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Discord search is fuzzy, limited by time, and you are unable to delete old messages without a hack which puts your account at risk of a permanent ban. Discord is terrible.

Yes, there were so many unnecessary electronics that defense contractors convinced the Army they needed to bring to Afghanistan. Commanders never tied them in to their operating procedures so they went unused. When it came time to close the outpost shipping was not an option so EVERYTHING had to be burned.

Pray tell

People I talked to that did the burning

They didn't just burn plastic waste and solvents in the burn pits; they burned everything: even hundreds of brand new iPads and other electronics.

Who gave money to the directors running Fosshost?

New way to practice typing with an AI recommendation engine that finds your weakest monograms, bigrams, and trigrams.

They also aren't following people for 40 miles to bust them up and rob them.

If you have no luck with wired internet give this a shot and try an antenna and cooling upgrade if it works at all to get really good speeds and low latency: https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet/eligibility

So many European companies are obsessed with Google Cloud. Azure and AWS is a distant afterthought there. I don't know why.

The real tragedy is that these manufacturers have excellent optics and image processing technology but it's all for nothing if people don't want or can't use it.

In the "free for all" states judges and juries are also generally more understanding of victims rights in self-defense situations so you are less likely to be branded a murderer in a self-defense situation. In victim-hostile states and counties you have a much higher burden of proof of innocence before the law system as a victim acting in self-defense.

People will rob you and take your gun off you if they see your gun before you notice you're getting robbed. If you draw on someone pointing a gun at you you will get killed.

Some states allow you to protect property with deadly force and others do not. You have to read state law to understand the nuance.

In San Francisco you can generally take anything you want from anybody and the victim will generally get in trouble trying to stop you. You may get arrested for the crime but there is no guarantee. The police will release you soon after you are arrested, often on a signature bond with zero deposit [1]. You can rinse and repeat this process dozens of times per year because it is unlikely you will spend any significant time in jail or prison. You'll have a database record but no problem making ends meet upon release.

[1] https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/no-cash-bail/

Their atrocious firmwares are responsible for some part of this. These devices poorly integrate into the lifestyle and workflows of smartphone users.

You shouldn't need to ask Google for mercy. When a company gives you bad service you should be free to leave for a competitor. If you are not able to you need to ask yourself why you are willing to put up with such abuse?

> There is nothing beautiful about anywhere in Iowa.

I feel attacked. You haven't been to Dubuque.

My latest edition of Keyzen MAB measures your typing performance on trigrams using an English language corpus. Trigrams are chosen after each word using the dynamic thompson sampling algorithm. Weaker trigrams will be shown as much as necessary to minimize regret (time spent practicing trigrams you are already good at). Initially each trigram has a uniform probability distribution function. This changes with practice so bad trigrams are practiced appropriately. The dynamic component of thompson sampling ensures that older trigram practice instances are weighted less than newer ones, ensuring that your improvements in trigram speed are captured in the underlying statistical model of each trigram.

Lightroom. Import all photos from all sources and have lightroom MOVE THE ORIGINALS into a new root folder with the following structure YYYY/MM

Keep this folder backed up! It's more important than the metadata catalog but now all the raw imagery is in one place.

Then maintain the lightroom catalog with lots of metadata, including using the facial recognition system for offline person recognition, the flag system enabling a 2-pass deletion review, star system for ranking photos by desirability, and add tags to everything. Go through each filter mechanism and develop a strategy for using each filter.

Use the image gallery filter system to the limit.

If you go through images by date & time captured you can usually bulk tag images much more quickly than if you have to switch between events.

UHC is very standard in the US. Most people won't have a choice. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it to save up cash and litigate after ER visits than to pay for health insurance.

What insurance company and what state?

My worst experience with US healthcare has been with billing of anesthesiologists.

They are out of network usually, you can't find out ahead of time, and they charge a thousand dollars per hour

Unless you have inspected your local hospital emergency room you are deluding yourself. I used to have a high opinion of free EU healthcare until I was neglected for 12 hours in the emergency room from 4 PM till 4 AM begging for assistance every time the ONE doctor (no nurses) on duty overnight walked by. She was working 30 patients by herself. If it was something more serious than dehydration I would have died on the ER waiting room floor where I sat for more than six hours because all 10 chairs along the wall were taken, and one bum reeked of stale feces and urine so badly my clothes smelled for hours after leaving the area just from being near him.

Taliban acquires US military biometric devices that can identify Afghans who assisted coalition efforts – reports

The Taliban has reportedly seized US military biometrics equipment that could expose Afghans who helped coalition forces – since they contain identifying data like iris scans and fingerprints as well as biographical information. An unidentified Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) official told The Intercept that the Islamist group confiscated the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) devices during its offensive push last week. The report was backed up by three former US military personnel.

They told the news outlet that the portable devices could be used to access sensitive information from large, centralized military databases, but noted that it was still unclear how much of the biometric database collected on the Afghan population has been compromised.

According to a US Army Corps of Engineers presentation, HIIDE devices use the data collected to create a “portfolio” that can then be imported into Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) identification-processing software as a “digital dossier.” This can be scanned against official watch lists for threats.

Besides tracking insurgents, the Pentagon was also reportedly keen to use the devices to gather unique data on 80% of the Afghan population to check for terrorist and criminal activity. Unnamed sources said biometric details of locals who helped the US were also collected and used in identification cards.

“We processed thousands of locals a day, had to ID, sweep for suicide vests, weapons, intel gathering, etc. ... [HIIDE] was used as a biometric ID tool to help ID locals working for the coalition,” an American military contractor told the outlet.

More info https://www.rt.com/usa/532419-taliban-biometric-data-afghan-...

You don't own anything if the government can confiscate it for failing to make indefinite recurrent payments on it.

As long as you pay property tax your property is really owned by Uncle Sam.

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There is no room for discussion. Your civil liberties are being eroded with this measure.

Search "top secret ipod"

iOS is closed source and builds are not reproducible by the public. You have zero control over what is running on the iPhone. It is also extremely challenging to go through each executable and firmware on the phone to probe for backdoors. Sophisticated backdoors won't be apparent even if you had the executable data dump for every iPhone system.

The price of a new car is whatever the dealer is willing to let it go for. MSRP is a starting point, not the final price, which can be literally anything.

Were manufacturers stockpiling what was unnecessary before lean manufacturing? It's an absurd notion that anybody would stockpile things without consideration of inventory costs.

A sizable portion of South Koreans still believe in fan death.