renata

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by renata 28d ago
Hmm, I hadn't considered additions to existing plants versus greenfield plants, fair point. Presumably those have less local resistance and permitting issues considering it only took fifteen years from application to generating power.
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by renata 28d ago
> A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of those. Although to be fair, when was the last time we actually managed
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by renata 2mo ago
I got a no-name USB adapter for mine and it hasn't killed it in the couple of years I've had it, that's the one I take for travel. You can search for "USB QP2520" to find one.
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by renata 3mo ago
m.xkcd.com lets you click for the alt-text.
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by renata 5mo ago
It's cheaper if you have multiple computers with normal amounts of data though. My whole family is on my B2 account (Duplicati backing up eight computers each to a separate bucket), and it's $10/month.
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by renata 5mo ago
And seems to sound like a normal bell, or maybe that's just my ears. I guess I can see why they didn't put it up front, but that was also all I wanted.
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by renata 10mo ago
Yeah, there were definitely ö and û and © and stuff too, just anything outside the normal 0x20-0x7E.
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by renata 10mo ago
As I recall pseudoloc is just randomly picking individual characters to substitute that look like the Latin letters to keep it readable for testing, so it would be something like рг (Cyrillic) ο (Greek)... etc, and can change from run to ru
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by renata 11mo ago
Heck, they even make TV shows about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_the_Bounty_Hunter !
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by renata 1y ago
Technically it was because businesses were banned from raising wages during WW2 but benefits were exempt.
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by renata 1y ago
Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time .
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by renata 1y ago
Nintendo is going to be doing digital game lending now so that's an interesting addition. I'll probably still buy physical since the first-party games hold their value so well.
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by renata 2y ago
But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree with her politics, people might see that as c
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by renata 2y ago
Sure, that makes sense. Sorry again and I'll skip the epithets in the future.
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by renata 2y ago
My apologies, I assumed that applied just to participants on HN discussions.
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by renata 2y ago
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by renata 2y ago
Signal also doesn't (on IOS at least), I just set it up for my parents and it asks for specific contacts.
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by renata 2y ago
I mean, Signal works as TOFU if you're not sharing state secrets or anything.
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by renata 2y ago
911 or 9911 is usually a good shot too.
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by renata 2y ago
Treaties specifically have to be approved by Congress and have approximately the same force of law and durability as the Constitution. Lately we mostly do "executive agreements" instead, which do not require Congressional approva
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by renata 2y ago
You were 100% right until the random racism thing. I'm completely aware I'm paying a bribe for favorable government treatment. Paying the bribe is better individually though. I'd even agree if you said Global Entry is only
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by renata 2y ago
I think a lot of the recent trading apps marketed to consumers give you a margin account by default though, I know Robinhood does. If you request a cash account you lose instant deposits and trading and have to wait for everything to clear
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by renata 2y ago
America's requirements ( https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investment-product... ): > pattern day traders must maintain minimum equity of $25,000 in their margin account on any day that the customer
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by renata 2y ago
Is assassinating Supreme Court Justices really an official duty of the president? Because that's all they said would be immune from prosecution.
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by renata 2y ago
20-30 years ago they didn't charge extra for checked bags so more people did that instead of dealing with the carry-on hassle.
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by renata 3y ago
Whenever the Libertarian party chooses their candidate, he or she will almost certainly be on board with it.
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by renata 3y ago
The Flight 93 movie making heros out of people resisting hijackers (and making it known that hijacking wasn't just a diversion to Cuba anymore) was the only thing we ever needed to fix the system.
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by renata 3y ago
Wow, had to look it up and they haven't really put out an original game of note since Portal 2 in 2011. (Not counting CS:GO, as a remake, or DOTA2 since they bought it, but even counting those it would be 2013.)
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by renata 3y ago
Doesn't the definition of background actor preclude being in SAG though? I thought extras had to be in three or four productions in a year before they got their SAG cards.
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by renata 3y ago
If we're getting into the definition of art I feel like it's a hard sell that an actual episode of TV, with plot and actors and everything, isn't art because no creative impulse went into it, yet a plain orange canvas is ar

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