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by burfog 7y ago
Buses also don't work. Disasters are disastrous. New Orleans had huge numbers of school buses. They went unused and were destroyed by flooding. You might demand that the government not be incompetent, but the reality is that government
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by burfog 7y ago
Although I'm all in favor of cars, taking just one baby on public transit isn't much different from going by yourself on public transit. The trick is a sling. Don't even buy a stroller. There are several types of slings for b
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by burfog 7y ago
The very concept of "traffic calming" is a lie. It's cause for road rage, distraction from watching for pedestrians, slamming brakes, and loud hard-revving engines. One day when I had reduced ride height due to a tire issue,
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by burfog 7y ago
It didn't have to be done this way. In case somebody to fix this, here is an alternate implementation: There is a separate library, or a part of libgcc, that can be mapped in multiple times. This allows trampolines without any limit ot
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by burfog 7y ago
That landing gear only extends when the nose gear is off the ground. It's really just to prevent a tail strike. An alternate choice would be a little extra wheel up on the tail, as was done with the Concorde.
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by burfog 7y ago
We now have ion thrusters, which are great for when you need a huge velocity change but can take your sweet time to do it.
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by burfog 7y ago
That gets unfair. Towns around Flint spent their own money to fix their own pipes. They sacrificed to do the right thing. If a place like Flint now gets upgrades for free, we're rewarding irresponsibility. The voters of Flint choose to
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by burfog 7y ago
The situation with presidential qualifications is one-of-a-kind special. Hiring at tech companies isn't spelled out in the constitution. Constitutional requirements can also be changed, and it is long past time that we do so. The count
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by burfog 7y ago
I know couples who wait until marriage for kissing. Not that I specified "gun", but I know people who regularly carry one. It is cheap and effective, and it will protect partners too, just like condoms.
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by burfog 7y ago
Put B,C,D on the other side of a privilege boundary. Most obviously, they can go in the kernel. They can go in a separate process, using the Mach messaging that Apple so loves. There are other designs, as seen in Multics and VMS, with semi-
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by burfog 7y ago
Congratulations on taking a step in the right direction, even if it is a very small step. Nobody else seems to take the threat seriously, somewhat excepting defense contractors of course. I can understand being reluctant to deal with the fu
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by burfog 7y ago
Of course you wouldn't be almost certainly infected. Some people don't have sexual relationships. Many people are in monogamous relationships.
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by burfog 7y ago
Not everybody does that. Getting the vaccine because you might decide to sleep around (oral or otherwise) is like carrying a weapon because you might decide to get in a fight. Rape exists, but so do murderous assaults. The logic that says y
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by burfog 7y ago
Apple could just not have private APIs. At the very least, they could be impossible to access. If they have to exist at all, they could be in a separate library with permissions that prevent it from being read or mapped into memory. If the
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by burfog 7y ago
Mobile is expected to run JIT translated code. Itanium's design was finalized before JIT became important. Suddenly JIT was everywhere and spreading: Java, C# .net CLR stuff, Javascript, and more. JIT output can not be well-optimized b
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by burfog 7y ago
So you'd say West Virginia is a country but not a state, and every Chinatown is a nation? I don't think your definitions match the accepted reality in the American English language.
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by burfog 7y ago
These supposed "undocumented immigrants" are not generally undocumented. Nearly all of them have documents. Of course, those documents might use your social security number. This being the case, the situation is generally one of
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by burfog 7y ago
Don't assume that there is nothing inheritable about this: "the quality of life impacts are significant and people are willing to go to considerable lengths to reduce them." Some people just won't care very much. People
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by burfog 7y ago
It's a purposely extreme example of evolution. Because blue eyes are a recessive trait, there would not be any babies with non-blue eyes until a fresh new mutation occurred. The trait really does go away when there is no DNA in the pop
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by burfog 7y ago
No, but it is similar. A smart person with a burning desire to produce offspring will have the greatest advantage. A smart person who dislikes children will have the greatest disadvantage. In between those people are the people who screw up
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by burfog 7y ago
Birth control would go unused. People who crave huge families are going to win out over those who would rather not have huge families. There probably will be some reproductive organ changes to sometimes defeat some forms of birth control, b
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by burfog 7y ago
It's a very temporary matter for evolution. Our environment now includes birth control. Most people in the current population do not feature traits to overcome birth control. There is a subset of the population which does have the need
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by burfog 7y ago
Again, it's 2019. Roger Ailes is gone as of July 2016. There is no longer anybody conservative running Fox News. Median political opinion in the USA (maybe not your neighborhood) is to the right of Fox News. To maximize audience, Fox N
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by burfog 7y ago
Note that this is "in 2019" though. Fox News hired Donna Brazile, who worked as head of the DNC.
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by burfog 7y ago
The funny thing is that I don't know which way you are shocked. If they aren't mirror-biased, which one is more biased?
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by burfog 7y ago
It's ongoing. He had been stopped on a technicality related to deadlines, but a new ruling by the court gets him past that.
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by burfog 7y ago
In the popular browsers, how do we kill this misfeature?
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by burfog 7y ago
I wasn't claiming the $2 was gas tax. Policy is more than just the gas tax. Policy drives up "Distribution Costs". If it is hard to operate a fuel tanker trucking company in California, the cost of distribution will be higher
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by burfog 7y ago
This is all about consequences of regulation. People buy large SUVs because the fuel efficiency law encourages it. Calculations for CAFE involve the vehicle mass and the area of pavement surrounded by the tires. Large SUVs have an advantage
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by burfog 7y ago
"The price at the pump was more than $4 a gallon in Vista, Calif., when Scott Hissem recently embarked on a trip to Texas [...] Gasoline cost just $2 and change. The gap has Mr. Hissem considering a move to escape California's hig

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