WildUtah

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Just use kj for escape. It makes me so happy not to take my fingers off the home row where they belong. :inoremap kj <ESC> It's liberating. Also add this one temporarily to get yourself into the habit: :inoremap <ESC> esc S
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The US political asymmetries include that gun advocates, peace officers, and ex-military types that probably dislike Snowden most are statistically the least likely Americans to commit violent crime and have not engaged in any kind of syste
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You can build secure devices. All it takes is putting quality engineers in charge. But paying quality engineers isn't fun and they won't work for idiot management. So as long as management doesn't have to pay for the cost of
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The grass ain't greener anywhere else. The politics may not be better anywhere else, but pretty much anywhere is friendlier to life, including grass, than Buffalo.
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" I think he is a poor politician, and is clearly very unhappy about being denied tenure." Paul Graham, Why Nerds are Unpopular: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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Given the hand turned moldings in virgin old growth hardwoods and endangered tropical softwoods, you couldn't match the quality of the original materials today at any price. Near substitutes would ring you well into seven figures. But
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http://austinzoning.typepad.com/austincontrarian/2008/03/per...
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Not quite entirely. A public entity could just buy up surrounding land outright and then lease it out to private operators, capturing value in the rents. It's only illegal to do it the reasonable way that makes sense.
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SFPark digital metering and reform of minimum parking requirements are big advances for San Francisco that are well known.
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When SIRI reminds you to go grab that p-ssy, it's finally human enough to run for president.
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The term "human parity" refers to a comparison of the error The term 'human parity' refers to adding up all the bits in a human and taking the residue to a convenient modulus to detect human error.
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Don' You Go Rounin' Roun To Re Ro: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/british-movie/n...
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Yes, he did. Johnson was forced out of the primaries by Sen. McCarthy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
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https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/our-dumb-world/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
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The number of clever high-IQ people and engineers will continue falling. It's only the nations and cultures that don't value learning and invention that are expanding.
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There are people, even in Japan, that want a whole mess of children. That preference is heritable. Each generation has more of these people because they're the ones that reproduce. Eventually those fertile and natal enthusiasts will do
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Yes. 1. Corruption in Zimbabwe. Commercial farmers have been abandoning productive land and the country is getting poorer. 2. Communism in Cuba, Venezuela, SE Asia, and other regions over the past fifty years has ruined developing economies
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It does not apply to any patent suit. A petition for DJ against a demand letter, for instance, would not be included. A PGR at the PTO, even when appealed to courts is not included. An interference proceeding at court against Apple is not
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We're well on our way to 15+ billion without pause on the current UN projections, so hang on for a scary ride.
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Sourdough breadmaking and all the culture you have to constantly throw away to keep it from metastasizing or getting infected is very informative also.
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The other countries with well educated young people that could contribute also have falling populations. The nations of Africa (and similar Guatemala, Bolivia, Gaza, Afghanistan) with high illiteracy, high violence, and near zero higher edu
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150 years ago, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture. Today 2% do and we are better fed. Population growth or shrinkage cannot match productivity technology as the key factor in material quality of life. Countries with falling populations
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Yes. The only way to long run sustainability is central control of population with mandatory birth limits or unlimited expansion of land area to extraterrestrial territory. Otherwise evolution will always exceed its limits and produce a cra
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Also if the timeline could be adjusted. Lots of things are more interesting if the first 4500 years of no data could be skipped so we could actually see the recent developments.
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Peak population isn't coming in the next few centuries. The 2008 UN data these charts are based on had mistaken data on African growth. African fertility is much higher than expected then and continues not to fall. The later 2100s in t
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With the Sahara and Kalahari, Africa will be desperately overpopulated long before it matches Europe or China for total density. There's simply a vast and growing uninhabitable fraction of land in Africa. Increasing population pressure
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You should just upgrade your desktop machine to a retina iMac; they're the best machine out there for writing software.
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Thank you for re-posting that.
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Women are promoted preferentially in large companies with HR departments that enforce affirmative action policies and produce reports detailing compliance with national goals for minority participation. That leads men to leave such companie

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