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by burfog 7y ago
It's this, also found in New York and many other locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
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by burfog 7y ago
They pay quite well if you measure that by how many hours of work you must do to pay a mortgage on a nice home. This is because: 1. It's typically a 40-hour week. They legally can't make you work 48 or more without paying overtime
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by burfog 7y ago
Right, we should all work for FAANG companies. Likewise, why wouldn't any person who loves sports work for the NBA instead of as a gym teacher? You'll make more money working as an NBA player, and you don't have to wait year
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by burfog 7y ago
Meritocracy produces moderate social mobility. Making success (income, etc.) uncorrelated between generations would require a lottery. This includes a lottery for parental care, for DNA, for attractiveness, and so on. It really isn't p
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by burfog 7y ago
There are different notions of what an array is. In some languages, an array is dynamic. You don't have to declare the size. You can just put stuff at any index you desire, and the array will grow as needed. For example, just set foo[1
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes, I know about the off-by-one. I can't edit it now. 3["foo"]
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by burfog 7y ago
Ammonium nitrate is the superior propellant. It is the only one that is non-toxic. You get nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and water vapor in a 2-to-1 ratio. Yes, it can detonate. There are ways to deal with this. Stronger containment is the o
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by burfog 7y ago
I've taught pointers to multiple people who struggled. C makes pointers difficult by having some syntax oddities that seem to mainly be intended to save a few characters of source code. The biggest trouble is that C often gives you a f
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by burfog 7y ago
I disagree on a few of those. The backup cams affect my night vision. When I back out of a parking space at night, I'm hit with the glare. I need my vision to drive! Humans adapt to adaptive cruise control, lane assist, auto parallel p
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by burfog 7y ago
Nearly all of the ones ahead of the USA are clearly city-states or oil/gas sources. Both are unreasonable comparisons. The city-states could properly be compared with Manhattan. The oil/gas sources may have a high GDP, but the typ
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by burfog 7y ago
London's runs on iRMX III. The hardware is x86 but non-PC, based on Multibus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMX_(operating_system) That OS was pretty much a feature demo OS for the x86. All that task switching stu
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by burfog 7y ago
If there is any country in the world that can make national self-sufficiency work, it's the USA. The economy is still the largest, and it is also the most diverse. The USA has a large and varied geography from which to generate materia
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by burfog 7y ago
It's thought that China got F-35 plans via hacking into the contractors. That would be enough to understand the board. Actually having the board means they can embed a chip inside it. Combine those, and they can MITM all sorts of data.
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by burfog 7y ago
I'm guessing the campaign promise to "win bigly" didn't resonate with you, but lots of people loved it. I suspect you do have an enemy. It might be rural people, southerners, Christians, or people who want to win bigly.
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by burfog 7y ago
They can connect cause and effect if you are consistent and very fast. Proposing some plausible numbers: raise 2 to the power of their age in years, and the result is how many seconds you have. It may be a bit low, giving only 3 days at age
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by burfog 7y ago
I've always been bothered by the "Apologize to your brother" idea. In general, it is totally fake, and everybody knows this. I'd rather not encourage dishonesty. Granted, dishonesty may be a useful skill, but I think kid
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by burfog 7y ago
That would be extremist meritocracy. Just like capitalism doesn't mean you can sell cocaine and communism does't mean you have to lease your underwear from the government, meritocracy doesn't mean everybody gets to be on the
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by burfog 7y ago
Pardon the sports analogy... You're on a soccer team. You object to your teammates refusing to let the fans or the opposing team have a chance to kick the ball. You see this as being spiteful, since everybody should be able to share th
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by burfog 7y ago
They aren't saying as far as I can tell, except that it receives an optical signal at the rear. Some people are assuming it has fins, but none are visible in diagrams. Beginners can hit moving targets at extreme ranges. http:/&#x
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by burfog 7y ago
I think it is because the "nutcases" (a rude term BTW) were specified to be on one side of the political spectrum, and that the country chosen for the example of "persuading the American electorate" (later referred to as
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by burfog 7y ago
There are a lot of things between "modern Russian tank" and "completely unprotected humans". The 30mm gun is excellent against armored personal carriers. For the tanks, the A-10 carries the AGM-65 Maverick with 136 kg (3
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by burfog 7y ago
Disaster possibility 1 is that nobody bids on the project. It is too risky. Disaster possibility 2 is that the original bid is met... but one critical feature is left out of the contract (overlooked) and is thus not in the result. Disaster
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes, in long muscle fibers and in the syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta. This involves repurposed viral DNA. Viruses use that DNA to spread directly from cell to cell. The placenta makes a giant multi-nucleated cell to block any gaps.
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by burfog 7y ago
5 that are innocent of everything and always were 10000 that are guilty of something else (example: they were not the shooter, but they helped) Compare with deaths by lightening, car crash, bath tub...
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by burfog 7y ago
I sure hope not. That would allow execution for first-time-offender jaywalking.
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by burfog 7y ago
I have to use SaaS solutions for work, and the security situation terrifies me. I have to put my corporate password, with access to all sorts of important stuff, into a sketchy 3rd-party web site. This looks mighty bad.
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by burfog 7y ago
I've been amused by VMWare being on the strictly-enforced official software list, and the VM being considered data. Nothing in the VM counts as software! It's not even being sneaky. Official policy is that the VM is data.
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by burfog 7y ago
It's fear of copyright lawsuits and even having the Business Software Alliance convince federal marshals raid the business. It's fear of malware. It's fear of data being locked up in the format used by an employee's pers
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by burfog 7y ago
It's more a list of famous books written more-or-less about economics. They are famous, not necessarily good. You will understand economics less if you take "Das Kapital" seriously. You'd do much better with "ECONOM
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by burfog 7y ago
There is "very well" and then there is "statistical anomaly". Google pays almost nobody. The whole firm, called Alphabet, has just 98,771 full-time employees. Most of those are not really "in the world of tech"

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