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by JackFr 4y ago
> Arguments against it are the bits predicated on squishy stuff like "aesthetics". I disagree with that. The biggest hurdle people have (in my experience is) is the claim that 85% of the universe is made of something that no o
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Asserting that “[Jens Steltonberg] was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. He has been trusted completely since.” when he was actually born in 1959 is
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Really? People absolutely went on the record about My Lai.
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There is a fundamental difference between private and public sector unions. "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It h
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Police unions improve the lives of police officers but do little to improve policing. Teachers' unions improve the lives of teachers but have little effect on student outcomes. It's not obvious to me that a powerful air traffic
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> Over the last five years, a cluster of books has brought these ideas to public attention. In 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith published Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, in which he argued that “evoluti
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“XML is like violence - if it’s not solving your problem you’re not using enough of it.”
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This is it boys!
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Multiple ephemeral UAT environments are great huge.
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Honestly when I read the title I heard it in my father’s lost-his-temper voice and I laughed out loud. Angry dad leaned heavily on the “I’m gonna [X] my foot up your ass!” construction.
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Umm, NORAD is able to track Santa - this balloon is much easier.
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It’s most likely that this was observed and tracked by NORAD from the very beginning. The Pentagon had to publicly address it only when there were multiple reports by the public. There was little to be gained by publicizing it.
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> The Pentagon, which badly wants a war with China That’s simply not true.
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> Pure anonymity bars you from the following activities: joining a social group, signing up for some longish term business relationship (hiring a contracter, signing up for a service), engaging in the political process, holding a job, an
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Phineas and Ferb is a very well written children's show on Disney, that is somehow able to construct amusing characters with some substance, an A & a B plot in every episode, clever writing and on the whole completely inoffensive,
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I'm not sure if this translates to all industries but consider airlines. Everyone complains about service, but the marginal flyer only cares about price. There is no reward for an airline offering better service at a price in economy
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I rolled my own with docker for a few years and recently made the switch to testcontainers. So far so good - but if you’re in an environment or language where test containers are difficult, rolling your own really it ant to hard. It also k
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I have an aunt who seems to have a need to disagree at all times. The most amusing example was while she was talking politics with my father and he said “I completely agree with everything you just said.” Her response - “Well you must not h
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I remember reading “Popular Science” magazine article in the early 80’s telling us how cargo airships were just around the corner, detailing the advantages and briefly naming the companies soon to commercialize. And then reading effectively
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So big tech has 220,000 layoffs and there is not the merest hint of a blip in the unemployment rate. This is not a tragedy - these people are going to find jobs, good jobs. In fact it's quite likely that they will go into roles which
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I trust you don’t know many Jesuits…
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The real challenge evolution puts to the Judeo-Christian creation story is not the physical creation of the universe (which most denominations do not take to be literal), but that man’s knowledge of good and evil sets us apart from the rest
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The question is ill posed. If there is incontrovertible scientific evidence, then they are already “physically” here. I presume the distinction the parent is trying to make is between some form of electromagnetic radiation, versus chunks of
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> Not a few weeks, not a few months, but the full academic year. I had studied Japanese since middle school, and I had an amazing time fully immersing myself in the wonderful world of Kyoto for those 9 months. I couldn’t agree more, but
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Working on the repo desk of a large Japanese bank in New York in the 90’s. There was a big (both in font size and magnitude) number that was on the upper left of the blotter system that ran on every traders desk, which represented the total
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He's like Omar.
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> I don't see anything wrong in this example It's not in the style of a psalm.
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That's not even close to the style of a Psalm. It's still pretty cool though.
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"With a big enough engine even a brick will fly." - famous quote about the F-4, which captures that much of early airplane development was engine development rather than aeronautics. It's no coincidence that Glenn Curtiss go
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I inherited from my dad an ashtray made from the end if a three inch artillery shell. As an ensign in the US Navy in 1960, he had a machinists mate make one for him by cutting the end of the shell down and then welding bent pennies onto it

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