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by bigbubba 6y ago
If a snowstorm blocks the roads and takes out your power for a week, what is that if not a local collapse of society? Utilities, emergency responders, access to grocery stores... these are things we take for granted that can and have been
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That is a bald faced lie. The information comes from Uyghurs who managed to escape. The true scale of the genocide will likely not be known until/unless the CCP is dismantled and its members put on trial.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Whoever told you this was probably trying to sell more ammunition; modern ammunition is good for decades at least. In the present, use of old ammunition (a few decades or more) is discouraged because the old formulations of primer compound
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What does it mean for prepping to be 'taken over'? Preparing yourself is an activity an individual performs, it's not some sort of club that could be taken over. Some loon deciding to waste his money buying 50 rifles should
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If it happens during your lifetime, it will likely only be once. So 'it never happened to me before' is not a very good way to reason about this sort of risk.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Likewise, I have all-electic heating and no gas service to my home, but a carbon monoxide detector only costs a few dollars so I still have one even though the risk is very low (most fires would probably trip the smoke detectors first I thi
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You can also render water relatively safe to drink using small amounts of bleach. I've done it a few times whilr camping. EPA.gov has instructions for it, you only need a few drops of bleach per gallon (roughly 3.75L) of water. One
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Not to impugn on your cred or anything, but 25 years may as well be the blink of an eye when you're talking about geological phenomenon. > 'What are you worried about, I've lived here 25 years and that mountain never did
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Do you mean we should be 'more critical' of the reports that China is operating genocidal concentration camps aimed at exterminating the Uyghur culture?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I can see you're not taking this conversation seriously, since your proposal would entail a massive increase in executions, which I know you do not seriously desire. You know, as well as I do, that justice systems make mistakes. I do
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by bigbubba 6y ago
When that inevitably fails, where do you put the unrepentant rapist, if not in a prison? This is a simple question, if you find yourself unable to answer it, it's because your proposal is moronic.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What help would or could you give to an unrepentant rapist before they are captured by the police?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That's a whole lot of words to not answer my question. Where would you put unrepentant rapists, if not in a prison?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The right of nonsmokers to not breath second hand smoke has moral precedence over the right of smokers to smoke.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Where would you put a rapist, if not in a prison?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> People literally waiting to die in a nursing home are dying. This is why I've said from the beginning that impact to life expectancy should be the metric which guides public policy. It accounts for lives of children being worth
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe, since you admit your English language skills could use some work, you should give up on linguistic pedantry and find a new hobby.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them https://www.wsj.com/articles/string-of-firms-that-imploded-h... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802741 Nobody at
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I absolutely hate all the cutesy trademarks businesses expect you to use. I don't want a 'Mc' anything, just give me a 'number 5 Burger.' And fuck all the bullshit terms these corporations use instead of small&#
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> What if it has the contagiousness of covid but the long term lethality of hiv? What if we get hit by a comet?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's really about the empowerment of the masses; giving 'non-programmers' the power to create software.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Microsoft now has a second parallel implementation of Minecraft in C++. They've ported this to numerous platforms, but notably not MacOS or Linux desktops. (It's also substantially faster, but comparing it to Java edition is sort
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Doesn't the borrow checker ask programmers to be a bit less crude and hacky? I thought that was the point.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I haven't worked in the games industry so please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't game development culture one of rushing crude hacks out the door at the last minute? Rust seems like a poor 'culture fit' in this
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's very Disney Land. A superficial facade you're not meant to look behind.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If a TV isn't plugged into anything, I suppose it's no longer a TV.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There seem to be some such people in this very discussion who think corporations might.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'd say GPLv3 avoidance demonstrates respect[fear] of the license, not abuse of it. To abuse it would be to use that software while not respecting the terms of the license.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A computer without software is no longer a computer?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Not 'we'.

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