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by volkl48 5y ago
NYC (+ metro area) at least has a number of places doing those things. I'm not exactly qualified to judge their authenticity (although I've been taken by a Taiwanese acquaintance to more than one in the past - no names, sorry), bu
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by volkl48 5y ago
Windows S mode is a tightly locked down mode that only allows Microsoft Store Apps to be used and only allows Microsoft Edge for a browser. It's basically making your computer like a Windows 10 edition of a Chromebook. ------ I'm
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by volkl48 5y ago
Water districts are just an artificial administrative construct within a state, though. Administrative divisions are an explanation for why water is being distributed badly, just not a reasonable justification for continuing to do it, to my
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by volkl48 5y ago
Residential/urban water use is a tiny fraction of actual water use in the region and the persistent attention on it is a misleading distraction as to the actual cause of the water crises in the region. At best, the perpetual attention
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by volkl48 5y ago
r/gaming has always been the meme/low-quality gaming board and it's not really expected to have any serious discussion there. r/games is the one that's actually for somewhat coherent discussion. Not suggesting it&#x
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by volkl48 5y ago
While I am certainly willing to believe that illicit meth is...bad for you/toxic and the smoke is as well, I'm not finding much to support the idea of it being the primary cause of (or major contributor to) "meth mouth"
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by volkl48 5y ago
Having done this kind of support before (mixed hardware + software), a large number of people present their computer with multiple vague problems that can very well be a set of issues with both the actual physical hardware AND with whatever
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by volkl48 5y ago
Wyoming is a place where in large parts of the state oil wells as far as the eye can see and giant open-pit coal mines are normal and acceptable. Look at Gillette, WY and scroll around a satellite view, you've got open pit mines stretc
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by volkl48 5y ago
I imagine it depends on how the question is framed. No one wants to be fired for merely mentioning the top news story of the day in office conversation. And sometimes it's a "racial justice" topic. On the other hand, I also d
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by volkl48 5y ago
Snow is a fun condition, because it is a time when it may be impossible to drive to the letter of the law, but perfectly practical to drive by not following it. It's going to be interesting to me how you work out: "It's legal
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by volkl48 5y ago
TSMC is planning to spend $12bn in the next decade on the fab they're building in Arizona (which I believe has some level of US government subsidy). I am sure they would be quite happy to get further government $$$ for their operations
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by volkl48 5y ago
> Solar panels involve mining coal (so much more moving away from the coal economy) I can't think of any use for coal in production of a solar panel, so is your argument here that manufacturing anything uses electricity and therefor
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by volkl48 5y ago
Maybe. When driving in snow there are other considerations besides following the lanes buried somewhere beneath the snow. Like "has this lane been plowed" ? And "has the plow actually followed the lane or gone in the middle o
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by volkl48 5y ago
You can either have separate agencies or you can have a pile of specialized sub-agencies within some umbrella organization.....but working out how to align funding with who it's serving is going to be harder with the umbrella organizat
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by volkl48 5y ago
All small towns are not created equal, imagining they are is going to lead you to invalid conclusions. Desirable towns popular with outdoor recreation enthusiasts are generally not suffering any sort of widespread brain drain issue (if anyt
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by volkl48 5y ago
This is a more complex problem than it is in many other regions of the country. For the most obvious - Once you're off a municipal water supply (which of course, has to have an adequate source of water in the region), available water r
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by volkl48 6y ago
They're both American companies, why would China be involved in this deal?
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by volkl48 6y ago
The recent polling I've seen on the topic is that 74% of US adults are willing to get vaccinated (or have been). And the trendline on the polling is that the % willing to get vaccinated is slowly climbing since the vaccine development
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by volkl48 6y ago
Long-term Blackberry user (and I still have a Blackberry Key2) - Yep. I can type out entire grammatically correct paragraphs without looking at the phone at all. That muscle memory was carefully honed in the late 2000s high school classroom
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by volkl48 6y ago
Also, most of the busiest places can be visited as a pretty quiet experience in their offseason. I've had the Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, Yosemite, Sequoia and others as quiet, near-empty experiences in the past couple years...just s
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by volkl48 6y ago
The US looks like it's inclined to going to throw money at someone to build up that capacity if necessary. It's certainly less risky for Taiwan for TSMC to be the one building and running the most high profile element of it th
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by volkl48 6y ago
Peanut butter absolutely works that way. It lasts longer in the fridge once opened: https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/wellness/how-long-will-t... Now, most people are likely to use it up before that becomes an issue,
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by volkl48 6y ago
Or for likely the most common form - Matcha, which is green tea leaves ground to a powder.
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by volkl48 6y ago
> The whole Hudson Yards was engineered as a phony rehabilitation of Harlem Hudson Yards is not anywhere remotely near Harlem, and was built on a deck over what's been a rail yard for a century. I'm don't love what was b
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by volkl48 6y ago
And the article gives little attention to what looks like the most serious safety issue to me: The rims pictured in the article are one of the most dangerous things you can do to a car (and are not legal as shown) and present a massive safe
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by volkl48 6y ago
> 3. Try to blend in and adopt local clothing, culture, foods, etc. Read books by local authors, watch local films. A bit obvious, maybe, but I've met many people who insisted on only eating Western food, reading Harry Potter, and w
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by volkl48 6y ago
There is a little game/visual novel-esque thing called "Emily Is Away" you may enjoy. It's basically an AIM nostalgia trip, particularly if you were in high school/college during the mid 2000s as well.
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by volkl48 6y ago
I disagree. They're the product of the same pressure. Crimes need to be solved and unsolved crimes or acquittals are to be avoided at all costs. If that is your reality: They can be solved by aggressive prosecution of those under suspi
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by volkl48 6y ago
While I do believe the Japanese murder rate is low, the Japanese criminal justice system is also a complete farce and I would not consider their statistics reliable. Unsolved cases are unacceptable and so suspicious deaths without an obviou
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by volkl48 6y ago
I felt the same as you in the tutorials, wound up stopping around the 4th tutorial and dropping it for months, and disliking the biters immensely. I wanted to tinker, not fight. A friend convinced me to give it another go later on in a mult

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