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by hga 11y ago
First only if you don't count minor details like Pearl Harbor. And given that we were systematically destroying their urban areas, just less efficiently albeit with more casualties, it's again a different thing.
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by hga 11y ago
Taking long term hostages to try to insure the good behavior of others is an ancient tradition.
963.
by hga 11y ago
In practice, that "reasonable force" judgement call and the often demonstrated lack prosecutoral good will results in atrocities like this one, which was merely the first I found with a quick Google search: http://www.t
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by hga 11y ago
The biggest defect of MAD was that the Soviets correctly thought it was profoundly immoral and never accepted it, and, well, once Robert Strange McNamara, he of the oh so wise initial prosecution of the Vietnam War, pushed it through, the
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by hga 11y ago
None, although some have a "duty to retreat" which might come into play, especially in after the fact 20/20 hindsight trials where the prosecutor ignores the dictum of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that “Detached reflection c
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by hga 11y ago
Errr, that is exactly what happened, and an apology was due. While it's primarily the responsibility of an upland bird hunter (anyone shooting, of course, but in this sort of hunting you move around a lot and flush out birds unexpected
967.
by hga 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555017 Azul's Zing is pauseless, never has to do a stop-the-world collection which they say on a JVM takes about a second per GiB. It has threads which concurrently collect as
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by hga 11y ago
OK, but it's more expensive that "free", and they didn't previously list their prices, but now I see at the excellent https://www.azul.com/products/zing/zinqfaq/ Zing is priced on a subsc
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by hga 11y ago
While it doesn't cover all user data by any means, one of the secrets to Goldman Sachs' success, and survival in 2008 plus or minus, is their SecDB securities database implemented in their own Securities LANGuage SLANG. It allows
970.
by hga 11y ago
Did he try Azul's Zing or their previous Vega hardware solution for pauseless JVM GC? Not free by any means in $$$ or performance, but they should have avoided any pauses due to GC.
971.
by hga 11y ago
Congratulations, you've just made part of the case for Citizens United , which coincidentally pertained to an ... unflattering movie about Hillary. (The stronger case is of course "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the fre
972.
by hga 11y ago
Indeed, except for the first bit being a dependent clause. And behind that is some politics: our Founders were supremely suspicious of standing armies (we didn't really have much of one until the Cold War) and "select militias&quo
973.
by hga 11y ago
As I understand it, that's how it works with the VCs who specialize in biomedicine. They'll provide limited funding to scientists with a credible theory to see if it pans out, with further funding to ideally follow. Theranos got
974.
by hga 11y ago
Indeed. Here's how the author of the article thinks AMD might skate: Also not immediately obvious is where this falls under the Intel/AMD x86 cross-licensing agreement. AMD has of course done their own research.... In the meant
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by hga 11y ago
And penicillin is a classic "recognize what you have found" example, scientists prior to Alexander Fleming had noted and wrote up observations of molds killing cultured bacteria, but just treated that as a curiosity. He, at least
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by hga 11y ago
Who had canons? The state. Now that I know is not true, there were (wealthy) private individuals owned canons. Heck, that the Congress has the power to "To ... grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal" acknowledges that private ent
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by hga 11y ago
A concept used to great effect in the novel Footfall : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall
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by hga 11y ago
You're conflating the Constitution created by the Federalists, which defined the latter two items, and the different document known as the Bill of Rights which was the price of the Anti-Federalists to accept to that Constitution. And
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by hga 11y ago
Not winnable, it was won , "Peace With Honor" and all that jazz, the North had given it their best shot after we'd withdrawn our troops and got skunked. Then the Congress threw away the victory. And the end game happened w
980.
by hga 11y ago
Indeed; you'll note that while those of us who compose the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy are still buying guns and ammo at record levels, we're not using them for such, we're still trying the "electing different people&quot
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by hga 11y ago
I'm pretty sure a UCS report was the single most bogus "scientific" study I've ever heard of, based on my memory and what I was just able to look up with Google: It postulated that the entire battle would have to be fo
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by hga 11y ago
Thanks. From http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1985/8504/850403.PDF , the Executive Findings (all of which I skimmed), the OTA Findings section (all of which I read): At the end of 1: While it is certa
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by hga 11y ago
You can read the actual reports here: http://fas.org/spp/starwars/ota/ Actually, I can't, for all the links are dead. So I don't know how they scored success. I score it: Integral to winning the
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by hga 11y ago
On the Republican side, I'm sure a number didn't vote because they thought, correctly, that it would be a Trump landslide. If they supported him, no problem, if not, well, that's harder to justify. My father didn't vote
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by hga 11y ago
Indeed, it was nicknamed the Office of Technology Assassination back before it was properly terminated with extreme prejudice. It's really fun watching scientists and engineers, real experts, build all these things the OTA and its
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by hga 11y ago
Thing is, with the exception of Los Angeles, all those other cities in the top 10 also suffer under the chilling effects on labor mobility that RTP and DFW do.
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by hga 11y ago
Beware, for this article includes a gem like this: Instead, these companies turned to a standard called ARM. Created by a once-obscure British company, it was designed from the ground up for low-power mobile uses. Nope, their price budget
988.
by hga 11y ago
The rule I like here is that things like viruses and prions exist because they can.
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by hga 11y ago
3. The disruption of full-service airlines by low-cost carriers. In the US at least, this was due to political deregulation. The process was started by Nixon, but finished in law by Jimmy Carter (!), note also the leading lights of the D
990.
by hga 11y ago
and the big guys barely disguise how little they care about customer service That sure seemed to be my experience with all the little CVS stores I used in the D.C. area in the '90s, but it's not what I see with Wal-Mart in the l

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