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by wl 4mo ago
> We're not anti-gun. Just anti the "only used explicitly for killing people" kind of gun. That doesn't square with Canadian classifying tasers (purely defensive, non-lethal) and anti-materiel rifles as prohibited fir
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by wl 4mo ago
With very few exceptions, you can’t acquire handguns in Canada anymore. They’ve also banned most semiautomatic rifles. Maybe Canadian public opinion isn’t anti-gun, but the current government seems to be.
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by wl 4mo ago
There's this notion from the Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States (1915) that accepting a pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. Therefore, a person can refuse a pardon. There isn't anything in the decision to justify
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by wl 4mo ago
Clocking in and out serves little purpose if you're salaried.
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by wl 4mo ago
I wear Lycra, ride a funny-looking carbon road bike, and average about 3,000 miles a year. In college, I rode a beater bike everywhere for transportation instead of owning a car. I’ve never experienced that kind of thing, though I’ve heard
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by wl 4mo ago
I recently had an experience with a family member's Ubuntu LTS machine where it was stuck on an old release, /etc/apt/sources.list needed to be edited because of Ubuntu's obnoxious habit of breaking old repositories
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by wl 4mo ago
I think I'm probably coming at this from a different perspective than IT people. I've worked on IoT products where we've deployed fleets of thousands of devices without user interfaces placed all over the world in random, ina
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by wl 4mo ago
I think IT departments also tend to underestimate the risk they pose when they manage machines. Look at Stryker, where intruders used Intune to wipe all the company's devices. The ability to do that shouldn't exist, but the IT dep
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by wl 4mo ago
Don't. The USB C port is poorly designed and will break at the drop of the hat, leaving you unable to charge the thing. And the company won't do anything to help you.
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by wl 4mo ago
From the manual: > The Improvement Factor is an average of the Voltage Output and the THD output. It gives you a factor of how much the AC power is improved by the P20. Which also doesn't make much sense to me. So the lower the THD,
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by wl 4mo ago
What little content is in that one is a quote by a fraudster.
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by wl 4mo ago
As someone who was forced to use Ask Pepper last time I had a problem with Chipotle, good riddance. Apparently too many people were tricking it into giving refunds, so the best it is allowed to do is hand out coupons for "free guac&quo
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by wl 4mo ago
If you stay long enough, you might be forced to move to another unit for a renovation.
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by wl 4mo ago
For those who don't know why that's interesting: The tradional practice for creating these kinds of texts is to first write an editio typica in Latin. This Latin text is then the basis for translations into vernacular languages.
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by wl 4mo ago
It’d be hard to keep individuals from doing this. But individuals aren’t running networks of cameras. Companies are. Those companies probably couldn’t fly under the radar selling LPR data if the practice was banned.
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by wl 4mo ago
It seems like most of the iTunes hate has historically come from people who used iTunes on Windows because they needed to use it to sync their iPods. Apparently it wasn't very good on Windows? I do agree that it had been getting worse
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by wl 4mo ago
Perhaps Dogme 95/Dogma 25 films are in a genre of their own, but they're not "genre movies." People make the same argument with "literary fiction"/"non-genre fiction" vs "genre fiction.&quot
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by wl 5mo ago
The polysemic nature of Egyptian hieroglyphic signs is hardly the main issue with learning to read ancient Egyptian. If you're a beginner slogging through elementary translation exercises, the determinatives and phonetic complements he
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by wl 5mo ago
I don't get your quibble about "cursive" not being an appropriate way to describe hieratic. Pretty much every Egyptologist I've heard speak on the matter uses the term "cursive," with Demotic often described as
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by wl 5mo ago
Egyptian hieroglyphs are mostly phonetic. You can represent any abstract concept in it that you could in the spoken version.
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by wl 5mo ago
I got an erroneous Type II diabetes diagnosis dropped into the note by the AI scribe at my last appointment because my PCP discussed the A1C test he was ordering. Would not recommend. That isn't to say that manually typed notes or spee
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by wl 5mo ago
One of my hobbies is typesetting modern editions of a certain type of rare, obscure old books that were poorly typeset to begin with. Modern OCR—and I’ve tried plenty of tools—is still rather error prone in my application.
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by wl 6mo ago
> Some days it'll mark legitimate transaction emails from major companies as spam I get legitimate transactional emails intended for someone else and those senders refuse to stop them because I'm not their customer and only t
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by wl 6mo ago
They really aren’t. Qualified immunity is probably too strong, but litigants get past it all the time. On the other hand, judges have absolute immunity for actions taken in the course of their judicial duties.
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by wl 6mo ago
Especially considering the judge is the only person involved in this who is completely immune from being sued.
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by wl 6mo ago
Which pages have they been caught modifying? And where's the evidence? I've seen this accusation multiple times but never with concrete details.
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by wl 6mo ago
Perhaps it should be, but the courts have not agreed. See Pena v. Los Angeles for an example of an appellate case that rejected this argument. It found that a "police power" exception to the takings clause applies in such case
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by wl 6mo ago
The laws that provide a right of action against the government generally don’t cover damages caused by police in the lawful exercise of their duties. So yeah, sovereign immunity.
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by wl 6mo ago
They chose not to do so. And the courts are no help, because generally speaking, you can't sue the government unless there's a specific law allowing you to do so (sovereign immunity). The police as individuals are generally immune
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by wl 7mo ago
Blame William Miller for American Evangelicalism's preoccupation with the end times.

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