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by lamontcg 2y ago
I guess technically, this whole comment section is just straw man arguments. But aside from the pun, we're talking about Starbucks. That is supposed to be a coffee/espresso business. You should be able to drink those without a s
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by lamontcg 2y ago
My memory is kinda shit. So when I was in the gifted program, they got real concerned about how I didn't know my times tables and was super slow at a few of them. This was the 1970s, and before I knew binary, so 7s and 8s caused me is
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> a bot fest and propaganda machine. The bigger problem is the amount of lazy comments on the site, which are invariably highly upvoted. I'm so sick of pun threads, and office references and any other popular culture reference. They
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by lamontcg 2y ago
So people are buying their daily caffeinated milkshake from Starbucks, and we wonder why there's an obesity crisis in America.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Where there are corrections, they often tend to be correlated and in a consistent direction. e.g. Feb 2023: > Overall, revisions to monthly growth in 2022 meant 311,000 more jobs were added last year than previously reported. https:&#x2
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by lamontcg 2y ago
They should really work on homebrew cruise missiles for Ukraine. Constructing backyard pulsejet engines with nothing more than common welding and CNC machines and strapping an explosive payload to them with a mass-produced jamming-resistan
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Cave diving uses that phrase as well. I suspect it does originate in the military, though, and probably reloading guns and cannons while under fire. Might go back further than that to bows and arrows. Looks like a related term "make h
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by lamontcg 2y ago
>The reason the West generally doesn't adopt policies like that is because we believe in letting people speak the truth to power and that generally gives us an advantage because we have more overall perspectives and are more likely
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by lamontcg 2y ago
It is unbelievable that we put up with this stupid shit, and it isn't just illegal.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
That researcher has a personal conviction that the model isn't wrong. That is spurring them to spend the years and decades necessary to assemble the experimental evidence to test the model. Either it'll turn out to be wrong or r
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American Fire Departments Are Getting People Killed [video](youtube.com)
6 points by lamontcg 2y ago|1 comments
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by lamontcg 2y ago
30C of cooling is pretty clearly ludicrous. And geoengineering to spew more CO2 into the atmosphere won't really work and is idiotic enough, it won't happen. I guess I didn't understand that line of argument because of how r
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Looking back, the greenhouse effect of CO2 was known in the 1800s, but even at the end of that century people thought it would take a millennium and be good. There's an argument that agriculture and predominantly rice cultivation
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by lamontcg 2y ago
By 2050 when the AMOC collapses, Europe will be able to heat itself without greenhouse gases. They're on a pretty good course already, they're not the United States.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> That article really overestimates the desire of suicide bombers to survive their attempt. The article addressed it pretty well. They have a fairly strong desire to not blow up in the taxi to the airport, so you can't carry premix
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I think airport people are fixated on it because of the increased revenues from beverage sales (and some security people are happy to help if they can sell wildly overpriced scanners at a massive profit)
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Nobody in the comments section considering that it might be the humans who are more distracted and narcissistic and incapable of training a dog these days.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Well, researchers mostly use the subjects which are available which tends to be broke college students, studying corporate executives is more difficult.
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Tesla in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist was using FSD system(apnews.com)
67 points by lamontcg 2y ago|36 comments
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Speeding is a lot easier to solve than distracted driving. It is pretty trivial to measure it objectively from outside the offending vehicle. Speeding also makes everything else worse due to stopping times and kinetic energy. It is also
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by lamontcg 2y ago
We don't currently live in that theoretical universe, and won't any time soon. The one we live in, it is a hard disqualification, and there's an election in 3 months. We won't fix everything that is broken with how peopl
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by lamontcg 2y ago
It is a requirement for the job of being a national politician. You have to be able to win elections at that level, and there's no participation trophies for feel-good runs by someone with a handicap, you just lose.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas, his most definitive position on the conflict since the terror group killed 1,200 Israelis and took more t
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by lamontcg 2y ago
LastPass, Okta, Atlassian and SolarWinds show you can keep getting hacked repeatedly before you suffer any critical reputation damage in the market.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Putting your money where your mouth is isn’t free. This is a 17-year-old kid making a $15 donation. It isn't like he pulled together $250k to donate to some super PAC. Meanwhile: > Former student Max R. Smith remembered Crooks
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The way he touches his ear actually looks perfectly normal for getting shot in the ear. He looks like he has no idea WTF just happened, which is more normal for getting shot IRL than what happens in the movies. It takes a while for the mi
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by lamontcg 2y ago
You're hanging the idea that he was left-wing on a single $15 donation (made when he was 17 years old, over 3 years ago). He could have done that for any reason, including just trying to impress some girl he knew. > likely to pick
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> The original meaning of the Second Amendment was the federal government couldn't take away your right to own a gun There's also that "well regulated militia" bit in the text. We could require several months of membe
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Or you could tell it to solve Goldbach's conjecture and make up any mathematical systems it needs in order to do that.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I'm not who responded to you, but I think the important difference from some other languages is you can't define arbitrary operators, but there does seem to be Traits for overloading at least most of the built-in operators.

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