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by gizmo686 4y ago
Thats the problem with language design. If the language allows something, it needs to correctly support it; even if actually doing it is a bad idea.
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Ignoring actual disagreement about what the 2nd amendment means and what policy should be, why would the ACLU invest in 2nd amendment rights in a world where there is already a a strong lobby dedicated to them.
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by gizmo686 4y ago
On the other hand, trying to understand forests by counting trees in them is a well accepted practice. Including manually counting trees in a small area and extrapolating to a larger one.
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Managing the economy through wages is politically impossible. To be effective, you need to be able to both raise and lower wages as conditions demand. If the Fed has such a lever and decides to lower wages, it will not survive the politica
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by gizmo686 4y ago
I work on sensitive government materials. One of the rules is that development occurs on an airgapped system. If I want to check the internet, I need to leave the room and retrieve my phone from a lock box. Occasionally I need to do that, b
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by gizmo686 4y ago
At work, we have a codebase that is used by numerous projects. The solution for project specific changes is 'checkout the repo, and make your changes locally'. What that has turned into is 'checkout the repo and make a new di
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> No, it wasn't. There was a huge body of experimental evidence already about gravity. It was true that all of that evidence, except for the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion, could be explained by Newtonian gravity;
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Was the orbit of Mercury (or any other astronomical observations) important for the discover of Relativity. My understanding was that experimental impetus for relativity was the Michelson–Morley experiment, which was an in-lab experiment, n
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The filesystem might not be able to block use-after-free bugs, but it could greatly mitigate them. In particular, if the fs avoided reusing file descriptors, it could return an error on use-after-free instead of silently corrupting a random
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by gizmo686 5y ago
That sounds like you are complaining about the amount of investment in experimental physics in general, rather than the LHC in particular. It is true that fundamental physics could use a major breakthrough from the theorists. However, the t
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by gizmo686 5y ago
How is that cheating? The dictionary is part of the game.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
If you read the full answer, you would see that his position is that doing that is better than not doing it. If you are correct that it is even more difficult to do so, then his position is that bitcoin is even worse than gold in this regar
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You are probably better off going with a computability theorem (such as the halting problem) instead of incompleteness. However, I suspect both will get you to the same place. Namely, there exists a program whose behavior cannot be predicte
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Assuming by "we" you mean the United States, then we only ever compensated slaveowners in DC [0]. Notably, abolishing slavery in DC did not require going through a costly civil war as it did in (almost) all of the slave states. Gr
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The water cup example isn't symbolic, it is prototypical. That is to say, it is meant to be a representative example of the a metaphorical paper cut. People in this thread are latching on to it for the same reason the author used it; i
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The bonds last up to 30 years, and you can buy the yearly max every year regardless of how much you own. However, they do not have a fixed interest rate. Every 6 months, the rate is set to match inflation.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
No. There is a reason you are limited to $10k a year. I bonds are not a financial product being sold for the benefit of the seller. They are a government service being provided for the benefit of the buyer.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The theoretical limit for resolution comes from diffraction. It is a function of the wavelength of light being observed, and the size of the telescope. This is measured by the Rayleigh criterion For a telescope with a circular apeture, the
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by gizmo686 5y ago
I think this approach comes out of highly dynamic languages like python. If a typo in a variable name doesn't cause any problems until it get evaluated, then you really need to execute every piece of the code to be sure that you don&#x
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The agreement is normal, and occurs between "does" and "connector". The weird thing is the word order. A typical order would be "A blue connector does not make USB 3.0"
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by gizmo686 5y ago
No. Most languages evolved from earlier languages through gradual linguistic drift. Some languages emerged by putting fluent speakers of two or more existing languages into a shared environment and having them form a common language. Nicara
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Of the 5 paragraphs you link, one cautions that: > "It's a controversial and important topic that the public needs to let play out in the academic research, because obviously as a non-economist it will be very difficult to read
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Not really. The difference between obese and healthy weight is about 40 pounds. At 3,500 calories per pound, that is only 140,000 surplus calories to become obese. Over a period of 5 years, that is about 77 calories a day, or roughly 1 egg.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
What market are you in where tenents can't pick landlords? With mom and pop landlords, it can be a crapshoot. But I have rented from coorporate landlords twice. Each time, I was able to research them, and I avoided several with bad rep
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Kind of. Most court cases do not set any precedent. If you think the judge made a legal mistake in your case, you can appeal regarding that specific legal question. The appalete court can then issue a ruling on that specific question of law
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Landlord/tenet law is highly location dependent. Around here (Maryland), landlords are required to offer leases up to 2 years (this might be a county law), although I suspect 12 month leases are still common. At the end of a lease, MD
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Housing bought by landlords looking to rent is the most relevent, as it increases competition among landlords putting pressure on them to be less selective.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Both uranium based power plants and bombs require refining the fuel. While weapons need higher refinement, the process to refine uranium is the same for both fuel and weapons grade. Similarly, for plutonium based bombs, reactors will natura
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Normally they could be, but it might actually work in this case. To do a statistical analysis, you need to be able to make many measurements. However, you only get one measurement per resource as a subsequent attempts will be cached regardl
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Trump presented himself as a Christian, which is the relevant factor here.

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