every case, we successfully managed the transition and emerged a more ad
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by starbase 3y ago
alternately, figure out who understands your language (as opposed to those who think every direct statement you make "implies" something different)
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by starbase 3y ago
follow the frog to its den of frens
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by starbase 4y ago
How ironic that NPR uses the state's talking points to argue they're not affiliated with the state.
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by starbase 4y ago
Here's what NPR's own website says about their federal funding: "Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, inc
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by starbase 4y ago
Lots of exports. Not just fruits and boots anymore. Mexico will have a bigger economy than Canada in the blink of an eye.
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by starbase 4y ago
When HN was born, it was for browsing on a laptop while your compiler runs in a different window. Little known fact: There's no embedded audio or video because nobody could hear it over the howl of the cooling fans.
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by starbase 4y ago
Clever--and a gracious, flattering flex.
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by starbase 4y ago
Engines have limited lifetime too, but I get your concern. Most people's experience with Li-ion batteries is portable electronics that are designed to last 5 years or so. EV batteries are designed (and their charge state managed) to la
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by starbase 4y ago
Is the building a faraday cage? Have you tried disabling 5G/LTE/etc one at a time, and if so do you get signal on a different band?
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by starbase 4y ago
Sounds like they can't budget. “Where are we going to come up with this down payment? Even with the money that we make, it’s impossible to come up with 20%,” Oklobdzija says. “People don’t just have $100,000 in cash just kind of kickin
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by starbase 4y ago
Subtract $7500 for the federal EV rebate and up to $7500 for state rebates, and some buyers will see starting prices under $15k.
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by starbase 4y ago
They will be the same people in the blink of an eye. It's almost a certainty.
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by starbase 4y ago
Poison gas from Halley's comet. Nuclear Armageddon. Communism. Overpopulation. Dying oceans. Soil depletion. Ozone depletion. Global warming. Capitalism. Covid. AI. Every few years another doomsday fantasy comes and goes.
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by starbase 4y ago
Lot of comments suggesting children's toys, but I don't think that's the best way to go here. An old VCR is safe enough. He might cut a finger on a sharp edge but that's ok. Sounds like he's already curious, so let
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by starbase 4y ago
No key element of Cybertruck was revealed in Master Plan 3. Author of this article is apparently unable to read and understand a technical document.
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by starbase 4y ago
I love weird guns, but $300 seems like a ridiculous price, unless you happen to need a gun that folds into a rectangle. The stainless steel NAA mini revolver weighs just 2/3 as much as the LifeCard, yet it holds more ammo, costs $50 le
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by starbase 4y ago
Judgement for wages owed: taxable as wages Judgement for damage: non-taxable

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