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by hga 10y ago
Was that because it was attracting a lot more people/visits from out of town? Also, not that it matters for your city's residents, but did anyone check for displacement effects, is the same amount of crime (with the usual adjustm
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by hga 10y ago
Can't speak to the statistic claimed, which does sound a little out there, but I can certainly testify that multiple millionaires shop at this Wal-Mart: http://www.walmart.com/store/59 Store 59 is also sort of a s
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by hga 10y ago
But this does put the very clearly on one side of this cultural war, so it's something more than nothing. Virtue signaling at the very least. And it's not as if Apple isn't giving OS X/macOS plenty of reasons to switch
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by hga 10y ago
Which/what do you and he consider to be phony about this culture war over guns?
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by hga 10y ago
But with this you also have the responsibility to not serve lunch to blacks in your whites only lunch counter. Fixed it for you, at least in putting it in historical context, if you're willing to entertain the concept that Facebook e
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by hga 10y ago
A difference without a distinction when who you are, a non-"liberal"/progressive/Leftist member of the "Right" is the real reason, the "what you are doing" is just providing the evidence of what you a
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by hga 10y ago
It was as I recall a timing/time out issue, and very possibly the one you describe, it would just have to not effect the normal keyboard and mouse USB 1.x devices, and I'm pretty sure these USB 1.x sound devices had much better th
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by hga 10y ago
That was an USB 1.x issue, had nothing to do with the sound chip behind the USB interface. Yeah, that's right, the kernel crew broke something pretty fundamental in that primarily desktop device driver (servers are going do be doing h
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by hga 10y ago
That would be the quickest way to allow Linux to be supplanted: being able to incorporate its drivers into your own operating system without constant maintenance would allow you to pass what's by far the highest hurdle in gaining accep
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by hga 10y ago
While it's debatably correct policy (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Labor_p... ), good old Pat Moynihan inserted it i
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by hga 10y ago
To my memory, you're not mistaken, but as I recall the numbers are in the very low six figures if that, but it's certainly an big issue for people considering the science route including a Ph.D. and postdoc work before trying to l
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by hga 10y ago
You can't buy guns online as such, in the usual case of out of state customers they've got to be shipped to a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) in their state who then does the normal retail song and dance including a NICS backgroun
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by hga 10y ago
and any body in the industry is constantly afraid of being shut off at a whim for even tangentially related services Only by processors like Stripe and of course merchant banks (but the latter is easily dealt with nowadays), politically r
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by hga 10y ago
The same "private property" where I can run a segregated lunch counter or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake? Sorry, truly private property and the previous principles of negative freedom of association died a hard death in the 196
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by hga 10y ago
$75K is merely the minimum in damages required to sue in Federal Court; see page 2 of their complaint, #3: " This action involves a dispute between citizens of different states and the amount in controversy is in excess of $75,000. Ac
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by hga 10y ago
Clojure as well, e.g.: http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015/6/30/walmart-runs-clojur... They're pretty language agnostic from what I've heard, not always in a good way.
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, the very strong impression I got as of 2004 was that the intelligence community loves open source, and were e.g. much happier running Linux than Windows on machines running on their secure networks (are we surprised?). As others say
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by hga 10y ago
If his client was found guilty, or took a plea bargain, and he then didn't issue a pardon, he'd be making an implicit statement that he thinks the defendant was indeed guilty.... Whatever the Constitutional issues, it's mes
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by hga 10y ago
but probably won't stand as the Governor is technically the head of prosecution and would therefore have a conflict of interest with every case. I only skimmed the discussion a bit and searched for keywords, but I'm not sure how
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by hga 10y ago
It is, and I think it's rather common for states, and he's usually used it responsibly to keep the state's finances semi-sane. Don't know about this example, though. The US president used to be able to do this, Thomas J
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by hga 10y ago
Heh, sorry about the late reply, but his experience in the short lived Hungarian Soviet Republic involved their "quartering troops" in homes/apartments like his, something that at his age and the context he found profoundly d
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by hga 10y ago
I'm not at all impressed by the account, especially its puerile agenda, "obscures a lot of the content" indeed, of trying to paint the armed civilians and their actions in any bad light the author could dredge up, and one w
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by hga 10y ago
Note also the Banana Equivalent Dose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose and the related observation by Edward Teller that due to the potassium-40 in people, sleeping with two others gave roughly the s
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by hga 10y ago
As far as I know, The seL4 microkernel team generates C code by hand from a formally-verified "executable specification" written in Haskell. Which is then verified by analyzing the binary code and linking it back to the spec
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by hga 10y ago
In the bad old days, when, from memory and comparison with vast improvements in the later editions of K&R's chapter on pointers etc., the Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code ( https://en.wikiped
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by hga 10y ago
For me, when handled well when working for a good boss, starting the week with one was an excellent way of organizing that week. I'd remember, think about, and memorialize what happened last week (and enough times there's a large
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by hga 10y ago
Good analysis, but you missed the hiding in plain sight -> hiding in general strategy. Until you're not gaunt enough from lack of food, who's to know you have stored a lot of grain? Water access is a much bigger issue (why are
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by hga 10y ago
They're useful for very hard targets, like dropping two 20Mt or so at the same time at each end of the access tunnel for the Cheyenne Mountain Complex ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex ). Oth
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by hga 10y ago
Not if your doctrine is counter-force, which was our doctrine until the utterly evil Robert Strange McNamera ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara see also what he did with Vietnam and then destroying 3rd Worl
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by hga 10y ago
I realize that it's not possible to live as a vegetarian in a survival situation. This is because plants have almost no calories, you can't digest them without fat, most don't have enough protein, they take too much energy t

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