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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It used to be four months now it's two. 19th century it could take weeks or months to tally the vote. Other big big difference is in the US legislative and executive branches are separate and in Britain they are not. Your Prime ministe
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think the answer is a fraudulent DMCA complaints are wire fraud. With the addition that you can be charged if there is a pattern of recklessness.
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Well we could just change the law to make the CEO's and the board liable both financially and criminally for labor law violations. Like, CEO is convicted of violating labor laws, gets 32 months on prison and banned from serving as an o
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> I think the entire world needs a revolution It's too bad cause it looks like Putin isn't going to be around to help purify the world.
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I don't personally think is economic liberalization that succeeded. It's the US won't stand for anymore wars like that. And for 50 years after WWII they could enforce that. You can note the general absence of large wars in No
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You say rust I say patina.
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My mother was an accounting teacher. She said grades should be feedback to the student how well they are doing. And feedback to how well the teacher is doing. A student with a low grade really needs to consider upping their game or dialing
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I agree with the thought that we need a C compiler that is written something other than C++. One thing that caught my attentions is this paper. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/xhebraj-ecoop22...
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I agree. The issue with taxing drivers is it assume the driver is mostly culpable. But the infrastructure decisions that force the majority of people to commute by car weren't made by them. You got things like the big boss and his mana
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
You could have three slightly different brackets, one for each level of nesting. And when you get to four that's it. More than three is illegal. Edit: Or you could use markup to make the text size smaller and smaller.
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One of my random thoughts has been. Question: Why don't women that sleep around a lot sleep with me. Answer: Because they know you can't handle it.
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The big thing about electric I think is you can run fans off a common electrical bus powered by the engines. If you add a battery you have the advantages of faster throttle response and the ability to fly with your engines out or throttled
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Yeah 40k of that 80k goes to the workers landlords.
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I think it's always instructive to break out all the costs of owning a car on a per mile basis. I but about $700/year in gasoline. And pay about $600/year insurance. And drive about 6500 miles a year. So insurance and gas are
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
That's what I've seen, engineers working 50-60 hour weeks like it's gaming company or a faang. Except it's Hitachi. Bonus a lot of these guys are fluent in English. In the bay area they could make double for half the hou
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Yeah exactly. Instead of the economy being a delicately balanced machine that you don't dare touch. It turned out you can push it really hard and it'll hold together. At that point the idea that if you change industrial policies t
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Second biggest issue with California is the contractors licensing system ended up creating a system of guilds. First biggest is high rents drives up the cost of labor.
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I did some debugging of a embedded RTOS program under DOS. I had compiler switches so I could compile it for the target or DOS. The latter was way easier to debug.
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A 12 unit apartment looks better than 12 tents surrounded by trash.
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Geopolitics: China's sudden shift to authoritarianism under the new emperor has everyone fleeing for the exits as the US and Europe abandon the project to bring China into the club. Economics, Neoliberalism is dead. The pandemic killed
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I had a conversation on an airplane with a lady that read scripts for a movie studio. I learned three things. You submit a script they'll read it for purely liability reasons. Most scripts are garbage. But of the ones that aren't
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A trap is something the programmer should have to ask for not something the compiler writer thinks is suitable punishment.
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A group in Norway ran a pilot plant producing iron from sulfide ores back in the 1950's. Their paper quotes achieving 85% efficiency and around 4.7kwh/kg. It feels like with eletrowinning you can get the cost down to a few hundred
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I remember a thread on HN when Mono was first a thing. It was highly negative. Despite something like Mono being exactly what Linux desktop's needed. A way to easily slap together GUI apps.
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The MAX cost the airlines more than recertification would have. So the MBA's cost the stockholders money there too.
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Not even accounting driven. It's MBA driven. Accounts ask how much things cost and go from there. MBA's figure out how much things need to cost to make their spreadsheet work and tell you that's what you get. Which is what ha
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The one thing my mom noticed and I've noticed is people are healthier in middle and old age than they used to be. Mom said when she was a kid (circa 1950) people in their 50's and 60's were usually just shot. I have friends p
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Your comment brings up an old memory. Lady mentioned once when she was a regional manager at a department store chain. They started having the till go short every so often at one store. Usually it's one person stealing. But looking at
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From my opinion I'll add two things. We're expected to interact with people cold. Know nothing about them and have no shared experiences. We have a culture of fear of strangers. A lot of this is due to fear mongering by the media
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I don't know if I can summarize as what some historian said about rulers in the middle ages. But I'll take a go at it. Question: Were rulers callous and violent or were they pious and fearful of being judged in the afterlife? Ans:

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