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by User23 2y ago
I thought Germany already had conscription, AKA mandatory service. Does this eliminate the conscientious objector alternatives like hospital volunteering?
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by User23 2y ago
I wouldn’t expect to find any “empty” spacetime deformations, since by their very nature they would attract matter. I would however expect more gravity than the presently observable matter could explain. I wonder if that can explain some of
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by User23 2y ago
Ah yes, the “diversified services oriented economy” scores another win.
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by User23 2y ago
> - explaining this with dark matter is easy Well, attributing it to dark matter is easy. It's not really explaining anything though, until you can say what dark matter is and why it's there. At this point it's basically j
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by User23 2y ago
I wonder how many readers today even know what a television tuned to a dead channel looks like today.
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by User23 2y ago
Meanwhile when I grew up we’d cover cooked leftovers, including meat, leave it out, and eat it the next day. I never got food poisoning.
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by User23 2y ago
This is why you hear about a housing affordability problem in Washington DC despite a quick search showing dozens of recent sales for 2-3 bedroom apartments for under $100,000. There never was a housing shortage, there’s just a shortage of
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by User23 2y ago
Dijkstra told similar stories. Working in the immediate post-war Netherlands he got something like 30 minutes of machine time a week. I may be wrong on the exact amount of time, but it was extremely limited. I believe that, at least until r
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by User23 2y ago
Conspicuously missing: arbitrary precision integers.
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by User23 2y ago
The entire American medical system manages to act against the interests of both patients and doctors, the two essential classes of participants. It’s a rather remarkable achievement.
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by User23 2y ago
Everything that lives dies. And everything that dies is going to be food for something else sooner or later. Nothing is going to change that reality. That pig is going to die. How is dying to feed humans worse than the inevitable alternativ
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by User23 2y ago
I could say the same about San Diego. Only 20% yeah right it’s got to be closer to 50%. Except we’re both just offering anecdotes. Excessive drinkers are more conspicuous to begin with, and nobody is telling stories about the overwhelming m
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by User23 2y ago
Privatizing sovereign money creation was a heck of a trick.
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by User23 2y ago
The so-called legislators and “lawmakers” in the USA also don’t write laws. The process is complicated, but at an overview level the real lawmakers hire lobbyists to go find an office holder to rubber stamp a bill they have written and want
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by User23 2y ago
I believe that’s no longer true. That is, there are now orbiting satellites that use GPS in a client capacity for whatever reason. I’m pretty sure I recall a paper I saw on the subject discussing how the Earth centered inertial frame can’t
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by User23 2y ago
> Carmakers from China, an emerging automaking behemoth, face a 25 percent tariff enacted by Donald Trump. As a result, Americans cannot buy small Chinese EV sedans like the BYD Seagull that cost around $10,000, barely a fifth the price
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by User23 2y ago
> The fact that anything above a fender bender is almost always a total write off probably doest help either I’m totally ignorant on this subject so do you mind saying why that is?
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by User23 2y ago
To be fair the legal use of lethal force involves an intent to stop the perpetrator, not to kill him. You can very much get yourself convicted of murder in what would otherwise be a self defense case if a jury is convinced you were looking
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by User23 2y ago
Yes, they are very much a specialty of the regional culture. And they’re delicious.
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by User23 2y ago
The limit case of prosecutorial discretion is pragmatically indistinguishable from tyranny. The more selective law enforcement is when everything is illegal, the less meaningful the laws themselves actually are and the more important the pe
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by User23 2y ago
The childhood treatment for myopia is borderline abuse. Imagine treating childhood obesity with motor scooters. It’s basically that bad. Obviously the eye, like every other body part, is subject to Selye adaptation. The correct treatment is
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by User23 2y ago
Bike use used to exceed car use in China too. Maybe it still does?
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by User23 2y ago
I thought SBCL was a compiler only implementation? CMUCL did have an interpreter though.
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by User23 2y ago
One of my pet peeves is how few people read past the first line of the essay and think Parkinson’s Law is the opening quip about work expanding to fill the time available. Thanks for the proper write up.
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by User23 2y ago
Truck drivers in the USA can easily make well into the six figures as owner operators. It’s not gonna compete with FAANG (except maybe on oilfields?), but it’s a very good living. And of course if you’re good at running yourself as a busine
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by User23 2y ago
And the ever popular A55FACE.
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by User23 2y ago
> Get back to me when even a bare majority of philosophers and researchers can agree on a definition of consciousness. Get back to who? You appear to be claiming to be some kind of linguistic illusion, a meat LLM. If that’s true then the
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by User23 2y ago
The USA no longer has the productive power to win any sort of protracted conflict. For example, the USA has virtually no ship building capacity, being almost entirely reliant on Japan and South Korea. It’s a bad look for a country that fanc
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by User23 2y ago
Doing C-h l Will let you identify what you did. If it’s a frequent problem you can advise the function in question with a confirmation wrapper or something.
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by User23 2y ago
For the guidance computer. There was a lot more to the program than one guidance computer. If you keep reading the very source that you yourself linked you’ll find that NASA generally used customary units. Hence my qualifier “mostly” in my

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