WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
"Allied" in the sense that the Saudi crime family can sponsor 9-11 and their catspaw the Bush administration can exploit the occasion to supplicate even more to them. And the opposition and the media are so deep in Saud pockets, t
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Up to this point, it has been possible for supporters and apologists to waive away his vague or careless remarks during the campaign as political rhetoric, jokes, or leverage for future negotiation. Now we start to see the mean (in every s
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How this effects [sic] this country's current reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down can't be understated. That's the intention. The USA is more than a convenient incubator for
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US citizens have been banned from Iran for almost 40 years. That's a mighty swift response to US policy in 2017.
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There used to be a couple guys that would submit solutions to the qualifying round of the Google Code Jam (the round with the 25-hour time limit) in this language. I think he had to zip a png file containing his program with another file ex
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by WildUtah 10y ago
So we should invite traitors and collaborators into the USA? Those are the last people we should allow to join us here. That's the thing about cheaters: They cheated on their last partner with you and they'll cheat on you soon eno
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As recently as 2-3 years ago there were Macs out there that cost less than any comparable PC. Ultra light laptops with retina screens were cheaper from Apple than Asus or Dell. Any machine with a 27" retina screen was $1000 cheaper fro
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Mostly you're straight on, but the latest iMacs are among the best desktop PCs ever built. And they're still a good deal.
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Given the Apple announcements last fall, I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple. But let's remember that Apple still makes a majority of all the profit in the PC industry.
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That's why the NSA opened Let's Encrypt, isn't it?
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https://www.xkcd.com/221/
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"Junior" and "optimize c++" just do not typically go together. They sure did in the early 1990s. That was the only way you could ship a working product.
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Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language. That's why Haskell exists. It's the computer scientists' best attempt so far to create a language in which it's impossible to write FORTRAN programs.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
This story inspired me to get my own @cocaine.ninja email address. I'll be putting it on my resume and all official bank or government correspondence from now on.
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English is tough, though through thorough thought it can be understood.
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Do they still just wave people through there, eh? You might have to carry it a long time to get searched.
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They've retired the dangerous X ray scanners at all but tiny airports. (Thanks, Obama.) It's reasonably safe to just let them do the full body scan now. Of course, it's still your right under the written procedures to ask for
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If you could ban an antibiotic, bacteria would lose their resistance to it in time. Resistance consumes a lot of energy and the bacteria without it would simply outcompete the resistant varieties to quick extinction in a few thousand or mil
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Antibiotics are a renewable resource. If we could prohibit all use of a class of antibiotics for a time, probably decades, bacteria will stop spending energy on resistance and become vulnerable again. Antibiotic resistance is a problem with
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'Buffalo' doesn't mean 'bully' in English. It means 'con.'
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Most English speakers can parse the sentence just fine when they hear it spoken.
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That isn't really a rule change. The lexicon just added a new preposition, 'because,' to the old list. It means almost the same thing as the old preposition 'because of.' There's a difference between coining a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_ruin
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unless companies hire in exact quotas (which would also be discriminatory really). Quota hiring is usually considered a safe harbor under the law. Non-discriminatory policy and equal opportunity, on the other hand, can still create liabil
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Education promotes smart people not having kids, especially smart women. But it doesn't diminish in any way the dumb people. If you have no intention of getting an education or supporting yourself in the modern world, a tougher educati
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About 3% of people in modern developed rich countries work in farming. In every other kind of country, it's more. In Africa and India it's the majority still. But 150 years ago—and for 10,000 years before that—farming employed 90%
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Why the EU was necessary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE To divide and disunite Europe and make a complete pig's breakfast of the continent.
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Actually the rail network in Tokyo transports far more people than the RER/Metro in Paris Tokyo's metro population is 35 million. Paris's is 11 million. Each of them is served by multiple commuter and underground subway tra
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In .vimrc: no <Right> $ no <Left> ^ no <Up> <C-U> no <Down> <C-D> That should be enough to help newbies to stop using the arrow keys and put their right hands on hjkl as the Gods inte
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In your .vimrc file: ino kj <Esc> Then type kj each time you need to exit insert mode instead of escape. You'll love it. It's much better for your hands.

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