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by jeffdn 5y ago
That’s also assuming that the satellite that drops said rods can maneuver into the orbit required to drop the rod without: 1. getting knocked out at the commencement of hostilities by an anti-satellite weapon 2. the Defense Intelligence Age
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by jeffdn 5y ago
The Constitution applies only to the government. A user's relationship with Apple is not in any way governed by the Constitution, just like how Twitter banning people who violate the terms of service is not a violation of the first ame
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by jeffdn 5y ago
Fair points! Yeah, I exclusively use the typing.NamedTuple declaration these days, because it's: - less redundant - easy to add a per-attribute comment if needed - great when encapsulating disparate data to be able to have conc
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by jeffdn 5y ago
With a non-trivial example that uses readable attribute names, a single, long, space-delimited string becomes more a burden than a convenience, I think. Also, the amount of time saved typing is miniscule in comparison to all the rest of the
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by jeffdn 5y ago
You should read Shattered Sword , by Parshall and Tully. It is one of the most comprehensive accounts of Midway I've ever read, and dives deeply into Japanese archival sources in a way that the vast majority of histories of Midway do
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by jeffdn 5y ago
Or if Ney had sent forward some light cavalry to reconnoiter the crossroads at Quatre Bras at some point in the morning, he'd have seen that Wellington was not waiting there on the reverse slope. Had he seized the crossroads, he could&
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by jeffdn 5y ago
I believe that's why the article discussed a need for net _negative_ carbon emissions -- specifically, that we must sequester many gigatons per year in order to prevent what you mention.
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by jeffdn 5y ago
I don’t believe I’ve ever advocated for that viewpoint. I’ve only been speaking about Crimea, and in that case, Russia is very clearly the aggressor. Yes, there are historical complexities, there is regional context. It is not cut and dry,
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by jeffdn 5y ago
Well, Ukraine loaned the use of port facilities — they did not loan the entire land area and its citizenry. I think you’ll find a difference of opinion on whether or not 2014 was a coup d’etat.
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by jeffdn 5y ago
A popular referendum that was held _after_ the Russian military, with their national insignia removed, occupied Crimea en masse, just to be clear. If Mexico invaded Southern California, and then held a referendum with suspiciously high leve
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by jeffdn 6y ago
That’s a pretty disingenuous way to put it — first of all, there were plenty of Soviet fighter aircraft during the Korean War, and the Chinese were not literally arming the bulk of their troops with bows and arrows. Additionally, Korea shar
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by jeffdn 6y ago
We don't want to go back to that, but the replacement of that system with a choice between homelessness or incarceration hasn't exactly been a success. There has to be a better way.
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by jeffdn 6y ago
I'd hazard a guess to say that actual Bolsheviks would be appalled by American liberals, many of whom engage in conspicuous consumption and are vastly more interested in the appearance of affecting change than in the actual work requir
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by jeffdn 6y ago
San Francisco may be the most liberal city in the country (or at least one of them -- Washington, D.C. is pretty liberal, too), but it absolutely does not have the worst homeless problem: https://www.usnews.com/news/cit
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by jeffdn 6y ago
To be fair, that was the first time the federal government had attempted to build a modern web application. There's a great interview with President Obama, I believe in FastCompany, where he discusses the approach to building healthcar
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by jeffdn 6y ago
The Germans were also rather deep inside France, and thus more content to build systems of defensive fortifications. The British and French were of the mindset that the next offensive would have them making territorial gains, and so whichev
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by jeffdn 6y ago
The Python v2/v3 "issue" has been a non-issue for years now. If you're writing code to do a simple occasional job, Python is perfectly suited to that.
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by jeffdn 10y ago
One place we use them effectively at the healthcare company where I work is as an abstraction over the vastly complex and varied data we have on file. Put a little more simply than the reality, we "tag" patients with various statu
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by jeffdn 12y ago
The only update from Arch that has bricked my system was when they reconfigured the whole file system, to unify things (as opposed to it being split up between {/usr{/local,},}/bin) -- that was a nasty shock. In all my years
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by jeffdn 12y ago
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