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by xxpor 4y ago
Is the US occupied by France? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Command_Transformation
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by xxpor 4y ago
Turkey's location is incredibly important strategically. They control access to the Black Sea.
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by xxpor 4y ago
Do you know how'd it'd work for plates like ham radio ones where you CAN'T transfer them to another another person, but it'd also make no sense to turn them in? Can you keep them to use on another car eventually? This wh
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by xxpor 4y ago
Interesting, it's actually not allowed in the 3 states I've registered a car in. In NJ, they wouldn't even allow transferring a regular plate from our old volvo (registered in my dad's name) to our new town and country (
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by xxpor 4y ago
>The license plate should follow the car and ownership should be changed online as part of the transaction. It sounds incredibly wasteful that every time a car changes ownership the seller must hand over the plates in person to the DMV.
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by xxpor 4y ago
The brownstones were hated when they were built, because they didn't fit in the neighborhood! https://twitter.com/JerusalemDemsas/status/14363665088091504... Your personal aesthetics shouldn't dictate wh
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by xxpor 4y ago
Another one I've used is https://www.stylevana.com/en_US/isntree-hyaluronic-acid-wate... Seems OK based on https://incidecoder.com/products/isntree-hyaluronic-acid-wat... They also say "
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by xxpor 4y ago
Get some Korean/Japanese sunscreen from Stylevana. For example: https://www.stylevana.com/en_US/kao-biore-uv-aqua-rich-water... The watery gel stuff isn't approved by the FDA, but it feels a million times bet
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by xxpor 4y ago
Exactly. Rocket companies are always defense companies.
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by xxpor 4y ago
You can't work there (except possibly in some minor roles) if you're not a US Person as defined by ITAR for a reason.
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by xxpor 4y ago
This was from 2018, before card prices really exploded.
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by xxpor 4y ago
Not from their perspective
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by xxpor 4y ago
People in this thread don't agree on the definition of "pesticide" The linked paper does say insecticide use went down, but herbicide use went up.
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by xxpor 5y ago
There might have been a major personal life event in there....
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by xxpor 5y ago
I wonder how much of the base data structures that are always in memory are pointers, and if it'd be more fair to say it's really the equivalent of 3 mb virtual/1.5 mb resident (or even 1.5/.75 for 16 bit!)
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by xxpor 5y ago
There's plenty of room if there's still single story buildings in London.
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by xxpor 5y ago
So why didnt California end up in that state, concidering it has nearly the same conditions?
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by xxpor 5y ago
Issa lost in 2018, IIRC.
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by xxpor 5y ago
See also: oil "capital discipline" right now
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by xxpor 5y ago
In the US, no one except actual USPS mail carriers are allowed to deliver anything into a mailbox. Everyone except the tiniest operations take that pretty seriously, since the US postal inspectors (mail cops) are extremely serious.
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by xxpor 5y ago
I have a fixed rate mortgage and an all electric house, including an electric vehicle. That electricity is ~95% from hydropower. The only real inflation I've seen is in food (which is a trivial part of my budget), electronics, and &quo
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by xxpor 5y ago
Are you trying to say inflation was over 41% last year?
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by xxpor 5y ago
I got a 41% raise this year at my annual review, without a promo. (big tech sde)
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by xxpor 5y ago
There's no income tax in Seattle.
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by xxpor 5y ago
Not only are there radar detector detectors, but then there are radar detector detector detectors, and radar detector detector detector detectors. A hilarious arms race.
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by xxpor 5y ago
Name a single successful (non-niche, stuff like INTEGRITY doesn't count) OS kernel created post-Windows NT 3.1 that's commercial. Even Mac OS X still runs Mach as a kernel. The model is dead, because of the internet. OSes have MAS
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by xxpor 5y ago
Things work the opposite way. In order to get companies to adopt things you need to get people working their interested in it. Which means they need to be able to run it on their PCs. There's a reason why x86 ate the world. The excepti
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by xxpor 5y ago
Regular ethernet can do much better than .9 ms / ft, but it would indeed require some buffer size tuning to a level most consumer routers/switches wouldn't allow. Or even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by xxpor 5y ago
The SSA has to be able to get checks out to everyone every month. The IRS has to process tax returns and get out refunds. The USGS has to be able to detect earthquakes. The NWS has to be able to deliver critical weather data. I could go on
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by xxpor 5y ago
It is for me too, but new grads at FAANGs today are getting 200k+ TC offers.

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