coddingtonbear

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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
You have to realize that those parking spots are explicitly intended for car storage, no? The city even marks many of them --- even charges for their use by the hour. If you were going to claim that our allocation of city resources to park
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
I've heard that they're common in Europe, actually! Just that they also don't dry well.
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
It could also just be liability concerns -- I know I personally considered turning off a (free & gdpr-compliant) side project I maintain out of concern around what might happen to my bank account were a security incident were to occur a
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
Ahh -- I've wanted to go for a while to try to relive some study abroad experiences, but they at one point had a really sketchy health report that soured me on going. That was long enough ago now that I'm not worried about it; th
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
And the US successfully overthrew inconvenient governments in Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Congo in 1960, the Dominican Republic in 1961, Chile and South Vietnam in 1963, and Brazil in 1964, but you wouldn't call that evidence for
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by coddingtonbear 8y ago
I think their point is that the repression that you're discussing is largely pre-Krushchev; that's not quite a century ago, but it's a world away from what life in the USSR was like by the 1980s.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Given that they received medals, I'm not sure that's true in any practical sense.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Your preference for the impression of anonymity has been noted and will be applied to future dining experiences.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
It's important to keep in mind the reactors at Fukushima were designed in the 1960s -- literally fifty years ago. During that same time period, we were doing things like designing machines for efficiently burning down the rainforest s
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Although your examples are valid, there are many counter-examples: see increasingly-stringent enforcement of anti drunken-driving laws since the 1970s. Although drunken driving does still occur, it's vastly more uncommon than it was b
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
It seems like fining and, if necessary, revoking the drivers licenses of dangerously aggressive drivers might be a simple way of solving the problem, no? Sharing public goods is be the norm in other areas of society; why not on the road?
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
This might be surprising to you, but consumers still used currency to buy goods, and both surpluses and shortages were tracked. It isn't exactly the same as market feedback, but it did serve the same function.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Although that might _seem_ reasonable on its face, during peak periods (i.e. mid-winter during a cold snap), usually that other place you can get extra wind/sun supply from is on the other side of the globe. https://www.eia.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Although Puerto Ricans do pay certain local and federal taxes, they do not pay income taxes like citizens of US States do.
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by coddingtonbear 9y ago
Although I agree (in essence) that legal personhood is something most people misunderstand, I'm not sure the NYT is a very good example given that "the press" is specifically listed in the text of the first amendment (and has
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
Your might not be from the US, so I can understand how you might have such an impression, but wheelchair ramps, although universal for new construction, are usually not installed until either new construction occurs nearby or the sidewalk i
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
Is that really relevant, though? If the cost of having cheap food is that we create an underclass that are willing to put up with low wages out of economic desperation, is that really an acceptable moral compromise?
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
For personal documentation (assuming you mean notes): follow your heart. Personally, though, I wouldn't use RST for any non-python public documentation at this point, but for my personal notes, it's hard to beat the extensibility
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I'd recommend doing a little research about the controversy around the "Linear no-threshold model" of radiation exposure. The answer isn't quite as clear as you might guess.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
People in China were, until just a few years ago, still using Windows XP, too, though.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I don't think it's likely that I'll convince you otherwise, but my experience -- having grown up in a very poor community -- could not be further from yours. Despair is exactly the word I would use to describe the feeling of
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
Exit polling, usually.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
Don't feel too bad about missing it; you generally have to book tours many months in advance.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
You might be surprised, but you can probably still get a tour of the Savannah River Site (as long as you're a citizen). I know this because I took a tour of it's sister site in Hanford, WA a year or so ago, and would totally re
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
To clarify for the person you've responded to: the problem with humans isn't exactly that we individually have _too little_ intelligence, it's that the heuristics we have evolved to use for compensating for missing informatio
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I had an iPhone 4 for nearly two years and had no idea that this issue even existed.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
That might be true, but there are a variety of cases where we've decided to stop using a word in general in order to avoid causing undue distress; "slave" (i/r/t "master" and "slave") in a comput
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I'm afraid not. No new features are being added to 2.7, but bug fixes are continuing to be released. There are lots of new features in 3.x, and these days most new projects start out with 3.x support given the compelling list of neat
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
That is not the compromise struck, though; there are even many Cyrillic glyphs that are visually identical to those in Latin, but assigned differing codepoints.
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by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I have broken one iphone's 3.5mm jack by biking in probably-too-tight pants while listening to something on my headphones, so if you're looking for anecdata, it does happen.

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