jfengel

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by jfengel 10mo ago
No, we don't. The country got along fine with half the current population, and half of that, and half of that. There's no reason to think there's anything magical about the current population value. Progressives need to offer
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Latinos and blacks, plus (as with the Nazis) homosexuals and anybody they can call a "communist". Jews are safe for the moment, but I wouldn't count on it forever. Netanyahu will not be in charge of Israel much longer. The ne
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Well, yeah. Strategic tariffs can serve a positive function. Spraying them randomly does not. I'm not even convinced that lowering our trade deficit with China is necessarily beneficial. But we have lowered our overall trade deficit, a
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Complete, no. But the combination of the expansive powers given to him by the court, and the difficulties of burden of proof, means that it's hard to imagine him being successfully prosecuted for just about anything. I think that inclu
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by jfengel 10mo ago
That is deeply impressive. The code is quite readable. I appreciate that it even got the "joke" with bagpipers. I know it's just recycling other people's jokes, but it's still quite the feat. I have never used one o
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by jfengel 10mo ago
You can't write React without Javascript. Even the most basic React demos require you to write JS, if only to increment a counter. Perhaps they don't really "know" the entire monstrosity of Javascript, but that's a
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by jfengel 10mo ago
If they are accused of crimes, then arresting people is not just a power but a mandate. If they just so happen to be his political enemies, that does not make them exempt. If he happens to be dumb enough to say "Arrest Chuck Schumer wi
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by jfengel 10mo ago
There can be more than one Evil One. Putin is responsible for an utterly unjustified war against Ukraine, committing atrocity after atrocity. Just because our own President is also guilty of war crimes (as well as domestic ones), it doesn
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Setting aside the legality of this, is it even possible for credit card companies to work with rates capped like that? I'm sure the credit card companies are plenty profitable right now and could probably afford some kind of cut. Just
910.
by jfengel 10mo ago
I could imagine a world where LLM coding was fun. It would sound like "imagine a game, like Galaxians but using tractor trailers, and as a first person shooter." And it pumps out a draft and you say, "No, let's try it ag
911.
by jfengel 10mo ago
What mechanism causes solar power deaths?
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by jfengel 10mo ago
That name rings a bell.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The article says that deaths peaked in mid 2023. Narcan was approved for over the counter use in March 2023. That suggests a plausible alternative cause.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Oh, I see. I don't know. I doubt it. That wasn't something I was interested in; I use navigation very often. But it's my navigation tool, not theirs.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I really wish there were an even cheaper car for that use case. Perhaps billed as a second car for families, where one is used just for commuting and errands, and the other is the general purpose one with a longer range. Say, with an 80 mil
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I don't think it has any OEM infotainment. I think there is some kind of software in there but I've never looked at it. It's not intrusive.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Here in 2026 China is supplying Russia with weapons in exchange for oil under global sanctions. Russia is in no position to reject China for selling to both sides. They may not be allies but each is the enemy of their enemies.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The problem is that much of it wasn't illegal. Some was, but some was just spy agencies doing spy agency things. The laws draw some pretty fine distinctions that are at odds with what you expect. Perhaps it's worth it to have expo
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Incidentally, you're describing my 2020 Subaru Impreza. Under $20k for my dealer demo. I do wish it supported a later version of Android Auto so that I could run that via Bluetooth. (It does have regular Bluetooth but that's just
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I wonder how much of that is due to dealers, who want to upsell. Do they even keep the base model in stock, or does it have to be special ordered (or today, we can give you a "discount" on the fancy model that still has a higher p
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by jfengel 10mo ago
There is considerable argument over it.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I'd be for that, too. Let people self determine. Maybe if we stopped trying to forcing enemies to be a nation both sides would be better off. Yes, I know what that implies about the Civil War.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
It's more than just the lack of material. It demonstrates that light propagates in a specific way that is different from any ordinary material. Light moving in a vacuum is different from a baseball moving in a vacuum. The speed of ligh
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The United States eventually should come into possession of Greenland Is this a joke? There is no reason for Greenland to be part of the US. They don't want to be. They aren't culturally American. They're not geographically
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I think that's hilarious. Can you point me to some documentation on that? Such as why they'd do it? (To make scraping and automation harder, perhaps?)
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I suppose it depends on which people you mean. The politicians don't think they're the bad guys, or they just don't care. They're getting whatever they want. The 30% who approve of the President also don't think the
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I'm envisioning an editorial written in early 1914 saying "Hey, I really hope nothing happens to the Austrian heir in Sarajevo, because everybody is tied into that and it would really blow up into a Europe-wide crisis." I wan
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by jfengel 10mo ago
That's about the same as a hair dryer. Maybe I can save time by charging my car and setting my 'do simultaneously.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I suspect that the causation runs the other way. They think EV owners, Californians, and anyone who doesn't smell like petroleum is crazy. Therefore they won't buy electric cars and so nobody builds charging stations.

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