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by Pinckney 10y ago
From man git-stash: "Applying the state can fail with conflicts; in this case, it is not removed from the stash list. You need to resolve the conflicts by hand and call git stash drop manually afterwards." Or do I misunderstand yo
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Suppose a state decides they're spending too much money on their court system. What would you say if they instituted a 5000% tax on criminal defense services? What would you say if a state decided to impose a 5000% tax on abortion medi
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by Pinckney 10y ago
I don't get where 100M comes in. Part of his compensation was in stock, and they can take that away? How does that work?
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Thanks.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
A taxi or a friend who can drive would seem to provide the same benefit, if you don't care about your transport providing life support.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
>Shockingly enough, a UBI has been a libertarian concept for nearly half a century. Can you recommend any reading on this?
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by Pinckney 10y ago
You linked to the US congress and US senate instead of the NC house of representatives and senate. http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChambe... http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts&#x2
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Indeed. It's surprising to me that the Atlantic chooses not to document the Bodo League massacre. Rhee was a butcher, and our support of him is one of the great moral failings of the Truman administration.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
The more apt comparison, IMHO, is John Deutch, who did virtually the same thing, but was pardoned by Bill Clinton before his plea deal could be filed.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Look at Arabic; one "language" despite being barely mutually intelligible between, say, Iraq and Morocco.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980098
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Private communications are also required for certain crimes, or to cover them up. Should we require that Apple monitor phone conversations for evidence of crime?
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by Pinckney 10y ago
It is simply a cost issue. Look at North Dakota during the oil boom, for example. It turns out paying $150k+ gets you plenty of applicants willing to work 120 hour weeks out of a dormitory.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Win-win.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
I have a similar setup, and ran into storage problems pretty quickly. Eventually I reflashed it and installed Linux natively, and got a fast 64GB SD card for my home partition.
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by Pinckney 10y ago
What about a semi-autonomous fighter, with a pilot to provide low latency input on what to shoot, and the plane deciding how to fly and make that shot independently? You could even have the pilot prone for higher G tolerance, like they trie
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by Pinckney 10y ago
A rifle, particularly a short carbine like a Sub 2000, is eminently practical for close range. They're faster to aim accurately and are more likely to incapacitate a target with the first shot. The only exception is perhaps at ranges o
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by Pinckney 10y ago
No capital ships took direct hits during operation crossroads. The closest was the USS Arkansas, at 170 yards from ground zero during the underwater baker test. It was lifted all the way to the vertical by the blast, before being pummeled i
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by Pinckney 10y ago
I felt Sporkhack fixed most of the problems I had with vanilla nethack. Wishes are harder to get, Elbereth is nerfed, ESP is nerfed, ascension kits are less binary, Gehennom is less tedious, Vlad is no longer a pushover, etc...
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by Pinckney 10y ago
Taking LAX for an example... It has a perimeter of 4ish miles. Assume one sentry with a shotgun, loaded with birdshot every 300ft to give decent coverage of the perimeter, that gives us about 60 sentries. At 15 $/hr, 24/7, that gi
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by Pinckney 11y ago
If that were the case, why can't you get federal aid as a non-degree seeking student? Do I need credentials to contribute to a better democracy?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
It's not clear to me that this would be a bad thing.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
And 5-6 figure unsecured personal loans are available to 18 year olds with no assets or credit history?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
You're going to need to provide citations for that. A quick google search turns up a Daily Mail article; a video titled "Skinned alive in China" that does not, in fact, show any animals being skinned alive; and other similarl
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Long but worth reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbia...
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by Pinckney 11y ago
That's not the concern. They were worried about manufacturers producing bikes that weren't structurally sound in a race to produce the absolute lightest bike. Imagine frames failing during descents. There's an argument to be
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by Pinckney 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694306
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Why Mars? If all you want to do is mine asteroids, what sense is there in clawing your way out of a deep gravity well, only to jump down to the bottom of another one? Why not Ceres or Hygiea or Vesta or any of the other minor solar system b
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by Pinckney 11y ago
I've always found that human extinction argument rather dubious. The main mechanisms of extinction in those cases are atmospheric dust and fallout. If we can maintain a closed ecosystem on Mars, we can do it underground, for a fraction
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Murder rate is probably the only statistic that can be trusted. Police are under lots of pressure to make sure crime stats go down, and it's really easy to misclassify or ignore reports for things like armed robbery or rape. A body is

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