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by wl 5y ago
My partner is a physician. This particular case has come up at social gatherings with other medical professionals. In regards to the headline, none of them have expressed worry they'd be next. Instead, the uniform response is that the
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> Probably the most famous examples are the strips where the creator said, "Okay, I'm done." Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side, Boondocks... They said what they wanted to say and decided that they wanted to move on. I
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by wl 5y ago
I'm sorry I can't add much more detail as I'm no expert and I'm paraphrasing an off-hand comment I heard around the time the book was published. The short of it is that Bowen & Lewis seem to take grammatical position
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I've been warned by a Sumerologist that the book is idiosyncratic. It does seem to be the only in-print and inexpensive option aimed at amateur scholars. More mainstream options: Hayes, John. A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts. A t
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Sumerian was a dead prestige language used by scribes in ancient Mesopotamia. As such, there are parallel word lists and other such texts written in Akkadian (which is fairly well understood by modern scholars) meant for scribes learning th
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by wl 5y ago
The case the Supreme Court used to uphold the State Secrets privilege was, in retrospect, a coverup with no genuine national security issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
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That has not been my experience with Di2. No cable stretch means no need to adjust anything—not to mention no more lubing cables. Perfect shifting every time with no adjustment needed is the opposite of finicky. Multishift, shifting with th
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In a complicated, undocumented format that had to be reverse-engineered (Sumerian/Akkadian/Hittite cuneiform).
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It's an ethernet switch with one 1Gbase-T port and 4x SFP+ ports that can be any media you want the proper transceiver. Including 10Gbase-T if you really want it for some reason.
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The CRS305-1G-4S+IN goes from $125-$150.
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Gmail filters are incapable of marking things as spam. Worse, if something matches a filter rule, it's whitelisted.
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Well, then that mail is going to get legitimately marked as spam when I didn't request it, I have no business relationship with the sender, and there's no other way to make it stop. And the user is still getting silently charged b
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What's wrong with giving the user the ability to remove themselves from any automated emails? The alternative is being hit with the spam button. They should have confirmed their user controlled the email address, too, but why not go wi
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> Further, there's a distinction made between "commercial" and "transactional" messages in both law and etiquette. The unsubscribe link is expected in commercial messages, not transactional ones. Most of the junk
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> So consider the extreme case: what if the user fat-fingers an unsubscribe (without realizing) to their local electric company's e-invoices, which is what been relying on to prod them to log onto the site and pay the bill? To name
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> We were also informed that our normal, business communications with paying customers should have unsubscribe notices appended to them. Which is to say, you're a paying customer of a service and we send you some kind of alert or cr
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by wl 5y ago
I'm disappointed to see spamming apologia here. Did I sign up for a mailing list? Yes - not spam No - spam. Creating an account with a company is not signing up for mailing lists unless there's a choice presented. Yeah, you can hi
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by wl 5y ago
The Assyrian Empire is documented in, among other works, Herodotus's Histories and Book II of Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca Historica, two of the most influential histories written in classical antiquity. To dismiss the these sou
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> A lot of scholars used to insist that the Bible was obviously not historical because it talked about this thing called the Assyrian empire that had conquered the fertile crescent, and everyone knew that empire never existed. > And t
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> Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States [...] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/7
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You never know what will be useful to the future. To give an example, the field of papyrology is largely built around trying to construct a view of the past using scraps of texts excavated from ancient dumps.
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> I see Roman coins or Roman era stuff for sale on some FB groups. Frankly, buying them, even if illegal (some countries have laws making anything historical found state property), is not the end of the world provided you don't dest
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I'm thinking more M2M/IoT applications.
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It seems that a lot of companies have delayed their 3G sunset replacement plans until the last minute and then supply chain shortages pushed them over the deadline.
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Your bike might have issues, your posture might not be very aero, you might not be using your gears to maintain an efficient cadence, or your fitness isn't as good as you think. Play around with the following calculator: https:/&
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Demotic looks like the Arabic script, sure. However, it doesn't work like Arabic. It's a cursive form of the more well-known hieroglyphic script using a later form of the Egyptian language. That means bi-/tri-literals, determ
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Not in store. Those refurbished logic boards have to come from somewhere, though. See https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/acqwut/do_you_know_w...
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Yes, it's no longer being updated, which is why we're stuck on the 32-bit version for MacOS. I've not gotten it to work in Wine/CrossOver, but perhaps someone more skilled than I am could get it to work. I've just u
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WXtoImg is what I miss the most. There’s a long tail of unsupported old software with unique capabilities.
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My experience is in the US. PTCRB is the standardized one. Even on top of that, AT&T has additional testing (see TRENDI, which is a whole lot better than what they used to require). Verizon has their own idiosyncratic process where you

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