slacktide

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by slacktide 5y ago
Because they are the ones who lent the US the money. China is the #2 holder of US treasury bonds and currently own about 1T worth. (4% of the US national debt) Japan is the #1 holder at 1.2T. Source: https://ticdata.treasury.
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by slacktide 5y ago
It's really not. If you buy a house with a mortgage, and later sell the house before the note is due, you will not owe the full amount of the accrued interest. Unfortunately the resale value of a secondhand war is very low.
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by slacktide 5y ago
As a mechanical engineering intern in the early ‘90s, I worked for a company that among other things, designed food handling equipment for McD. For them a lot of automation is about safety - young/inexperienced employees around potenti
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by slacktide 5y ago
I’ve been using Yandex more and more. Better search results, less censorship. Thanks, Rooskies!
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by slacktide 5y ago
I just 3D printed a little clip that holds the scroll lock key down. Or, there’s always the mechanical or electronic mouse jigglers you can buy off of Amazon.
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by slacktide 5y ago
Just a reminder, Viasat and their partner Ligado Networks (Formerly Lightsqared, remember them?) are a clear and present danger to the continued operability and reliability of the GPS constellation. https://www.gps.gov/spec
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by slacktide 5y ago
Excel 97 had a rudimentary flight simulator game as an easter egg.
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by slacktide 5y ago
European society exists today, but experienced societal collapse at the time, which extended for hundreds of years. Y'know, the Dark Ages?
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by slacktide 5y ago
Not related to the game, but travel protip: pre-request the “Asian Vegetarian” meal option whenever available. It’s frequently prepared by a local restaurant rather than some giant megaindustrial catering supplier. It could also mean you
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by slacktide 5y ago
My car does this and it's annoying as crap. Luckily it is easily disabled. Audi calls it GALA - "Graduated Audio Level Adjustment."
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by slacktide 5y ago
Pretty close. They started offering Ubuntu preinstalls on 24 May 2007. https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/blog/15994-2/
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by slacktide 5y ago
No unicorn pictures in TFA. Skip it.
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by slacktide 5y ago
The existence of the Electoral College, which was specifically designed to give slaveholding states an advantage when selecting the President. The gerrymandering of electoral districts to maximize the concentration of white voting power.
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by slacktide 5y ago
If i meant NYC, I would have said NYC. Damn condescending of you to assume otherwise. I think I know where I lived. My water came from the Lloyd Aquifer.
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by slacktide 5y ago
No. A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick. There is no bone, there is no skin, there is no cartilage, there is no connective tissue. Would it not make sense to re-use the circulatory, filtration, energy production
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by slacktide 5y ago
Sure, you let me know when we can grow a decent drumstick in a petri dish.
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by slacktide 5y ago
I say we engineer a breed of Mike the Headless Chickens. Just enough brain stem to stay alive, not enough brain to care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
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by slacktide 5y ago
The ENTIRE point of the story is that industrial meat farmers raise a breed of chicken which has been engineered to only live a short lifespan before consumption. Laying hens are a completely different breed, so your mother's experien
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by slacktide 5y ago
That depends entirely on your groundwater. In Florida, absolutely, it tastes like shit. When I lived in New York, it was great. Reservoir water, of course, is full of literal shit. Fish shit, birdshit, human waste runoff, etc, which all
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by slacktide 5y ago
I liked this command-line tool better back when it was called Finger, and the contactee controlled which information was current and correct in their .plan and .profile files.
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by slacktide 5y ago
Um, there are no locks on the current modern Suez canal. The difference in height between the Med and the Red is only 28 feet. The resulting current is negligible and seasonal. Oops!
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by slacktide 5y ago
Allow me to present Triple Divide Peak, from whence you may urinate simultaneously into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Divide_Peak_(Montana)
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by slacktide 5y ago
Amazing... my aeromedical examiner, Dr Richard Pellerin, served as a special forces medical corpsman in Vietnam in 1969/1970. He also filmed his own observations and recently digitized/uploaded about an hour worth, along with nar
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by slacktide 5y ago
Gcode: Logo you can use to build stuff.
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by slacktide 5y ago
When I was a kid, some of our phones were hard wired, some used a giant 4-pin modular plug. RJ11 wasn't invented yet. Pepperidge Farm remembers... http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=336...
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by slacktide 5y ago
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by slacktide 5y ago
NASA didn’t spend a single dime developing the Fisher space pen. It was developed by the Fisher company at their own expense, in the hopes that it could be profitable. Yay, capitalism. Lead pencil tips frequently break during use. Carbon
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by slacktide 5y ago
The one Shaq is hawking.
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by slacktide 5y ago
Pretty cool. Just the other day I was using timelapse to research the history of an aircraft radio navigation aid that used to be around the corner from my house. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency_radio_ra
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by slacktide 5y ago
My work computer is like that. It takes a while to reconnect to all the servers and get the corporate spyware up and running. My Windows 10 PC goes from cold/dark to ready for use in, well, 20 seconds. I keep it lean. My 1982 TI99&#x2F

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