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by wl 5d ago
It's also unexpected when you send your laptop in for a screen replacement, the tech does an unnecessary logic board swap while he's at it, and your local keychain doesn't work anymore. And then Apple Support will say, hey, w
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by wl 7d ago
Triathletes are more likely than most cyclists to use wrist computers over bike computers. (Cue joke about triathletes not being serious about cycling.)
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by wl 11d ago
If you're familiar with par value, it's the same thing. It's a measure to account for changes in asset holdings over time while neglecting changes in market value of that asset. They could have just used ounces to do the same
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by wl 14d ago
> They've already gotten a ruling that ballots received after a cutoff do not count Watson v. Republican National Committee seems to be the opposite of what you state: ballots received after election day can be counted provided th
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by wl 21d ago
Assuming this is a serious question: There are people who are not themselves fascists who object to the direct action tactics (read: violence, vandalism) sometimes employed under the banner of "antifa."
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by wl 27d ago
Felonies go before a grand jury in Ohio. The article talks about damages in excess of $1,000, which probably means it's a felony charge on that basis.
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by wl 1mo ago
Unicode has done the same unification for cuneiform languages. If you’re dealing with texts in Hittite, Sumerian, or Akkadian, you need to make sure you’re using the right fonts, otherwise the text will look entirely wrong.
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by wl 1mo ago
Isn't the usual case for physicians and dentists appointment reminders? (I don't understand why utility companies need to interrupt my day, so I ignore that.) I wouldn't mind them being able to actually reach me about urgent
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by wl 2mo ago
That "repurposing" is more morphology than grammar. You also frequently find in Indo-European languages multiple cases having overlapping morphology, but that doesn't necessarily change the cases themselves. My point, in any
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by wl 2mo ago
Or learn Hittite. It's got the oldest corpus in the Indo-European language family. You've got your standard assortment of Indo-European cases. Grammatical gender is animate/inanimate and the animate gender has yet to split in
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by wl 2mo ago
There's a lot of disagreement about Sumerian grammar. If you like to argue, that might be a bonus.
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by wl 2mo ago
There's quite a bit more negligence going on here than a typical murder—unless you've got some information that the cops were out to intentionally harm the victim. The public would probably be served by the shooters not carrying a
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by wl 2mo ago
This guy needs to be compensated for his pain and suffering, his economic losses due to his disability, and for the care he'll need for the rest of his life. Jailing the people whose negligence is responsible for his injuries doesn&#x2
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by wl 3mo ago
The big exception to this I've seen: The functioning bit of software was written in an oddball language that was already niche decades ago and the pool of developers who are competent to work on such a codebase is exceedingly small.
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by wl 3mo ago
> You do not print a lower receiver compatible with standard parts. I've personally seen 3d-printed polymer Glock frames and AR-15 lowers. I've personally seen them stand up to sustained automatic fire. You're not going to
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by wl 3mo ago
Correct. Other countries regulate the pressure-bearing parts instead. It probably started off with a safety rationale (those parts are generally proof tested), but those parts ALSO tend to be the ones that are more difficult for someone to
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by wl 3mo ago
There are plenty of 3D printed guns that are good for more than one shot. The classic examples are 3D printed Glock-style frames and AR-15 lower receivers. As far as US gun laws are concerned, those parts are the firearm and the rest of the
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by wl 3mo ago
There's a lot of people out there who blame their epidurals for lower back pain and the like, but the evidence for causality is not there.
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by wl 3mo ago
If it were as simple as waving a magic wand and fixing the epidural or bringing on the anesthetic gas, we wouldn't have this problem. The consensus seems to be shifting more towards converting to general anesthesia after epidural failu
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by wl 3mo ago
It's not as if people are pushing random drugs into epidurals. There's a small number of drugs that are commonly used and the differences come down to selecting the classes of drugs to be used, the particular drugs from those clas
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by wl 3mo ago
The problem that The Retrievals deals with is epidurals failing during cesarians, which, they're quick to emphasize, is painful, open abdominal surgery. The not-so-simple solution is to convert to general anesthesia (anesthetic gas,
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by wl 3mo ago
There's selection bias. High risk deliveries tend to start at or convert to cesarian at the first sign of trouble.
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by wl 3mo ago
You can pay half that on eBay at the moment.
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by wl 3mo ago
I downvoted the original comment because grammar pedantry adds nothing here. But if you're going to correct a pedant, you've got to be right. You're applying a test you don't understand and you messed it up. "I&quot
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by wl 3mo ago
Even those annual blood tests can be problematic. When I first started getting annual blood tests there were two values in particular that were consistently elevated. A bunch more tests and some specialist visits later the explanation was t
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by wl 3mo ago
I did an undergraduate electrical engineering degree some years ago. Building a CPU much like this one was the final project in our second digital design class. The difference here from the usual approach, as they point out, is that this is
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by wl 3mo ago
I wasn’t talking about military parades.
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by wl 3mo ago
In my experience as an American, most of the parades I'm personally familiar with are organized by local groups rather than the government. Maybe you can read some ideology into the American Legion marching with flags, but it's mo
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by wl 3mo ago
> We're not anti-gun. Just anti the "only used explicitly for killing people" kind of gun. That doesn't square with Canadian classifying tasers (purely defensive, non-lethal) and anti-materiel rifles as prohibited fir
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by wl 3mo ago
With very few exceptions, you can’t acquire handguns in Canada anymore. They’ve also banned most semiautomatic rifles. Maybe Canadian public opinion isn’t anti-gun, but the current government seems to be.

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