WildUtah

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It's almost 2017 and vi and EMACS are still the only two editors that matter. Who could have expected that when they were both first released just over 40 years ago?
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That's why this is a good time to experiment with a ban. The USA is in a transition between two presidents of different parties and the UK has an unelected supremeo with two chaotically contradictory mandates. The status quo is fuzzily
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Or upvote/downvote could be replaced by two completely value-free congruent triangles, pointing in opposite directions.
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Evidence of the effectiveness of Tylenol on fever or headache is very, very weak. It's similar to the evidence for aloe. Mostly Tylenol is administered as a placebo. Fake aloe is at least useful as a moisturizer.
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Those are H-2Bs.
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A lot of weird fringe non-standard email systems like Exchange work hard to maintain incompatibility with Linux.
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It's mostly a matter of deliberate gerrymandering. In years like 2012 and soon 2016, a large majority of voters pick a Democrat for Congress. In order to keep control of the body, Republicans have arranged the districts so that they ar
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Wyoming is very unlikely to ever determine a presidential election result. Wyoming determined the presidential result in 2000. Doesn't seem that unlikely to me.
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Note that if every state used the Maine/Nebraska system, Trump would be guaranteed to win next week. There would not be another Democratic president for many years at least. Obama, for instance, would not have won in 2008 or 2012.
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On your first point, Most people would find it unacceptable to vote against what the voters voted for, so in that sense it's largely ceremonial : Two hundred seventy one electors—a majority—voted against what the voters voted for in 2
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The popular election of senators (instituted in 1913) has been an abject failure. It took responsibility and attention from state legislatures, promoting corruption, and centralized government in unaccountable and distant federal bureaus. A
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No penalty has been applied to faithless electors, partly because such a penalty is unconstitutional. Supreme Court cases US Term Limits v Thornton and Ray v Blair make it clear that states cannot force electors to vote in any particular wa
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14.4kbps! When I first connected to the internet, 300bps was the order of the day. We loved it because it was a lightning fast upgrade from the poor sad folks that were still stuck with 110bps. Gosh, what we could have done in those days wi
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Apparently people are looking into Sabrina Ruben-Erdely's history and it resembles Stephen Glass[0] with a sex-crime angle. Poorly researched articles and lazy fact checking built her a career where RS was paying her $43,000 a story fo
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MacBook Escape, which will be the most popular model by far, has all the hardware escape keys any user wants.
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Yet Trump vocally opposes Planned Parenthood. Trump ardently and vocally supports Planned Parenthood. He was the only candidate at the Republican debates that did so. He was booed on the stage by the audience and maintained his support in
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Red Zone is mostly for fantasy football players. It's far too shallow for actual fans. The deep, tense, complicated, sophisticated overtime tie game the Cardinals and Seahawks played last Sunday was among the very best games of the pas
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You're supposed to watch the games with family and friends and share conversation and snacks during the game. The pauses in the action are there to give you time to spend with each other without letting any conversation get deep, meani
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If fullshark were on the side of inequality, she probably wouldn't feel guilty about it. She'd be delighted every time it came to light. "Do you know whose lives really matter?" she'd say to some kneeling footballer
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Holy cow is Twitter ever garbage at showing you anything even slightly more complicated than a single 140 char comment. Threads, stories, conversations, and any other kinds of actual information is a maze of _see_others_ and _see_more_ and
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You're not sacrificing anything. The old MBP had two usb ports and the new one has 3 available while charging. The only thing that has changed is now you can use the charging port for IO when not charging. The MacBook Escape—which hi
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The principle of power and signal separation has been used to send multiple signals over a wire since the duplex telegraph in 1872. It's one of the few things in this world older than the headphone jack standard that we've been us
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There's a book of John Wesley Powell expedition photos down the Colorado River in 1869, the first time it had been explored through Cataract, Glen, and Grand Canyons. The authors returned a century later to retake the same photos from
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Not just Slashdot in 2003. Also Slashdot in 1998, Hacker News in 2008, Usenet in 1988, and all throughout the intervening years and back to the very dawn of recorded history. Sumerians were exchanging angry commentary written on their clay
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The 2015 model was just the 2014 model with a cheaper trackpad.
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That MBP is a spring 2014 model that you are comparing against a fall 2016 Dell. It's amazing that the Dell doesn't cost US$1000 less.
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Actually, the Apple hardware and specs are usually better than you can get in a comparable Windows laptop for the same price. The Windows machines are cheaper right now only because Apple has gone two and a half years without updating the M
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Try mapping kj instead of jj. I use jj and jk often enough (quaternions, don't you know) but kj is a really obscure sequence.
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A free democracy has a natural way to handle the development of a culture of hate and censorship against a minority. The minority develops its own video sharing sites and its own advertising networks and its own publishing houses. Since we&
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Courageous. Revolutionary and courageous. http://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/

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