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Congress passed laws authorizing the spending. If they don't want that spending, they can pass new laws repealing it. Also the same Constitution that grants Congress budgetary authority also provides that: > The validity of the publ
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Because he was politically weak and they had an opportunity to take advantage of that. As it is the Democrats got nothing but optics out of the fiasco. Had they played their hand differently they might have gotten something more. For what i
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In a reasonable political system, that us what would have happened. Not necessarily with McCarthy, but some type of coalition government with bipartisan support. Frankly, if they wanted to and could get near unanimous agreement internally,
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Most politicians do not get secret service protection. Only those in the line of succesion, former presidents and family of the above. The handful of congresspeople in leadership get special protection from capital police. Most elected cong
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Controlled burns are part of modern forestry, for exactly the reasons you describe. As recent years show, the central banks are willing to cause ecenomic downturns to promote long term health. See most central banks increasing rates in re
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If you control both exit and entrance nodes, you can corralate connections with a timing analysis.
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We have been to the moon and collected samples. Regardless of the why, we know it has a similar composition to the Earth. At least at the surface; seismic data suggests, for instance, that its iron core is comparativly smaller than Earth&#x
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Several problems. 1) Bypassing any sort of static analysis of your extension requires, at worst, crafting an arbitrary code execution attack against yourself. This is not particuarly difficult. 2) Often times, the specific method you want t
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This compositor, like most Wayland compositors, uses the wlroots library, so most of that tedious work is already handled for you.
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The correct answer in the real world is to leave (and possibly call the police). Leaving school is a crime for minors.
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USA
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I just checked my "vegetable oil", and it is further labled as 100% soybean. I can't imagine why would waste the more expensive olive oil by using it as an additive for cheap vegetable oil.
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They don't pay retail price. You probably weren't going to buy those games if Epic wasn't giving them away, so you don't represent a lost sale. The developers could easily come out ahead getting payed penny's on the
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I have no principled objection to it, but it takes a very specific set of circumstances for it to make sense. You need enough funding to be able to work without outside help, an opinionated enough development philosophy that the cost of int
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Its not intractable. You just need to take the concept of a software supply chain seriously. E.G, every version of every dependency you use (either directly or transitivly) needs to be audited and approved by a trusted supplier. This isn&#x
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The US Supreme Court does, however, have the power to add limits. In fact all all of the current limits to free speech are inventions of the Court.
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Skewed is not a binary. Pre-raise, you made 7% of my salary. Post raise, you make 13% of my salary.
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Finish the paragraph: > but after years of study and effort you’ve returned to the situation of the baby, who just sees the thing for what it is.
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Neither ls nor grep output color by default. Most distributions have a bashrc script that sets aliases like: alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias ls='ls --color=auto' Ls and grep are defined such that you can sp
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It is not settled science, but one hypothesis is the hygiene hypothesis, which proposes that exposure to certain microbes at a young age is important for the development of a healthy immune system. By over sanatozing our environment, we pre
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I can't speak for whoever changed the title, but XX/XY is far more accurate and less clickbaity than Male/Female in this context. There is far more to human biological sex than the chromosomal distinction. Take an XY cell, bu
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Compared to some of the confessions he has made in other interviews, I don't think anything here is too bad. Regarding the "I fucked up" line, I'm not sure that is damaging at all (except possibly the tone; who knows how
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Count 1 is "conspiricy to commit wire fraud on customers". A nessasary component of that charge is the participation of others. In count two, "wire fraud on customers" there is no mention of consipiretors. I expect that
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At least it is a tree. In grade school, I learned to make diagrams along the lines of https://classicalteachersjournal.com/tag/sentence-diagrams/ . I think a 3 way split is a good compromise to favor communication
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California is mandating that all new cars be either EV or plug in hybrids by 2035; which is 12 years in the future. I am aware of no plans to outlaw existing vehicles. A typical consumer car lasts between 10-15 years, so we are talking abou
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No. The only DNA that gets passed to offspring is what is in the sperm/eggs. Collectively these are referred to as the "germline". Research into germline editing is illegal in the US, and frowned upon internationally. The mos
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A "problem" with this treatment is that, for most patients, the current standard of care works. To the extent that this treatment is effective, it is likely effective for most leukaemia patients, including those who would respond
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Setting aside any specific mechanism, the overall point still seems plausible. Assuming we can prevent the primary causes of aging (e.g. telomer shortening), we will likely start to find other parts of human biology that start to fail, eith
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I'm talking well beyond my competency, but short of one of those T-cells spontaneously becoming cancerous itself, I don't see how. T-cells do not duplicate themselves. Instead, new T-cells are creates in bone marrow. Since they ar
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A) We have already largely solved infant mortality in the developed world, and are making progress on the issue globally. Societies seem to adapt over time by decreasing birthrates to compensate [0]. In fact, in most of the developed world,

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