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by cjensen 5y ago
An 80 year old male in the US has a life expectancy of 8.4 years[1]. That's a lot of time to bet, especially since "aggressive bat" is almost certainly rabid. [1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/
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To address a few points made here... this isn't about frontline mobile bases or airplanes or ships. This is about "what if... we have a main base located somewhere with poor supply lines?" In other words, something like Afgha
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The category isn't public "officials or people running for office." If you carefully read the preceding comments, you'll see that "public persons" is the phrase that was used. I think perhaps you read the &quot
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Instructions like this need to be interruptible since they take longer than standard instructions. I assume the ARM designers have thought about this?
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That's not what happened. Minaj claimed "a friend of a cousin" had a simply impossible side effect. This is pretty clearly a simple case of an urban legend being shortened from "friend of a friend of a friend" and s
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The US has excellent credit because, beginning with Alexander Hamilton, it has never ever cut a payment on debt no matter what crisis it thinks it faces. Treasury notes are as good as money because of this. Keep in mind that debt is a liqu
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It is not an industry standard way. It is not a sensible way. It is not even a C way. As others have said, there's no reason whatsoever to use void* here. Just declare the struct without defining it in the header. Then only define it i
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Platforms have a First Amendment right to silence voices they don't like on a platform. The First Amendment protects both a person's ability to say things, and the person's ability to not say things. As a general rule, both p
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Your claim that people have become intolerant of free speech is unclear. For example, speech which generates "vicious attacks" in response is still free speech. The responses are also free speech. True threats should be reported t
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Worth noting that in the US, this could not have happened. The First Amendment covers academia which receives Federal Funds. There's even an organization which is dedicated to defending this principle in court[1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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Your interpretation is almost completely wrong, and is a good example of why we layfolk should leave the explaining to experts. For example, you said "my vaccine doesn't protect you and vice-versa." That is entirely unsupport
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You're right that the abolitionists were better people who lived at the same time. My point is really that people can be good in many honorable ways and yet also be complicit in the common evil of their time. Likely many abolitionists
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The notion that we can only recognize perfect people in history seems misguided since there are precious few perfect people. Audubon owned slaves. Muir was racist. Webb was discriminatory. These are all teachable moments: the evils in our p
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C/C++ compilers commonly have warnings for narrowing conversions, and separate warnings for mixing signed/unsigned conversions for same-sized values. While some folks aren't too fussed about warnings like this, those folks ge
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Good question! So this is like US companies paying bribes. The employee handbook for my first job said that bribes could be paid in other countries if they are usual and customary. Bribes over a certain sum required executive authorization.
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Sure, we could fix the flaws in every accessible software on the planet. Or we could outlaw non-traceable payment methods like Bitcoins so that there is no profit in ransomware. What are they going to do? Ask for payment of a million dollar
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It's incorrect to say I'm "assuming" that. I tried very hard to steer clear of making any assumptions or expressing my own views in my comment. I definitely did not make that particular assumption. There is, however, one
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Article is really "minimum wage workers cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment while only spending the recommended 30% of their income on housing." There's a lot of assumptions there. Assumes minimum wage workers should not ha
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They are not deciding how you use your money. They are deciding which third parties they are willing to send your money to on your behalf. They're happy to send you your money. They just don't want to have any relationship with Bi
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One way around SafeNet is to run the builder in a VM, then RDP into the host.
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Record highs do not work that way. Record highs are by definition outliers. For example, in the Bay Area when we get some record highs during a heat wave, only around ~5-10% of station get new highs. Part of the issue is that except for Sa
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If you have one hundred cities, then a "once in 100 yrs" event will happen in ~1 city per year. So first lesson is be careful assuming extreme events are necessarily linked directly to a trend. Cliff Mass' Weather Blog has
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Right? We all have our issues. When it affects our wellbeing we should all remember to try to get help. If the Medical profession can't make it all better, many managers will accommodate -- it's actually easier to accommodate some
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Please don't assume the question is "disingenuous." It's an invitation to talk about what's going on, and bring the manager into the loop. Most managers really do want to help! More concerning to me is the "I a
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During reproduction, chromosomes are "mixed" together [1]. You don't get a straight copy of the parent chromosome. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover
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I believe they will all flush (i.e. fly away for defense) when a predator wanders by, so they have a survival mechanism for re-finding their nest.
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Your position is that it is "hysterical" that people don't want to be deeply inconvenienced by petty theft. I cannot fathom such an outlook on life, so I won't address this point. On the facts though, you again misunders
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That's exactly why I'm surprised. I don't understand why the birds don't come back after the excitement is over -- except possibly the ones closest to the crash site.
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I'm a birder, so some extra info... On dogs, training and leashes only matter a little. The problem is birds immediately identify a dog as a dangerous predator. They are far less bothered by humans. Birds pay more attention that we mig
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Simple problem? Not sure what you mean. In my neighborhood, the chance of an Amazon package being stolen is very high. The post office is not involved in many of the deliveries. Because of my house's location, I have not yet lost a pac

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