Cupertino95014

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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
I don't see what this contributes. Written laws are immutable in the common sense of the word. That's what "legal certainty" means as an ideal: citizens can know what they'll be punished for. If it's unclear ta
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> The constitution is not a immutable document Actually, yes it is. You can amend it, but you can't edit it. Secondly, there's a body of legal scholarship that your "different judge" has to master. It's not just
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
There are lots of authors and journalists who either go there, or interview people who escaped. I think we learn a lot more from them than we would by taking a heavily curated tour of pre-screened sites.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> you would discover a lot of things actually, no I wouldn't, because when a Westerner goes to NK, he or she is strictly controlled as to what they can see. In particular, no citizen will talk unguardedly to you because of their int
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> You should visit countries before you trash them. I haven't visited North Korea either. That shouldn't stop anyone from opining on it.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
I went to one little company where they had a unisex bathroom. This was not for gender equality -- it was because they had so few women that they didn't think it worthwhile to build a bathroom for them.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
True, although in my experience a long time ago, IBM was so extraordinarily considerate that I almost went to work there! They even gave me cash at the end of the interview, so I didn't have to file an expense report (unlike every ot
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
The thing to always remember is: the way they treat you at the interview is the best they will EVER treat you. Do they ask if you need water, coffee, etc.? Do they give you time to use the bathroom? Do they keep you waiting excessively? Do
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
certainly not the intended parsing.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Correct. The UK and France put together were as exhausted as Germany. And "exhaustion" can't be measured just in body counts. Recall that France had some very serious mutinies around the time of the battle of Verdun. The &quo
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
The US had lost 116,000 dead. They were hardly raring to go. The British and French were equally exhausted. Their casualties combined were about the same as Germany's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casu
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Genuinely curious here: who was doing horizontal drilling before fracking, and what were they doing with it?
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
"True communism has never been tried." Maybe look at WHY government-built housing is always so lousy. Saying "We need to change the whole system" is just a cop-out.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
OK, that was a reasonable reading of "he can get complete systems with some deformities/problems to the Soviets and then have them reverse engineer the system while correcting/fixing the problem parts/deformities" A
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> The First World War did not arise from a vacuum, it was merely the accumulated atrocities of a century of Imperial expansion, turned inward in a final paroxysm of violence as the Great Power system of the 19th century imploded under th
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> have them reverse engineer the system while correcting/fixing the problem parts/deformities So you're assuming the Austrian actually knows what the US deformed? Why would they tell him?
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Now do the KGB.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Did you also say that compulsion is OK, if Harlem River House-level housing is available? A little research shows this to be a New Deal project that doesn't seem particularly replicable or sustainable: https://www.courthouse
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Really? Name some of your ideal cities. We'll check and see what their policies are for sleeping on the streets. So if they do force people to move on, despite this "affordable and available" housing, that pretty well destroy
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
So you're saying "let's put them in jail?"
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
All you people trashing shelters as they exist: is there ANY definition of "housing" under which you'd be willing to compel homeless people to take it, under penalty of fines & jail? Please tell us.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
So here's a question for you: is there ANY definition of "housing" under which you'd be willing to compel homeless people to take it, under penalty of fines & jail? Please tell us.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
> I've learned that you sort of have to sneak up new information to them without making them feel challenged by a non-expert that might apply to you (depending on your background), but Warren had some serious credentials. Doctors ar
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Thanks. I've been to Sweden and Italy, and they definitely do not follow stereotypes. Swedes, especially, are not all or even mostly blond & blue-eyed.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
I don't think you've ever studied molbio. Whether and when a gene gets expressed is everything. The non-coding part of the DNA quite often plays a role in that, as do many other factors.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
I can't argue, not having been there. Still, I wonder if anyone here has?
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Honest, no-agenda question: if you go to East Africa where homo sapiens originated, there is (reportedly) much more genetic diversity than in the rest of the world. I haven't been there, myself. So forgetting scientific studies for the
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
.. and then, of course, there's "able to visualize an object when rotated in three dimensions." I think the percentage of people who can't do that is way higher than 1%. I'm not great at it myself.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
You could imagine a top-secret Japanese effort to infiltrate the US and kidnap a Navajo person. Might not work, of course, but there are a lot of Navajos. But even that wouldn't have worked.
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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
What I like about the code talkers is: the Japanese knew it was Navajo. But even that wasn't enough, because they used particular code words, so even if you knew Navago it didn't solve the problem.

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