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by wl 3y ago
For the downvoters because I can't edit anymore: No, this is not sarcasm about the quality of the metal detectors. The TSA intentionally configures their metal detectors to randomly trigger on people despite them not otherwise meeting
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Today, that's a metal detector that intentionally randomly goes off even if you don't have any metal. Not quite "standard" in my book.
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The conduit used to run the Cat6 or fiber to those APs will probably still be useful in 40 years.
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At least elected bureaucrats are theoretically accountable to the electorate. The gripe comes from things like the unelected bureaucrats at the US Department of Justice deciding that as part of implementing the Americans with Disabilities A
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You could add earplugs.
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Ancient iron production leaves behind bloomeries. And in places like Egypt that are so dry, ancient iron (including meteoric iron predating smelting) does survive pretty well.
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The Book of the Dead is a somewhat standardized corpus of Middle Egyptian texts used over a long period of time, including the time when later phases of the Egyptian language were spoken instead of Middle Egyptian. You're seeing two di
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It's not so much that demotic was used more for secular writing, but rather Hieratic (and hieroglyphs!) continued to be used in a religious context out of tradition after the development of Demotic which tended to replace Hieratic for
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My partner did a second residency. Medicare doesn't fund second residencies, so she had to get an unfunded spot. At least with her second residency, they have those unfunded spots precisely because they're profitable. Maybe it&#x2
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Most of these transactional messages are associated with customer accounts. They absolutely can remove email addresses from those accounts. The problem isn't emailed receipts from typing in your email address at a brick and mortar chec
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I am aware. But the fragments of Hittite attested in these Old Babylonian texts predate the earliest bits of the extant Hittite corpus by about a century. Given what we know about how the Hittite language evolved when it is well-attested, t
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As someone who gets tons of transactional email I didn't sign up for (wrong address), please do implement your catch-all service and make unsubscribe mechanisms mandatory. If I can't stop it, I mark it as the spam it is, which can
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The situation is even worse for cuneiform. With English, you're looking at approximately 70 glyphs including upper case, lower case, digits, and punctuation. Cuneiform throws you into the hundreds of glyphs. And their forms change over
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If you'd like to learn to read that language, Hittite is fairly well-understood. And there's a college-freshman-level grammar out since 2011. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elements-of-hittite/
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Obscuring a message, by itself, does nothing to prevent MitM attacks. If you're worried about message integrity on the amateur bands, the rules do nothing to prevent the use of digital signatures.
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The gold standard is an arterial line, which unlike a blood pressure cuff, measures blood pressure directly and continuously. You will usually only see them used in intensive care or during surgery.
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I assume GP is talking about face-to-face private sales, which doesn’t require any background check on the federal level and in many states. In some states, you can go on Armslist and buy 20 guns without having to show an ID. And worse, r
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> as ancient Hebrews would sometimes write in Egyptian characters when enscribing was difficult (metal plates!) because the Egyptian script was more concise. That’s almost complete nonsense. You give me a chisel and I’ll carve Hebrew in
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Ancient Egyptian scripts before Coptic represented both sounds and concepts. But mostly sounds. You'll see 𓅓 used a lot in hieroglyphic texts. It's not because the ancient Egyptians loved to write about owls. It's mostly bein
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If you lump abjads and alphabets together, the Ugaritic alphabet represents another invention of an alphabet. Instead of being derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, it's derived from cuneiform. Old Persian cuneiform, another invention, is
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I collect antique firearms. It has not been my experience that sellers generally test-fire an item before selling it. More common is a disclaimer that if you want to shoot the thing, you should have it inspected by a qualified gunsmith fami
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These cranks are aluminum. The problem is that they are a hollow clamshell design to save weight. The bonding of that clamshell design is problematic.
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From [7]: 'While the official autopsy report states “gunpowder residue is not seen” on Teran’s hands, it is not conclusive because gunpowder is not always visible to the naked eye. A gunshot residue kit was performed, but those results
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The path loss for moonbounce is approximately 390 dB. You're not doing that by accident. In addition to using weak signal modes, you'll need directional antennas and lots of power to overcome that.
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It's not clear that the robber was leaving at the time he was shot. The robber was still threatening people with the gun when he was shot. Shooting the robber in the back was a way to get the jump on him—drawing on someone who has alre
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That's a very shallow reading of that particular situation. The robber was pointing a gun at people. At the point when someone threatens life like that, regardless of whether the motives are personal or material, it is reasonable and l
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The opposition to mandatory training is because the actual goal is usually to harass and discourage or raise revenue rather than improve safety. There's plenty that's been tried and none of it seems to have improved safety outcome
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That Vice article and the pluralistic blog spam post don't understand what a Fudd is. A Fudd is a curmudgeonly, old fashioned gun owner who is judgmental about people owning modern firearms. They favor hunting and shotgun games over ha
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Most museums display only a fraction of their holdings at any given time.
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Pretty much. The lawful flow of antiquities almost entirely ceased when the UNESCO 1970 Convention came into effect in 1972. Even stuff that was lawfully excavated and exported prior to then often has sketchy documentation showing provenanc

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