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by aurailious 8y ago
The majority of US debt is held domestically, same with China.
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by aurailious 8y ago
> If this seems odd, it's only because modern Americans have largely stopped thinking of the United States as, well, a set of united states. But that's exactly what they are. Yes, this is exactly my point. The EC comes from an
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by aurailious 8y ago
Its a remnant from a time when the US was a collection of states instead of a single country. The proverbial change of "the US are" to "the US is". The President is elected by the States just as Senators used to be. It w
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by aurailious 8y ago
The Electoral College is a terrible system for trying to resist mob rule. It was never designed for such a thing and trying to backport that reason onto it is dumb bullshit.
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by aurailious 8y ago
> Look at the backlash over 'gentrification'. No, we like our squalor just the way it is! This is highly dismissive of all the actual and legitimate problems gentrification has.
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by aurailious 8y ago
The US generally does not export its most advanced defense technology. Almost all fighter aircraft exports over the past century have have limitations on its equipment. Generally the receiving country replaces some equipment with their own
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by aurailious 8y ago
> Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage. Its not just seeing it as such, it is. Data is everything these days.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Most cities try to hide trailer parks as much as possible. 99% Invisible recently did an episode on mobile homes that was pretty interesting.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Well, the judge has to base the decision on a whole bunch of laws. It's not like judges get to decide this on their own.
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by aurailious 8y ago
But just because its primary purpose is education doesn't mean it will/would/should always be that. Its sort of like curb cuts, something that starts out trying to fix one problem but then its quickly seen how many other prob
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by aurailious 8y ago
Sealion?
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by aurailious 8y ago
You must have had your 401k with a terrible bank then.
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by aurailious 8y ago
We absolutely know the Nazis would have at least use atom bombs on the Eastern front. Whether they would use them on the UK could be up for debate, but arguably they would have used them there as well. Regardless, the atom bombs were certai
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by aurailious 8y ago
> there was almost nothing left worth hitting in strategic terms. The bombing campaign leading up to the atom bombs specifically left about 5-6 cities relatively untouched. There were still major strategic targets left in August. They di
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by aurailious 8y ago
With the amount of abstraction going on in software its going to be much more like soup in the future.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Isn't it "known" that even something like temperature is also linked to increased crime?
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by aurailious 8y ago
Whataboutism
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by aurailious 8y ago
So that would mean that the person asking the bot to give consent or would that mean Google is the one giving consent? Or is the person giving permission to Google to give consent? Would Google give permission to the recording of the call?
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by aurailious 8y ago
I am not sure how you are implying those two things can be seperate. All immigrants have a source. Throughout US history there has been waves of immigration. Where that source is has changed along with the resentment of that source. It is n
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by aurailious 8y ago
For the time being, immigration is still causing the millennial generation to increase and is the reason why US population continues to grow. So for at least the US the result is that we may not face the same problems as other developed cou
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by aurailious 8y ago
I think other languages call "phones" different things. In German I think it's a "handy". While like most German words its a bit awkward, it does seem closer to the truth.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Thank you for your sarcasm, its been very valuable.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Higher cost to do business by requiring compliance with regulations.
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by aurailious 8y ago
I think the point isn't that we can build from source, but why. If its a huge codebase you can't independently audit that source code. So ultimately if you compile it or the organization making it doesn't matter for purposes
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by aurailious 8y ago
Nadella seems to have changed from Balmer's "software on Windows" to the current "software with Windows". I know that their have been making better Android and iOS compatibility. However, I would guess that they wou
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by aurailious 8y ago
Duplex will definitely be used in the opposite direction than demonstrated. Its acceptable to talk to a robot over the phone, and improving that process is very valuable. But having a robot speak to the business? That might be a bit much.
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by aurailious 8y ago
"Millennials are now killing the Chinese manufacturing industry!"
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by aurailious 8y ago
I have been using this on my pixelbook and, unless I am wildly mistaken, it's generating an LXC container. Android apps for instance all run inside a single container for them as well The container itself is running Debian Stretch. Ho
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by aurailious 8y ago
I prefer not to call them servants, it would be better to start calling them partners actually, just in case we call them master some day.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Sometimes the simple, old, and reliable tool isn't the best one for your environment.

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