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by dudinax 2y ago
I've never been to Chile, but the few Chileans I know have the clearest Spanish I've heard.
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by dudinax 2y ago
Their definition of official act includes ordering an officer to take an official act. So if the pres has anyone who can kill someone for legal reasons this decision allows the pres to use that person to kill for illegal reasons.
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by dudinax 2y ago
That's utter garbage. Juries acquit people when the cases are weak and defendents have the same rights they always have had probably more. Prosecutors don't go to trial unless they have a solid case especially against a former pr
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by dudinax 2y ago
No it doesn't. There's nothing in the constitution that grants immunity to a president and no reason why Donald Trump had to commit the crimes he's charged with.
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by dudinax 2y ago
That's irrelevant since he's committed a number of serious crimes.
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by dudinax 2y ago
There's no provision in the constitution for immunity. They made it up there's nothing reasonable about it. Under this decision the president can commit a crime or order someone else to commit a crime, and as long as the crime is
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by dudinax 2y ago
If you go to LIGO Hanford don't miss the B reactor tour near by. It's the first full scale nuclear reactor.
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by dudinax 2y ago
This seems like a good spot to plug one of my favorite games Will Not Let Me Go https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2017/Will%... A Twine game that simulates dementia. It's a brilliant, we
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by dudinax 2y ago
Might be right? He's obviously right.
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by dudinax 2y ago
The Sun Also Rises is easier than Winnie the Pooh. I can buy that.
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by dudinax 2y ago
That really would be insider trading.
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by dudinax 2y ago
"fears NASA is becoming just a white collar jobs program" That's 90% of US defense spending.
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by dudinax 2y ago
He was completely pathetic twenty years ago, just respectably so.
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by dudinax 2y ago
Why should an author have the right to prevent adaptations? If Tolkien had been alive he probably would have put an end to Jackson's efforts, too.
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by dudinax 2y ago
What's worse, a lay audience that thinks whales are talking amongst themselves or a lay audience that has no idea whales do anything other than mating songs and sonar clicks?
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by dudinax 2y ago
Almost any released movie of any note, and a great many of no note are available for free.
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by dudinax 2y ago
Sure, but it's wrong that he was able to stop it. We lost what could have been an interesting piece of art. We should have more adaptations in the world not fewer.
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by dudinax 2y ago
It's not impossible for python to be impenetrable, but it usually isn't.
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by dudinax 2y ago
Orangutans (probably) can't pass on "this will help you heal", but they might be able to pass on "Put this on a wound."
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by dudinax 2y ago
Hindsight not needed for anyone who's studied transportation, but people ate it up anyway.
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by dudinax 2y ago
This gives them an incentive to make you unhappy.
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by dudinax 2y ago
I bet we'll find there's more computation going on in neurons (and possibly other brain cells) than we currently know about which will necessarily be happening at much smaller scales than synapse firing.
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by dudinax 2y ago
Dennett wasn't particularly good at speculating, but then almost nobody is.
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by dudinax 2y ago
It's more like confusing intercal with brainfuck.
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by dudinax 3y ago
The common English use of 'credit' and 'debit' is correct, as they ought to be since we learned them from banks. Most people are only aware of one type of account, a liability account managed by the bank in their name. T
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by dudinax 3y ago
Im not sure stalemate accounts for most draws at the highest level. Getting rid of check does make for a better game at beginner levels. It's both easier to teach and leads to exciting finishes ss noobs hang their king.
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by dudinax 3y ago
On average, a programmer who's staring off into space is working. A programmer who's busy at the computer is goofing off.
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by dudinax 3y ago
And of course the classic of Sci-Fi of unusual intelligence: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
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by dudinax 3y ago
There are millions of people who believe in a super natural religion "Buddhism" who know almost nothing about the philosophy of it.
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by dudinax 3y ago
Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen

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