Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
Eh. Not really. Trump has been espousing the same mercantilist zero-sum game view about trade since the 1980s. He simply picked an economic advisor who shares his views.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It was originally represented with an apostrophe. It seems the apostrophe started to be inverted in Hawaiian in the 1940s.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
That's what html entities are for. Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard. Besides, the Hawaiian diac
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by Aloisius 2y ago
No developed country gives doctors absolute power to authorize treatments. There isn't an infinite bucket of money to draw from. At some point, spending priorities have to be made and elsewhere, it's usually based on cost vs. year
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> roll in with their favorite IMAP client and use it That's just it. Lots of client developers, especially open source ones, balked. So to use something like mutt with gmail requires a user go into their google settings, set up 2f
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by Aloisius 2y ago
IMAP 4rev2 merged in a most of the common extensions into the base protocol. Sadly they left out the THREAD, QRESYNC and OBJECTID, though they reference them. Of course, major providers like Gmail don't support that as well.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It can, but it does require doing a lot of Google-specific things (set up a google cloud account, create a consent screen, get a security review, justify your usage of the IMAP API instead of the web APIs to them, find the right scopes, etc
578.
by Aloisius 2y ago
> The U.S. Constitution can be amended by an act of Congress No, it can't. If 2/3 of the House & Senate agree, they can propose an amendment to send to the states. It then takes 3/4 of states ratifying it to actual
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by Aloisius 2y ago
In bold from your source: > It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Vaccination significantly decreases the severity of measles even in most people where the vaccine doesn't "take." Thus, number of measles cases doesn't tell the full story. One also needs to look at far rates of hospital
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I just hate that the modern Pyrex measuring cup markings wear off in dishwashers. I have new Pyrex measuring cups that are unreadable after a couple years while 40 year old ones that look brand new.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> They don't spend their full NATO commitments. Did something change? Nearly all of the EU allies in NATO were expected to hit the 2% commitment last year. And then there's countries like Poland that spend more than the US as
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Plurality of voters, not majority of people.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
IBM has been working on transpiling COBOL to Java for ages now, but it's not anywhere near perfect. I believe the USAF converted a million+ line COBOL codebase using it, but it still took a couple years.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Doesn't matter where they live. If the app is made available for EU users, it has to comply if they're a "trader" (they've monetized an app in any way at any time or set their account to do so ever).
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by Aloisius 2y ago
What GC doesn't cause any pauses? I know of some who claim to be "pauseless", but it's b.s. marketing. They also tend to be memory hogs that don't play well with other processes in low memory environments with the
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> a supermajority in the Senate when Obama was elected Obama wasn't elected with a super-majority. He had 58 votes, but Al Franken's race was contested, then Robert Byrd got sick, then Ted Kennedy died. He did have one briefl
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by Aloisius 2y ago
There are now eight antitrust lawsuits against them by seven states + the DOJ. The DOJ and some states have started adding major landlords to their suits as well (since it is a cartel). Sadly, courts move slowly so it will probably be years
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> To identify which ultra-processed foods should be eliminated from school offerings, scientists will consider whether a product includes additives that are banned elsewhere, whether it has been linked to health harms, whether it has be
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by Aloisius 2y ago
If your HE tunnelbroker account's country is set to Russia, you'll show up as from Russia for Google since HE publishes a geofeed of ip range -> user account country for them.[1] You should be able to change it on the settings
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Anti-corporatocracy, not anti-corporatism. A fair chunk of the left, if not the majority, is very much in favor of Corporatism (Tripartism and/or social corporatism like the Nordic model).
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Europeans seem much more collectivist, whereas the US is more individualist. That's why Europeans express disdain for US policies around healthcare, guns, etc. The US is plenty collectivist. Patriots who put country first and wo
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Yes? That's why we have agricultural biosecurity import controls - to protect local agriculture from pests and diseases. I'm not sure where you're going with this, though I will say that it is also a major threat to the chick
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Or they just sent the same mailer to anyone with a female name popular in the last 40 years. After all, at any given time, like 11% of women are either pregnant, will soon become or have recently been pregnant.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure how they could provide their service without that data collection. Much of the data is things like likes, groups joined, people followed, profile, comments, etc - all features people specifically use the service f
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Bird flu isn't the only avian disease. Virulent Newcastle disease, specifically, is a major concern. It is endemic in Mexico and eggs are a vector of transmission. That said, threatening to allow imports from Mexico might be a good wa
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I personally used scuzzy. I've heard it pronounced sexy.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Vegan came from vegetarian. Signatory came from sign. When you alter spelling enough, people assume general pronunciation rules. Since regex ultimately comes from Latin and has a g followed by an e, pronouncing it with a soft g is rather na
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Is there any evidence of how accurately the US census actually does that job? Yes. The Census uses a post-enumeration survey for this purpose. They found evidence of significant under- or over-counting in 14 states for the 2020 censu
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Regular people don't own nuclear power plants. Banning new ones from being built had little immediate personal impact. Regular people do own devices that use fossil fuels. Banning them means people would immediately have to replace v

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