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    Comment #49245283

    This letter says nothing about Louisiana or Virginia, what exactly are you talking about?

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    Comment #49118203

    Did OP say "I want something vaguely similar that requires a greater investment of my time and money"? Did you in any way indicate that's what you were proposing?

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    Comment #49114323

    This is the first press videos I’ve seen of 1x speed that seems reasonable, imho. Though I see elsewhere they report only 50-75% success rate- not clear if that's first attempt, or…

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    Comment #49113980

    Considering their recent decision to give up on building Apple Maps into a serious contender and instead enshittify it with ads, I don't have much faith Apple TV will be far behind…

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    Comment #49113941

    These are not "streaming boxes" in the sense you are talking about. Their appeal is that they come preloaded with chinese pirate streaming apps. Traditional streaming boxes - Apple…

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    Comment #49113881

    That's not what these things are. They come preloaded with apps that stream pirate broadcast streams and on-demand servers operated out of China.

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    Comment #49113860

    > they probably remember shows being free from over the air antennas you are aware broadcast TV never ended?

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    Comment #49098893

    > Imagining a two-by-two matrix with the axes honest vs. dishonest and right vs. wrong, the scientific literature is splashed haphazardly across all four boxes. Why should we give …

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    Comment #49098005

    Don't lead people down a fruitless path. From their own FAQ: >Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?¶ Yes and no. Darktable is an alternative to Lightroom the same way any othe…

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    Comment #49097935

    Please don't paste walls of text into the comment field without quotation marks. It wastes all of our time.

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    Comment #49071260

    I see Lodge is the first entry on their "approved" list: "The anchor of the entire counter-list." Everything I've heard from the cast iron nerds is that modern Lodge is crap becaus…

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    Comment #49063657

    These aren't even self-setting, let alone self-adjusting. They are merely self-winding.

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    Comment #49036203

    His name is Jack, and I would describe him as a deeply weird narcissist. You got the "relies heavily on maintaining a positive social image" part right.

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    Comment #49013547

    You can decide what appetite for risk you are comfortable with, but some people don't have any better option than logging in to accounts on a public computer. The industry is pushi…

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    Comment #49013444

    I use Bitwarden on Linux. There is no option to do anything with a passkey I have stored there except delete it.

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    Comment #49009712

    We've all been through at least a couple rounds now of the security industry pressing us to change how we log in, ostensibly in our best interest: impractical complexity requiremen…

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    Comment #49006937

    Anthropic has been running the exact same video ad in my youtube feed for months showing a guy making the tackiest "impossible" coffee table hanging from chains that I wouldn't eve…

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    Comment #48952859

    > I also wonder whether the roof rule was written preemptively or retrospectively -- I hope the former. Presume you're referring to [1], not the page you linked, and one might be i…

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    Comment #48788112

    Good point, consumers should all simply develop their own apps instead of buying a product.

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    Comment #48740525

    I have a couple of these, they are made of a light gauge sheet metal; the inner dimension is ~9.75", wider than the 10" standard hole spacing; and I don't think they would be very …

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    Comment #48738577

    > however the big question to answer was : is the radar sensitive enough to tell the difference consistently between a material, and it's same counterpart with asbestos shards and …

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    Comment #48711839

    > For most people, the purpose of college is to get piece of paper that will open up higher salary opportunities More true at an Ivy than anywhere else. > This year, the economist …

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    Comment #48711717

    I wouldn't. Most uncomfortable earbuds in the market at any price.

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    Comment #48711704

    The very first paragraph of TFA adequately explains this.

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    Comment #48592334

    No prosecutor is going to waste their time trying to convict someone based on metadata. Even video is often insufficient for a conviction.