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by warner25 3y ago
I think that speeding well in excess of the limit is the only thing that they can prove in traffic court. It seems to me that everything else would come down to the cop's story vs. the defendant's story. Or they get lucky and find
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, weird. In my neighborhood (admittedly very safe for walking, and in an ideal climate) the streets were full of people going for a daily walk (twice daily for some people) throughout 2020-2021. There was nowhere to go around the neighb
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by warner25 3y ago
$120 is the total (minus fees) that I see for two lines. I thought you were suggesting that you could have a whole family paying just $45 in total. Setting aside unlimited plans for the moment: You can get 5 GB of data per month, which seem
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by warner25 3y ago
I just looked at the AT&T plans and it appears that two lines with unlimited data would cost $120 per month (before they add on who knows what additional fees that aren't included in that price). The price for more lines goes up fr
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by warner25 3y ago
That sounds like a good deal if you actually want and use all those things.
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by warner25 3y ago
Right, managing low data usage like I do definitely requires some thoughtfulness, but it's orthogonal to the choice of using a big carrier vs. MVNO, except for the fact that big carriers won't even sell you a low data plan. To his
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by warner25 3y ago
I've been using a discount, prepaid MVNO since 2012, and I'm stunned that so many people in my real-life social circle still haven't heard of these things and just keep paying the "big carriers" multiples of what I&
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by warner25 3y ago
Agreed. I struggled a bit with XFCE on my Framework for a few months before switching to GNOME, largely because Framework's display size is best with fractional scaling. 100% made everything too small, and I could work with 200% and so
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm a PhD student, mostly off on my own doing dissertation research and writing at this point, and typically getting one hour per week one-on-one with my advisor to ask questions and get guidance. So I'm already in the habit of re
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by warner25 3y ago
Yet (from your own source) in 2020 and 2021, when so many people started working from home for the first time, per capita motor vehicle fatalities went up 7.1% and 10.5%, respectively; the worst two-year increase since 1945-1946. The rate
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by warner25 3y ago
If not for this deal, what would be the default search engine in Safari? I feel like most normal people (not HN weirdos) would be angry if their browser defaulted to something other than Google when they tried to "Google something.&quo
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by warner25 3y ago
I think you're right. Within the DoD, you see a dichotomy between uniformed military service members and federal civilians. The people in uniform (especially officers, especially between years 5 to 15 of their careers) exist in a bruta
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by warner25 3y ago
Your comparison is interesting. I've only worked in government (US military, but also with many federal civilians), where we've all internalized the notion that we're incompetent in every way compared to the private sector. B
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by warner25 3y ago
The only breakthrough (technical or not) to which I can draw a comparison is getting always-on, cable Internet access for the first time in 2000.
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by warner25 3y ago
I mean, even if the Russians aren't aiming for that, many people make it sound like modern electrical grids and supply chains in developed nations are always teetering on the edge of collapse, so it shouldn't take much to push t
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by warner25 3y ago
> even in wars with heavy and broad destruction there wasn't a collapse of civilization This is something that has puzzled me before. Like when I'm reading about the destruction in Ukraine, the active targeting of their electri
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by warner25 3y ago
Sure, but the same is true of the Army. And yet there are several US Army officers (literal Soldiers) who are active astronauts. I'm just surprised that they haven't been transferred into the Space Force yet along with the many ot
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by warner25 3y ago
I was going to say that of course a bunch of Space Force people have already been put into space, but I just looked and it appears that none of the active duty military astronauts have actually been transferred to the Space Force; they&#x
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by warner25 3y ago
I felt similarly about using ChatGPT until a few months ago. I took some pride in having almost 20 years of (on-and-off) programming experience, I felt that it was one of my strengths as an older CS graduate student, and I didn't look
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by warner25 3y ago
I've never needed mine to "interact with the DMV" or any other entity. Has she? It doesn't usually count as a primary form of identification like a passport, driver's license, or other government-issued ID card with
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by warner25 3y ago
> However, nobody actually pays the amount that gets billed to the insurance company... While mostly true, the system always strikes me as insane when I see the amounts billed to my insurer alongside the amounts "allowed" or pa
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by warner25 3y ago
I don't think that government-run health insurance (i.e. Medicare, Medicaids, Tricare) == "single-payer" healthcare system, especially in terms of the effects described by the parent comment. My perspective is being under Tri
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by warner25 3y ago
Wow, I'm surprised to hear this about the battery from you guys, as that appears to be one of their top selling points: "Most battery life!" I see that the article describes it as repairable, but is it really easy to get and
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, I only started using it in August, and I had this realization when it was down a couple weeks ago. I found myself saying, "I guess I'll take the afternoon off and come back to figuring out this task tomorrow." Like I co
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by warner25 3y ago
Their version nomenclature is confusing. Mine is a "G Power 2020," so it's different and I don't see it on the LineageOS Wiki. Maybe it will eventually get supported(?).
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by warner25 3y ago
Interesting. I had a Moto G7 and I was happy with it for a year until I broke the screen and couldn't find anyone to repair it. I replaced it with a similar Moto G Power since the G7 was discontinued and I ended up in the same boat as
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by warner25 3y ago
This is where I've landed too. No need to give up the capabilities of a smart phone; some of them are legitimately very useful at times (maps, driving directions, being able to look up business hours or a phone number while on-the-go
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by warner25 3y ago
You should be able to do a lot better than $15/month for a dumb phone. I have a smartphone that I mostly use like a dumb phone, and my cost is $5/month for 500 minutes and 500 MB of data. The provider is Red Pocket, and it's
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by warner25 3y ago
Normal and allowed, yes, but I share the sentiment that it makes me a little uneasy. I don't mention my clearance on my LinkedIn page, and I'm vague about many other things. Of course, anybody who understands this stuff (like any
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, the most troubling "red team" ideas are about attacking service members in their personal lives at home. Rather than attacking our nuclear bombers, submarines, and ICBMs, an adversary could target the people who operate and m

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