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by jhayward 6y ago
Please don't do this. Substantial comments are much appreciated.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> Manual counting (with randomly picked volunteers) is the only solution that guarantees trust in the process. This is naive. The Georgia Presidential election was hand-recounted, twice . The loser still claims it was stolen, incite
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by jhayward 6y ago
It has also been withdrawn from the market.
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by jhayward 6y ago
This answer seems designed to either insult, denigrate, or cause offense. It’s not a substantive contribution to the conversation.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Yes, because that's the correct answer in a real-world situation. If you want to play some game with the applicant, be sure to tell them you're playing fantasy and not reality.
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by jhayward 6y ago
You fix the system by going after the miscreants and holding them to account, one by one, and accumulating a record that can be used to provide more general laws and regulations for the future. Lawmakers do that by investigating specific c
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by jhayward 6y ago
It's been done.
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by jhayward 6y ago
You are assuming that each request is for information on 1 person, when in fact it is quite common to ask for all persons having some identifiable characteristic, such as a geofenced location or using certain search terms.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> Kind of like how if anyone in Texas had the good foresight to winterize they could have made a year of profit in a few days. This fundamentally mis-states the situation in Texas during the recent cold catastrophe. Gas suppliers that
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by jhayward 6y ago
Apparently the limiting question is how much force can be exerted on the ship and from what locations without damaging it (or, damaging it too much ). That's why recovery specialists are flying in. They know how to do that kind of en
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by jhayward 6y ago
The article on gCaptain said that shippers would begin re-routes after 24 hours of closure, which was about 6:00 UTC today.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Yes, in fact all the original research for those things was done in Fortran compilers.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Coal and oil come from carbon captured during the Carboniferous period, before the evolution of species of bacteria and fungi that could digest the lignin in plants. Coal and oil formation is not being fed by plant life today. The carbon i
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by jhayward 6y ago
> It might be easier to understand what you're actually saying if it didn't seem like you were being deliberately vague and hand-wavish just to sound sophisticated. And, yet, your refutation is: >Given deeper thought, one wi
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by jhayward 6y ago
Money laundering has long been a mainstay of Trump business models.
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by jhayward 6y ago
They're hard to 'kill' because they were never alive. They're just a protein molecule.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Using that logic, it never made sense to start any project with Python, correct? People use Python for its ease and speed of development, and extensive ecosystem. Things that need to be fast can have the appropriate effort expended to exec
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by jhayward 6y ago
Conditional logic is, in general, harder to analyze for correctness than declarative data and mathematical formulae.
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by jhayward 6y ago
https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_to_move_production_from_china... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-vietnam-apple-exc...
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by jhayward 6y ago
Under the International Treaty for Outer Space, each signatory nation is responsible for regulating that activity of those operating from within their territory. Switzerland signed the treat in 1967 [1] So that's all as it should be,
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by jhayward 6y ago
It' not impossible because of some feelings, it's impossible because there is no way to effectively protect the aged, immune-suppressed, and those with pre-existing risk factors . They live in a society. If that society is letti
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by jhayward 6y ago
Look on page 22 of the cited doc. At 50 years, the dose rate is still 20,000 mSv/hour/tonne. Compare that to fly ash for us, please.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> the core claim is that coal ash contains more uranium and other radioactive metals No, the core claim is that coal ash contains more radioactivity . That is, there are more nuclear disintegration events per second per kg of mass in c
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by jhayward 6y ago
> A typical coal plant produces more nuclear waste than a nuclear plant. No. This is absurdly incorrect. That article has been debunked many times because its basic claim is that coal ash ponds emit to the environment (not contain )
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by jhayward 6y ago
Thanks, I didn’t even notice I had done that.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Yes, it could have gone bad very rapidly. It helps that they had a 35-year captain in command, and 5 pilots in the cockpit - including 2 check pilots. All accounts are that the decision making of the crew was top-notch.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Why would you say the comparable aircraft is a 757, and not the 777 or 787? The 757 is a 40-year-old narrowbody design, not a modern widebody.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Oh, it's had incidents. Just not any fatal ones. The early Quantas Flight 32 engine failure [1] was quite severe and the plane was lucky to continue to fly, for instance. " a turbine disc in the aircraft's number-two engine
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by jhayward 6y ago
The TdF has many iconic sections, mostly climbs, some time trials. They don't change often. Times are compared from year to year not over the entire 21-day race, but section by section.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> When the government tells me where I can shop, Which government is telling you where you can shop? In what way do they do that?

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