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by tjohns 2y ago
HDMI supports features needed for entertainment centers, like CEC and eARC. DisplayPort doesn’t have these.
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by tjohns 2y ago
Where are you getting these numbers from?
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> I do think we try very hard to keep it as guaranteed as possible, if something would happen to stocks as a whole the government is willing to pull a lot of stops As a matter of policy, the government explicitly doesn't set policy
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by tjohns 2y ago
For the purposes of this analogy, yes. The "work" is losing access to your money. You're foregoing the ability to buy nice material things today, in exchange for investing in a business so that they can use your funds to do s
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by tjohns 2y ago
Nothing is guaranteed. There are absolutely down years (and down decades) where negative returns are possible. "There's no skill or activity involved" is a gross simplification. When you save funds in a lower-risk security li
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by tjohns 2y ago
Even for folks who can pay for medical care... UnitedHealthcare is notorious for denying claims from their policyholders. An example that was posted on Reddit recently from a physician: "UHC denied my patient's prescription for a
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by tjohns 2y ago
Not everything needs to generate long term human value. It's okay to just have fun, too.
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Yes indeed. My university had a clean room and research-scale fab equipment right next door to some of the lecture halls. https://nanofab.usc.edu/ The key here is research scale. Larger process nodes, minimal automation, an
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by tjohns 2y ago
Destroying a ballot accomplishes nothing. You can always still go vote in person at a polling center, even with all-mail voting they always keep a few open just in case someone loses or spoils their ballot. They'll record the vote prov
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by tjohns 2y ago
Zero, because there's no checkout page yet. Just a mailing list for status updates.
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And yet, statistically, caloric restriction has one of the worst success rates in modern medicine. Depending on which study you look at, up to 80% of people who attempt lifestyle modification end up gaining the weight right back. So yes, it
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by tjohns 2y ago
There's certainly room for more research here, but some of them do attempt to account for other socioeconomic factors. It's worth noting that surgery isn't the only option. Hormone therapy has also shown to reduce suicide ris
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I actually agree entirely. I'm just being objective in stating that the evidence suggests that these drugs need to be taken long term to have lasting effects. Not everyone realizes this. But I think that's okay if it can get peopl
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by tjohns 2y ago
It's still a theory. We definitely don't know the underlying mechanism(s) of action, and it's likely there's more hidden complexity there. But rapid weight gain after weight loss (until you arrive somewhere near your old
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by tjohns 2y ago
Studies have show most people rapidly regain the weight once they stop taking GLP-1 drugs. The dysfunctional biochemical processes that contributed to overeating are still present if you discontinue the drug. Your body has a natural set-poi
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WAAS system outage (loss of vertical guidance) due to current solar storm(nstb.tc.faa.gov)
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by tjohns 2y ago
Emergency alerts are automatically broadcast over NOAA weather radio. You can get home receivers that monitor NOAA radio for emergency alerts tones and will automatically switch on in a disaster. It's a great feature, every home should
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by tjohns 2y ago
Why would you turn the analog transmission off? Being able to pick up a station with virtually any radio ever built, or even a simple circuit you can build from spare parts in your house [1]...even if you're on the fringe edge of recep
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by tjohns 2y ago
Starlink itself is the FCC license holder, not you as a private user. This means that Starlink is the one that needs to stay in the good graces of the government, and inherits the obligation to monitor the activities of their users. I guara
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by tjohns 2y ago
The meaning of any messages sent over amateur radio needs to be clear to an outside observer. The specific rule is 47 CFR 97.113(a)(4): "No amateur station shall transmit: [...] messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meani
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by tjohns 2y ago
Nope. And it probably won't ever be. The bandwidth allocated to amateur radio is incredibly valuable. (All of the spectrum allocated to ham radio would probably be worth literally billions if the FCC were allowed to auction it off to
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by tjohns 2y ago
To be fair, I'd prefer not to give the cancer cells extra batteries.
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by tjohns 2y ago
At hundreds of hours, you're fine. Honestly, even at thousands of hours, you're probably okay. Most of the fumes come from the flux boiling way, not the solder itself. (Mind you, I still wouldn't recommend breathing flux fume
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by tjohns 2y ago
Or if you want something that you can actually get (since it's impossible to get a new ISDN line as a consumer), you could do VoIP with G.722/Opus or cellular with HD Voice (AMR-WB). The quality is honestly on par with ISDN. And y
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by tjohns 2y ago
Even if these companies never sold another PLB, they'd be just fine. They make most of their money selling ELTs for aviation and EPIRBs for marine vessels. (It's all the same tech, just different form factors.) Also, the people wh
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by tjohns 2y ago
Completely agreed. PLBs are on a whole other level of reliability. Not just physically, the signal itself is significantly more reliable. They have three different ways of being located (digital GPS coordinates, measuring Doppler shift from
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by tjohns 2y ago
The maximum Ozempic dose is 2.0 mg. The maximum Wegovy dose is 2.4 mg. The difference is not as dramatic as you're making it sound. And again, both are FDA approved within this dosing schedule.
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by tjohns 2y ago
The FDA has approved this class of drugs for weight loss as well. Wegovy is the version that was FDA approved for weight loss, it's the same drug as Ozempic but at a different dose. Source: https://www.fda.gov/news-even
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by tjohns 2y ago
The problem with login.gov is that nobody can use it outside of the US government. I can't use my login.gov account to attest my identity to my bank. So my bank will continue to use my SSN as proof of identity for loans.
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by tjohns 2y ago
You're right that bank account numbers in the US are insecure, but you're wrong that this is why checks are popular here. Checks are actually the source of the problem. If you have access to blank check stock and MICR laser tone

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