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by gohrt 10y ago
stargazing is more broadly skygazing. Santa is no more or less astronomical than a meteor (nee asteroid) -- both fly through the sky at incredible speeds, and light up (when Rudolph is present)
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by gohrt 10y ago
Why should soldiers be forced to take assignments and pay they don't want? Contractors don't get forced to build a project for the military's price, they get to negotiate. Soldiers should be able to choose whether to accept a
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by gohrt 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much...
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by gohrt 10y ago
The plugin doesn't block anything, it labels things. Wikileaks is a "rumor" site. It doesn't provide verified information.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Trusting that a pair of engineers will always come to an agreement to authoritatively decide the best way forward seems naive to me. Where are these magical people?
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by gohrt 10y ago
What does "180F is 82C" prove? Does water boil at a high temperature for smart people?
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by gohrt 10y ago
What are you talking about? The article argues that the unaccounted girls were not aborted or killed. Anyway, to answer your question, the central planning works to reduce population growth.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Analysis is Calculus, presented formally. The idea of Analysis is that you may have learned calculus algorithms already in high school (or college), but you might not have learned formal math proofs, so your first "real math" cl
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by gohrt 10y ago
Steve's Corollary of Enterprise Systems: Don't touch anything ever.
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by gohrt 10y ago
What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article? Yes, you can apply "Chesterton’s Fence" to the question of marriage law, and then decide that the justification (Mormon or otherwise) for banning same-sex marriage are not c
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by gohrt 10y ago
They don't convert like you say, what they do it cut refreshes. Example: You get $100K and $50K of stock (grant value): "target compensation" = $150K Next year, when stock vests, your target compensation is $160K, so you get
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by gohrt 10y ago
Most of those are warehouse employees whose suicides might not make Bloomberg. And people who die quietly at home (which I've seen a few times in my career) likely don't either.
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by gohrt 10y ago
A bad team at a good company -- quite possible. A good team at a bad company -- unlikely.
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by gohrt 10y ago
$115k is embarrassingly non-competitive for the talent and work Amazon expects.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Energy is always conserved, because that's the definition of energy. When an experiment discovers that energy is not conserved, that means we've discovered a new kind of energy (kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, el
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by gohrt 10y ago
That video looks more like wolfenstein
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by gohrt 10y ago
Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xCd55oSgO4
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by gohrt 10y ago
Wood version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
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by gohrt 10y ago
They are local, but we see patterns repeated nationally.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Splitting semantic hairs. The name changed, but the phone number didn't; the goal is still suicide prevention, but with an attempt to avoid the stigma that comes with "suicide" in the name.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Is violating the Constitution a criminal offense? These officers violated the law in service of the State , as agents of the State , not for personal gain or motive. It's not at all clear that the officers are the criminals here, an
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by gohrt 10y ago
For context, I'm curious if you think that a lot of the pro-police rhetoric also exceeds reasonable.
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by gohrt 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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by gohrt 10y ago
Surely there's a difference between "hyped by many reviewers and related journalism" and "hyped by McDonald's and 7-11 tie-ins"
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by gohrt 10y ago
I wonder how the game and its impact would be different if they refused to make RadAway part of the game.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> If those pre-conditions cannot be created in a unit testing environment then you have technical debt to repay, by making those pre-conditions satisfiable
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by gohrt 10y ago
"jaywalking" is a slur against people walking. Just say "pedestrian in the street". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Origin_of_the_term
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by gohrt 10y ago
"Jaywalking" law, including its slur of a name ("jay" = "crazy", for the crime of walking in your neighborhood ), was installed by the automobile lobby to give automobile users priority of the majority of soci
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by gohrt 10y ago
> how neighborhood watch groups can supplement police, neighborhood watch groups DO NOT supplement police. Police supplement neighborhood watch groups. Police are only necessary when civilian management fails.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Do you have any reasoning to accompany your emotion? The news media of course has a an anti-status-quo bias. The status quo isn't news .

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