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> Prior to WWII the United States was the world's leading power in terms of Science, Engineering and Industry - not Germany or the British Empire Per capita? The US had a larger population.
872.
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I had a support issue once at a well known and big US defense firm. We got kernel hangs consistently in kernel space from normal user-level code. Crazy shit. I opened a support issue which eventually got closed because we used an old compil
873.
by boxed 2y ago
No, it wouldn't. This is just angles. Angles don't change. Gravity is stable and points roughly to the center of the planet. Viscosity changes won't change the angle of anything. That's the entire point.
874.
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I've never been fired. So I don't see why "of course".
875.
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I have watched it with plenty of women, and I have not seen any difference.
876.
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Sounds like you never got fired. I hope you don't have to experience it.
877.
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> The experiments aren't in real world scenarios or with real urethrae excreting urine. Physics is physics though. Urine is not a magical substance that can violate conservation of momentum or the law of gravity.
878.
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The nautilus design is literally in the paper and they show that it's pretty good. Their design seems a lot smaller though if you look at the pictures.
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Humans are easily confused though. I've been 100% sure I've run the tests and haven't many times. It's quite easy to do: make a change, run the tests, fix it, run again, everything works. Make some trivial refactor that
880.
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Making it illegal is very different from throwing people off tall buildings.
881.
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The pop quizzes being part of the grade was the entire point of the comment you replied to. I guess you misread?
882.
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> Despite how bad a few modern Islamist societies may be, it is very wrong to write sentences like "Islam started as an imperialist death cult", like they would be true and universally applicable. I said "started" did
883.
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Win9X isn't an API. Win32 was horrible last I worked with it professionally ~2010. I'm going it bet it's still just as bad because of backwards compatibility concerns.
884.
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Doh. You're right.
885.
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> If rule of law and due process are arbitrarily ignored then the only real difference is time. Due process isn't a part of any religion afaik. And "rule of law" in Christianity and Islam is "suffer not a witch to liv
886.
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NeXTStep is still ahead of most modern GUI frameworks imo.
887.
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The slight difference is the difference between throwing gays off of tall buildings and complaining about them getting married.
888.
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I think a lot of gender studies and race studies in the US is either bogus, or makes the problem worse. But removing it from being searched also makes it harder to debunk, which is stupid in a totally different way.
889.
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The dose makes the poison. It doesn't sound THAT toxic, but enough to be a bad idea for sweeteners. But I'd bet the antibiotic itself has more toxicity! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin
890.
by boxed 2y ago
I'm going to want to throw in jumping spiders in the mix. They are extremely impressive cognitively, especially considering their size.
891.
by boxed 2y ago
> For most B2B SaaS businesses, you shouldn’t need more than $1M in capital to get to PMF, find a GTM motion that works (not that it needs to scale), and reach an ARR figure where the revenue multiple for valuation starts to look pretty
892.
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> So maybe there's no mystery: The AI lab companies are lying, and when they improve benchmark results it's because they have seen the answers before and are writing them down. [...then says maybe not...] Well.. they've b
893.
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But tariffs are a pain on YOURSELF. It's self harm.
894.
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But it's not bullying. It's self harm. You don't respond to self harm by harming yourself.
895.
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> Not taxing the wealthy There aren't enough wealthy to cover the shortfall. Doing this is a moral issue, not a national economy issue. But yea, the rest I think I agree with.
896.
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How is it retaliation to destroy your own economy by making the same bad life choices? Isn't actual retaliation to just ignore the entire thing and thank the US for the extra percentage points in advantage you got for free?
897.
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We all know the difference and the difference here is enormous.
898.
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It's a human thing. In Rome it was chariot teams. Suburbia isn't to blame.
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> Who will win the elections then? The forces whose supporters do talk politics with friends. Well.. who go around reinforcing team allegiances, not people who talk politics. That's a pretty big distinction imo.
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> It's not wrong, it's just over-simplified. I would say if you simplify this much it becomes just plain wrong.

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