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Comment #46673461
The article links through to a list of the most expensive: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/legal-marketing/why-law-fi... Baton Rouge truck accident lawyer at $1000
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Comment #46162891
Yeah I had to turn off dark reader in firefox to see the examples "properly".
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Comment #46137482
I agree, I noticed the same thing. To my eye it appears smudged.
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Comment #45341770
Appears to be about $37 for a grocery bag with handles https://www.dependableexpendables.com/products/silent-grocer...
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Comment #45226784
Agree the correct abbreviation is min. Nitpick: could be wrong but I don’t think minutes is an SI derived unit.
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Comment #45031645
I think most people want computers to be predictable and repeatable _at a level that makes sense to them_. That's going to look different for non-programmers. Having worked helping…
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Comment #44955299
They used to send you free CDs to hand out if you asked!
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Comment #44952526
In my recollection, Firefox used to ask you which profile you wanted to use on launch. I don't think I've seen that in years.
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Comment #44943540
I find myself writing a very simple style of python that avoids list comprehensions and so on when working in a shared code base. For a language where there is supposed to be only …
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Comment #44933049
The WHO is organizing some evacuations internationally > the World Health Organization supported the transfer of 32 children and six adults to Italy, Belgium and Turkey, but more t…
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Comment #44890926
Dang, this would suck. I really like Kodak film, like Portra 400 and Ektar 100. Writing’s been on the wall for quite a while though. I’m not surprised.
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Comment #44890796
I’m guessing Amazon could have info on their side about your eero. Without knowing more about the router’s cloud functionality it’s hard to say what exactly they would have.
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Comment #44794181
I guess it could be trained to respond to those sort of queries by offering to compile a list of some finite number of web pages. Then it could be prompted to visit them and do som…
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Comment #44761726
The tax hit, too, depending on the type and amount of options
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Comment #44689631
A lot of the moralizing pressure groups are also against sexual content on TV (at least historically they have been). One of the slippery slopes here would be that initially they g…
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Comment #44650173
Definitely seems like the sort of thing that MKUltra would have looked at. Those folks were big into ideas like creating specific mental states in people.
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Comment #44536749
Thank you for the added detail.
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Comment #44536668
OK, so the method given for artificial coloring on that page. I'm curious if that works for lead chromate. It seems so simple that it must have been tried in this case? Regardless …
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Comment #44536451
I don't see any method for lead chromate in turmeric powder, unless I'm missing something.
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Comment #44536431
I'm curious about getting a personal XRF device for this reason. They don't look "that" expensive, I found some for $5k to $10k on Alibaba. Is it overkill? Probably yes. Am I overl…
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Comment #44505251
I’m reminded of Feynman’s answer on explaining magnetism. In other words, ICP were not so far off base when they asked “magnets, how do they work?”
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Comment #44444275
> Don't discuss anything about the PRC or its politicians? Don't discuss the history of Chinese empire? Don't discuss politics in Mandarin? In my mind all of these could be relevan…
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Comment #44439234
I like the definition of several as “more than two but fewer than many”