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by giardini 4mo ago
The USA has never been an empire. And there are no "upcoming super powers" that are remotely able to "fill the vacuum".
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by giardini 4mo ago
And should any "new world order" have the US in its center now? We've paid for the entire world order outside the Soviet Union/Russia and China for decades. Time to present a bill, close the relationships (e.g., NATO,
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by giardini 4mo ago
This isn't a failure by the US Navy. It was a political decision to stop short. The US could open the strait and eliminate all opponents but we don't have the political stomach for it. It would be a longer and more destructive p
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by giardini 4mo ago
Another fellow who hopes to fight in the American Civil War! Why don't I see more of these guys going to the Ukraine?
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by giardini 4mo ago
Like your username!8-)) How are gun/hunting laws in MO?
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by giardini 4mo ago
cmrdporcupine says "I don't understand why we're not vaccinating deer populations, even if we're not vaccinating humans out of safety concerns, etc. That and deer populations need to be significantly culled (along with
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by giardini 4mo ago
That's why I suggested "mathematicians" (plural) rather than "a mathematician" (singular)!
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by giardini 4mo ago
Or you could use "afflictions" rather than "affections". I don't often see the use of "affection" in the medical sense. Good comparison here: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/23
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by giardini 4mo ago
says " Peter Thiel said more than a decade ago that if you compare life in the 70s and now the only major visible difference would simply be more screens in various forms nowadays. " You could extend Thiel's statement back
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by giardini 4mo ago
Olympic size pools are rare in my experience. They're too big to justify for most institutions.
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by giardini 4mo ago
userulluipeste says "Affections like rabies" and "Any kind of pandemic is scary by the sheer magnitude of its reach, but one that would affect the brain? That would be another level of scary." "Affections"?
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by giardini 4mo ago
When they should have hired mathematicians!
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by giardini 4mo ago
I did that once! It was a rare opportunity caused by a system whose database was (predictably) corrupted by six months of programming errors. Took 3 days to examine the problem and code the fix and 36 minutes of tense run-time to fix the en
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by giardini 4mo ago
While they're not as economical long-term as a traditional reactor, they're cheaper and much faster to bring online. It takes decades to get a traditional reactor online.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Ahhhh! the ever-present omniscient "they" of paranoia! But be careful: they are watching you and they don't want you giving away their secrets!
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by giardini 4mo ago
jmalicki says many things, among them being "As a side gig, I write novel software that solves problems no existing software does," and "Yes, they are hiring the experts themselves. To create new knowledge above and beyond
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by giardini 4mo ago
Who cares? They'll be cheaper and quicker to get online than the big reactors. Who wants to wait 11 years for electricity?
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by giardini 4mo ago
Not nearly as fascinating [that] people believe.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Unworthy.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Pure envy.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Not ironic but perhaps somewhat self-contradictory. In any case it is very reasonable as an assumption for civil debate.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Grombobulous says "I’m not anti-capitalist at all" . Nonsense. You are a simple study and you are envious. There are good reasons why envy is listed as one of the "Seven Deadly Sins". See Wikipedia: https://e
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by giardini 4mo ago
Grombobulous says "Paul Graham is out here giving speeches to rich kids at Oxford Union, but he could be spending his morning in the local soup kitchen or building homes with Habitat for Humanity. He could be mentoring people who are
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by giardini 4mo ago
I thought most products had legal provisions that prohibit reverse engineering?
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by giardini 4mo ago
Yet another bitchfest about "the current administration", i.e., Donald Trump.
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by giardini 4mo ago
The article's author is only the second person I have known to speak fondly of Derrida, the first being a young relative who lost his soul AND brain to various claptrap at university.
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by giardini 4mo ago
How do you know you are "Random"?
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by giardini 4mo ago
Nope. For the most part in the USA you can burn any flag provided you aren't violating some property law or safety statute by doing so.
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by giardini 4mo ago
solarhoma sez "it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag," It is legal to burn the USA flag in the USA.
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by giardini 4mo ago
Could you restate this another way: I don't follow.

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