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by burfog 7y ago
That is exactly what a puppetmaster would say.
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by burfog 7y ago
It is destructive "in general" when the amount is a significant portion of GDP, federal budget, or total national assets. This qualifies. This is like the sub-prime mortgage meltdown with the credit default swaps. This is like the
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by burfog 7y ago
This ruling can't stand. It would crush the economy. You can't just wipe out $1.5 trillion in debt without consequence. That is about 7% of our GDP, or 1/3 of our federal budget. Drastic and desperate measures would be requir
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by burfog 7y ago
I object. Engineers are the most creative. Every valid patent is evidence of that. When I'm judging creativity, the marketing gunk on the side of a Kashi cereal box ranks far lower than the design of the exhaust valve cooling in the Fo
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by burfog 7y ago
What about battery life? If you prefer, call it carbon footprint. Python has a huge carbon footprint. We should get rid of slow languages for environmental reasons.
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by burfog 7y ago
Greta Thunberg is an abused child. Her father, with a prior career in social media, is running the show. That recent Facebook bug even revealed that he was posting on her behalf: https://i.imgur.com/KdsN3u7.jpg It's re
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by burfog 7y ago
The "engine failure" claim was simply unreasonable. Considering the altitude and the weather, there were a few ways that the aircraft could just suddenly go down without warning: 1. bomb on the aircraft 2. missile strike 3. collis
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by burfog 7y ago
quote is near the end, and context is all about a visit to Poland
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by burfog 7y ago
Economically, that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. If a business pays employees more than the market rate, it will be less profitable and thus more likely to fail. If a business pays employees less than the market rate, it wil
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes, the ball does explode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr1KB4Csp00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5v4RvbjRqY
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by burfog 7y ago
That is common for toy languages without wide industry support. It doesn't inspire confidence. There should be compilers from Microsoft, IBM, Apple, GNU/FSF, and several others. There should be a properly ratified international st
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by burfog 7y ago
The major serious languages get along just fine with IEEE, ANSI, and ISO. For example, C is handled by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14. The idea that Rust would need a foundation is making me uneasy.
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by burfog 7y ago
At home it matters too. I recover faster from chest colds when I remember to keep the HEPA filter running. (instead of a simple speed knob, it boots up to a multilingual color display that I can't even dim, and of course the filter def
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by burfog 7y ago
We can have get accidental death up to second place by banning railings, air bags, helmets, and tire tread patterns. In other words, was there really a spike in youth suicide or did it just climb in rank because we reduced other causes of d
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by burfog 7y ago
This is not correct: "Food is created by taking CO2, keeping the C and releasing the O2." The resulting O2 actually comes from a pair of H2O. Consider the reaction performed by purple sulfur bacteria, which are related by evolutio
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by burfog 7y ago
The fake lynching looks like a crime done in order to pass a law, possibly to help someone get elected president, which is quite serious. Dropping the charges is highly suspicious too, having been done by people who were also associated wit
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by burfog 7y ago
It intersects with our upcoming presidential election. Two of the candidates (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) were trying to pass an anti-lynching bill, as if lynching wasn't already illegal many times over, and then very conveniently J
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by burfog 7y ago
California is neither an arm of the federal government nor akin to a country. It is in most ways a subservient and inferior government, owing resources to the federal government. That's part of the deal that California got when it join
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by burfog 7y ago
I doubt anybody uses "democrat party" for reasons related to the demon-rat moniker. It seems to be more about disputing that the party is in fact democratic. Among other things, the superdelegates make this clear. It's also t
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by burfog 7y ago
Maybe the inhabitant only weighs 80 pounds, and that is all the floor is capable of supporting. The basement holds a large collection of glass containers holding venomous animals.
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by burfog 7y ago
"as much as was desired" We decided how much winning we wanted, and we did it. Unfortunately for the soldiers and the taxpayers, the politicians have a limited appetite for winning. Vietnam is a fine example. We limited the amount
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by burfog 7y ago
I wonder about the cost and practicality of producing kits that fully replace the electronics for various popular tractor models. There would be no need to hack anything; you could use any desired computer architecture.
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by burfog 7y ago
The US has won every war as much as was desired, and it will continue to do so. Every supposed "loss" occurs in DC politics, not as a result of inability on the battlefield.
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Democrat voters may oppose war, but the same can not be said for democrat politicians.
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That won't open doors. Neither party will trust her. Republicans think she is a democrat, and democrats would blacklist anybody who worked for Trump. She had plenty of doors open already, not that she needed them. She had her fashion b
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by burfog 7y ago
That isn't a house at all. It's an apartment condo. Worse yet, the land itself is leased from a different owner. Start with the idea that you own the land and the building, and that you can walk around the building while staying o
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by burfog 7y ago
Federal jobs, even near the top, pay so little that the nepotism claim is silly. This is a billionaire family, and we're supposed to be concerned with salary that is well below what a software developer can make?
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by burfog 7y ago
Well the same goes for the irrelevant popular vote. She won it by less than a New York City.
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by burfog 7y ago
I am serious, aside from minor personal details being changed. (different animal, etc.) The pond is so that the kids can go fishing out in the back yard. They don't need transportation, they can be watched from the house, they can have
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by burfog 7y ago
I can see what it costs. Getting $800k/yr means a house of about $1,600,000 should be affordable, but that gets you trash. Getting a "house" that PHYSICALLY TOUCHES the neighbor's house will go for more than that in a se

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