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Comment #48954316
Urgent? Not for you. This is like that old joke “If you owe a bank thousands, you have a problem; owe a bank a billion, the bank has a problem”
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Comment #47981450
When the IJ says it, they mean they have proof that they will stand behind of 14 examples. They decidedly aren't saying that it only happened 14 times.
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Comment #47669700
Love this. I have the same affliction. https://www.publicsurplus.com/ if you're taking requests.
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Comment #47497918
Video has been released showing that the REL's were operational at LaGuardia during the crash. It isn't definitive that the REL's that are facing the fire truck's view are working …
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Comment #47468470
They're huge. Also, it's never a secret where they're being sent. That's the whole point of an aircraft carrier.
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Comment #47188140
I'm just catching up on the subject myself but, here's a news article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear... It appears that the Australian and UK version…
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Comment #47187882
There’s a concerted global effort to push this legislation. It’s also been proposed in Colorado and, some version of it’s been passed in the UK and Australia.
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Comment #41315239
Austin Energy? There aren't many providers that I am aware of in Texas that have variable rates.
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Comment #41252532
A bit more than that. >Combined, the four detector modules will hold nearly 70,000 tons of ultrapure liquid argon. https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/how-it-works/detectors-and-comput...
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Comment #41252491
800 miles. https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/how-it-works/detectors-and-comput...
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Comment #40527605
At the time of abandonment, the ship may not be seaworthy. If it requires more repairs or fuel than the crew can afford from their own resources, then they cannot move the ship.
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Comment #39653748
Same as Ketamine. Ketamine therapy is available now but, the cost very high so, it is practically unavailable to most.
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Comment #39653727
Reminds me of a game that I played on Apple II a very long time ago. Can't remember the name but, it was a very basic two player shoot artillery at each other game and I loved it.
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Comment #39098960
I thought this was going to be some neat software defined radio stuff. Still quite interesting though.
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Comment #38606659
I notice that you don't have a response for 1. I understand, because, it's very challenging to solve real problems like preventing all gambling over the internet. In which case, it…
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Comment #38603656
1. How do you propose to prevent it? 2. Do you want to live in a free society, or do you want a lot of regulation over your behavior? If you start letting moralizers regulate every…
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Comment #38371999
I don't believe it. I've been scolded so many times, including by users here, that the FBI would never . There must be some misunderstanding!
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Comment #37349113
>Then, he stole and published the hl2 source Do you disagree with the article or did you just not believe it? Because, Gembe denied publishing the source code and there was no evid…
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Comment #37093233
>The vast, vast majority of collected data is discarded without having ever been read. [Citation needed] Notably, you're omitting anything about the role that intelligence collecti…
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Comment #36977330
Hand waving a reasonable question away.
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Comment #36549921
Can't wait to rid myself of Autodesk dependency.
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Comment #36549844
I've been rate limited all morning and all I do is casually browse and occasionally retweet, with infrequent replies. Something is wrong over there.
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Comment #36549729
Sr90 emits 1MeV beta. Very very bad if you ingest it but easy to protect yourself if you're near it. The Cs137 is a lot harder to be around. And we don't want either in the water o…
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Comment #36274381
Yeah and it was pretty common to be voted down and called a crank over it too.
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Comment #35651381
20 years ago was kind of a sweet spot for diesel automobile fuel efficiency. Emissions were terrible though. Then they tried to clean up the tail pipe emissions and lost most of th…