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by burfog 7y ago
It certainly could happen in 30 years. We could make it happen much faster if we got a genocidal dictator who decided to kill smart people. Pol Pot may qualify. Birth control is currently the primary natural selection criteria. Anything tha
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by burfog 7y ago
The point is that the US has more freedom. His "it was just a prank bro" defense wouldn't even be needed. Because the US has freedom, people can make videos like that all they want. It doesn't matter if there is a girlfr
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by burfog 7y ago
It was OK for Zachary Siegel to get video of the trial, and OK for him to report on the trial. There was in fact video being made available to him, via the media pool. His violation was of a decorum order -- essentially, being rude and maki
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by burfog 7y ago
In your country, a guy got in trouble with the law for making a comedy video with a little dog saluting Hitler. You literally can't take a joke. Reporting on court proceedings can get you arrested. Rude comments made on the internet, n
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by burfog 7y ago
It happens. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6665949/The-birth-c...
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by burfog 7y ago
That should only apply to a non-immigrant visa I would hope. For dual-purpose it shouldn't matter. For an immigrant one, you should be rejected if it appears you don't actually intend to stay.
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by burfog 7y ago
A good compiler would focus optimization efforts on removing variables from the stack. It would probably just reject programs that get silly with deep recursion. For example, if the compiler can prove that a function never gets more than on
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by burfog 7y ago
The closest modern equivalent to those old 8-bit computers is the TI-84 Plus CE calculator. It has a legit (no hacks) way to load binary executables. It goes for about $100. Like many old 8-bit computers, it comes with BASIC and an almost-A
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by burfog 7y ago
Well then you'll need double-returning, which isn't generally available. One could use longjmp I suppose.
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SysV init had the ability to restart, allowing upgrades without rebooting. Can systemd do that? The mechanism was kind of interesting: SysV init would create socketpair, then fork. The parent (with PID 1, required for correct functionality)
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Are Scholarships Real?
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by burfog 7y ago
The DMCA may be rough on active content creators, but it is far worse on inactive ones and on the public interest in having that material available. ContentID has the same trouble. Consider: * creator is in the hospital * creator is dead, a
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by burfog 7y ago
If you really want "small tiles to such precise specification", you can get stone cut with a waterjet... https://www.waterjetwonders.com/ ...but that doesn't seem to be required. I guess it depends on how muc
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by burfog 7y ago
Size incompatibility is thought to have killed neanderthal women who paired up with non-neanderthal men.
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by burfog 7y ago
Publix gives the job to the bagger/loader, who is usually a friendly person. This person bags your groceries, then offers to take them to your car and help you load them into your car. If you accept the help, then as they return back t
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by burfog 7y ago
The US has that stuff in bad neighborhoods. The wheel clamp is probably pretty standard in the urban areas and/or poor areas. Out in the well-off places where there aren't wandering street people, wheel clamps would be pointless.
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by burfog 7y ago
Some people, and even cultures, are more into shouting than others are. Perhaps this is just normal. I've seen it in marriages, where a non-shouter joins up with a shouter. The non-shouter thinks that things are going very badly, while
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by burfog 7y ago
I'd say neither. Americans just want to put America first. It's not bad faith to want that. If that means something that looks like Unequal Treaties, so what? Americans have no reason to care. China can be bitter about that foreve
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by burfog 7y ago
The US has a large well-unified market with good transportation and local sources of fuel. That cuts costs. Other places, like the EU, don't have all that. They also apply some really extreme taxes. Lack of punitive taxes isn't a
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by burfog 7y ago
Thankfully you can still get stuff at the hardware store. The plumbing supply section has copper sulfate, sodium hydroxide, and sulfuric acid. The pool supply section has 10 molar hydrochloric acid. The garden section has sulfur. The paint
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by burfog 7y ago
Say what??? A neural tube doesn't instantly transform into a baby at the moment of birth. The unborn that are getting killed can typically move about, feel pain, and respond to injury. They react in agony when being torn apart or injec
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by burfog 7y ago
The financial industry is strongly biased in favor of carbon trading. You see, this becomes like trading stocks and futures and bonds. Hedge funds, high-speed traders, and every other kind of parasite can go do their thing to extract wealth
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by burfog 7y ago
We don't really subsidize fossil fuels. I thought that your comment was interesting, so I looked it up. These "subsidies" are just completely normal stuff that ordinary American businesses get. Mostly it is tax deductions. Ev
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by burfog 7y ago
I'd like to think it is a bug, but I wasn't born yesterday. You were caught. The behavior is consistent. Another interesting search is American inventors. Out of the first 16 featured with photos, only one (Thomas Edison at #5) is
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by burfog 7y ago
Comparing views held in 1994 with views held in 2017, it is clear that nothing is driving a lot of people to the far right. Quite the opposite is happening. A sort of relativity may be in play here, making it seem as if other people are mov
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by burfog 7y ago
In some places, the law would call that "rape by deception".
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That is a year old, guessing based on what he did before being appointed. His actual votes put him much closer to the middle.
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by burfog 7y ago
What we need is a relatively standardized degree that is like a Bachelor's minus the Associates. That is, we don't need the two years of useless filler classes. Taking two years (4% of career time, more of lifetime earnings) for t
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by burfog 7y ago
This sounds an awful lot like the problem of modelling the turbulent reacting flow inside a rocket engine. SpaceX did some neat work on this and presented it at a GPU conference. They did some unconventional things with the GPU, allowing va
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That, the obesity, and the declining testosterone would all be related. The testosterone decline: https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-testosterone-levels-dc... We've already found BPA (a plasticizer) and Atrazin

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