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Walmart has already done the thing that you are describing; they have had Walmart Pay for some time (https://www.walmart.com/cp/walmart-pay/3205993).

Starbucks also pushes their app and paying via app, which has the side-effect of bundling 5 $5 transactions into one $25 transaction (a "card reload"), thus reducing their fee overhead.

I think the citizens of Oklahoma would be surprised to hear that Sen. Cotton represents them (hint: he does not).

Someone tried running that in one of the campus computer labs when I was a student, and the (probably misconfigured) IPX routers amplified it into... a campus-wide outage. Seems weird to me, but that's what the big sign on the door said the next day.

The perpetrator was never caught.

I believe my situation was similar to GP's: family on the lower end of middle class, and enough younger siblings to make it a stretch.

I was accepted to a reasonably prestigious university, but ran out of money after the first semester, so I wound up coming home and finishing my degree at a state school.

It's also important to note that the student loan system back then was very different: different guarantors, and non-infinite money.

The post title says "Asking about firearm safety" but the article says that they are _telling_ about safety, after asking about access:

> In the study, researchers introduced standardized firearm safety questions into the electronic medical record (EMR) system, ensuring that healthcare providers consistently inquired about firearm access during behavioral health assessments.

The only maxillomandibular advancement with which I'm familiar is a surgical procedure, rather than an exercise therapy. It involves repositioning both the mandible and your upper jaw (as the name implies) by cutting and repositioning both.

I grew up in a 1300sf wood heated house, so I have relevant experience here. It does take time to buck, split, load, unload, and stack the wood. It goes faster if you have a small child (me) to help!

We cut wood for our own use and also sold it, so it didn't require 100% of our time to keep the heat on.

WT's process for living persons attempts to head this off. It's not perfect, but I think it's a pretty good method.

When you enter data about a living person, you are required to include an email which "invites" that person to WikiTree. If they don't respond within 30 days, their record (which was already private) is anonymized to last name and decade of birth.

Each record's privacy is configurable by its maintainer, or by those to whom the maintainer has granted access.

Obviously there are ways to goof this up or act maliciously, but I don't think the site makes intentional doxxing any easier than it already was.

I agree that familysearch.org is a goldmine for primary sources, I'm very grateful for their digitization initiatives. I'm also glad that there are multiple non-dark-patterned options for people who want to preserve their family history.

I recently started doing some genealogy work for my family, and I was not excited at the prospect of using most of the paid family tree sites -- dark patterns, etc. I recently ran across this site and it seems much more agreeable. I like the wiki-style collaboration, and the emphasis on primary sources is also a big plus vs "this is what I was told."

I have owned a Unicorn mill for nearly 20 years, and it is still going strong.

I have recent experience with this -- I picked up my son's processed deer yesterday morning. There was a chest freezer at the checkout area advertising Hunters Feeding The Hungry (a similar org that moves donated game meat to local food pantries) and I donated a package of ground venison almost without thinking. I don't think anyone has grand notions of meeting 100% of families' protein needs via wild game.

I grew up eating a substantial amount of venison, along with fish and squirrel.

I don't know -- we rented a car for 5 adults + luggage in FR a few years ago, and we wound up with a Citroen C3 Aircross[1].

"This is the biggest one we have" was the only answer we got, so we made it work.

[edit: corrected a typo]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C3_Aircross

I did something similar last month; I took my FT-817 with me to scout camp. I wanted to work some FT8 but didn't bring the required doodads with me to hook the radio's audio interface to my Surface Pro X. No problem, I'll just use the mic and speaker on the laptop. To my surprise (and much to the annoyance of my fellow leaders) it worked! wsjt-x is an amazing piece of software.

Earlier this year my roku-enabled TV started showing some new Terms Of Service, and it wouldn't let me watch anything unless I agreed to them.

...or unplugged it from the network.

Now, it sounds like they may have done me a favor.

POTA seems to be pretty active -- I managed to make a couple of voice contacts a few weeks ago on a 5W rig, so voice work isn't out of the question.

For the n-dimensional part there's xcubes:

https://www.xcubes.net/

This seems like something that would fit well into a tablet-sized display with a voice interface -- sort of like a conversational adventure.

Honeywell is also an aerospace company:

https://aerospace.honeywell.com/

> stepped up from working 100 hours a week to working 120 hours

That's 17 hours a day, which seems unlikely (for an extended period of time) without some kind of performance enhancing substance. Also, I'm not sure I'd want to use the end product of that kind of death march for anything important.

I am a lifelong Arkansan, and I hope he is able to pull off some kind of win. I visited that area often as a teen, and Pine Bluff was the main entertainment destination for the region. I haven't been in awhile, but it sounds like the years have not been kind.

I really hope that his analogy to 1980s NYC works out. It's easy to give up when there's so much cultural and institutional inertia, but this guy seems to have a pretty deep well of motivation. I hope he hangs in there.

While Pine Bluff is one of the fastest a shrinking cities in the country, the northwest corner of AR is one of the fastest-growing metro areas. A fascinating example of the somewhat fractal nature of growth in the US.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19953568 discussed the effects of Soviet whaling, and the article made it sound very effective.

I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals.

Things did not end well.

I mass deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago, and some of them reappeared about a week later.

I have a friend who chases satellite contacts, and it's a fascinating hobby -- as noted the contact windows are pretty short, and you have to know how to adjust your freqs within the window to account for Doppler effect.

The upside is that you can work most satellites with a standard handheld on frequencies available (in the US) to technician licensees, e.g. the base license class.

Boy, does this bring back some good memories of the Toshiba Libretto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto

I bought one on the gray market in 1996, and I think I managed to double my money in about 6 months by reselling it within the US. It was supremely handy to have around, but with only one PCMCIA slot you had to choose between wired networking and a CD-ROM drive.

I can think of a pretty obvious reason why the hard drive wasn't wiped: they didn't know it was there. A normal person processing a pile of donations would probably look at this and think "huh a strangely heavy keyboard," then move on to the next item.

Interesting mention of webvan, since one of its founders used the failure as inspiration to start Kiva Systems.

Is it a hard requirement to handle wifi as well as WAN routing in one box? If not, I can recommend OPNsense from personal use for a couple of years now. I bought an inexpensive fanless mini-pc from Amazon maybe 10 years ago, and started out with pfsense. When pfsense broke bad I switched to OPNsense and I haven't looked back.

I use a separate AP for wireless access, so that can be much dumber since most of the smarts sit in OPNsense.

The main reason I went this direction initially was that most consumer-grade all in one routers were not well-equipped to take advantage of a gigabit synchronous connection, so I wanted something beefier.