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by gydfi 10y ago
If childcare costs that much why not just hire a full-time nanny?
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by gydfi 10y ago
Journalists love writing this same article over and over again. Find some humble bragging buffoon willing to get quoted as talking about how hard it is to get by on some large amount of money, then farm the sputtering outrage of the readers
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by gydfi 10y ago
It strikes me that the people who crow about "facts" the loudest are the ones most likely to be conflating facts with their own opinions. I'm a scientist. I don't believe in facts. I believe in models, explanations, meas
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by gydfi 10y ago
I guess this is some kind of trial. My point is that exit records are neither novel, useless, nor in most countries the least bit controversial. Not sure why the US needs to make a big deal out of it with biometric scans instead of the trie
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by gydfi 10y ago
"I feel the same about the wait but pretty good about my own time estimation abilities!"
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by gydfi 10y ago
Great, so with good timing we can both get a great view and set a record simultaneously.
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by gydfi 10y ago
But practically speaking there's also not much the US can do in that scenario if Russia or China ignores US sovereignty over Mars and sets up their own base. The US's only recourse would be to start a war, and would that be worth
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by gydfi 10y ago
I fucking rule at HyperCard.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Just looking up records: the furthest anyone has ever been from Earth is Apollo 13 who passed 158 miles above the lunar surface. I imagine that would be a pretty easy record to break, if you're doing a translunar flight anyway then get
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by gydfi 10y ago
Hey, you're right. First flight of the Saturn V was November 1967. First trip around the moon was December 1968.
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by gydfi 10y ago
But, so-called “exit controls,” where documents are checked as travelers are leaving the country, were popularized last century by Nazi Germany as a great way to ensure that they could control, round up, and exterminate the Jews and other
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by gydfi 10y ago
A lot of people seem to conflate "a threat to democracy" and "people I dislike getting elected". I'd say those people are the real threat to democracy.
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by gydfi 10y ago
And was the other survey a comprehensive survey of everybody? The divergence in poll results seems to suggest we should put even less credence on polls here than usual.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Ancient Greek Buddhists?
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by gydfi 10y ago
I think the difference is just in status: being an excellent chess player gets you respect from a more respectable-looking crowd than being excellent at Street Fighter. Neither gets you quite as much widespread adulation as being good at go
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by gydfi 10y ago
That is the way I think... not that the story is necessarily bullshit (though like most conflict stories of which we've only heard one side it may have other factors) but that it's a fairly normal story from a rightfully disgrun
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by gydfi 10y ago
Why? In what sense is it off-topic?
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by gydfi 10y ago
>Distortions of the kind labelled gerrymandering are fundamental to the exclusive use of independent single member districts (and exacerbated if you use plurality or majority-runoff elections in those districts.) Not so much. In Australi
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by gydfi 10y ago
To put it in terms people here understand: suppose you have a big legacy code base written in C. It works fine but it's not perfect. And every time a bug comes up, there's a bunch of guys who say "hey, let's just rewrite
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by gydfi 10y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I've eaten that while not on a hike. "Sure, I could boil some water. Or I could just sprinkle seasoning on the top and eat it now..."
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by gydfi 10y ago
Which is a fair complaint. But lots of people seem to be overreacting. I imagine any number of large employers would have much worse stories than that out there somewhere.
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by gydfi 10y ago
That actually sounds pretty achievable. Difficult, but all within the boundaries of known physics and existing human lifetimes.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Maybe but I like to think there are creatures living in the temperate rim of a tidally locked planet somewhere debating whether life could possibly evolve on a rotating planet. "I mean, there'd be temperature fluctuations of tens
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by gydfi 10y ago
Would they? I mean, we can see geological features on our moon, and our tides are orders of magnitude away from being rock-tearing events. I mean, the moon is small, but... how close do these planets approach, anyway?
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by gydfi 10y ago
It seems to me that most of the problems with prisons can be solved by eliminating contact between prisoners. A cell, a treadmill, some books and movies, and Skype privileged with your family on the outside. That's all you need. It&#x2
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by gydfi 10y ago
Exactly. Which is why you need to stop it somewhere before they get addicted. I've always wondered what goes through the head of someone when they think "Hey! I think I'll try heroin for the first time! That seems like a good
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by gydfi 10y ago
Argument from authority? Is that the best you can do? Those "professionals" don't have a great track record, which is why drugs are still a huge problem. So I repeat my question: how are things working out in the Philippines?
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by gydfi 10y ago
I'm just asking whether the Philippines' policies are sufficient to deter people from taking drugs. You're the one who is inferring anything on top of that. It seems to me, however, that the overwhelming priority of our heroi
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by gydfi 10y ago
What about Manila? Do people take drugs openly in Manila?
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by gydfi 10y ago
No, I think that this coordinated attack has been going on for at least a month (remember #deleteuber?) and that this is just the latest salvo in it.

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