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by code_duck 4y ago
So if someone is visiting a town and desires to take a photo of a landmark, they can't take it unless nobody is visible in the photo? How would anyone ever take photos of the Great Wall or the US Capitol or the like?
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by code_duck 4y ago
Governments have many ways to get information about people from tech companies, though. Legal, illegal, quasi-legal, in aggregate or about individuals, direct from the company, or through interception. Sometimes the companies volunteer it,
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by code_duck 4y ago
That’s essentially how things work in the US with property tax. If a landowner fails to pay property tax for some extended period, eventually the government will seize the property and auction it off to fulfill the tax debt.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Also, she said that the excessive stimulation disappeared after she stopped taking the drug.
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by code_duck 4y ago
This article has some decent points but I can’t imagine why someone would think that a one line tweet from Elon Musk merits an entire article. Just 2 weeks ago Musk informed us we would be able to use Tesla’s forthcoming truck to cross “sea
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by code_duck 4y ago
I just got one of those stuck in my sandal a couple of days ago - presumably from construction next door. Thank goodness they have thick soles. It is basically the worst how they’re weighted and shaped in a way that makes them stand straigh
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by code_duck 4y ago
Not sure why you would ask as I assume this is fairly common knowledge on HN. Most platforms don’t reveal the specifics of their anti-spam or fraud guidelines because that would serve as a guide on how to evade detection.
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by code_duck 4y ago
The problem is that it's not as simple as he seemed to think. His statements about transparency were naive - he is apparently unaware of the reasons for which moderation teams don't explicitly state all of their bases for action.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Is Apple currently using MagSafe? Both of the recent MacBooks in my household, from 2020 and 2021, have standard USB-C connections.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I agree. Children have a much higher hand-to-mouth propensity than adults and are also more affected by certain types of toxins.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Northern NM in general is fantastic. If in Los Alamos I definitely suggest the drive west of town past the Valle Grande, which ends up going through Jemez Canyon and wrapping up to Zia Pueblo NE of Rio Rancho. Bandolier is definitely worth
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by code_duck 4y ago
They detected plutonium in the water supply of Santa Fe in the 70s and according to this article, as recently as 2006. The ideal quantity of plutonium in your water is zero. https://rense.com/general77/santa.htm
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by code_duck 4y ago
No, 100% of people who drove through Los Alamos in the 90s will eventually die.
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by code_duck 4y ago
The military basically threw anything anywhere until the 60s. There wasn't much of a concept of being careful with it.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Radioactive metals are heavy metals, and uranium for instance, even without the radioactivity, is dangerous in the same way as lead. It's definitely not something you want in your water.
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by code_duck 4y ago
It's similar. There are many sites around the country that contributed to nuclear weapons development back then and have been left with pollution problems. Hanford, for instance, up the river from Portland, is a fair bit of a disaster.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I feel like they pretty much have it under control at this point, though there is always the danger of an accident. If I had ot go live there again I would probably not live 3/4 of a mile from their 63 acre toxic waste dump. The more
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by code_duck 4y ago
I found it somewhat reassuring, as these were people trained in nuclear science, invested in the area and raising families there. However, they're not ecologists or doctors, and are basically the successors of the people who randomly d
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by code_duck 4y ago
Looking into this, I have most of the names wrong. For anyone interested this site is a decent guide to the basics: https://n3b-la.com/mda/
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by code_duck 4y ago
My favorite nuclear disaster! Criticality events. I lived in Los Alamos for a while. I looked into renting a studio space. I became curious about the property across the street from my prospective rental which was surrounded by a chain link
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by code_duck 4y ago
I don’t approve of it, but this seems like basic capitalist principles to me.
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by code_duck 4y ago
In a pinch, I make a post to a reddit profile and then link direct to the image. Unlike Imgur, that does link directly to the single file and not a page with html/js.
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by code_duck 4y ago
My concern is that the phone could be compromised. Having a phone hacked would be bad enough without giving the attacker the option to easily hospitalize/kill you.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Hmm, MedTronic already had at least one recall on this series of pumps: https://diatribe.org/medtronic-provides-update-recall-thousa... Tandem recently released updated firmware and mobile app for their t:slim X2 pumps whic
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by code_duck 4y ago
Maybe to one of the full pages. This link, direct to a png, only loads JS from the imgur.com domain.
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by code_duck 4y ago
The page concludes “Honestly this template does look really nice, though.” I’m not really sure what the author’s point is.
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by code_duck 4y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to assume that the majority of fast food customers are low income men with blue collar jobs. It’s more of a broad cross-section of society in my experience.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Pretty sure they're not telling us everything.
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by code_duck 4y ago
The public not knowing what they do is precisely how an intelligence agency intends to operate.
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by code_duck 4y ago
Atari games, too. This reminded me of the end of Missile Command and Adventure.

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