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by bawolff 9mo ago
If it actually worked i could certainly see the value prop of not making users download a separate program. Generally downloading a separate program is a pretty big ask.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
As someone who grew up eating oatmeal for breakfast... that sounds really disgusting. Don't get me wrong, to each their own, if you like it that's great, but way too liquidly oatmeal plus oil just sounds really disgusting compared
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by bawolff 9mo ago
In fairness, people don't generally give 6 figure settlements if they think the jury will agree with them
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Is USA the outliner here? In (most of) canada 0.05 will get your license suspended (but you dont go to jail unless its 0.08). Australia, scotland and france are also 0.05. There are quite a few countries where the limit is less than that.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> I'm not saying it's the most professional choice, but if I were about to burgle a courthouse as part of my work, I'd like a beer or two to calm my nerves beforehand. I feel like if you do something for a living, you shou
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> The same is true for people that say that antidepressants are mostly placebo. They are not. In fairness, anti-depressants are a lot of drugs. The article gives a list. 23 of them seemed to be better than placebo, 19 of them were much l
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> The twisted kink is caused by the hydrogens being on opposite sides, hence "trans". (And yes, if they're on the same side it's "cis". Latin was a mistake.) Why you being mean to latin? ;)
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Yeah, but arent you allowed to exit and re-enter security as many times as you like as long as you have a valid ticket?
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> a) the relative political stability of the post cold war period Most plane hijackings/bombings were middle east related (e.g. linked to one of Palestinian liberation, al-qaeda, or isis) Not sure i'd call that a stable region
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I assume they have some deterent value. You can tell because some of the failed bombings (like the shoe bomber) failed because their plans were stupid to get around security, and if security wasn't there they would probably have used a
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Other then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Northern_Airlines_Flight... how often has anyone ever set fire to a plane (not counting bombs that caused fires). Is there even a single other example. I agree on guns, bu
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Bombings are pretty rare. The last succesful plane bombing of a plane departing from the united states that killed people was in 1962.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I thought the point of replacing all the xray scanners with CT scanners was to be able to detect this sort of thing?
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I still think there is a huge ideological difference between thinking something is wrong but not doing anything about it vs thinking something is A-ok. Strongly worded letters might not mean much, but at least they are on the right side of
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Well to take it literally the quote is "policies I don’t agree with". It raises the question, is it really because he cares about the people of Iran, or is it because he has preconcieved notions of what policies he likes and disli
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by bawolff 9mo ago
To be fair to speed runners, i do think there is a sort of beauty to eeking out every last second. Idk, maybe everything is art
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> The variation in interpretation is the same, but that's not really an interaction. In a video game you're not just the audience you're a participant. There are other forms of art like that, and they too are difficult to
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> So, the way it's different is that it's you, in a way it can't be when you read a novel, or look at a painting. I mean, i would just disagree with that. I think its the same. Edit: rereading im kind of unhappy with what
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> Sure, but you can understand why US citizens and European citizens don't feel the same urge to go out and protest something that their taxes don't directly contribute to. The point i was responding to was whether such protest
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Wikipedia defines it as: Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around works utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience,[1] generally through an expression of emotional power
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> Because the essence of a video game, which makes it more than a low-quality animated movie, is that it is interactive and requires the player to enact the plot. It transforms the player’s mind. But transforming the viewer is how i woul
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by bawolff 9mo ago
You can still protest to signal support for usa to keep its hardline stance on Iran or to increase measures. You can also protest to make sure the horrors aren't forgotten and to signal to those suffering in Iran that they aren't
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by bawolff 9mo ago
At its peak i think (based on googling) the nazis killed about 14,000 per day, which would put it in a similar ball park on a per-day basis. However they kept up the level of killing and didn't stop after just a few days. https:/
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Historically there was sometimes the idea that citizens are the property of the sovereign to use or dispose of as he sees fit. A lot of historical international law had the view that states have absolute feeedom to conduct their internal af
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I don't think killing that many people requires much coordination when one side has guns (let alone machine guns) and a lot of soldiers
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by bawolff 9mo ago
If you want a more neutal organization https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I think the point is that its believed they were foreigners who were part of iranian proxy forces (e.g. iranian backed militias in iraq), so weren't doing it for money but out of some sort of loyalty to the iranian regime or ideology.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
That's crazy. That's like ~40% of the deaths in the current gaza war, except over just 2 days instead of 2 years.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> Ok, `io_uring` (like NVMe but for IO commands from application to kernel) Are there benchmarks comparing turso with io_uring to sqlite (with other config the same)? io_uring has the potential to be faster but its not garunteed. It mig
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Do you usually read test suites? I care that sqlite is being tested against it, because i care that sqlite is well tested. i'm not super concerned that part of the test suite is closed source as i dont need to directly use it.

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