JackFr

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by JackFr 5mo ago
> Church and any kind of believe system hurts our society and divides us. Any belief system? And yet I bet you value freedom over slavery, wisdom over ignorance and compassion over brutality. That’s a belief system, despite not being a r
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by JackFr 5mo ago
> Like, it gets used a lot in SQL Except it explicitly is not strictly Boolean in SQL because of nulls. X = Y can take the value true, false or null if either or both X and Y are null.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
Am I the only one who is bothered by “Choose the worst” with only two options? It should be “Choose the worse”.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
I think it’s tough to stay grounded when you’re as rich as he is. (To be clear, my intent is to explain and not excuse the path he’s taken.)
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by JackFr 5mo ago
As someone who has shopped at Costco using public transportation, that’s where your IKEA bags come into play. And you avoid bulk liquids at all costs.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
> But I feel like being a "PC user" was never a coherent social identity. But there were people who were vocally non-Mac, dismissing it as “great for students and graphic designers”, but not a computer for real work. (That was
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by JackFr 5mo ago
I have lived in the United States for all of my 59 years and have never heard or seen it used as meaning anything other than glutton. Which is really no better evidence than you offer.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
You're simply not using the word 'fiduciary' correctly. You seem to have expanded it to mean any sort of legal or ethical obligation with respect to markets, and that's not what it means.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
So disappointing. People are garbage.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
The right against self-incrimination is limited in civil trials. Additionally, unlike criminal trials where a jury will be instructed that a defendant's refusal to answer cannot be construed as evidence, there is no such instruction i
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by JackFr 5mo ago
But the customers and employees don’t actually put up the money for the enterprise. If you assume there is an airplane — great, run the airline for the customers and employees. But the cost of the airplane can’t be handwaved away.
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by JackFr 5mo ago
> Not just any math: Matrix multiplication. Can matrix multiplication be conscious? And, I don't see how it can be. Assuming your brain and the GPUs are both real physical things, where’s the magic part in your brain that makes you
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by JackFr 5mo ago
“Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
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by JackFr 5mo ago
> My wife and I both have a chaos monkey that emits impulses to do the most destructive and disruptive things, which we sometimes talk about in jest. Often called “the imp of the perverse” from the Poe story of the same name.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
My mom fell (88 yo) X-rayed, nothing broken but ignored her history of ulcerative colitis (tough to do, given the colostomy bag she’s worn for 50 years). Sent her home with Motrin. Ended up in the hospital for two weeks with bleeding ulcers
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by JackFr 6mo ago
1) Reading the original article as far as I understand, indicates that the dose given the fish is 1000x than is seen in the wild. 2) From a public policy standpoint, OMG, this more than useless. Cocaine is already illegal everywhere.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
And yet I know there used to be a business (when the Concorde was flying), where they would offer very cheap tickets on the Concorde from New York to London and back, the hitch being that you agreed to take no luggage, and your luggage allo
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by JackFr 6mo ago
I think the Dutch would take issue with you throwing around "orange" like that.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
More importantly in the United States we have certain rights which cannot be abridged, even by a majority of the electorate though the government.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
I always assume not everyone is an English speaker and let it go.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
One armored car can carry a ton of gold. If they left and drove to the closest US Navy port, where the French ship would dock. it wouldn't raise eyebrows.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
Carriers aren’t going away because there’s nothing else that does what they do. Many nations can blow stuff up but to actually project power, you need a mobile air base.
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by JackFr 6mo ago
I've been working in Wall St. banks for the past 30 years, and I've never used an Oracle database. The investment banks were all Sybase shops in the 90's, and a bunch of them still are. In my experience those that do move a
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by JackFr 7mo ago
Reagan, not Bush.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
But they swear an oath to serve Richard Stallman unto death.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
It was also probably never true. The author handwaves away 'disagreement about his methods', but SLA Marshall was also simply a liar. He claimed interviews he never did and lied about his own combat experience and the circumstan
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by JackFr 7mo ago
What is the average pope? Fabian? Felix IV? Linus? Eusebius? Pius IV?
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by JackFr 7mo ago
Triple tap seems to indicate definitely a mistake in targeting. Despite the war aims being nebulous, illegal, and ever changing, none of them would be advanced by bombing a girls school.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
I was going to comment pedantically that soccer balls were dodecahedrons not icosahedrons, but in reading the article, I came to realize that truncated icosahedrons are the same as truncated dodecahedrons. This was such a delightful realiza
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by JackFr 7mo ago
When all of humanity was hunting and gathering and living at subsistence levels, the was no poverty. It only shows up with wealth. Pretty simple.

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