Steko

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by Steko 2y ago
> nobody knows what to do with it yet though. I've sent a lengthy email to Atomic Rockets strongly suggesting that cloaking devices are back on the menu. No reply yet and I know I've said this a few dozen times before but I rea
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by Steko 2y ago
> it doesn't sound very convincing That's because it's not a strong conclusion. It's a "better than the alternatives" hypothesis. Repeating my tldr above "they don't know it's alphabetic"
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by Steko 2y ago
The tldr is that they don't know it's alphabetic for sure (see below quote). The main scholar (Glenn Schwartz) who co-oversaw the '94-'10 excavation isn't an expert in writing. He put it out there around 2010 and sa
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by Steko 2y ago
I thought the article was fine, historically, as a pop travel article. You seem to have hate-read it because it wasn't encyoclopedic enough and left out some of your favorite bits of Arthurian trivia.
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by Steko 2y ago
I think the author's issue is he conflates feudalism, which is generally held to begin in the 10th century, with the entire medieval period, which is traditionally dated as starting in the late 5th century. He also thinks of feudalism
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by Steko 2y ago
> You misunderstand how personality rights work .. Called it in the other thread One of the great things about HN is you get all kinds of experts from every field imaginable. > is not prosecutable Yikes.
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by Steko 2y ago
> if housing is so affordable in Japan, why are there still people who don't own homes? Mostly because they don't need or want their own house and/or they spend their money on other stuff. > Can an average McDonalds wor
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by Steko 3y ago
Yeah I also travel with a battery pack and, if I'm overseas, a pocket wifi. And my airpods, although lots of people like big headsets too. Apple also thinks their VR rig is great for air travel. So potentially 7-9 devices. I'm pe
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by Steko 4y ago
Speaking of 'grossly mischaracterizing' Volokh, why do you think he is "uniquely qualified" to weigh in here? Is it because your views usually align with his? He seems no more qualified than the sources mhneu provided. T
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by Steko 4y ago
Whether Hans cheated OtB is not really the main issue although most commenters get hung up on it. Occam’s Razor suggests we should strongly believe he didn’t cheat OTB. The bigger issue is that known cheaters create a cloud of suspicion tha
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by Steko 4y ago
* Headphone jack.
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by Steko 4y ago
Louis CK assured me my stuff was already going to space.
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by Steko 4y ago
This place has lots of world class thinkers but is heavily overburdened with title janitors and tone police. This is an actually interesting development but there’s zero discussion of it and 50 comments that want to split hairs about whethe
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by Steko 4y ago
Lots of countries have great systems that aren't single payer.
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by Steko 4y ago
The idea that AD&D didn’t have powergamers sounds like Gygax propaganda. This is the edition that put out a book of diety statblocks like it was another monster manual. Your linked Animal Friendship, allows 2xHD of companions so a L3 dr
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by Steko 4y ago
A passing familiarity with her blog has the substantiation. The fact that the last few decades of particle physics has led nowhere is the truth but I don't see anyone else brave enough to tell that story because they all work for the e
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by Steko 4y ago
> mostly just been abused as a vehicle for crazy, baseless manias The whole movement came out of monetary crank-ism, those people were always there. Let me know when there’s a mainstream non-scam MiltonCoin or KeynesCoin that isn’t defla
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by Steko 4y ago
> Without more recent bones, we have no reason to believe that they still exist. Eyewitness accounts aren’t bones but they are still evidence.
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by Steko 5y ago
1. Technically they weren’t as smart. Fetal and child nutrition is hugely important for brain development. Modern language is far more complex. Intellectual stimulation for children is far mote advanced. 2. Slow by who’s definition? It seem
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by Steko 5y ago
I take delight knowing that it drives racists crazy so it’s improved my user experience.
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by Steko 5y ago
Here's the writeup: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... edit, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568625
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by Steko 5y ago
If it’s coded like wordle you can just change system date and do the other puzzles.
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by Steko 5y ago
One alternative is the guy who needs a $500 emergency loan gets it at a non-usurius interest rate. The system could be revamped to support easier repayment for actual emergency loans.
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by Steko 5y ago
Personal Blocklist is another option on Firefox
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by Steko 5y ago
I found it to be less a satire of 2FA/MFA than of college administration busybodies in general.
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by Steko 5y ago
On r/law they explained it’s a technicians or special trial laptop thats preloaded with software like this.
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by Steko 5y ago
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), for example, measures the prices of a basket of household goods and services that households regularly consume, with weights assigned to each item in the basket based on their average shares of total expendi
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by Steko 5y ago
I’d have thought the streaming test is done over wi-fi. Maybe the Targeted Wake Time in WiFi 6 combined with higher bandwidth can account for the difference.
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by Steko 5y ago
It’s worse than that, Apple already agreed to this just last month as part of a different settlement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-a...
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by Steko 5y ago
> In the 2020 primaries and election, he wasn't taken seriously by either dems or reps He was one of two Democratic candidates that had significant right wing support. As far as Dem's not taking him seriously, a big part of tha

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