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Re:Felony Bench on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:40AM (#49397815)
And a lot of that is going to depend on the state as some states have strict liability regimes for certain classes of torts. To be completely honest, I'm not a lawyer and I'm going off of a hazily remembered section from a textbook from a decade ago.
Re:Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:13PM (#48796466)
Walls also keep out grazing animals with suicide vests, which is something a friend who served in Afganistan said he saw once.
Re:Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:57PM (#48575057)
Another example of retiring at the top was Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary. A 20 year run of daily comics with about 16-17 years of that being a reasonably consistent storyline.
This is a perfect example of competition in microeconomics. If you've only been exposed to an introductory economics, you've missed out on a lot.

This type of situation sounds like an amalgamation of a few exam questions from my first year of an econ PhD. "Cheap talk in a Bertrand market with entry costs and capacity constraints" or something. No I haven't worked it out but my intuition is that it would predict exactly what was observed: the threat of a new entrant with enough capacity risks loosing your entire business so you invest to expand your capacity to prevent that entry.

The cheap Motorola phones won't support GrapheneOS because they are missing some of the security features that GrapheneOS requires. The Motorola partnership is for some new phones: hopefully at a lower price bracket, but likely to be flagships or 2nd tier.
Re:The dead Internet is not a theory anymore on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:04PM (#47341818)
Still jaded that went nowhere...
Re:10 years of personal finances in plain text files on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:38PM (#46469703)
I think it explains the "why" of double entry accounting. Since it is used to track flows of money, a graph representation is a natural representation (just not the only one and not necessarily the most useful for day to day operations).
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:48PM (#46428110)
G+ copied some features and design work the open source federated social media, particularly Diaspora. So yeah, a lot of the features were developed in context of privacy protections.
This would probably depend heavily on how tenure decisions handles publishing. If it is heavily biased towards quantity of publishing, then that won't matter as much as you can "pay to win your paycheck".

If the tenure process focuses on quality of work, then it should work better.

Re:Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:35AM (#46201911)
Those are documented, but not necessarily in the paper. You can find the info at clinicaltrials.gov. Check out this current trial for breast cancer treatment by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC for example. For the control arm, they are allowing doctors choice from a set of alternatives. Assuming the doctors are selecting control treatments to improve chance of survival, this test is comparing the new treatment to "the best known treatment for this specific cancer".

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07060807#study-plan

Re:Self-hosting my photos with Immich on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:24PM (#46170349)
just disable auto-upload and then manually upload the ones you want to. There is a setting to share your immich library with someone else. Between those two features, you should get something close to what you want.
Because Canada and Mexico and the Caribbean Islands require them.
Re:You Can Now Make PS2 Games in JavaScript on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:04PM (#46008350)
thanks!
Re:Hemp Ban Hidden Inside Government Shutdown Bill on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:55PM (#45920409)
Also, states have their own militaries. Some states even have multiple. All states have an Army National Guard and some have and Air National Guard. Those militaries can be federalized, but normally pertain to the state. Some states even have other military branches such as Texas, which has a State Guard which cannot be federalized.
Re:The Useful Personal Computer on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:35PM (#45920175)
My spouse does. Google docs provides an editable, sharable, easy to use way to do recipes.
Re:Illegible Nature of Software Development Talent on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:58PM (#45543707)
It might be helpful to look at this classic post by Joel Spolsky [0]. He discusses many of the points you brought up. I found it most helpful to pull out some of the principles he discusses and then ask "What would this look like when applied to [job in question]?"

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

It is if you're trying to sell it. Not dyes, but beer bottle color affects purchasing decisions [0-1].

[0]: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5710/6/4/64 [1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266615432...

Re:Ask HN: What is the actual state of Linux phones? on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:36PM (#45306942)
I suspect he is referring to the current political climate in the USA which many call a fascist takeover.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:26PM (#45296975)
I don't know if there is a "best" but I've been using OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with KDE on my work, personal, and family machines for the last year or so. Even my non-technical (but technologically capable) spouse has been using and enjoying it over that time on their personal laptop.
Re:This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:44PM (#45118544)
I think you might be interested in NUTs, Network UPS Tools. They provide a way to distribute power information about a ups across a network.

https://networkupstools.org/

btw, veracrypt is the name if the follow up project. truecrypt shut down over a decade ago rather abruptly, so anything labeled truecrypt today is suspect as either out of date or potential malware.
Re:Burner Phone 101 on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:32AM (#45014288)
not really. The prohibition on encryption/obfuscation is how you keep abusers off the frequencies.

If you run into someone who is regularly

- using encryption, obfuscation - failing to identify with a callsign - using lots of bandwidth - doing some sort of commercial activity.

then you get a group together, track them down, and report them to the FCC.

The thing people forget is that the primary goal of the ham system is to promote radio experience and experimentation. That is why there is such a wide variety of frequencies available.

Imagine being an economist... You can't get away from it.
I find it interesting that they justifying this is recording criminals as they leave the USA, not trying to serve warrants etc.
Re:So Much Blood on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:12PM (#43917514)
The reason the US exports blood products is because it is one of 5 countries that allow commercial blood product harvesting. Well, at least plasma. I don't remember which organization it is, but there is an international organization that tries to get countries to be "self-sufficient" in blood products so that they are not internationally traded (the organization is something like WHO, UN, or Red Cross). Only those 5 countries that allow some level of commercialization actually meet their goals of being self sufficient (and export as on top of that).

Source: A guest lecture at my university by Al Roth, Nobel prize-winner in economics, who is currently focusing his work on these type of markets. Most of his work is on kidney exchanges right now.

> I’ve just seen a lot of people pick up statistics for the first time and lose a finger.

I love this. I've never though of statistics like a power tool or firearm, but the analogy fits really well.

Re:It's easier than ever to de-censor videos on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @05:33PM (#43698669)
I would guess that would be due to compression algorithms.
I'd suggest moving to either bluesky or rss. In fact, selling rss access (very fast responses) and delaying the public (twitter/Bluesky) releases by a few hours/days may be a way to monetize successfully.
Die cut is one way to do it, but there are other approaches. I worked in a Christmas card factory for a bit and there are a lot of ways to make patterned bits of flat paper. The point about machinery import costs is spot on though.

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