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Pretty sure they use speakers because they are mastering primarily for speaker setups. Not because it increases the accuracy of location information encoded in the sound.
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If my entire job was enforcing currency counterfeiting laws then I would probably have to be pretty stupid to think that perforated edges is a strong indicator of counterfeiting.
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4y ago
It has 1/3 the mass of common motorcycle helmets. Its not heavy, just large.
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4y ago
The Treasury could simply mint some trillion dollar coins, that is actually something they are authorized by law to do.
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4y ago
Another thing about autoincrements, they can leak rate information. You can do something like create a new user, wait a day, create a second user, then the difference in the userId tells you the rate at which new users are being created.
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4y ago
Why do you say the balancing should be left to the Federal Reserve? If we are going to have executive branch institutions rectify Congresses instructions by disregarding one of them what is your principled reason for saying its the Federal
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You missed the one which is the entire reason FSA has so much power now. Mt. Gox stole/comingled customer funds (though they lost even more to hackers).
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Lastpass and 1 pass launched before any of those existed except bcrypt. And I am guessing PBKDF2 was selected over bcrypt because its PBKDF2 just had more academic review.
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4y ago
The statute of limitations applies separately to each instance of infringement, it doesn't start ticking at the first instance of infringement like you suggest. For example if I hosted a copyrighted movie on my website for 3 years and
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4y ago
> We do not allow sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social cont
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4y ago
> Hopefully you can see this is not meant to be serious. Contributions to make it serious aren't really the idea. Contributions to make it sillier or more audacious are the idea. Silly examples are also welcome. Read the readme...
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I notice that definition doesn't include inciting hatred towards people because of their gender or sexual orientation. I think that kind of shows the limitations of these laws, you can't ban hate speech against any group because t
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4y ago
Thanks for doing that. I was on a FIRST Robotics team and got my lesson the hard way. Was debugging some driving code sitting next to the robot which was up on blocks. The code wasn't working so while ponding why my hand ended up close
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Lucky the Russians aren't fighting the US. > In one chilling incident [the documents] detail how an Apache helicopter gunship gunned down two men in February 2007. The suspected insurgents had been trying to surrender but a lawyer b
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I think it mostly matters in the context of US case law, specifically the third party doctrine. > The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as
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vscode has a portable version that can be installed as a project local tool. So would vscode installed in such a way also be an exception to this approach?
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I think you still do a disservice to players by dismissing all these reports as low quality and impossible to verify. Here is a good counterexample https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/zawwc5
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Hackernews almost never actually deletes things (afaik they only do if there is a legal requirement or in exceptional circumstances after human review). Instead of being deleted comments/posts get marked as dead and hidden by default.
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4y ago
Wikipedia editors have noticed that people use wikipedia for this purpose (finding the current location of sites) and so they have started to censor links for sites they don't want to encourage people to access. Right now this mostly i
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4y ago
1 kcal = 1 large calorie. So 4.5 kcal/lb per day * 10 lb = 45 large calories per day, not 450. > The small calorie or gram calorie was defined as the amount of heat needed to cause the same increase in one gram of water. Thus, 1 lar
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Also the guy who was threatened with arrest had this to say > "...But to be fair to the officer, he wasn’t threatening to arrest me for the blank paper, but if I wrote the words ‘not my King’ on it."
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As the original article notes it does appear to have a psychoactive effect beyond the sensation of burning pain (though if a sensation of pleasure is a psychoactive effect why wouldn't a sensation of pain be?). I found additional sourc
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It defines food as: > Any substance which— (a) is ordinarily consumed as food, and (b) does not contain a prohibited ingredient > In this paragraph— “food” includes drink; “prohibited ingredient”, in relation to a substance, means any
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Yes but who is going to believe that after hearing so many other drugs will ruin their lives then finding out they don't?
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Its involved but seems like it can be done pretty quickly https://nassaufoods.com/resources/basic-manufacturing-of-bac...
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KiwiFarms was back within days, if anything the KiwiFarms saga showed that it is still true.
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The main difference is that Playwright uses custom headless builds of "browser projects" (like chromium) rather than attempting to automate a normal consumer build of the browser via the webdriver api. The webdriver api is kind of
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I guess I am missing something, why does this cause dependency hell? I guess microsoft is basically recommending against targeting netstandard now anyways so there must be some problem with it. But I don't think I have run into any pro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking is pretty well established scientifically.
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Using only averages can lead to pretty misleading results. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
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