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by mhurron 10y ago
And what other meaning does "We're racing to get self-driving cars to save a lot fewer people" have in this context?
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by mhurron 10y ago
If you want to regard marrying someone as 'bestowing upon them the highest honour you can' you can feel feel free to be that full of yourself. If you want to pretend there is nothing going on but romance, you can pretend that. Leg
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> A marriage has everything to do with romance in terms of the kind of relationship we're talking about: a romantic relationship. Not legally it doesn't and that is where a pre-nup is involved. A pre-nup is related to all the c
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> I'm optimistic that by 2050, we'll be much better off. In the meantime, 7-10 million worldwide will die every year from cancer That's sort of how progress and improvements work, they benefit those that come later. > W
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> because of the high divorce rate (is it increasing?) Falling. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-i... The divorce rate increased for the same reason it isn't now, swat
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That isn't actually the government believing and planning for a zombie outbreak.
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> Ugh, come on, enough, Internet, enough with the over-sensationalization of everything. Is the author really that naive? Of course we planned a nuclear first strike against Russia. And China. And likely the entire Eastern Bloc and Allie
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A subset means it doesn't work as well or the same way.
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> Once you've piped strongly-typed objects around between your shell commands, text scraping seems barbaric by comparison This is why Powershell is a great thing on Windows. Windows works with .Net objects and Powershell works direc
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Name one country that has similar laws. I very literally know of no other country. Britain, Canada, the EU and Japan all have Hate Speech laws. Hate speech laws are laws restricting speech for being nothing more than speech.
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> I don't quite see the issue here. Well there really is only one country in the world that has 'Freedom of Speech' codified into law. In reality, any country can abuse it's position, but in regards the internet it d
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> I was referring to problems with the system as a whole for entire groups of people, not just individual stories. This person is not an isolated incident. Major medical care in the US is far more expensive than any other nation on the p
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You must be pretty healthy or never actually had to pay for care in the US. You also probably shouldn't assume you're the only one in the room who moved to the US from another country. I moved to the US from Canada, thankfully I a
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> Can anyone succinctly explain the benefits of having a market for private health insurance companies, rather than a single provider of health insurance For the citizen, none. For the insurance companies, they get forced signups. > D
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> People were still people 10 or 20 years ago, but Walmart didn't have the same crime problem But is that actually a problem of Walmart's creation, or is it that the pressures that encourage shoplifting became higher among thos
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Unfortunately the packets are not in any way similar. It has been over 10 years since I've been in one so it's possible it's gone all to hell.
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Other than the XBox, what new thing has Microsoft launched that has not hinged on its existing dominance? It seems that the people that brought Microsoft to where it became the dominant force either left or were no longer listened to and Mi
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My introduction to rotisserie chicken was the Swiss Chalet chain in Canada. One of the few things I miss about Canada.
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If I have to build a deb to install something, I might as well just save myself the time and use pip. The convenience of a package manager goes away when you have to package everything yourself before you can use it. At that point saying &#
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apt also installs packages globally to the system and not every python package exists as a deb package.
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I have a VPS I use as a smart host.
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> boxes full of ingredients What the hell does this mean?
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> easily form a shadow corporation That would be indirectly competing and illegal.
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"The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. governme
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> I agree that the existing state laws are bad and clearly a product of cable lobbies, but .. you don't believe anything should be done about it. Local monopolies were created because local and state politicians were paid to make it
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> it (the icon on the Command Key) was designed by Susan Kare back in the '80s No it wasn't. The symbol is very old and all over Scandinavia. Kare offered it as one of several options presented for the icon of the Command Key.
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http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/vectors/ The CDC also lists them as the same thing. It is possible all these sources are right. There are many species of this pest and while all can carry th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae They're also called assassin bugs and are pretty common. If you treat around your house for bugs like ticks, fleas, ants and termites you're probably using an insecti
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If you do not stand up for your rights, you do not have them. So, how important is it to you? Unfortunately I do not live in or around NYC so all I can say is fuck the port authority.
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That's a if they're updated in the Fall. Rumour had it several lines would have been updated this past spring. Anyone who buys a MacBook Pro today, before whenever it is the line gets updated, will be happy with it, which is of co

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