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by emptybits 3y ago
Just a Canadian here with a snarky idea... Start an activism movement to draw big ugly expensive attention to this whole Social Security Number misuse situation. My understanding is Americans can get new Social Security Numbers. There is a
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by emptybits 3y ago
"10x'ing your rice" with expensive Zojirushi products is mostly happening in Asia. Here is the company's 2022 revenue, by region, from selling their expensive cooking appliances (the most expensive of which are their ric
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by emptybits 3y ago
> I can't find the section right now but it says something like "no obstructing the purpose of your transmission". So theoretically you could add a header to every packet that says "purpose: testing hardware" and
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by emptybits 3y ago
Travelling the universe at this scale seems as important and amazing to me as travelling to a distant star. The igniting matchstick image has so much going on! One cringe though ... the images all seem excessively post-processed to me. Unre
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by emptybits 3y ago
Coming this April from the IETF … RFC “IP Over Porcine Carriers”.
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by emptybits 3y ago
> I desperately want active breath monitoring. Like measuring breaths per minute. Not sure about the state of Apple Watchen but my Garmin watch (a several year old Fenix) monitors breaths per minute, history, and has breath exercises. Se
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by emptybits 3y ago
Canadian here. Government sticking its nose into AI bias in human rights issues like law enforcement powers and employment standards … OK. But regulating search algorithms … feels worlds apart in importance and maybe too far.
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by emptybits 3y ago
Uprooting and moving with work and family is hard and expensive. So, as the Stephen Stills lyric goes... If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. My best friends may live hours away but it's a
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by emptybits 3y ago
When police police police, we sometimes get oversight oversight.
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by emptybits 3y ago
> Are there use cases where we must burn propane because we can’t replace that process with electricity? "Must", no. But hundreds millions of cars and trucks on the road right now can be converted to propane. It's relative
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by emptybits 3y ago
Back in the day, when not everyone felt the need yet to be on the world wide web, I knew at least a couple of mechanics and builders who would explain they'd heard of this Sheldon Brown guy and ... could I please print out some stuff
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by emptybits 3y ago
Definitely not a joke. My friend from Singapore introduced me to butter-roasted beans. He enjoys western style roasts also but apparently craves a regular taste of home as well. I’m not a fan. Nor was my grinder. Gummy residue.
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by emptybits 3y ago
Maybe rare and unpopular to think about, but a one-time check allowing less scrutiny for future boarding is a gift to radicals who may not care about living beyond One Big Act. Also, agreeing with GP, it generally creates a lower class of g
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by emptybits 3y ago
> The interested always find a way Yes, I agree, those who are already interested or motivated need less help. But to educate most people, and young developing minds especially, brief browsy exposure to unplanned topics is what might cr
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by emptybits 3y ago
Recirculating ball steering also probably won't allow for new fangled features like active lane-keep assist, collision avoidance steering, self-parking, etc. (Which is probably not missed anyways by the 4x4 crowd, including the Ineos G
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by emptybits 3y ago
“the annual average dose per person from all sources is about 620 mrem” That’s the mrem of 62 chest x-rays. From food and drink annually. Should we be alarmed? Or just more comfortable with lots of diagnostic x-rays? EDIT: Thank you. I miss
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UAP hearing witness list released(oversight.house.gov)
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The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio (2020)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by emptybits 3y ago
Well "required" is not exactly right. You can accept funds manually that way if you prefer. But if you set your account up once to auto receive and deposit then any funds anyone transfers to your email address will just appear i
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by emptybits 3y ago
Ha. Interesting. I do a lot of e-transfers but I don't think I've ever needed instant, on-the-spot confirmation so I've never noticed that! Noted!
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by emptybits 3y ago
For all of Canada's chartered banking bureaucracy and lack of customer empathy ... I have to say that our e-transfer system is pretty amazing. For business or personal, one-off or regular transfers. It just works.
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by emptybits 3y ago
Interesting stuff, I bet! And I feel like it's much easier to justify high power carve-outs on public spectrum for the purpose of defending lives or country than for no purpose but to lower already low latency for opportunistic high fr
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by emptybits 3y ago
Thanks. Direct link to submit an Express Comment on the petition: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding[name]=RM...
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by emptybits 3y ago
> People want to be able to text each other in the woods, send coordinates, etc. Small amounts of digital have been allowed in FRS for a while. But only one second, every 30 seconds. Creating a mesh within that constraint would be geniu
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by emptybits 3y ago
20,000 watts!? The industry's petition is here: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1042840187330/1 The petition requests "maximum transmitter power is 20,000 watts RMS" in the HF 2 – 25 MHz rang
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by emptybits 3y ago
Novices don't appreciate nuance that trained experts focus on ... yes, that makes sense. But children do actually have more papillae (taste buds) than adults. As we age, we may gain skill in describing what we sense but we also lose ta
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by emptybits 3y ago
Or maybe such water-intensive food production should require consumption of the planet's nearly unlimited seawater. Pass the greater expense to the cattle producers and/or consumers. Leave the planet's relatively limited fr
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by emptybits 3y ago
Musk made the same "absurdly cheap" claim in a recent interview with Bill Maher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8w6XcXJUs [skip to 14:45] I don't think he gave any substantiation to the claim then either.
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by emptybits 3y ago
"Turning sea water into clean, drinkable water costs $2 to $5 for 1000 gallons. Less than half a penny per gallon is obviously absurdly cheap." - Elon Musk, 2023-05-07 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status&#x2F
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by emptybits 3y ago
To Whom It May Concern, By reading this, you have confirmed your membership in the Five Percenters Club. Welcome.

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