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by hga 10y ago
Will that new Silk Road be able to deliver iron ore, crude oil, and other bulk cargoes including food ones? And if yes, except maybe for an oil pipeline (which would be relatively easy to take out), sea transport is still going to be a lot
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by hga 10y ago
Aren't you assuming that only one of these missiles hitting it would "destroy" it? They're rather big, and we gained a lot of experience in WWII in making fleet carriers fairly survivable in the face of big hits. And th
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, some people twitted "What use is it to seen a carrier to help with the Indonesian tsunami?", and this was pointed out, plus its fleet of helicopters which can be used to deliver the water and whatever food stores were on t
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by hga 10y ago
Perhaps another option is to go back to the 1980's hdd designs where the arm moves straight down the radius of the platter. This design might permit multiple heads on the same arm. At my first job, sysadmin and programming on a PDP-1
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by hga 10y ago
Isn't that a common setup for "lights off" servers, where you use something like IMPI to get virtual "local" access to your console? Now, you should have this sort of access seriously locked down, since hardware ven
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by hga 10y ago
I completely understand that, I've been there, but here's another way of looking at it: I can't see any way this company is going to succeed. I wouldn't even think about staying without engineering a change in managem
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by hga 10y ago
On the other hand, Trump manifestly knows how to get things done, just not in the government domain. The thing that gives me hope for better than "90% DOA" is that he also doesn't play by the current, or perhaps previous rule
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by hga 10y ago
Just glancing at their site, I suspect it's real, however, I doubt it's interesting to us except as an academic example: Only open source code I could find (and it's not linked from their site that I could find) is here, it&#
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by hga 10y ago
Well, technically it's a tax, but it doesn't matter to the consumer if it's a tax, especially one this upstream, that makes a commodity more expensive.
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by hga 10y ago
Unfortunately for many of those ideas, such as universal income, it is still too early to say. As others have noted in this subthread, that's not a desired solution for many of these people. They want to earn their money, not "
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by hga 10y ago
While it may be an "unsourced rumor that has been making its way around social media.", it's also something I learned years ago, it's a simple and very obvious economy measure. And whatever that Official Federal Govern
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by hga 10y ago
And "putting sugar in everything" as a way to make it taste better is completely unrelated to the government scoring this as "good", whereas using fat scores as "bad"? There are also those who thing the porti
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by hga 10y ago
If the popular vote won the presidency, campaigns would adjust their strategy to address the popular vote. Exactly, these complaints are based on an unknowable counterfactual, that if the rules of the game were total votes, a Trump campai
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by hga 10y ago
Here's one of the biggest in terms of suspected havoc wreaked by "experts". Literally all my life (and I turn 56 RSN), dietary saturated fats and most especially cholesterol were BAD things. Today, from health.gov "
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by hga 10y ago
BS on your latter claim, fasces are everywhere in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#Fasces_in_the_United_St... as a homage to the Roman Republic on which ours was explicitly modeled (the S in SPQR stands fo
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by hga 10y ago
Absolutely! Hmmm, I can get cheap ball point pens (round Bic Sticks), and I've been able to find narrow fountain pens, but I gather trying to find good ones in-between these extremes is a lost cause?
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by hga 10y ago
It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat. Especially since the concept of this having any vaguely modern, and by modern I mean, like, High Middle Ages ( https://en.wikipedi
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by hga 10y ago
You mean the heavily edited video that the group who did the so called 'expose' refused to release in full? I mean the "heavily edited video" that, just, somehow, prompted the firing of the two idiots who said too much
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by hga 10y ago
He's appointed actual white nationalist Steve Bannon his chief of staff Speaking as a middle-lower class, middle-aged white male, born, raised in and retired to Middle America, this is bad why? Although we prefer Alt Right or it&#x27
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by hga 10y ago
I guessed you missed this little bit, emphasis added. Albeit, it's showing their approval of other people's speech, who did much worse than "calling him names": Caught off guard by Hillary Clinton’s election defeat, De
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by hga 10y ago
How many "typical campaigns" pay people, including explicitly mentally ill people, to commit violent acts to give an impression that the other candidate is violent, will bring violence if elected, etc.? (Granted, that didn't
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by hga 10y ago
That goes a zillions times more for defense contractors, in not considering them evil, especially including keeping them in business. Hard to win, impossible nowadays against a serious opponent, if you've let them go out of business.
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by hga 10y ago
What about our ancestors? Specifically my Cajun mother's? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949609 Non-slave owning rice farmers, didn't particularly have a dog in the fight until the Damn Yankee loote
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by hga 10y ago
But you're leaving out various post-WWI details, like how the strictures of Versailles were weakened, how some of the victors ... actually, didn't entirely buy into it to begin with, and/or significantly softened their stan
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by hga 10y ago
Almost certainly true, but also certainly irrelevant to this subthread of lispm's on Germany.
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by hga 10y ago
For the losers I don't believe that was true, although I agree it was less disastrous in a number of ways.
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by hga 10y ago
Many people don't like to hear this, but since at least Carter->Reagan Republicans have been a lot better in supporting things like science and space exploration. Probably because no part of our collation considers them intrinsical
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by hga 10y ago
Space pens will accomplish that, last time I used mine, but their ink doesn't flow as well as pretty much every other type of pen I've ever used, which is a inherent trade-off. You could also keep a cleaned fountain pen in that dr
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by hga 10y ago
The war in Europe was nothing like you've ever seen in America. I think Southerners might disagree with that point, especially through the post-Civil War Reconstruction AKA military occupation period. Not saying they're directly
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by hga 10y ago
I can well believe that, but as I remember the big surge started after 9/11, when we were told the only thing we could personally do was to shop (support the already crashing economy), i.e. that we were are our own. Quibble: our best n

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