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Comment #42001020
they should as a matter of course. but I guess "papers" you entrust to someone else are a gray area. I personally think that it goes against the separation of police state and demo…
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Comment #41990313
yeah I'm fine with just an ultra wide, no more stacked monitors for me
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Comment #40413634
Seems kind of like a no brainer given what we know about skin cancer, but I'm kind of surprised if you control for that if it had any other great "opportunity" to increase your lif…
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Comment #39036524
this could definitely open me back up to android. I got tired of my device becoming hacker friendly and went over to iphone after my perfectly useful android device was outside of …
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Comment #38988316
those don't mean much with out at least a "out of X planes from manufacturer Y"
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Comment #38988313
yeah anything to get them to start being an engineering company again instead of a "let's squeeze all we can out of this profit center and not listen to our engineers"
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Comment #38926311
This is incorrect. Israel is at war with Hamas and they aren't holding back, and there is a large difference between what is going on and genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genoc…
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Comment #38925466
In some cases (some spark plugs are what I can think of) explicitly tell you NOT to grease them, as that will let you over-torque them and potentially damage threads (aluminum head…
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Comment #38925429
Did you torque every bolt every time before every flight?
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Comment #38897866
Being a fat guy, I disregard that during flight other than takeoff, landing, and turbulence. I drive to work on most days, and the chance that I die that way is FAR, FAR higher tha…
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Comment #38897845
That isn't going to happen, they are too many out there and they have too much money invested. It would take FAA action (or European I suppose)
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Comment #38897840
Didn't it look like Brazilian government was almost 100% gonna have it called off because of the "hit" to national reputation? (losing one of their largest and most internationally…
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Comment #38897768
what? The death penalty is still around.
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Comment #38897751
Fixing known problems as you learn of them is maintenance is it not? That's just as important as changing out the lubricants and checking that the working parts are working.
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Comment #38887460
Sounds like fascism to me. More like what N. Korea does, you'd think that S. Korea would be averse to adding more fascism to their lives rather than less.
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Comment #38887449
Where does it stop next? Government telling us that we can't have our small piece of chocolate until we eat all our veggies and Mediterranean menu diet guide?
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Comment #38887439
The adult sites will simply move offshore where the country trying to stop the flow of information doesn't have jurisdictions. It's whack-a-mole. The only solution is that parents …
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Comment #38887413
It's up to parents to lock down their kids from tech they shouldn't be accessing, the rest of us shouldn't be harassed and inconvenienced for that. I hate to beat a dead horse, but…
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Comment #38886492
I hear it more than anything about Biden. I personally think that it's an easy way to be racist without being pinned down on it because of the out that he was also a President.
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Comment #38885895
If they would have allowed alternate web engines and excluded google then google could have easily sued the crap out of them. As it stands they can viably say it's for OS integrity…
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Comment #38885875
Not just javascript but also the rendering engine
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Comment #38885790
because it doesn't allow nearly as large images/videos/etc to be sent. They either get dropped or reduced in size by various means. If you stick to text I've had no problems, if yo…
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Comment #38883574
did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of …
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Comment #38883527
It's a shame that something as basic as using a keyboard with a computing device can be copyrighted/patented. It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Comment #38883496
https://hckrnews.com/ is my go to, I have it set to top 20/day otherwise I'd be on hacker news way too much/too long. It's a self limiting thing.