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Insurrection Act of 1807(en.wikipedia.org)
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What happens if a president-elect dies?(latimes.com)
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> “Be cautious of revolutions in military affairs,” said Donald Sando, Donahoe’s civilian deputy and an intellectual mainstay at Fort Benning for many years. “We can’t hope endlessly that technology will make warfare easier or less bruta
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The thing that will sit deep within me for at least the next few years is that, no matter how you slice it, a vote for Trump is complicit acceptance of his divisive and harmful behavior. ... How many Biden voters would approve of his f
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by aazaa 6y ago
Did the president merely tap into this simmering sentiment, or did he inflame it? Recently, Glenn Greenwald wrote about the reluctance of large news organizations to even mention the Hunter Biden laptop story. https://greenwald.s
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by aazaa 6y ago
> If you develop a program for a long period of time by only adding features but never reorganizing it to reflect your understanding of those features, then eventually that program simply does not contain any understanding and all effort
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by aazaa 6y ago
I find it extremely amusing that the US government has over the last several years become one of the world's largest traders in bitcoin. It's not quite the path many were predicting back in the early 2010s, but Bitcoin has been fu
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How A Single Person Could Decide the Election(theatlantic.com)
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Contingent Election(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 6y ago
Nixon, yes, but not Ford - at least in inflation-adjusted dollar terms. %GDP spend was higher in that period, but 72-76 dollar spend was less.
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by aazaa 6y ago
The title of the article doesn't match the content. The tile suggests the article will talk about the white paper specifically. It instead talks about what Bitcoin got right/wrong in general. The white paper says nothing about spe
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by aazaa 6y ago
Given that you already use Python, have you considered writing C extensions as a way to take advantage of what you already know to learn something new (C language)? You can do the same thing in Rust, but it's a bit more work.
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Study of Rust's std:io:Error(matklad.github.io)
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XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust(usethe.computer)
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> Your goal should be to get so good at steelmanning all types of arguments that you can pass the so-called Ideological Turing Test. To pass this test, you should be able to argue so persuasively and passionately for the other side that
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Mission focus is the operational principle that your project’s social responsibility is the effective and focused execution of its mission. ... This brings to mind what Snowden revealed to the world. Few inside the CIA new about domest
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by aazaa 6y ago
This and most discussions about inflation lack an actual definition of the term. This leads to heated discussions that sometimes talk past each other. I suspect what the article is talking about is Core Personal Consumption Expenditures: &g
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The technology works by adding the compound diamine to saltwater. The type of diamine used is CO2-responsive, meaning that the substance’s behaviour can be controlled when it comes into contact with CO2. The diamine binds with the adde
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by aazaa 6y ago
I'm not sure this addresses the right problem. You could mix every amino acid, every nucleoside, all known sugars, a bunch of phosphate and any metal salts you'd like in a giant flask, stir for a long time and end up with nothing
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The way this happened is pretty simple. At Strong Towns, we call it the Growth Ponzi Scheme. Through a combination of federal incentives, state programs and private capital, cities were able to rapidly grow by expanding horizontally. T
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Virtually every member of the Western Alliance has had its own years of lead, not only Italy but Britain during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, France as it tried to cling to Algeria and was targeted by its own paramilitary terror ca
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The other day I was looking for a simple, dependency free, tabs component. You know, the canonical example of something that is easy to do with Web Components, the example 50% of tutorials mention. I didn’t even care what it looked lik
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by aazaa 6y ago
Awful article. It never even explains what "the mission is." Doesn't even link to the original Coinbase blog post.
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> It would be interesting to compare it to working on open source software, another activity that can have significant positive impact but is difficult to get paid for. I don’t have a strong opinion on this at the moment. Does anyone hav
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> Amnesty says its bank accounts have been frozen and it's been forced to lay off staff in the country, and suspend all its campaign and research work. A good chunk of the reported charges by the organization revolve around access t
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The video linked in the first sentence is well worth the time to understand the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw
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> A possible product that I think is likely to play out this way is water desalination. Desalinated water is very expensive because of the embedded energy cost: it's often described as "bottled electricity". Currently we t
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Eclipse Layout Kernel(eclipse.org)
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> Type inference: because having to write out every type, however obvious, is an incredible waste of time. Person me = new Person(); is ridiculous. let me = new Person(); may seem like a small improvement, but spread over the body of an
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> The Hongguang MINI EV, made by SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., is currently the hottest EV in China, the world’s biggest automobile market. Sales of the compact four-seater beat industry giant Tesla Inc. in August, with consumers wowed

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