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by Lorento 11y ago
Wow, there are also 2 females. Is there any technical reason why they don't just use artificial insemination to make some more babies? It would be pretty irresponsible to let the species go extinct because they didn't really try t
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by Lorento 11y ago
Calling it a kingdom is also wrong. It has only a queen, not a king. But really, I'd be surprised if any typical person outside of UK knew the difference. I'm a British citizen (of the 1st kind) but had no idea till now that North
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by Lorento 11y ago
You can. It's a form of price discrimination. Like coupons in a supermarket. People who really want to pay less will jump through the hoop. If you just want it conveniently and don't care about the cost, you can subsidise those ot
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by Lorento 11y ago
Judging by the occupied parking spaces in his photo, I think residents want cars. Whether parking is private or public, it'll still need to be there in some form for people to be happy living in that street. For people to walk/bus
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by Lorento 11y ago
50% more houses will need 50% more parking spaces and 50% more traffic on that now-one-way pedestrian/car lane. Perhaps what San Fransiscans want is actually no increase in the number of residents because of these problems they bring?
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by Lorento 11y ago
How do you synchronize multiple trucks? One company wants their truck to leave at 6pm so something will be available the next morning. Another nearby needs to wait till 6:30 before they're ready to leave. Where's the train? Perhap
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by Lorento 11y ago
We still have train drivers, even though they're almost, but not quite, redundant. I can't imagine how trucks could be so automated that no driver at all is needed when we don't even do that with trains. Truck drivers will su
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by Lorento 11y ago
I think people are talking about encrypting while it's in transit, not in local storage. So you would want to not encrypt email for the same reasons you'd want to not encrypt wifi - ie none.
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by Lorento 11y ago
It sounds like they really did get hacked. Isn't the whole point of the lawsuit that they were too insecure with sensitive information, and therefore justifiable? "Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and pulled the
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by Lorento 11y ago
Why not an election? If voters still vote for both parties, then there isn't really controversy, it's just the people you know who share your ideas.
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by Lorento 11y ago
A common problem seems to be fear of breaking things. That seems to be the opposite of the purpose of version control systems! I had the same experience using a CAD document management system. I wanted to not only backup the repository but
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by Lorento 11y ago
They probably would be held liable, hence why they immediately kicked him off campus. Their response isn't just covering their asses, they make no attempt to even justify their actions, nor to deny them. They only say how good they are
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by Lorento 11y ago
There'll still be no Winforms or WPF on Linux, is that right? So no desktop apps will be portable?
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by Lorento 11y ago
Indeed. This is news if you're actively day trading Twitter shares. Otherwise it's business as usual. Now it's at 2014 prices. It's had bigger swings in both directions in the recent past.
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by Lorento 11y ago
I can understand why investment type people like y-axes that don't start at zero - they're usually interested in tiny changes a long way from zero. But for the general public to watch? If you didn't already have an up to date
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by Lorento 11y ago
A small part of the problem is non-lawyers not being allowed to offer legal advice. So for trivial cases, you get people paying thousands for a lawyer to tell them what stackexchange would have done for free in any other field.
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by Lorento 11y ago
His argument seems to hinge on the claim that fundamental investors need to be able to trade large amounts without affecting the price. He backs it up with the claim that some traders see that as a fundamental human right. Is it really impo
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by Lorento 11y ago
Absolutely. It's voters' own faults. Also non-voters. So nearly 100% of eligible voters in America are to blame for whatever they don't like about the government.
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by Lorento 11y ago
You certainly could. If the naturally suffering humans are in the same country as the experiments, then they probably should be given priority. As long as they can actually be helped as easily as ending human experiments. If they're in
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by Lorento 11y ago
Animals suffer horrible lives naturally too, and on a much more massive scale. If you're really against animal suffering and dying then a far bigger problem is the existence of wild animals with peak populations, unreliable food suppli
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by Lorento 11y ago
This is a fascinating story about a smug smarty pants being outsmarted!
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by Lorento 11y ago
History really distorts things. This story is always portrayed as a failure, and the soldiers as "fought with honor and gallantry". They were invading another country and killed hundreds of thousands of people. We wouldn't sa
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by Lorento 11y ago
Half the value in this is that it's not the Play store which is blocked in China and practically inaccessible on a phone without the Play store app pre-installed. And they won't let you install it yourself. You've really got
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's one thing to unobtrusively investigate a suspicious person, but actually interrupting their life just because your heuristics aren't good enough sound like a ding to free speech. If everyone joked about hacking planes, that w
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by Lorento 11y ago
Very similar in 1996 on the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahu... Comment shows it was created in 1994 HTML index.html DESCRIPTION Home Page. REVI
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by Lorento 11y ago
That's not the only way. You can vote for the politician who shares your views. You still have democracy in America, you can still vote. But somehow most Americans always vote for politicians who support those donations.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Are blacks less intelligent than whites? How many jews were really killed in the holocaust? These are absolutely not settled questions but what university will allow that kind of research? Who will publish it if the results support somethin
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's a pity that this cycle repeats itself so often. "The army is cool, they fight wars. My army won't fight but I'll still get to feel cool.". My dad fell into this trap too and got stuck going through a war. But u
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's always tempting with difficult control problems to imagine why not just do what feels stable? Why not just hold it in place with something? Why not make it shorter and wider? For an example of why not - compare a turtle to a human
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by Lorento 11y ago
Citation needed

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