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by Perceval 8mo ago
The people voted for mass deportation of the tens of millions of illegals that were let into the country and lawlessly given "sanctuary." The federal government is attempting to enforce the laws on the books, laws that were voted
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by Perceval 8mo ago
Protesting is absolutely something you can and should be able to do casually and without having to protect your face/identity. It was enshrined in the First Amendment as a fundamental check on the federal government in order to recogni
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by Perceval 9mo ago
Trump does use Akzidenz Grotesk Bold Extended as one of his main campaign fonts
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by Perceval 10mo ago
Apple allows other apps that allow people to notify and track crime, like the Neighborhood and Citizen apps.
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by Perceval 1y ago
Even private written communications can be libel if they are false and injure the reputation of the subject.
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by Perceval 1y ago
There are already commercial constellations on orbit doing EO and SAR: Planet Labs, Capella, IceEYE, Umbra, Maxar, and more.
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by Perceval 1y ago
Space is an AWS region, just like AWS has terrestrial regions. The AWS space region is named Pigeon.
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by Perceval 1y ago
FOIA doesn't apply to the Executive Office of the President. The NSC is covered by the Presidential Records Act, but its records are not subject to FOIA requests.
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by Perceval 2y ago
Germany destroyed its own energy infrastructure by shutting down all of its nuclear energy generation capacity. The wartime destruction of Russia's coercive instrument is secondary to Germany's own self-inflicted wound.
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by Perceval 2y ago
SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin will all three be on Space Force's National Security Space Launch Phase III Lane 2 IDIQ. Blue Origin won't replace ULA on that contract, but will compete head to head with SpaceX and ULA to win launch
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by Perceval 2y ago
Having weak and moribund allies is not happy news for the United States.
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by Perceval 2y ago
If they were a puppet of the U.S. like you say, they wouldn't have been investing in and dependent on Russia in the first place. When Trump was President the first time and he chided them on their dependence on Russia and asked them to
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by Perceval 2y ago
I think once he started working out and getting strong, he looked less like an android and more like a human male. His politics may have shifted as a result of building muscle: * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar
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by Perceval 2y ago
Astra Space Operations | https://astra.com/ | Alameda, CA | Full Time | Onsite * Senior Staff Python Engineer * Staff Front-End Engineer Astra is a rocket company that designs its launch system for mass manufacture - the &q
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by Perceval 2y ago
Yes and no. Automation of the intermodal cargo transportation system should be within our means. However, finding a place where you can build a pilot of an automated port is very hard. SpaceX didn't build new spaceports to achieve its
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by Perceval 2y ago
> bombs targeted on cities and industrial areas would start firestorms, injecting large amounts of soot into the upper atmosphere, which would spread globally and rapidly cool the planet This makes some assumptions about how nuclear weap
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by Perceval 2y ago
Because any downward adjustment would be racist.
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by Perceval 2y ago
Ahistorical Marxist "analysis" on HN? War has existed since the dawn of humanity, thousands of years prior to the advent of capitalism, and has been fought by societies with every kind of socioeconomic and political configuration.
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by Perceval 2y ago
> Unless the nation is physically under attack, the president's day-to-day job is probably physically less demanding than that of pilots. Having worked in the White House, this is 110% wrong. The Presidency is an extraordinarily dem
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by Perceval 2y ago
> Wikipedia is as good as anything else. Encyclopedias – including Wikipedia – are not acceptable sources for college-level work certainly. They are tertiary literature, which can provide an overview to someone trying to get a toehold in
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by Perceval 2y ago
Creatine increases levels of DHT in the body: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/ DHT appears to drive hair-loss in genetically-predisposed men: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278957&#
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by Perceval 2y ago
I will second IINA. It's not the swiss army knife that VLC is, but it seems to stream videos from a NAS with better/smoother performance than VLC, and its interface is more mac-native.
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by Perceval 2y ago
Yes, that's one example, but it's not the only way that species adapt to resource availability. Ecologists have hypothesized r-selected and K-selected species as differing responses to resources: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by Perceval 2y ago
> > Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat I think this is the crux of all the other socio-economic supe
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by Perceval 2y ago
The "worst sleep" map is just two demographics: African Americans and Appalachians. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/charts/22 https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/node/7
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by Perceval 2y ago
Astra is not private yet. The SEC is still reviewing the take-private offer that Astra's board accepted from the group of investors. The take-private move is essentially an acquisition.
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by Perceval 2y ago
When I was young, I would go down to Front Street in Philly on weekend nights. It's an industrial area so the street is real wide to allow for 18-wheelers to turn in and out of the warehouses and factories. This made it ideal for drag
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by Perceval 2y ago
Johns Hopkins started out that way. Only grad students, no undergrads, pure research university. When they first admitted undergrads they had no separate courses, they just had to backbench the grad courses and listen.
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by Perceval 2y ago
Most of what Apple sells goes into mobile devices: phone, tablet, laptop. In their prior incarnation, they ran up real hard against the thermal limits of what they could put in their laptops with the IBM PowerPC G5 chip. Pure compute power
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by Perceval 2y ago
Going through life without having read through at least some of the KJV Bible and Shakespeare would be like watching The Wizard of Oz in black and white – sure, you'd be able to follow the plot, but you'd be missing out on the c

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