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by ghoward 5y ago
More often than you think. Every time someone is unbuckled in a car crash, there is a high risk they will hurt others. Someone in the back seat could fly forward and hit the driver, for example.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Read it, and I think you missed the irony that the right of "physical integrity" could also be, and is more likely to be, the right to not have the government control your body, such as forcing people to take a vaccination. If you
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by ghoward 5y ago
You not wrong either, but I seem to remember that the Germans had a mighty neat, i.e., non-messy "solution" (some would say a "final" one) for a "problem" they thought they had. Throughout history, making peopl
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by ghoward 5y ago
> nobody has a right to spread a deadly disease Including the vaccinated, who can still spread it, so I guess we must lock them up since they are already vaccinated, and we can't stop them from spreading the virus otherwise. Saying
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by ghoward 5y ago
That decision revolved around a one-time $150 fine (in today's money) and was used to justify forced sterilizations. And it was overturned later. And it was for the authority of a state, not the Federal Government. Not the same thing a
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Access to healthcare is considered a right in Germany. > They're mandating vaccines so that they can continue to provide all their citizens with this human right. This is exactly why those people are wrong. True rights never cl
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by ghoward 5y ago
> There is no “freedom from being injected” or “freedom from spreading a virus” or “freedom from denying a vaccine, getting sick and straining the healthcare system”. Actually, any authority not explicitly given to the government in the
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by ghoward 5y ago
Refusing to wear a seatbelt does, in fact, present a risk to others because in a crash, you can become a lethal projectile should you fly and hit someone else.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Lies like telling people they don't need to wear masks at the beginning (or maybe the lie was flipping to saying we did), or the admission that the goalposts were being moved on herd immunity, or the lie that gain of function research
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by ghoward 5y ago
Apologies then. I agree you were out of options.
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by ghoward 5y ago
> That's not always an option -- my last android phone died with a reboot loop. You're not wrong, but for future reference, there is a way to stop such a reboot loop; I did it just yesterday with my wife's phone. (Of cours
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by ghoward 5y ago
> They are a life saving invention, where did we go as a society that this is suddenly up for debate? So condoms, another life-saving invention, should also be mandated? Should you lose your job if you don't wear your seat belt? (We
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The coronavirus vaccines are some of the most-tested out there. "Most-tested" does not imply "best-tested" or even "well-tested." See, for example, how code coverage for tests can be misleading.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have no idea what you mean. The judges blocked only one course of action, so they aren't removing the ability of the government to do anything. Also, they explicitly said that Congress should do it, as our elected representatives. Th
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by ghoward 5y ago
I'm not going to try to compile by hand, unfortunately. <shudder> I'll take a peek at the BIOS, but I'll also no good at doing such things.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Far less on my machine. I think 1 hour?
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by ghoward 5y ago
It's off an SSD. I have an SSD for my OS, which is where /var/tmp is on my machine.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have a 3900, no X, and 32 GB of RAM. I used to use a tmpfs, but I found that the build would run out of memory.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not GP, I am a Gentoo user that compiles ungoogled-chromium from source. I have a 16-core AMD CPU. Despite that, it takes 4-8 hours to compile, due to two factors: 40,000+ separate targets, of which most are C++ files (famously slow to comp
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by ghoward 5y ago
I do broadly agree with you. However, all of those things are things that happen over time (except assasination, and Kennedy's assassination happened 8 years before), which does not explain the obvious inflection point in those graphs.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I forgot to also mention income, but the last charts I looked at were about inflation, which wipes out savings.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I broadly agree with the author on Bitcoin, but I do not agree on what was said about the gold standard being bad. On August 15, 1971, Nixon removed the gold standard from the US dollar. Using unilateral government power, he managed to stop
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by ghoward 5y ago
> the tail rotor is placed specifically so that it is outside of the main rotor airflow. takeoff and landing require that the tail rotor be in relatively calm air. Did you read the references I provided? The tail rotor can absolutely be
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have 15 hours, and my training is paused because I don't have a medical yet. (The FAA wanted me to be evaluated in the cockpit before issuing a medical; long story.) I did not start with fixed wing, though I have flown fixed wing a c
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by ghoward 5y ago
> if the pilot tipped the helicopter to the right after leaving the ground, and then continuously held the control stick in the direction of the movement of the helicopter, the body of the helicopter would begin to face the direction of
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by ghoward 5y ago
As a sibling comment said, forward movement does indeed give the tail rotor more authority because it has "cleaner" (less turbulent) air to work in. This makes it more effective. For a source, see [1], pages 2-21 through 2-23, sub
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by ghoward 5y ago
I've read "Chicken Hawk", and while the stories are great, one particular scene made me not happy. Thank you, though.
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by ghoward 5y ago
As an aspiring helicopter pilot, I am both awed and repulsed. Vietnam was something else for helicopter pilots. That level of skill would be hard for a perfectly-programmed autopilot to do. With regards to Vietnam, a legend that I was told
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by ghoward 5y ago
I actually agree with the GP here. The analogy to 1930's Nazi Germany, or the early stages of any authoritarian regime (notice the GGGP also used 1910's Russia) has many similarities to today. History is a cycle, and unfortunately
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by ghoward 5y ago
> However, given that mRNA based COVID vaccines requires six monthly boosters and that mRNA has a median half life of about 10 hours in the body[1], and that mRNA is disallowed entry into the nucleus unless specifically escorted in by sp

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