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by Latteland 8y ago
Most republicans would not feel pressure to support the supposed mandate behind a democratic president. Today, they'd actively go against it in most cases. It goes the other way too. That's why few democrats support the president
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by Latteland 8y ago
Why would congress feel pressure just to do what the president wants? Presidents claim all kinds of mandates when they are elected, congress often goes it's own way.
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It's correct that they changed the rules to exclude him and most people don't like that in principal. But it's also true that he was not a serious candidate because he said he wanted one bill passed and then he'd resign
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by Latteland 8y ago
It doesn't seem fare that it's okay to donate millions of dollars to the university without a hope you get something like you kid in and it's not a crime (I don't care that it's an institution and not a person, you
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by Latteland 8y ago
Certainly, people do at least some times give money to universities thinking they will get something out of it, like a kid being admitted. You know in closed doors it is discussed explicitly, and the fund raisers at the universities must be
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by Latteland 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer, that was actually interesting. No one looks at most old code bases unless they are changing something in particular, that's how old bugs hang around forever. Commercial software companies of the world, open sour
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by Latteland 8y ago
Unfair in that at least until recently, it was basically a standard requirement that IP must be shared when building a factory in China, there was a required Chinese ownership component. That is unfair
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by Latteland 8y ago
In Washington state, all voting is via paper ballots mailed or dropped off at a voting location. You sign them. People end up having different ballots because your ballot is customized for the district you live in (unique city, school distr
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by Latteland 8y ago
Yes, I thought about hatchets, but the words are in relatively modern language. Nothing about muskets, powder, preparing to shoot. There must have been a lot of military training and discipline about the multiple lines of soldiers not only
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by Latteland 8y ago
Interesting - they are expressed in such a way as they aren't tied down too much to the specific weapons available at a point in time. I wonder if they have been rephrased to be more universal.
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by Latteland 8y ago
Tmobile's new vague plan for providing home internet over 5g sounds fine, but it is a slow rollout, only promising coverage for 9.5 million customers by 2024. With many more providers of broadband coming in the next 10 years (gulp, tha
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by Latteland 8y ago
I thought that policeman was memorable
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by Latteland 8y ago
what kind of person could seriously consider themselves old at 30? I got my first job out of grad school at 29. Geeze, kids today :-)
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by Latteland 8y ago
I'm an american, I'm very sad how we've made it harder and harder for people to come visit us. We lose so much potential intellectual and other gains by doing this. International conferences should just go to Canada in prefer
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by Latteland 8y ago
Sounds like sour grapes from a Facebook worker. I used to work at google. I loved working there, but I wasn't a prisoner of luxury, and I left to go to a startup that didn't promise me the world. After I left I somehow resisted th
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by Latteland 8y ago
It really just emphasizes that our connected devices make it easy for the police to track you. No privacy, even leaving a phone home won't do it.
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by Latteland 8y ago
It was shocking that LG trying to block them from building their own battery supply became public. I think if they don't get serious about battery production in the next couple of years, it will take a decade to catch up. tesla's
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by Latteland 8y ago
I don't care about the implementation (if elisp works the same and the experience is the same), it just needs to be a text mode only editor and a gui editor.
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by Latteland 8y ago
It's actually important that emacs is a text program and also has a gui version. All the time I use a program on the command line that needs me to edit something, so it pops up a textmode (vt100 ui forever) emacs that I can edit a fil
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by Latteland 8y ago
Some visiting tourists got stuck in Death Valley without enough water or food, and they tried to walk out but it's a vast, hot, dry place. No one could find their bodies for a long time. It's a great story, I remember reading it b
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by Latteland 8y ago
Well, the Chinese government is bad but the us is led by people who are chaotic evil, increasing the chance for the us do immoral things - and it's not like things such as supporting Saudi Arabia in Yemen started with our current lose
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by Latteland 8y ago
Don't forget about the late great Tom Petty and his famous "Hello, CD listeners, in fairness to cassette owners, we'll take a quick pause while they flip their cassettes over.
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by Latteland 8y ago
Not much sex.
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by Latteland 8y ago
Tell that to the barons whose grandchildren or later are plumbers. Not that there's anything wrong with that ;-), but it's not the same as so rich you never work.
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Why is that surprising? The negative effects of nicotine are well known and extensively documented and tested. It's not hard to find, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine . Smoking is worse than getting nicot
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by Latteland 8y ago
I hate the very high prices for early access. This is anti-individual-developer, pro big company, rich people. I can see it's a way to let big companies save off their amazon.dev domain or whatever. I think a much more preferable early
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by Latteland 8y ago
It's not okay to try to steal things (as we probably don't even need to mention). It's doesn't matter if that is the accepted way to do things in a company, you are making a moral mistake. I don't want to tar everyo
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by Latteland 8y ago
I agree that when there is no time to do anything for the case, that this should be a strong aspect of a challenge to a conviction. I don't know about the same budget though, what about OJ Simpson's huge defense team vs the state.
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by Latteland 8y ago
It's worse than embarrassing, it's disgusting, it's shameful, it's kind of indicative of the breakdown of our societal norms - see politics for another area. A lot of those people were minorities, all of them must have b
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by Latteland 8y ago
3 dups of this story, but one has comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064382

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