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by mcphage 1y ago
Also a lot of energy is continuously pumped in from the giant ball of (plasma) matter a bit away.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Does the US still have a rules-based economy? “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Trump isn’t seeking another term Let’s look at it a different way—if he were seeking another term, would it look any different than what we are currently seeing him do?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Both of which are currently the subject of ongoing court cases. That’s a relief. It’s a good thing that he follows court orders against him, otherwise this situation where he doesn’t follow court orders against him would be a problem.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Even the literal meaning of what was obviously a joke He has stated repeatedly that it is not a joke. I’m not sure what it’ll take to get you to believe him. > This is the same kind of thing I've been hearing my entire life Pr
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by mcphage 1y ago
> thousands of skus for nearly identical products that made identifying lemons nearly impossible Also to prevent price-matching.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> during the next admin During the what?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I remember there being an episode of Ancient Aliens (or some similar show) wondering whether the reason Aliens were coming to Earth was for our gold—and then at the end of the entire episode, they spoke to a scientist who said "Yeah, i
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by mcphage 1y ago
The source proudly brags that he passes cognitive tests for dementia.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I'm not sure what the Common Core curriculum for reading is, although on the whole Common Core math curriculum, it's a good system. You're right that often parents don't understand that—but that's due to Americans
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by mcphage 1y ago
> And yet, looking at the chart in the article, that appears to be pretty much all there is to say. The problem is, the Maine Secretary of Education would then reply “We actually teach math, also.”
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by mcphage 1y ago
Thank you!
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s really sweet! What do you mean by a “small forge”? My son is interested in blacksmithing.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The City of Chicago's argument was that something of ANY value, no matter how insignificant, would help an attacker exploit their system, and was therefore possible to keep secret under the FOIA law. I’m glad that argument lost, s
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by mcphage 1y ago
> but I feel like kids are missing out on the free-style aspect. Lego still sells products which are just big boxes of parts, as well as things between (the 3-in-1 sets that have several different models). I’m not sure why kids are miss
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s okay, because “teaches you self-reliance” is just a fig leaf. They don’t care if it actually happens or not, the point is to have something to point to, so when they’re criticized they can hit back with “Why are you against people l
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by mcphage 1y ago
Gotcha, thank you :-)
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by mcphage 1y ago
> These kinds of "predictions" are really a signal that the story doesn't belong on Hacker News. Maybe, but we’ve had articles for years posted on HN claiming any minor slight is an attack on free speech. And now that we h
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by mcphage 1y ago
How does this differ from Langton’s Loops? The two wiki articles don’t seem to reference each other.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Companies manage to handle all 3 of those things without the inefficiently (or at least a lot less of it). Have you… never worked for a large company? They’re incredibly inefficient! And also, the staff cost a whole lot more.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well… sometimes it is.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I’m pretty sure that’s all true but I’m not going to check.
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by mcphage 1y ago
This isn’t the first article about serious wrongdoings of the current administration, and apologists show up in every single one of the threads. Why should we pretend we were born this morning, rather than learning from what has happened be
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by mcphage 1y ago
> This might be the last game they ever make. Well, I’m still holding out for Space Station Silicon Valley 2
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by mcphage 1y ago
> liberal activists that run the western gaming industry wut?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Power series are heavily studied and understood. The different sizes of infinity are also heavily studied and understood.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Hundreds of hours of enjoyment for $70 I'm not sure that $/hour is a great way to evaluate games, since it would encourage developers to pad games out with repetitive content.
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by mcphage 1y ago
It's an imperfect solution to a real problem—Nintendo wants to use cartridges instead of discs for some good reasons, some not-so-good reasons—but the costs per cartridge are too high for cartridges big enough to hold modern games. But
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by mcphage 1y ago
They used to do that back when the iPhone first came out. I don’t think anybody liked that better, and having people hang around on older iOS versions was (and still is) bad for security.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Why is it so hard to think on a 5-10 year timeline? Because the tariff plans have changed every few days. If the tariffs were stable over 5-10 years, businesses would adapt. > This is country-level ADHD. Yes, these tariffs are.

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