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by lurr 9y ago
oh, I thought wildfire was specifically the bombing that would have caused massive growth of the organism.
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by lurr 9y ago
Wouldn't activating wildfire have been a complete disaster in the book? It's been a long time since I read that. The part about the guy's seizures freaked me out for a while.
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by lurr 9y ago
Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++. vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I'm not smart enough for Rust, oh well.
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by lurr 9y ago
> Bitcoin is as real as the USD Not really. The USD is as real as the US government. If the US government collapses I'm not going to trust Bitcoin to save me.
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by lurr 9y ago
> crypto is even more democratic as the other side can go on their separate ways, as oposite to countries. countries go their separate ways. Sometimes peacefully sometimes with horrible violence. Do you not see massive issues with that h
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by lurr 9y ago
USD is backed by the biggest military and economic force on earth.
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by lurr 9y ago
It deserves the name because it has devs actually interested in turning it into the original vision of bitcoin. Vs a store of value that just racks up transaction fees.
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by lurr 9y ago
> remarked that non-life-threatening illnesses like a broken arm can have waiting times measured in months You aren't going to wait months for a broken arm. That's just not happening. The reason it's beloved is because whe
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by lurr 9y ago
Related to a question down below. My employer filed concurrently i140 and i485, with EAD and AP. It sounded below like once the EAD goes through I could start looking at for profit side projects or similar things? Or do I need to wait for a
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by lurr 9y ago
The point isn't what the law is, the point is what some people would have it be.
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by lurr 9y ago
> I believe it is important to separate the people from their ideas Okay, why were the Nazis evil then? Why weren't they good people who just had awful awful ideas? Why is it wrong to judge people for the ideas they express and the
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by lurr 9y ago
There was no equivalence drawn between slavery and the (modern) treatment of homosexuals. There was a parallel drawn between the cultural divide on both issues, and the implication was that, like slavery, oppression of homosexuals is wrong.
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by lurr 9y ago
You become bad when you take action on it. If you believe homosexuality is a sin and that gay marriage shouldn't be allowed I don't know if that makes you a bad person. If you vote for a person who says they will ban it, then yea
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by lurr 9y ago
Who care about owning a house when you can't marry the person you want to live in it with. When you can't fill it with the kids you both want. When you can't sleep together.
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by lurr 9y ago
> That's called "live and let live". Not when you vote in people who will push for laws that discriminate.
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by lurr 9y ago
Then how is this legislation getting passed?
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by lurr 9y ago
> but your blatant ignorance of what actually happens in the midwest you missed quoting the part where the OP mentions moving from the Midwest. I don't think freedom of religion (including freedom from religion) is a strange prior
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by lurr 9y ago
> I have trouble thinking these people who hold views I find quite wrong are bad people Even when we are talking about people who support stomping on the rights of others because of something as private as sexual orientation?
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by lurr 9y ago
Net neutrality has been turned into another party line issue at the government level (people are mostly in favour of it). If you don't like that, then complain to the party that keeps voting against it. Don't try to obfuscate fact
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by lurr 9y ago
> and by design anyone else find it ridiculous how often people try to claim the issues plaguing the US government are "by design". it seems like it's done for almost anything. Electoral college is giving more and more pow
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by lurr 9y ago
> Wouldn't it be kinda presuming - telling US which laws they have Well the US tries to pull that shit all the time. Anyway, > but what this has to do with US and NAFTA ensuring that the market you are agreeing to trade with has
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by lurr 9y ago
It does, and causes harm to competition. Treating some data different because of a fee is exactly the type of behaviour net neutrality bans.
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by lurr 9y ago
> NN is a moot point for them NN has never guaranteed you cheap internet, fast internet, or choice in internet.
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by lurr 9y ago
But he said it? Wonder if the PR team will do damage control on this or if teh cult is self healing at this point.
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by lurr 9y ago
> Proponents of decentralization say centralized VR platforms such as Facebook Spaces and Microsoft’s AltspaceVR will give their owners too much control over the content users consume. of course. We've been doomed to that since Face
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by lurr 9y ago
I dunno, every calculator I've looked at says I get a bit back. But that's just for me, and it's the simplest look at the rules. I may get screwed on some other tax, others might as well. I also live in a state with no income
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by lurr 9y ago
Except the president clearly doesn't represent the will of the people, as evidenced by his loss in the popular vote. So how is this at all justifiable?
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by lurr 9y ago
> encourage Main Street investors to be open to these opportunities, but to ask good questions, demand clear answers and apply good common sense when doing so. so what, are we going to stop seeing "US IP detected, unable to partici
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by lurr 9y ago
The argument that video streaming results in tremendously one way traffic, making peering agreements unfair, seems worth considering.
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by lurr 9y ago
I'm actually not sure I buy this now. Lets say I'm an ISP and I build out 2 networks. 1 is 10 times faster than the other. Both end up at the same place and then go out to users. If I offer companies the option of paying more for

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