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by hirundo 11y ago
> “At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said. So there's a feedback mechanism that, as air temperatures r
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by hirundo 11y ago
> There are many many contexts in which we, as a society, determine that someone is mentally unfit to make decisions And in many of those contexts those determinations are routinely unjustified, and have resulted in massive institutional
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by hirundo 11y ago
> how many folks choose to commit suicide, and then in the absence of any easy method, don't, and then ultimately be glad they didn't? I'm one of them. Yet that gives no one the right to substitute their will to live for m
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by hirundo 11y ago
Suicide is a perfectly legitimate use for guns. If someone is so miserable that they want to die do we really want to make it harder for them? In most such cases the appropriate pill would be a better option: more sure, less dangerous to ot
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by hirundo 11y ago
It did catch on, just in a different form. Our web shop is fairly typical of that. We do this with a combination of the Tomdoc (tomdoc.org) documentation specification plus Rubocop (github.com/bbatsov/rubocop) and peer review for
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by hirundo 11y ago
tl;dr: "While results indicate no difference in accuracy between the two styles, subjects recognize identifiers in the underscore style more quickly."
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by hirundo 11y ago
People say that it gets better. And sometimes it does. But usually it doesn't. The graph for the suicide rate monotonically increases with age. The older you are the more likely you are to kill yourself. In other words it tends to get
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by hirundo 12y ago
tl;dr: yoyo
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by hirundo 13y ago
They didn't necessarily earn it. They inherited it. They got it by luck. They're not good Germans. They are a degenerate race. Their tax rate wasn't high enough. <- Excuses for taking other people's stuff.
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by hirundo 13y ago
They simply found an alternative richer class to steal from, so found it convenient to become national socialists instead of communists. It's Willie Sutton's (apocryphal?) logic that he robbed banks because that's were the mo
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by hirundo 13y ago
Above a commenter says "How is asking for 'the rich to pay their share' a corollary to any Nazi actions?" How is this not using a social justice argument to address economic disparities? Do you really claim that such sta
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by hirundo 13y ago
Nowadays the language of 'social justice' (e.g. asking the rich to pay their share, when in a progressive tax regime they pay far more than that) is used to justify leveling behavior whereas in Nazi Germany the language of 'r
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by hirundo 13y ago
Never forget, the Jews say of the Shoah. It becomes harder to keep that promise if it's seen as uncivil merely to draw comparisons to that era. And it's important that the promise be kept. One can accuse someone of an intolerance