Pinckney

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by Pinckney 7y ago
Indoor range exist, but they're often expensive and poorly ventilated. People certainly use them, and some indoor ranges even host USPSA or IDPA matches. You'll want access to an outside range for most forms of recreational rifle
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by Pinckney 7y ago
That really sucks. They're supposed to just take a photo of the board and transcribe it later. I never touched a computer when I interviewed. When was this? I think the chromebooks are fairly new in interviews, and it sounds like the i
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Maybe this is off topic, but am I the only one uncomfortable with the Post seeking names of interviewees? > The reports also omitted the names of more than 90 percent of the people who were interviewed for the project. While a few offici
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by Pinckney 7y ago
> By default, Mercurial doesn't do any of these operations; you have to activate extensions. graft is actually built-in, but that's beside the point. Coming from a rebase heavy workflow in git, things like updating a ref or aba
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by Pinckney 7y ago
That's what everyone says, but for me, coming from a rebase heavy git workflow, I've found Mercurial far more difficult to learn. For example, with Mercurial, there's at least four different ways to do a rebase-ish thing: tra
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Disabling javascript entirely on the page works for me.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Is pornography uncopyrightable because it's not a "science or useful art"? (I.8.8)
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by Pinckney 7y ago
You quote the militia act, but congress doesn't get to define the words of the constitution through ordinary legislation. If it worked that way then they could just as easily pass a law defining "arms" as only muskets, "
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Actually, most existing underground transmission cables run through pressurized pipes full of oil. Look up HPFF; it's pretty wild. Newer cables tend to be solid, though.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
> A report prepared by the Edison Electric Institute, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind, An Updated Study on the Undergrounding of Overhead Power Lines,” found that while most new commercial and residential developments across the United States
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Would you not consider this to be gambling, then? Is it just "buying goods"? https://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-Repack-BLACK-LOTUS-Vintage-Old-...
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by Pinckney 7y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/406/
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by Pinckney 7y ago
This PDF from Wisconsin puts the cost at $280k-390k/mi depending on the voltage of the line. They put the cost of underground transmission lines at $1.5M-2M/mi for the same voltages. https://psc.wi.gov/Documents&#x
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by Pinckney 7y ago
As far as I can find, SDGE is only burying their distribution lines. Their 1900 miles of transmission lines (which often cut through flammable wilderness areas) will remain above ground.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The numbers you've quoted, from page 7, are per MW mile, not per mile.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
I'm curious, do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?
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by Pinckney 7y ago
SVP has 55 miles of transmission lines. PG&E has 18,466.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
I don't think we know it was unanimous. The orders list doesn't say anything to that effect, and the justices rarely publicly dissent from denials of cert, so their silence doesn't mean anything. https://www.suprem
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Indeed, what honest business can hope to survive in the face of such reckless malevolence? Truly, it is the end of e-commerce as we know it!
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by Pinckney 7y ago
My understanding, from a quick 5 minute skim, is that it may be. It's being sent back to the district court for reconsideration. Basically what seems to have happened is this: 1. Robles sued Dominoes alleging their website violated the
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Here's the ruling from the 9th circuit: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/01/15/17... A denial of cert doesn't mean the supreme court necessarily has an opinion on the me
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The SSN was never intended to be a secret. Nobody in 1938 thought that one day banks and other businesses would use it as a credential to establish identity.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Suppressors are federally regulated by the NFA, but can be bought with a $200 tax stamp and some paperwork. Only a minority of states ban them.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
If Democrats in California can't muster the votes to outlaw something as uniformly hated as balance billing while they have the Governor's office and a supermajority in both houses, I'm afraid I don't have much faith in
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by Pinckney 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_%22Prone_Pil...
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by Pinckney 7y ago
It sounds like he wants to require tech companies to ban speech that the US is constitutionally forbidden from banning itself.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
"asshole" Personally, I hate this Bowdlerization from the Times. It changes the meaning of the tweet, and it's not even the worst case where I've seen their desire for propriety interfere with their core mission of infor
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by Pinckney 7y ago
https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st... So beef consumption is up slightly since 2015, but is still far below its peak in 1976
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by Pinckney 7y ago
90% of federal cases end in a guilty plea, and only 17% of federal cases that do go to trial end in an acquittal. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f... Most likely he looks at t

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