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by wl 8y ago
These kinds of tactics usually require a lot of time from tax attorneys and only work in uncommon financial situations. If you've just got W2 income, there's probably not much you can do.
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by wl 8y ago
There's a term for this kind of thing: deep pocket. The folks actually responsible for the wrongs these people have suffered are likely imprisoned and are relatively poor compared to Salesforce.
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by wl 8y ago
I did this kind of thing in college. It's more involved than you think. If you want good results, you're going to need at minimum a professional VCR (We used the Panasonic AG-7350), a timebase corrector, and a professional grade d
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by wl 8y ago
It's not as if the pistol malfunctioned. If the agent had kept his booger hook off the bang switch, everything would have been fine.
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by wl 8y ago
I've had occasion to participate in an active shooter exercise using simunitions. It was for police and EMS to practice their response. All participants were given safety gear, informed of the risks, and signed a waiver. I can't i
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by wl 8y ago
He probably carries a pistol with him everywhere and standard practice is to keep it loaded with a round chambered. If demonstrating safe handling were necessary, he probably should have brought another pistol and kept his carry weapon hols
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by wl 8y ago
If anyone is interested in seeing other artifacts from this "dig", the Minneapolis Institute of Art has a special exhibit entitled "Egypt's Sunken Cities" through April 14th of this year. One Egyptologist I know saw
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by wl 8y ago
This isn't a sentence. This isn't a crime being punished. It's civil contempt. It's designed to coerce the person in custody into complying with the court order. It's often said that in such circumstances that the p
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by wl 8y ago
> [I]n 2000+, hearing (and vision) is completely understood scientifically and far surpassed by measuring apparatus at every frequency range Yes, we have instrumentation better than the meat-based transducers in the human body. That does
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by wl 8y ago
> I don't understand why folks get so upset about the Touch Bar. It just sits there; if you don't want to use it, don't use it. 1. It replaces the F keys, which I actually want to use. 2. Unlike real keys, if you even brus
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by wl 8y ago
Running uBlock origin seems to trigger the same thing, even on a static IP. It feels an awful lot like punishment to me.
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by wl 8y ago
> I’m not sure on whose systems you believe packages are built and tested, and from whose systems you feel Homebrew downloads bottles. Is Ubuntu a service because Canonical builds and tests packages and hosts package repositories? I don&
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by wl 8y ago
Third parties do need access to this information. There should be prominent alerts on the device when tracking is occurring, including information on where that information is going.
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by wl 8y ago
I don't know what Google does with those packets. Also, I've seen far too many examples of deanonymization to trust claims that data is properly anonomyzed. When it comes down to it, principle of least privilege applies here. Home
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by wl 8y ago
> How exactly is Homebrew not a service? Is youtube-dl a service because it needs to be constantly updated, at great effort, to deal with new countermeasures and the like? Still looks like software to me. If you were running the software
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by wl 8y ago
From the user in question: > I tried to lookup my old license and realized I was given 1 free license this annual period (around ~October) after purchasing 2 seats the previous year for contributing significantly to bug reports with full
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by wl 8y ago
Closing the registry was a poison pill added to FOPA after introduction. The bill passed, even with that amendment. Aside from the registry, it provided legal protection from the patchwork of state firearm laws for travelers who are just pa
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by wl 8y ago
Were there more narrowly tailored laws SF could have passed? Yes. Does the SF Board of Supervisors generally care about overbroad laws? No.
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by wl 8y ago
I don't think SF's ban on airsoft guns reflected a hostility towards gun owners as much as a worry that they'd be mistaken for real guns and get people killed. An example of this 50 miles north: https://en.wikipedi
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by wl 8y ago
Hamilton the person was a deeply elitist, anti-immigration slave owner who was incredibly suspicious of democracy. Hamilton the musical is misleading, portraying a hero in the mold of modern sensibilities. And that's not even getting
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by wl 8y ago
The person in question lived in California. It is a violation of federal law to buy a handgun in a state you're not a legal resident unless you go through an FFL in your home state.
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by wl 8y ago
Just because there's no database doesn't mean a gun can't be connected to an owner. Manufacturers keep records of which serial numbers go to which distributors. Those distributors keep track of which dealers get which guns. T
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by wl 8y ago
Rasa in Burlingame is an Indian restaurant with one star.
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by wl 8y ago
In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
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by wl 8y ago
I route all traffic, including DNS, through my VPN when I'm not at home. I was just commenting on the leakiness of DNS to preempt people saying "HTTPS means you're safe!" I used to run my own DNS server when I was on Com
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by wl 8y ago
I run a VPN from home for using at coffee shops and the like. While the proliferation of HTTPS has made sketchy networks less of a problem, DNS is still leaky.
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by wl 8y ago
Popcon in Debian and Ubuntu is opt-in. They ask you at install time whether or not you'd like to participate.
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by wl 8y ago
I don't expect my package manager to require uBlock Origin. I actually caught it with my firewall, which was an unpleasant surprise.
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by wl 8y ago
They opted their users in to analytics (using Google, no less) with disclosure so minimal, most users would miss it. They would not entertain any suggestion that analytics should be opt in, saying that unless you're a contributor, your
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by wl 8y ago
You should not use Homebrew. The maintainers are not trustworthy. https://chr4.org/blog/2016/04/26/homebrew-betrayed-us-all-to...

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