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by stordoff 6y ago
Something of a nitpick, but you can believe one person is guilty pre-trial without thinking everyone is - there simply needs to be enough evidence to pass your own burden of proof (there's no obligation on a person, outside of a jury,
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by stordoff 6y ago
I found myself rolling my eyes a few times, but the core content was good so I didn't find it all that off-putting. "Update: I have been arrested." did leave me slightly confused for a while though, probably due to the verbos
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by stordoff 6y ago
This is roughly how the collectorz.com desktop apps work. Once your service plan expires, you lose the ability to update and some cloud features, but you can always use the version you currently have (or update to the last version that was
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by stordoff 6y ago
Google Cache shows the original title was "Florida Is a Police State".
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by stordoff 6y ago
I don't have the same degree of problems with first initial + family name @ gmail (with an uncommon family name), but I've had someone use it for something related to car insurance (which has resulted in a _ton_ of spam), to enter
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by stordoff 6y ago
It wasn't a total outage for the site I was trying to reach. It took about 20 minutes to make an order, but after multiple retries (errors were reported as a 522 with the problem being somewhere between Manchester, UK and the host), it
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've tried to get to a contact link in the footer and been hindered by infinite scrolling on more than one occasion. I wouldn't say it happens a lot, but when it does it's frustrating.
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by stordoff 6y ago
If you look at the historical imagery in Google Earth, it'll show your the 2015 imagery fine: https://i.imgur.com/Jk8Kn1r.png It's noticeably lower resolution than the surrounding 2017 imagery, but it doesn't
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by stordoff 6y ago
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_w...
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by stordoff 6y ago
Incidentally, this affects how my ISP implements its domain blocks. Non-HTTPS sites are 307 redirected to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html , whereas connections to HTTPS sites are just halted (IIRC, it sends
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by stordoff 6y ago
Microsoft seem to get away with it: Forza Street on iOS - 125 Gold: £4.99, 255 Gold: £9.99 Forza Street on Windows 10 - 125 Gold: £3.99, 255 Gold: £7.99 Both connect to the same account.
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Notably, the Act did not change the official name of the state. It merely provided the description for the State. The Constitution of Ireland provides that Éire (or Ireland in English) is the official name of the State and, if the Act
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by stordoff 6y ago
I punched a bully in the stomach at school (after many months of the school doing nothing to address it), and after that he completely left me alone. It was a small school, so I'm fairly sure he didn't move on to anyone else eithe
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by stordoff 6y ago
> In the big picture, the good students are going to get good markers, average students are going to get average markets, and bad students will get bad markets. Again, it is what it is. In my year, I and one other student had to go signi
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Let's say you had weak course marks and you were hoping to use the test to boost your final score to get into the school of your choice. Then covid happened and you weren't able to. Well... take that as important life lesson.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Similar happened to me (UK) - my school went from performing under the national average for the preceding three years to being notably above for my year group, and no one could remember anyone going to Oxbridge, but there were two of us in
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by stordoff 6y ago
In the UK, we had a maintenance book where you could report things that were broken (even things as trivial as a light bulb - you were told _not_ to replace them on your own), porters who you could give you a spare key if you lost yours and
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by stordoff 6y ago
> I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you're learning to type, why would you do that? I sometimes look to align myself when I've had my hands off the keyboard, and now that I've got the wrong k
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by stordoff 6y ago
How much validation is actually done in practice? In the UK, I sign something about once at year _at most_ - I can't remember the last time I signed something without going back a few years, and I've no idea how I signed it.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Working class people get the opportunity to go to the top universities as well - which university you went to isn't a definitive statement about your background. I came from a working class background, went to a generic local comprehen
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by stordoff 6y ago
My iPad's currently in a metal tin in the garage (concrete floor, well away from anything flammable) after I bent it a few days ago[1] until I can get it repaired. I suspect I'd know by now if the battery was damaged, but I don&#x
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by stordoff 6y ago
> the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left The Cambridge Union Society, being based on the House of Commons, has a slight extension to this - Ayes to the right, Noes to the left, abstentions down the middle. You're counted as you lea
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by stordoff 6y ago
Also a British English native speaker, and I'd generally use -t for both cases, though sometimes I'll use -ed. I seem to slightly bias away from "spelt" though, possibly due to it having another meaning. I suspect it&#x2
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by stordoff 6y ago
Suggestions of coded messages/steganography were made, but I'm struggling to find anything concrete: > Suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta was seen repeatedly by witnesses using his Hotmail account at public libraries in Florida
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by stordoff 6y ago
This setup reminds me of operation PIMLICO: > Every Tuesday, shortly after 7:00, a British MI6 officer would take a morning stroll at the Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. He would pass outside a designated bakery at exactly 7:24 a.m. local
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by stordoff 6y ago
> The Metropolitan Police recorded 166 verbal, online and physical attacks in February and March where the officer reported the ethnic appearance of the victim as "Oriental", up from 66 during the same period last year [...] Ac
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by stordoff 6y ago
Even if calling them is not dangerous, it seems like it'd have to be extremely reliable to not cause a problem. If a large percentage of people have similar devices, it seems you would have to have a low false positive rate for the pol
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by stordoff 6y ago
Maybe I'm watching any one of a billion YouTube videos or livestreams, or a Japanese police drama from the 90s that only exists on DVD - the set of things that may cause a false positive seems almost intractably large and inaccessible.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Are these taken from a larger collection (they're labelled Angle 8 and 9)? I've tried searching, but can't seem to find anything.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Reminds me of my school when someone booted Ophcrack to recovered cached network passwords - they removed the CD drives. Given the machines didn't support booting from USB (IIRC), it wasn't a terrible solution.

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