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by tropo 7y ago
I was about to make this comment with the exact same year. In 1994, the low-end brands went bad. By 1995, all brands were bad. A few years later, the drives started to be bad.
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by tropo 7y ago
Then to cheat, all you need is a friend who works at a mail sorting facility. Deliver the ballots from zip codes that vote the way you prefer. The others, possibly just half of them to evade detection, get dumped in a swamp.
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by tropo 7y ago
I can run many things off of solar without batteries. Calculators are commonly sold this way. It makes perfect sense that this should work scaled up to a whole house. As long as the Sun is shining, there should be power.
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by tropo 7y ago
Younger people are less likely to be able to deal with directories. (er, "folders", and get off my lawn) They are also less clear about what is on the local machine. They use iOS and Android. They don't use a file manager, an
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by tropo 7y ago
If you were running the show, how would you get rid of those people? Regulations make it slow and expensive to get rid of horrible employees. These people could be actively hostile and thus a security risk, which wouldn't be surprising
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by tropo 7y ago
29 hours seems likely. Mandating health insurance had predictable results. It is expensive, and no employer will pay for it if it makes up a significant portion of total compensation. Highly paid employees: already have health insurance Low
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by tropo 7y ago
Snopes kept quietly making politically-motivated changes, and they kept getting caught. Now they can get away with it.
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by tropo 7y ago
It's fine to hug the ground. Simply place the engines elsewhere, as was done on the 717. Like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_717 Another option is to high-mount the wing.
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by tropo 7y ago
That one suffered from insufficient members of congress. It needed to be more like the Space Shuttle or F-35. Better locations: 1. It could have been in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. 2. It could have been in Maryland, Pennsylvani
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by tropo 7y ago
Something should have been done about the street, but I sure wish it could have been a sign such as: "WARNING Cracking bridge, proceed at own risk, age 18+ only, do not stop near the bridge." We need a way to have something like t
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by tropo 7y ago
Novell was a successful pivot. Novell started as a hardware company, with a proprietary computer based on the 68000. That bombed, so the pivot was to NetWare. That dominated PC networking for about 15 years.
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by tropo 7y ago
The cable stays were not fake. The bridge was supposed to self-support without them during assembly, without a hurricane or marching band. This does not mean the cable stays were entirely decorative. They had a structural purpose, primarily
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by tropo 7y ago
Most taxation can't be considered because it depends on things unrelated to the job. Income taxes vary according to how many children you have, how much interest you pay on a mortgage, how much money a spouse earns, and many other thin
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by tropo 7y ago
The clothing you have at home already is your personal carbon storage. Carbon is extracted from the air to make cotton, bamboo (rayon), linen, and many types of plastic.
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by tropo 7y ago
Since you don't think California is particularly far left, I'd love to know your list of states that are. Where would you rank California? Perhaps pondering that question will trigger a recalibration.
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by tropo 7y ago
...and hard work, and social skills, and liking the challenge enough to not retire early
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by tropo 7y ago
No, I don't have to worry. That would make me unhappy. Worry is bad for your health. Don't worry about far-off uncertain things that are out of your control. It'd just get you down, paranoid and freaking out, when you could i
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by tropo 7y ago
It won't take decades, because we are not going to do anything. Well, there might be a bit of corruption. Politicians have relatives who can make big money on environmental projects. The financial industry is all excited about carbon t
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by tropo 7y ago
The search UI needs negations. For example, you offer a checkbox ("Code of Conduct") to select projects with lots of nasty political fighting to distract from the engineering effort. Maybe somebody would rather focus on nerdy hack
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by tropo 7y ago
You can safely use gets on trusted input. For example, your program might create a pipe or socketpair to communicate between the processes that result from a call to fork. The stdout of one process feeds into the stdout of the other process
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F/A-18 Crashes in Star Wars Canyon(theaviationist.com)
9 points by tropo 7y ago|0 comments
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by tropo 7y ago
It's possible. The heat signature is well-hidden on the B-2, YF-23, F-117, and A-10. Yes, from the perspective of ground-launched IR-seeking missiles, the A-10 is actually stealth. The tail wraps around the engines as seen from many an
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by tropo 7y ago
Suppose we found enough DNA to recreate these hominins. Would they be citizens or zoo animals? Either way, what if they want to interbreed? Do we determine this based on looks? What if the attraction is unidirectional?
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by tropo 7y ago
They didn't support any MMU at all. People would add one as a separate chip, right between the CPU and the RAM, but this wasn't supported. The CPU was unaware of it. There was no way for the MMU to tell the CPU to take a recoverab
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by tropo 7y ago
It wouldn't matter if people could build living spaces near work. They'd still commute. People change jobs without changing homes. There are various reasons: rent control would be lost, property tax control would be lost, kids wou
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by tropo 7y ago
You can actually do this. Get your treatment, receive your bill (which you must pay), and then ask your insurance company to pay you. Eventually you get a check in the mail from your insurance provider. I've done it for a few childbirt
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by tropo 7y ago
It's the cost. Of course this depends on the location and the type of nurse. I'm not in California, the most expensive place to get a nurse, where the average salary of a Registered Nurse is actually $102,700. Other states have sa
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by tropo 7y ago
Whose design? My guess is that the agency can't go higher due to an outdated law from when the agency was founded. Lots of laws have fixed dollar amounts which eventually get absurd due to inflation. From CNBC: "The public comment
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by tropo 7y ago
This is wonderful, and so the medical industry would fight it with all their might, except for one problem: the fine is only $300 a day. That is about the cost of a nurse. It'll matter for little urgent care shops staffed by a handful
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by tropo 7y ago
Look at the wings. Somebody finally did it, a low swept wing connected to a high forward-swept wing. In this case the connection isn't quite at the tips, with the forward-swept wing being smaller, so it isn't quite the same as a r

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