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by D-Coder 2y ago
> I have no idea what spawned the whole MAD ideology regarding nuclear weapons, it never made sense to me. Because the alternative is, "Hey, using just a few nuclear weapons would be okay." Which would (a) cause enormous destru
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"swutch" Compilation error at line 173.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK /s (I think)
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"There are only two kinds of paranoia: Total... and _insufficient_."
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Yeah, that's been working so well for forty years.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
$99 once is a little different from $1k/month.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
NotAlwaysRight.com has tons of stories about people who ignored signs, closed doors, locked doors etc.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> empowering politicians to attempt to override the market and deliberately police the negative outcomes of those externalities in favor of supposed social goods (the determination of which is, in itself, problematic) has never, ever wor
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by D-Coder 3y ago
No one is assuming that. People are assuming it's _worth looking into_.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Wise old saying: "Three people you should never lie to: your doctor, your accountant, and your attorney."
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Your numbers are a decade out of date.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
The smog is in the cities. It does not cover the entire country.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
They're not asking you to fix anything. They are asking where to submit a bug report that someone (someone else) will look at.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
There are historical reasons for this. It used to be even longer (March 4th, changed by 20th Amendment). Many of our problems result from solutions to the problems of 200 years ago.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Well, in that case, instead of just being dead, you're dead and broke.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Meetup.com is free and has all kinds of interest groups. In my area, it has several dating / relationship groups. NB, if you go to a "how to date / build a relationship" workshop or seminar, pretty much everyone there is
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Clearly, whether the language considers commas necessary or optional should be in a config file.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> It's inevitable that access to "defeating the dragon" would be available to only the most affluent in society, whom have also led the most comfortable lives. I don't see that it's inevitable at all. (a) The sol
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Computers can run 24x7, no vacations, no sick time, no unions, no backtalk to the boss, no spilling their coffee on the office carpeting...
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by D-Coder 3y ago
This seems to miss the point of the article: an active war, not just the legal state of things.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> Wait Baysians are neoliberals now? I thought Baysians were infamously right wing? Well, according to the statistics...
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by D-Coder 3y ago
The wealth and the technology, perhaps. The political will and unity? I doubt it. EU is still in a pre-Federation stage, similar to the USA during the Articles of Confederation. (Also, NATO does include the US.)
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by D-Coder 3y ago
That was my first reaction to the headline too.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
By that logic, there's a 50/50 chance the sun will come up tomorrow.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
If one is being literal: > Isaiah 11:12: He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Which clearly indicates some kind of quadrila
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by D-Coder 3y ago
I have a reminder for 3pm (ET) Fridays to check acoup.blog.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
This has been a thing for many, many years (my guess is, since 5 minutes after journalism was invented). See "yellow journalism" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spa... ).
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by D-Coder 3y ago
I had heard of this re Charles Steinmetz, but apparently it goes way back: "The earliest instance located by QI ((Quote Investigator)) appeared in “The Journal of the Society of Estate Clerks of Works” of Winchester, England in 1908.&q
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by D-Coder 3y ago
I have the "Platinum Preferred Premium Plus" tier and I can see posts that never even get posted!
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> Nobody expects commercial aircraft to fly on autopilot without a pilot's supervision Nobody here on HN, because we're really into tech. Outside the tech world, I would guess that 50% of the population thinks that "autopi

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