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I stopped downloading torrents when streaming came along.

I maxed out my Hulu subscription to avoid commercials.

Hulu forces commercials on me anyway.

And now I get to watch commercials about 'Merica, which apparently dictates worldwide political matters. Sweet.


Isn't Hulu only available in America?


I'm still a little shady. But only a little.


Did Hulu start airing commercials to those paying for the premium plan?


I was wondering the same thing.

Personally, I consider those opening seconds of "You are watching (channel)" as a sort of ad, especially since it can't be skipped, but I haven't seen any outright ad breaks on premium. Yet.


Checking hulu.com, it looks like the $13/month plan is ad-free


If you are outside the US do you actually get served US political ads?


They use a VPN since Hulu isn’t available outside of the US.

Hulu and 20CF content on Disney+ is available via their Star branding internationally.


I like how most of the comments insult you and tell you to educate yourself, rather than answering a fair question about immutable and immediately-recognizable characteristics.


At the time I'm writing this, there are exactly two comments (now three) on this thread that aren't an attempt to give an answer.

It's best to read things in good faith. On the whole, people on HN do try to be helpful.


In Texas private sellers can rent a booth at a gun show and sell without performing a NICS check.

https://www.thoughtco.com/gun-show-laws-by-state-721345


And the laws still apply to them. They are not allowed to sell to anyone not allowed to legally own a firearm, e.g. under 18, felon, out of state. If they do they are committing a crime.

And they will need an FFL if they make a business of selling privately.


The law also says they need to file taxes on that purchase, but what is required and what people actually do often differs


>The law also says they need to file taxes on that purchase, but what is required and what people actually do often differs

I think you inadvertently hit on why people are opposed to further gun regulation. The people committing the crimes aren't gonna follow the law and it stands to only further burden regular citizens.


There is more than one kind of regulation. Regulating people with an incentive to obey (professionals running businesses, like stores or shows) makes it harder for criminals to obtain guns they aren't allowed to possess.


>Regulating people with an incentive to obey (professionals running businesses, like stores or shows) makes it harder for criminals to obtain guns they aren't allowed to possess.

Can you give me an example of how this would work?


Just to clarify, private sellers couldn't perform a NICS check even if they wanted to. There were some proposals to open the system up to regular people (kind of akin to my understanding of how Switzerland does BG checks), but they never passed.

Anyways, it's kind of a moot point in California because that's a felony here.


A private seller can utilize a NICS check with an FFL if they choose. It's up to the private seller.


The fees from that are rather exorbitant. At least around me, most FFLs charge $100-$200 since they'd rather you buy from them directly (except for PPT transfers, where the cost is legally capped at like $50). IMO people should be able to run BG checks at cost.


And here I thought the other party runs the United States government.

I did a quick Google, and -- sure enough! --

"Biden nominee for ATF Director says he's never owned a gun"

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/biden-nominee-for-a...

And I'm also pretty sure it's not "Republican" DAs and AGs refusing to prosecute crime.


I did a quick Google search and found https://nyti.ms/3edFGs8. Lo and behold, the Biden administration is fixing what can be fixed in ATF.

"At the N.R.A.’s instigation, Congress has limited the bureau’s budget. It has imposed crippling restrictions on the collection and use of gun-ownership data, including a ban on requiring basic inventories of weapons from gun dealers. It has limited unannounced inspections of gun dealers. Fifteen years ago, the N.R.A. successfully lobbied to make the director’s appointment subject to Senate confirmation — and has subsequently helped block all but one nominee from taking office."

I'm pretty sure no DA is refusing to prosecute violent crime. One party is limiting the gun crimes that DAs can prosecute. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/06/us-laws-are-causing-mayhem-...


I'm curious as to why the resettable breaker for each eight drives . . .

I presume this was trial-and-error, but how could someone tell that the current is too much for a disk drive which is being, uh, overdriven (to make noise!)?

Or maybe this was a "just in case" situation...?

So cool . . .


He must have enough experience by now of knowing how floppies can fail (especially when doing something so odd) to know it’s useful.

Probably just hard won knowledge that almost no one else would ever have.

Kind of cool in a way.


The video has clips from the previous iterations, in remembrance, and one of them shows quite a bit of smoke in the room...


LOTS of good advice here.

My only addition would be to further specialize in something you don't hate working in. Becoming a subject-matter expert will afford you the opportunity to take time off or just work whenever you feel like working.


Caveat: This is really great until you do hate it.


What in the hell?


I still love Perl as essentially a low-level abstraction layer for C. I can get so much done at the system level without having to compile a bunch of code every time I make a small change.

I've heard that Python (and maybe some others) are slowly replacing Perl as a "subsystem" of Linux, but I doubt that will happen before I retire. So, until then, TIMTOWTDI!


You know followers of "religion" invented empiricism (and logic and rhetoric, etc.), right?

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


And nazis literally invented rockets science that allowed us to explore solar system. So whats Your point? Because clearly you are not seeing that people are not rational but rather rationalizing. Which sometimes leads them to invent useful things like empiricism, and other times things that are not so useful (ideologies, religions etc)


You know followers of <insert any random thing> invented <any random thing>, right?

There's no dots to connect between one thing and the other. Someone can be a hardcore Catholic and invent an abortion device or an atheist could come up with a fancy new way of manufacturing crosses. Their stance on religion is irrelevant.


In this case, there are lots of dots. There are a disproportionate amount of Catholic priests represented within the scientific sphere, including the vast majority of famous ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scient... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lay_Catholic_scientist...


Again, what are you trying to say here? Some scientists are Catholics? Some of them are even famous? What does that have to do with anything?


Haha, came here to say this exact thing (and to recommend those retro metal Coleman coolers)! :D


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