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by Cacti 7y ago
ITT: Lots of people seemingly unaware that the cities hosting these events on average _already_ (currently and will continue to do so throughout the coming months) receive 100,000+ tourists _per day_ and nothing will stop that. The risk pro
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Atlanta gets about 140,000 tourists _per day_ and has one of the busiest airports in the world. A couple thousand for the Trials is a drop in the bucket of risk.
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cut the crap dude. this guy has been either defending or trivializing young girls having sex with older men, or whatever you want to call 12, 14 year old girls having sex with 50, 60 year old men, for 20 years now. he is specifically saying
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I think a lot of people are forgetting that the guy has 20 years of public comments like this. You can pedantically pick apart this single statement as much as you want, defend him because this statement has been twisted, and argue that it’
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yes, and the FSF should be free to fire him as well. him being fired isn’t a witch hunt.
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you don’t need to follow the chain, his first comment is bad enough: > the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. stop. stop and think about this. you’re telling me that some random person on t
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splitting hairs on what is and what is not pedophilia, and suggesting that girls who were likely trafficked or groomed by older men for sex, yet might have been entirely willing participants, is exactly what he said, and it’s just as bad an
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25,000FTE does not include their drivers, right?
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So is your argument that they should be grateful for what they e been given? Because this is an absurd argument. Nowhere is it written that they can’t have both be treated like the rest of the country and economic prosperity like the re
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> Xinjiang is consistently portrayed in Western media as a nightmarish, dystopian, Orwellian hellhole suffering under the iron fisted oppression of the Communist Party That’s because it is, and if you visited you wouldn’t be so flippant
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On galactic scales it’s a meaningless analogy.
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It’s a statistical argument based on the observed distribution of asteroids. It’s not precisely true, and could even be widely incorrect, but they think it’s likely to be in the correct neighborhood. Also, after a certain size things become
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Not bad? It’s _worse_. They’re not depreciating servers here that they got use out of, they’re depreciating scooters that are broken, stolen, missing, or otherwise falling apart. Considering this is their fundamental business, it’s pretty b
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“We’d be making tons of money if we just didn’t spend so much.”
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Ever used a battery-powered weed wacker or leaf blower? The last 30% is basically worthless.
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Lot of noise for what amounts to a squabble over whether to call the $100 million a loss because of horrible business decisions or depreciation... because of horrible business decisions. I’m sure Bird will have equally good spin as to why,
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That’s an awfully strong accusation for what amounts to them not originally listing the $100mil as depreciation. That is hardly the crossing of ethnically lines, and neither your accusation nor the CEOs clever spin changes the fact that the
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> But there is every intention to ensure that there is a clear story for how i386 applications (including games) can be run on versions of Ubuntu later than 19.10. ‘a clear story’ doesn’t sound to me like actual support, it sounds more l
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It’s “twine publish”... And yes the setup is more extensive than NPM, which is exactly why the PyPi ecosystem isn’t the steaming pile of shit that is NPM.
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I’ve been using Python for 20 years and have never used either of those libraries. People _do_ use Python for more than accessing web services and processing HTML, you know. Besides, the stdlib, and Python packaging in general, is unquestio
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And a 20 year old laptop is relevant because... ?
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The press release is downright misleading. For 8 cores, or even 6, you have to buy the 15" model. Neither are available in the 13" model. And the 15", while starting at $2399, is not the 8 core option, that is the old 6 core
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Welcome to HN, where 95% of the population has an absolute conviction about the knowledge that they gained in 5 minutes of internet searches, where every problem is obvious and easy to solve, and where a basic knowledge of computers allows
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We aren’t talking about Java the language. We are talking about the JVM.
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There is more to life than bills.
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Life must be great in black and white.
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Frankly, you have no idea what you're talking about. This is how the airline industry works. Airlines WANT cheap planes and they ARE WILLING to and DO skimp on some safety features to save money. Airlines WANT safety features, at least
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There are thousands of “hacks” like this in every modern airliner. That’s how complicated problems are solved, you come up with a basic idea, and you iterate on it thousands of times until you squash all the edges cases.
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The airlines knew what they were doing when they didn’t pay for the “upgrade” and they doubly knew when they didn’t pay for it after the first crash. Airline management is just as culpable in this debacle.
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Stab trim cutout is not the only way to disable MCAS. Extending the flaps any amount also disables MCAS. Turning on autopilot also disables MCAS, though this isn’t entirely effective since spurious AoA readings may quickly disable the autop

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