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by grkvlt 10y ago
Isn't this pretty much exactly what the author is trying to talk about and explain? Note this quote: > Conflicts gain sustained American attention only when they provide a compelling story line that appeals to both the public and
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by grkvlt 10y ago
What is a 'getter' though? And what does it actually do ? EDIT - Wikipedia [1] says it's a strip of (barium?) metal that is evaporated to react with any remaining gas/moisture particles in the tube and deposit them o
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by grkvlt 10y ago
So, you disagree with the more likely to divorce statement, then? Because your 'Look at it this way' points seem to be in favour of living together before marriage, suggesting it doesn't make divorce more likely. Or; ha
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, is some countries (France, Spain, Italy) they have the concept of a Gendarmerie [1] which is a para-military police force. This is in contrast to, for example, the UK Constabulary, say, which is simply a policing organisation. A Genda
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> black mustang cars, a predator style car What happened first, though? Was the [Ford Mustang/Dodge Charger] a 'predator style' car first, or is it so, because cops drive them?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
According to Wikipedia [1] they were discontinued on October 1, 2006; only 10 years ago! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II EDIT - Sorry, Wikipedia was wildly incorrect; I have updated the page
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, they could launch in Israel? At least for small (500-800kg) payloads there's the Shavit [1] civilian version of their Jericho ICBM. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavit
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by grkvlt 10y ago
How surprised are you to find out that SpaceX was actually founded in 2002, then?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> As of 17 September 2016, there have been 310 manned spaceflights [...] 8 of which were sub-orbital [1] There have been 302 manned orbital launches according to [1] and from adding up the successful launches in [2] there seem to have be
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Could you? I thought they didn't make the answers available, and just always showed the grayed out text even if there was no real answer after you paid up? There were several incarnations of the site though, and of course I may well be
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It turns out that AMBER alerts have actually been described in the same way as TSA procedures ("security theater") - they are "crime control theater" [1] because if a child is going to be killed by an abductor, generally
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Although, it is statistically much more likely for a child to be killed by a parent or relative than by a stranger... In fact 60-80% of UK murders of under-16s are cases where the victim knew the killer. [1] [1] http://straightst
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I, too, am pleased, although not without understanding - Gah!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, before SO, you had sites like 'Expert Sex Change' (expertsexchange.com) which would purport to answer your question, but gray/blur out the actual text. They then required payment to expose the answers, which often turne
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Interestingly, I have noticed a tendency for positive stories and statements about SpaceX (and, if I wanted to be contentious, I could even call them 'fanboy' originated) to refer to him as 'Elon', whereas negative or ne
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> unconditional surrender with conditions I don't think that means what you think it means. Unless you are comparing the defeat of Germany (as in Debellatio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debellatio ) and that
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> rock climbing, kayaking, snowboarding, ultramarathoning When did the IT or CS field become known for those pursuits? They seem more like a list of modern sports, that many in their twenties would enjoy. Perhaps you are associating with
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Does it? I didn't give written approval for the Google StreetView car to photography the front of my house. If I was to create a database of photographs of buildings, taken from a public location and indexed by street address, I don&#x
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, a restraining order is issued when someone is performing actions that, taken individually, are legal - recording a link between an SSID and a street address, knocking on an ex-girlfriends door to ask them to talk to you, photographing a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I think the 'advanced' users of HN vastly over-estimate the amount of information that the general public requires in order to apply common sense. As a member of the public, I have no real need to know about the protocols the Inte
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Interesting point about `_nomap` which I wasn't aware of until now. See this page, under 'How do I opt out?' for details: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/1725632?hl=en&visit_...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Hopefully it doesn't - there should not be a series of keypress events caused by a paste!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't buy this. For example, if I rent an apartment, but there is a locked cupboard in it where the landlord stores a bunch of tools and other bits and pieces, I don't complain to AirBnB that I didn't get the full use of th
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> In my mind, it was contaminated and a great risk to eat. So, I'm interested in how you arrived at this thought. It certainly can't have been learned behaviour due to cause and effect - I don't think there are any recor
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Welp. Having just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American all I can say is that the USA is insane...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Except where it doesn't work, such as in the restaurant business, where some non-trivial percentage of the supply is superfluous and will go out of business. Of course, they will be replaced, so there is an argument that it is at least
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, he means Turing machines are to FORTH as Lambda Calculus is to Lisp.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Clarification, having checked after being down-voted. It is also illegal if the below-cost pricing strategy can be shown to have been implemented with the express purpose of driving competitors out of business. This intent is the importan
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Predatory pricing is only illegal if you are a monopoly, or part of a price-fixing cartel. Simply selling something for less than cost is 100% legal, although as a business strategy it requires deep pockets, and if or when you raise prices
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Citizenship does not really work that way. I suspect your 'friend' was exaggerating things somewhat! He would have been granted whatever citizenship his mother had, by that country, since he lived there while growing up. Any right

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