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by stordoff 7y ago
It's sold on Amazon.de, at least in annotated form[1], and furthermore is quite trivial to find online - the Internet Archive has multiple versions[2]. [1] https://www.amazon.de/dp/3981405234 [2] https:/&#x2
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by stordoff 7y ago
There were certainly very public signs before that. Hitler had _tried_ to seize power: > The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup d'état by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, which took place in Nove
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by stordoff 7y ago
Wikipedia lists hoːənˈtsɔlɐn if you can read IPA, though without citation, which may provide a starting point.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Is there an example of these? I'm having a hard time picturing how a barrier can allow bikes and large traffic to pass whilst blocking other traffic.
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by stordoff 7y ago
These (at least a few years ago) are also in some landlord-agency contracts. One I've seen stated they were entitled to 10% of the rent if the tenant stayed after the end of the original tenancy without a gap in the tenancy, even if yo
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by stordoff 7y ago
> You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time. In 30 years, I don't think I've _ever_ seen a fifty pound note in person. The Treasury noted in October 2018 that they rar
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's largely a historical artifact: > Eastern Japan (including Tokyo, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Yokohama, and Sendai) runs at 50 Hz; Western Japan (including Okinawa, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya, Hiroshima) runs at 60 Hz. This originates fr
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by stordoff 7y ago
I did, but I felt that by picking a number of pills per day towards the lower end of the scale (4 - hydrocodone can be up to 12[1], oxycodone 5 times a day[2], and codeine 6-8[3]), and by showing that the calculated figure is significantly
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW, Giant Bomb (and I assume other sites) have premium podcasts that you can only access if you are a paid member[1], and you just subscribe using: https://www.giantbomb.com/podcast-xml/premiumbombcast?api_ke... (you
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by stordoff 7y ago
It seems like this could be open to abuse. Not all content-creators will register their content, so find some unregistered content to copy, and then register it yourself.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> require their usage to occur under medical supervision This only really works for recreational use, not medical use. Being observed multiple times per day could well be just as restricting as the pain, so there is still an opportunity
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by stordoff 7y ago
The problem is this line of thinking is that it can prevent them from being used in cases when it _is_ appropriate. I have a somewhat similar situation in the UK - the prescribing guidelines say benzodiazapines generally should only be used
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by stordoff 7y ago
About 8% of Americans (19.6 million people)[1] have high-impact chronic pain (chronic pain that limited life or work activities on most days or every day during the past 6 months), and the 76 billion pills figure spans six years. That figur
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by stordoff 7y ago
If something can install a root CA on my system, I feel like I've already lost.
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by stordoff 7y ago
I've stopped looking at Amazon reviews (on physical products) for more or less this exact reason. They too often don't apply (something along the lines of "Picture quality isn't up to modern standards", then I reali
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by stordoff 7y ago
As I understand it, it's because there often aren't 'local lines' per se. For instance, if you want to go from Doncaster to Retford (about a ten-fifteen minute journey)[1], you're either on the East Coast Main Line
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I understand how disruptive this would be, but in the end it would result in better security for everyone. I disagree. I could quite easily see this resulting in companies using old browser versions, or hacking in a potentially exploit
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by stordoff 7y ago
As I understand it, if you come across a certificate signed by a CA that claims to follow CT, but isn't in the CT logs, it's a fairly major red flag - at the very least, the certificate has been mis-issued. If the third party _doe
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by stordoff 7y ago
If you need emergency care, you don't have to wait (UK). My grandfather had a fall recently where he hit his head, and had a brain CT within two hours (he fell about 1am; he was admitted, assessed, treated, and discharged by 6am). A fa
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Don't want to spark a healthcare debate, but want to mention that I bet NONE of the non-US readers on HN would have given a single thought about the costs involved if this was happening in their countries. UK, and I wouldn't
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by stordoff 7y ago
My current default Virgin WPA password is roughly of the form lLlllNllllll (l - lowercase letter, L - uppercase letter, N - number), installed about a year ago, and I know from seeing another one that the position and quantity of the upperc
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by stordoff 7y ago
net send is what tipped my school off to a group of students having deeper access to the network than they should. Turns out 'net send * "Hiya Man!"' is not very subtle. Before that, people were only sending to individua
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by stordoff 7y ago
I agree, but there are two differences IMO: * Ads have tracking and security implications. For clicking though to a site, that is far less the case (an individual site can't correlate my visits across multiple sites, whereas an ad netw
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by stordoff 7y ago
The way I've seen this handled in the UK (a while ago, but I think some ISPs still do it) is to have caps at certain times (either by having a limit or throttling bulk P2P downloads), but then allow unlimited downloads at other times,
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by stordoff 7y ago
A big thing you're missing is games. I've just looked at my Xbox One: * Hitman 2 - 104GB * Elder Scrolls Online - 103GB * Halo 5 - 99GB * Forza 7 - 99GB * Destiny 2 - 89GB * Quantum Break - 160GB (including episodes which you woul
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by stordoff 7y ago
> That additional friction doesn't improve my user experience, it improves someone else's. Mandating that would turn Google into a splash screen or landing page, and we've gotten rid of those anti patterns for good reasons
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by stordoff 7y ago
Worth noting: > By default, this server is turned off. When I want to do some work, I turn the server on using wake-on-lan. I do this with all my equipment except for my router/firewall. If it is only on when it is doing work, idle
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by stordoff 7y ago
I think you may have missed it - it's at the bottom of the page, and they're used inline: > Hyperhydration strategies (creatine plus glycerol) appear inefficacious as drug-masking strategies.[1] https://examine.com&#
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by stordoff 7y ago
My way of looking at it has always been there is no such thing as organic search results (other than that the organisation in question did not have a hand in choosing to put it there). The aim is, presumably, to return quality sites, which
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by stordoff 7y ago
This is noted in the comments: > Some have protested that "monster" has negative connotations, but anyone who grew up with Sesame Street or modern Disney movies knows that’s an unfair stereotype. And Monster is more fun. You li

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