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Judging from your photo, it looks like the hooks might unclip?
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Not a single color, but in Chinese tradition there were five colors of equal political significance corresponding to the Wuxing cycle of changes—black, red, cyan, white, and yellow. Each dynasty was associated with a color (with other associated traits), and was expected to be followed by one of two other colors (depending on whether the succession would be orderly or revolutionary).
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The circumstances where you’d be most likely to run into issues is where age plays an active role—e.g., Social Security or insurance. But those are probably avoidable if you’re careful. Otherwise, there’s no law against being really old or looking young, if you’re not trying to claim age benefits—for anyone else where the date of birth wasn’t relevant to their job, they’d probably just ignore it or assume it was a typo.
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I try to always have three books in progress that I cycle between—one fiction, one history, and one science. I think they’re complementary and mutually-enriching modes of engaging with the world.
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A human being.
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“Peace Prosperity for our time!”
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My main issue with the Reddit deal (and similar data grabs) is that major AI companies are hoarding user-generated content to give themselves a competitive advantage. I have less of an issue with them using non-exclusive public content like Wikipedia, fediverse comments, and public-domain historical works.
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Boycotts have one advantage over “consistently directing your money to companies in which you are confident”—they can work even if there aren’t any better alternatives. A coordinated campaign to target one company at a time can eventually force a whole industry to change, even if the industry offered no meaningful choices to start with.
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Does $9,000 seem a bit low for the cost of adding windows to all the relevant restrooms in a school district?
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He might hypothetically veto legislation (which would never get through Congress anyway), but he'll appoint Supreme Court justices who will effectively do the same thing.
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Deep-pan artichoke pesto feta.
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A typical use case is to forward a single port to the proxy, then set the proxy to map different subdomains to different machines/ports on your internal network. Anything not explicitly mapped by the reverse proxy isn’t visible externally.
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Contemporaneous news reports in Nebraska indicated that Mr. Walz was still in his home state during the spring and did not leave for China until August.
Any link to these contemporaneous news reports?
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I think it’s a toy meant to warn children about the hazard of leaving rolling objects underfoot. Imagine how fast you’d yeet off if you accidentally stepped on one of those rolling discs!
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Maybe he worked a few years at a temp agency?
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Like other states, California won’t financially penalize violators, but it will post the names of violators on the state Department of Justice’s website.
Sounds like the state is just giving the violators free advertising to potential donors who want to exploit the practice.
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The theory you’re referring to sounds like the free energy principle (or a variation of it).
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Yeah. In my case, though, a lot of my library consists of relatively expensive reference works that I use regularly and that would be prohibitive to replace if Amazon decided to play games with them.
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Did they mean to say “overzealous”?
Because a “zealous” prosecutor is just one committed to doing their job.
To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.
The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester is a quantum mechanics thought experiment that uses interaction-free measurements to verify that a bomb is functional without having to detonate it. It was conceived in 1993 by Avshalom Elitzur and Lev Vaidman. Since their publication, real-world experiments have confirmed that their theoretical method works as predicted.