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by wl 6y ago
> A high-level exec at one of the world's most powerful companies paying off a local LEO for a permit instead of, IDK, contacting the State or the Feds, is beyond inexplicable. The State or the Feds don't issue CCWs in Californ
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by wl 6y ago
You proved yourselves to be untrustworthy by opting everyone into analytics using Google and hiding the notice in lots of terminal output. You guys doubled down on that by refusing to reconsider, saying unless you were a contributor to the
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by wl 6y ago
What we think is worth preserving now isn't necessarily what the future will think we should have preserved. Most of papyrology is the study of ancient documents that were thrown in the trash.
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by wl 6y ago
Headline is inaccurate. He's not president elect until a joint session of congress counts the certificates of votes from the electoral college and declares him as such. Yeah, Biden likely will be president elect. But the news media&#x2
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by wl 6y ago
The Indigo and Indigo² also came in purple.
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by wl 6y ago
That'd probably be a good solution if the transmitter didn't need weatherproofing. I suppose adhesive film could be placed over the gap after removing the tab, though.
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by wl 6y ago
In my experience, just vacuuming up yellowjackets in a shop vac kills them. No soapy water needed.
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by wl 6y ago
At least with the surgeons I know in the United States, they have days devoted to clinic and days devoted to surgery. They meet with nearly all their patients beforehand to evaluate their conditions and discuss the options. The exceptions a
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by wl 6y ago
Speaking for myself as a photo nerd, the name annoys me because the app has nothing to do with silver halide. And for my own bona fides, I haul a large format camera out into the world on a regular basis and develop the film in my bathroom.
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by wl 6y ago
Sure. I don't want Spotlight making network requests on a filesystem search.
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by wl 6y ago
I've worked on storage-constrained embedded systems where adding bash and its dependencies expanded my root filesystem by 50%. busybox ash is a much smaller alternative.
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by wl 6y ago
As a whole, you're right. Primers, in particular, are probably beyond all but the most dedicated hobbyist's ability to produce at home. Still, lots of people cast their own bullets. People reuse shell casings, although there'
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by wl 6y ago
If there are to be guns in our society, I would prefer all of the users to be able to afford to practice. Especially with handguns, it takes practice to be accurate and that skill atrophies over time with disuse.
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by wl 6y ago
1 and 2. Governments maintain vital records. It would not be a leap for them to report changes to the IRS. 3. Mortgage companies already report mortgage interest to the IRS on form 1098. Not much of a leap for mortgage companies to keep tra
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by wl 6y ago
There are exceptions that allow for use of encryption to authenticate remote control of satellites and such. But generally speaking, it violates the rules to obscure the content of a message.
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by wl 6y ago
I use a Kinesis Advantage, which is a split ortholinear design with the keys in bowls and thumb clusters, just like the Dactyl. I have no issues switching between that and normal keyboards.
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by wl 6y ago
Their "legal reasons" can go jump off a cliff when someone else signs up for something with my email address. I didn't agree to any of this, including their ToS in all forms. Unsubscribe means unsubscribe. Any further email w
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by wl 6y ago
This list is focused on speaking and understanding spoken living languages. Does anyone have any tips for learning to read dead languages?
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by wl 6y ago
It's not just copyright law that causes unnecessary damage, but how private companies often overreact to it. I took a multiday cross country road trip a few years ago and installed a dashcam before I left. I put together a timelapse vi
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by wl 6y ago
It's not writing that's well understood. There's no parallel texts like the Rosetta Stone. Also, Meroitic isn't closely related to any other language we have knowledge of. As a result, we can read a few names and little
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by wl 6y ago
They're not even good at that. They seem to have forgotten how to package books so they won't get damaged in transit. Ordering books from Amazon is a last resort for me these days.
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by wl 6y ago
Shortwave is really tough in urban environments these days because of all the electrical noise from poorly-designed electronic devices. If you live in a single family home, try turning off your power at the breaker box, powering your radio
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by wl 6y ago
The standards in question are preponderance of the evidence (civil) and beyond a reasonable doubt (criminal). The standard is never "any possible way" or "no possible way." So my response would be that at a certain point
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by wl 6y ago
Next-generation? What separates this from Ergodox or Keyboardio? And all of the above seem to be a step backwards from the Maltron and Kinesis Advantage which have been around for decades. Dactyl and the like are the only ergo keyboards I m
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by wl 6y ago
The guns rural people tend to need are rifles. The guns that you see used in cities are almost entirely handguns. The concentration on scary black rifles is misguided unless you only focus on mass shootings, which make up a tiny fraction of
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by wl 6y ago
I'd love to travel to Pasargadae and Persepolis in Iran and Çatalhöyük, Ḫattuša, and the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. In fact, I'm likely to travel to Turkey when this pandemic is over and Iran if relations ever improve to the point wh
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by wl 6y ago
A 14-day quarantine upon return effectively bans many people from traveling.
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by wl 6y ago
Democracy doesn't require elections. Sortition is the classical example, but there are others.
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by wl 6y ago
Anecdotally, I took about 100 exposures of the comet last weekend with shutter speeds ranging from 10-20 seconds. There were satellite streaks in every exposure! I don't ever remember it being this bad.
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by wl 6y ago
If this were a debate for or against a proposition, your criticism would make a lot of sense. Even if there's some false and misleading information used to support the proposition, the proposition can still be adequately supported by o

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