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by xnyan 5y ago
>Your smartphone is a way more noisy electrical environment than your car. Cellphones are are certainly tricky, but in a different way than cars. In my experience with EMF measurement and EMI compliance at Underwriters Labs, cars are uni
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by xnyan 5y ago
Old x64 laptops are great, and I've certainly used one as a router before, however they do have drawbacks (cooling profile is usually shitty for 24/7 use, and they often don't love to be stripped from their shell, lose their
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by xnyan 5y ago
It takes some effort, but you can have it (mostly) both ways. I live in a little rural town (Hillsborough, NC) that has farms in the woods and a great tiny downtown with several really good restaurants, pubs, and even a tiny art scene and i
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by xnyan 5y ago
I think you're right in that the way you describe windows in terms of speed, privacy and etc is correct (more or less), but I would not say disparity in market share is confounding. >under microsofts control and works to wrench powe
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by xnyan 5y ago
pcengines is as good as it gets for DIY whitebox router. Their prices are really good too, $100-150 USD for very capable high efficiency x64. https://www.pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4
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by xnyan 5y ago
I've worked quite a bit with MQTT - can you tell us a little more about what you mean by "really lossless"?
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by xnyan 5y ago
A single party state is not an inherently evil thing. I think you can make a pretty strong argument that history has shown more negatives vs positives of single party states, but that’s not the same thing. Acting contrary to your beliefs, n
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by xnyan 5y ago
>instructional professor The fancy/official term for this is usually Lecturer. It’s a permanent position that’s usually not equal to professor in power and prestige, but it’s permanent, the pay can be good and you don’t have any exp
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by xnyan 5y ago
If you legally live in someone’s home, in most jurisdictions (in the US) then you have at least some rights even if you don’t pay rent. The alternative is that one partner can abuse the other, then throw them out on the street if they wish
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by xnyan 5y ago
If you are into cheating, new licenses are just a cost of business. Even a new, full price AAA game is about the cost of a round of golf. Furthermore, with free to play and microtransactions/ongoing ways to get revenue from players, th
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by xnyan 5y ago
Something that most westerners, particularly my fellow Americans, are unaware of is that the Soviets already had over 100 nuclear warheads in Cuba, many of them having fully functional delivery systems capable of striking the US. Even if we
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by xnyan 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I don’t think you’re really giving it a good faith effort to look at this from the eyes of China. Imagine it in your head: the senior intelligence officer walks into the briefing room and says “The United States has pl
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by xnyan 5y ago
Step back and just think about it in realpolitik terms. If you were the leader of china, what would you think about the idea of nuclear weapons being brought to your borders? In a similar situation (the US had nukes in turkey and other area
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by xnyan 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by xnyan 5y ago
I'm interested to know which years you consider the BBC and PBS to have been "non-political" or not engaged in propaganda (propaganda in the dictionary sense, not the pejorative sense)? I've watched both for 30 years and
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by xnyan 5y ago
Offbeat idea: The middle America route (SF to DC) is about 40 hours of driving. If you have enough drivers to do it in shifts, the appalachian trail in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee is fantastic right now.
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by xnyan 5y ago
I loved motorcycling, but gave it up because I could not accept the risk (about 7 to 10 times more likely to die per mile driven vs a car). The most common (about 45%) cause of a motorcycle fatality is a car making a left turn into a motorc
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by xnyan 5y ago
It’s not a reasonable bottom end because you can sell a viable kids bike for far less, and many people even in a wealthy nation like the US simply don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on a bike that will quickly become too small to use.
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by xnyan 5y ago
The power of arrest has and is abused to punish and harass people. Perhaps I'm mistaken and in the UK those accused of unauthorized downloading are subject to arbitrary arrest, but this all seemed very abnormal. The police only investi
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by xnyan 5y ago
Not exactly, FEC basically means you add in redundant data to your transmission so that if some of the data is lost, you can “rebuild” the missing data from the packets that did arrive. The cost of this is extra bandwidth spent on the redun
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by xnyan 5y ago
I lived in several cites in eastern Ukraine (Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Luhansk, Gorlovka, others) and I think the absolute cheapest apartment I lived in was a 1br in a bad part of Makeevka which was one of the cheaper towns I lived in, and th
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by xnyan 5y ago
I think you are dismissing or not considering a major part of living in a walkable area - the cost of housing at any square footage. I know I did until quite recently. I really want to live in a walkable city, and would be thrilled not to o
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by xnyan 5y ago
I used to have the same opinion, then I used a Miele and it's really quite shocking how good it is. Not trying to sell you on one, but if you have the chance to try one out you may be surprised.
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by xnyan 5y ago
Miele canister, hands down. It's the best vacuum I've ever used in my life, nothing else even comes close. The high cost was hard to get over, but I waited for a sale and now I only wish I had done it sooner.
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by xnyan 5y ago
Agree. A related dark position that a not-insignificant number of people hold is that it's actually necessary and perhaps beneficial to have a visible homeless class living in unnecessarily cruel conditions as a means of coercion to k
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by xnyan 5y ago
Even in the best case, homeless shelters have serious downsides (to put it mildly) that you may not have considered. -Have a pet? Not coming with you. A stint at the pound, likely followed by euthanization due to overcrowding. -How about a
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by xnyan 5y ago
> One cause that you will probably not see highlighted is the devaluation of autonomy and personal responsibility Besides the fact that not everyone agrees with this argument, it's not highlighted because it's not useful. Let&#
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by xnyan 5y ago
Former USAF. Agree with the other comments about treaty obligations, personally I think the F35 is a prime example of insane, out of control project management that has become quite common in US aerospace development. All that being said, t
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by xnyan 5y ago
>Ostracism was democratic process Please go on? If people want to "cancel", even if I think they are doing it for a bad reason or mislead then that's their right. Why is it such a big issue?
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by xnyan 5y ago
Islam has grown in a troubled country, but how does that imply there's a casual relationship between Islam and poverty/social instability? This is like arguing the use of umbrellas causes the rain - how do your figures prove which

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