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by burfog 6y ago
Start with iron pentacarbonyl, which is conveniently a liquid that can be distilled. That gets rid of nearly all impurities.
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They care about culture, not ethnicity. They particularly dislike the establishment of areas ("Little Foo" or "Foo Town") that don't speak English or that follow a relatively uncooperative religion. The relatively u
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Python is not comparable. Rust is a natively-compiled systems language that supports the C language ABI. Python, Perl, Java, Lua, Ruby, Scheme, and other such things are expected to bring along some extra gunk. I'm not saying that this
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by burfog 6y ago
The worst is that they keep messing with things outside the language. It is normal to have a set of tools that you like or wish to retain. There may be a package installer (rpm, apt, msi, etc.), a build system (plain Makefile, autoconf, CMa
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Is there "anyone who just blindly supports American military misadventures"? Is there anybody "scared of the truth"? It could be that other people hold different values than you do. They might be fully aware and thinking
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That reaction is an unfortunate part of modern European culture, and I'm sorry to say that the USA encouraged it after World War II. I say "unfortunate" because it takes away the natural urge for self-preservation and will ul
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AP science classes do require a strong lab component. This is required for use of the "AP" trademark on a transcript. There is a competing college credit test system, International Baccalaureate, that actually includes lab work as
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School performance is not much affected by budget. The terrible high schools in DC have really high budgets. The problem lies elsewhere. It's really simple. Kids tend to be like their parents. Parents who raise kids well have a strong
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It's wasted, mostly. Add it up: These are good students, so they enter college with AP Chemistry and AP Biology credit. Start off college with Organic Chemistry 1, then Organic Chemistry 2, then Biochemistry. That's just 1 year to
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by burfog 6y ago
Trump's account might have been the final one targeted, locking the attacker out from messing with any additional accounts. If a Twitter employee is messing with famous accounts in an unauthorized way, automatically stopping the employ
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by burfog 6y ago
You've been "following this closely for 3+ years" through the lens of a group of people (journalists) who have political views that are strongly in opposition to that leader. Of course they would tell you that he is unstable,
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The girl shortage will change the culture. Dowry will disappear, possibly to be replaced with a bride price.
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South Korea's leader was following orders from a cult leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_sc... Germany has a huge self-inflicted migrant crisis. New Zealand seems to be heading down
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by burfog 6y ago
You're refusing to try because you might lose. This is taking a loss by default. It's like a sports team refusing to go onto the field. It counts as a loss.
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No, because of leverage. The air lifts all along the whole wing. On average, the air lifts from the middle. So it's more like suspending yourself from your elbows, with your arms out horizontal.
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by burfog 6y ago
I wonder how much it really saves. Unless there is some sort of bone oddity in the joint, the wings are not locked in place. The bird must still self-support via muscles. Try it. The relatively bird-like way is like a gymnast on a pair of r
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by burfog 6y ago
The cause and effect there is wrong. Saying that wealth causes success in school is like saying that an increase in the use of air conditioners causes people to go to the beach, or that Christmas shopping makes the days get shorter. There i
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by burfog 6y ago
Depending on your preference for macros, run "info m4" or "info cpp" to read the documentation. You can use both. You can run them more than once, perhaps changing the source with a sed or perl script between passes.
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by burfog 6y ago
I find it helps to compare against causes of death such as lightening strikes, falling out of bed, pools, Tylenol overdoses, and car crashes. None of those generate outrage. People worry so much about various violent acts (terrorism, school
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by burfog 6y ago
Who will fact-check the fact checkers? The typical ones are horrific, with many having been started explicitly for political battle. The common tactic for something like "virus from a lab" would be to move the goalposts and hope t
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by burfog 6y ago
You can stall with lots of energy, up in the coffin corner. The U-2 pilots commonly fly there. Going slower or turning too much will produce a stall, but going faster can hit never-exceed speed limits. Supermaneuverabillity would make that
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by burfog 6y ago
A reasonable use would be for checking out a slow little biplane or helicopter, presumably a foolish civilian, who is violating restricted airspace.
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by burfog 6y ago
John Carmack, the famous Id Software programmer, tried it out for a few thousand lines of space rocket code, and he liked it. He argues why giant huge functions can be good for maintainability: http://number-none.com/blow&#x
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It's terrible that 2-8GB RAM is not enough for a full on desktop replacement. You could run Windows 95 in 4 MB. Was that not a desktop? The original Mac was just 128 KB. Suppose it was all for graphics. Scaling up for modern color dept
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I don't agree that "jail time is something everybody understands, no matter how poor you are". The biggest impact, by far, is on the working people. The rich would be somewhat miserable for a time, but that's it. After j
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The "party switch" is ahistorical, and essentially just propaganda. Republicans, who for years had been fighting to pass civil rights laws, didn't one day suddenly decide to become the party of Jim Crow, KKK, and slavery. Tha
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by burfog 6y ago
There was no switch. Go look up members of congress who switched political party during that era. Wikipedia has a list. You'll find two, one in the house and one in the senate. Had there been an actual switch, you'd expect to see
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People spend a month on a ventilator, and they end up brain damaged. It's probably due to the anesthesia needed to restrain a person who has tubes jammed into the lungs. People went half a century on iron lungs. They were fine. They co
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by burfog 6y ago
From the name "prison abolition", my first assumption is an alternative more like Sharia. Thieves get their hands chopped off. Other ideas include caning (as in Singapore) and hanging. It gets rid of prison. We save a lot of money
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It seems fair. If a group of supposedly "peaceful, law-abiding protesters" is going to make the revolting moral equivalence of corrupt cops to properly behaved cops, they shouldn't complain when they themselves are considered

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