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Indoor range exist, but they're often expensive and poorly ventilated. People certainly use them, and some indoor ranges even host USPSA or IDPA matches. You'll want access to an o…

That really sucks. They're supposed to just take a photo of the board and transcribe it later. I never touched a computer when I interviewed. When was this? I think the chromebooks…

Maybe this is off topic, but am I the only one uncomfortable with the Post seeking names of interviewees? > The reports also omitted the names of more than 90 percent of the people…

> By default, Mercurial doesn't do any of these operations; you have to activate extensions. graft is actually built-in, but that's beside the point. Coming from a rebase heavy wor…

That's what everyone says, but for me, coming from a rebase heavy git workflow, I've found Mercurial far more difficult to learn. For example, with Mercurial, there's at least four…

Disabling javascript entirely on the page works for me.

Is pornography uncopyrightable because it's not a "science or useful art"? (I.8.8)

You quote the militia act, but congress doesn't get to define the words of the constitution through ordinary legislation. If it worked that way then they could just as easily pass …

Actually, most existing underground transmission cables run through pressurized pipes full of oil. Look up HPFF; it's pretty wild. Newer cables tend to be solid, though.

> A report prepared by the Edison Electric Institute, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind, An Updated Study on the Undergrounding of Overhead Power Lines,” found that while most new commerc…

Do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?

Would you not consider this to be gambling, then? Is it just "buying goods"? https://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-Repack-BLACK-LOTUS-Vintage-Old-...

https://www.xkcd.com/406/

This PDF from Wisconsin puts the cost at $280k-390k/mi depending on the voltage of the line. They put the cost of underground transmission lines at $1.5M-2M/mi for the same voltage…

As far as I can find, SDGE is only burying their distribution lines. Their 1900 miles of transmission lines (which often cut through flammable wilderness areas) will remain above g…

The numbers you've quoted, from page 7, are per MW mile, not per mile.

I'm curious, do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?

SVP has 55 miles of transmission lines. PG&E has 18,466.

The houses burned because they were built in the midst of a big pile of tinder. Compensating people for their poor housing decisions is a terrible use of public funds.

I don't think we know it was unanimous. The orders list doesn't say anything to that effect, and the justices rarely publicly dissent from denials of cert, so their silence doesn't…

Indeed, what honest business can hope to survive in the face of such reckless malevolence? Truly, it is the end of e-commerce as we know it!

My understanding, from a quick 5 minute skim, is that it may be. It's being sent back to the district court for reconsideration. Basically what seems to have happened is this: 1. R…

Here's the ruling from the 9th circuit: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/01/15/17... A denial of cert doesn't mean the supreme court necessarily has an opinion o…

The SSN was never intended to be a secret. Nobody in 1938 thought that one day banks and other businesses would use it as a credential to establish identity.