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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> […] I was extrapolating that Count Binface had a real chance. The Stand-up Maths channel just did a video on this, "Can Count Binface win?": > "Can Count Binface actually win this election? In a word: yes. In mor
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> In what way is Times New Roman more "stately"? See perhaps this article on the various style guides of various US federal courts: * https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/the_fonts_of_the_us_feder...
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
Gruber links to the original copy of the memo that he managed to obtain through 'sources': * https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/12/state-department-ret... * Via: https://daringfireball.
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Uh, if you had a 30% chance of encountering an armed individual as a cop, you'd damn well assume they were armed every time. I understand that thinking (see also 'would you play Russian roulette with those odds?'), but
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> I try to explain that in the USA, the ratio of guns to people is far above 1:1. Therefore, if I was a police officer approaching any car, I would assume that the driver had a gun. Except that majority of households (58%) do not hav
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> And then I might complain about we use the word "weight" for something massless, or how "bugs me" is ento mologically incorrect: https://xkcd.com/1012/ "Communicating": https:&#x2
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> It's unlikely I would have had the confidence to do it from YouTube alone, specific diagnostic help and a full diagram to work off of was extremely helpful. People have been DIYing swimming pools for decades with the help of… bo
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> I feel like all of these laws are being designed backwards. Content providers, like MPAA films, should have to identify what sort of content they are providing. Then I can give my kids a device configured to allow some or all of that
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Bloomberg's Odd Lots interivew on this with the author, "The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLxM-TzBPY * https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lo
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Parts of the world are literally on fire but the US is redirecting money to halt renewables and towards gas. Parts of the US are literally on fire. * https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;
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BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars(hollywoodreporter.com)
2 points by throw0101d 2mo ago|1 comments
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> this is all about allowing sinclair and their right wing ilk to own local news. From 2017, "Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
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Germany Thwarts Russian Plot to Assassinate CEO of Drone Supplier to Ukraine(militarnyi.com)
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Office buildings take land and resources and generate almost nothing for the local community, and are islands in vast seas of asphalt and traffic attractors to boot. Manhattan (or any downtown business district) has lots of office to
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> The downside with becoming a bedroom community is you risk creating a negative tax base. where the cost of providing services is more than the properties bring with property taxes. E.g.,: * https://www.strongtowns.org&#x2F
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Do you have proof that people are bribing the federal government to ignore federal law? Why does there have to be an actual exchange? “For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)(bitsaboutmoney.com)
1 points by throw0101d 2mo ago|0 comments
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> si=VxAJcCATzwn6gZPw PSA: the si , as well as the pp , parameter is a form of tracking. If possible, consider trimming them after a copy-paste.
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
See specifically the "MON" concept: > The VOR MON program is designed to enable aircraft, having lost GPS service, to revert to conventional navigation procedures. This will allow users to continue through the outage area usin
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Saying that this situation is what pilots train for and they should have just used VORs and ILS reveals an overly macho, unsophisticated understanding of aviation safety. We've added GPS, ADS-B, TCAS, GPWS, TAWS, etc. because the
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
From a 2024 interview: > In this episode, we sit down with Jessie Frazelle, CEO and co-founder of Zoo, a company working on innovative software and hardware technology. Jessie shares her fascinating journey, from getting her start at di
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Is there anything they're doing that can't be replicated by hypervisor/management software on commodity x86 servers? It was technically possible with (e.g.) OpenStack for years (decades?) before Oxide ever existing,
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Interesting point. I think there might be something special about sag given the way Hollywood does business. Everyone switches employers constantly as projects spin up and wind down. Having a mostly permanent role in an organization i
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
The CEO of Shopify tweeted about it at one point: * https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1793798092212367669
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> That quite a bit less of an issue than the headline implies. Here's a point that I ran across: these long range missiles are there to take out air defences and such (along with stealth sorties), which allows you go go in with &#
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#Feb... Meta: one can also link to this article, which redirects: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Well first, coal went down, too, if we are still discussing Germany. Yes, but when it comes to coal more down is more better . And if nuclear was still around I would hazard to guess that's what would have happened. The graph I
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Doing a quick search for Emblemsvåg, this seems fairly relevant: > […] He has researched and published significantly in Life-Cycle Analyses, Life-Cycle Costing, energy, risk, Lean and other areas. […] * https://www.ntnu.edu&#x
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> If you did attempt to classify people into races based on something scientific like genetics, you would end up with hundreds of thousands of “races”. With even more fine tooth classification, you could subdivide those people into furt
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by throw0101d 2mo ago
> Politically that would have been done how? I think in restropect removing nuclear powerplants that make awful targets in a conflict doesn't strike me as a bad choice either. The only people causing conflict is Russia, and German

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