LarryMullins

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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Emacs is forever.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
I wish I could believe that Microsoft appreciates Excel that much. Excel is one of the most empowering applications ever written and the single greatest thing Microsoft has ever been involved with.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
If only the UK had some sort of naval tradition and could send their own ships into the channel to enforce the UK's will, rather than trying to fix the problem by arresting people for saying shit online. Rule Britannia! Britannia rule
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Confusing. The people saying "The Nordic Model isn't socialism!" are the people who are responding to "No, that's socialism!" Saying that the nordic model isn't socialism is a response to those who
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Have the Board draw straws and execute the person who draws short. Anything short of this admittedly harsh measure will be written off as the cost of doing business and probably overturned by lobbying, bribery, legal arguments in court, et
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
I know some people used to chop down trees to get a line of sight for satellite TV. Starlink is different in that you need more than a single LOS to a specific spot in the sky, but I wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of people ultim
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
AFAIK the old school stuff (e.g. synthetic human insulin) is cheap, so I assume that's not the sort they're talking about. Probably they're talking about analogue insulin, which is very expensive.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Russia would probably be silent if they had proof America did it, because they don't want WW3. And America would probably be silent if they had proof Russia did it, for exactly the same reason. Neither side wants to escalate this int
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Also if Russia did do it, its officially an attack on NATO and requires a response? In either the case of America attacking a pipeline jointly owned by the Russians or the Russians attacking a pipeline jointly owned by a NATO country
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> a) that was never considered "crazy" The very premise of stealing a Soviet submarine wreck off the ocean floor with nobody noticing is pants-on-head insane. The USN thought the CIA was being moronic to even consider this p
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Europeans are lucky that most Americans don't care what Europeans think of America, and continue to support and defend the EU despite Europeans being utterly ungrateful for any of it. If you lot had to pay for your own defense, you&#x
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> We do have nukes you know. The only nukes Germany has are those that America charitably allows Germany to borrow. If Germany grew up like UK and France and bought/made their own toys, then maybe Germany would find itself to hav
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Yup, pretty much this. We all know who wears the pants in the NATO relationship.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
In a system where private property ownership is only specially delegated to a handful of people or organizations, those few privileged people or orgs ARE part of the government. In a system where everybody has that right by default, that
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> The difference is that here in the giftcard industry, we want to stop that, Do you guys really? I mean "you guys" generally, not you personally. It doesn't seem that way to me. If the gift card industry really wanted
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
No, not in a sense that triggers truth in advertising laws.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
"Non-government tax" is bullshit semantics. Any random organization cannot collect a tax unless a government has delegated special authority to that organization, thereby making that organization part of government. It's lik
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> I believe it is an overtly hostile action against EU citizens and, particularly, Germans, who will suffer the most economically. In the scenario where America did it, I think there is a strong argument to be made that it was in the l
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> conspiracy drivel See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713661
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Project Azorian was a crazy conspiracy theory, and also true. You discredit yourself by using "conspiracy theory" in the "obviously false" sense. Intelligence agencies really do conspire to do things. That's t
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Because the pipeline was already off. There is a substantial difference between the pipeline being off and the pipeline being off the table .
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Sure, include those as well. Are you certain that he's wrong about either? Nothing can be certain when it comes to intrinsically clandestine matters. Either way, you should at least know who the man is if you want to maintain
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
For completeness, the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident was two alleged incidents. One of them probably happened and the other almost certainly didn't (admitted by Robert McNamara years later.) The first incident, the one that pr
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
It's not unsourced, the source is being kept private. That may not seem like a meaningful difference but there is a difference. And that difference is the reason Seymour Hersh's reputation is relevant.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Man, the author (no idea who that is...) Seymour Hersh, famous for his coverage of the My Lai massacre, Project Azorian, and more. You probably should know him.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Good call. Like it or not, reputation counts for a lot. Particularly in reporting of matters the government prefers remain private.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> It seems how we diagnose people is totally unconnected from any empirical data on if a culture more willing to diagnose people is making people healthier on a population-wide level. Speaking of an absence of empirical data: People ar
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Going to college is not the same as graduating with a degree. A ton of people go to college for a time and leave with little more than a mountain of debt. Also, a bachelors degree is not even the least degree you can get from a universi
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> it is the right thing to do You had me nodding until this part. Yes, twitter is filled with misinformation. But government censorship is more dangerous than misinformation. Governments have killed more people than anything else
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
If there is to be no sale, then is it really advertising at all? If I "advertise" that I own a thing with no intention of selling that thing, then laws about honest advertisement don't apply to me. My car (not for sale) has

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