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by mikeash 7y ago
To avoid cherry-picking, it should go back to the formation of the Earth.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The history is clear. If you were ignorant of it, I don't care, it's easy to miss. But now that you know, you can run with it or stop using it, your choice.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Right, nobody said that before 2015, sure. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/ His full page ads calling for the execution of the exonerated Central Park Five ran thirty years ago!
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s disagreement when it’s some person with political opinions. When it’s a legislator, it’s not disagreement, it’s someone working against you. If it was about opinions he had that are not reflected in his legislative work, that would be
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by mikeash 7y ago
Libertarian, really? Since when do libertarians lock people up without trial, advocate against free speech, and vastly bloat government spending?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Trump is a far right authoritarian. If he seems to be left of 80s Republicans, it’s only because Republicans have waged a fairly successful campaign to equate authoritarianism with leftism.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Note that “Democrat party” is not a weird tic, it’s a deliberate insult. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, I suppose everything looks backward when you swallow all the propaganda.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Ok, I’ll bite: which of Clinton’s policies are shared by current Republicans? Universal health care? Concentration camps? Abortion? Invading Iran?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, this is why we elect representatives. So what? My point is that he doesn’t merely have opinions. The fact that this is true of all other legislators just reinforces my point.
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by mikeash 7y ago
As a member of Congress, he doesn’t merely have unpopular opinions, he’s trying to impose them on the rest of us.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Incidentally, this is exactly what they’ll say if you do hear him out.
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by mikeash 7y ago
A typical system has dozens or hundreds of processes running even when nothing is going on. If they all had their own copy of every system library in RAM, it wouldn’t look so free. Especially on mobile devices.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The Market Police don’t haul you off if you pay something different than the “market wage.” Markets set a floor on wages by making it so you won’t get enough workers if you pay less. But companies can easily pay more than the floor if they
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by mikeash 7y ago
Your position is “obvious” but mine needs technical evidence? OK then.
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by mikeash 7y ago
You apparently didn’t know about this thing before now, but you’re sure it helped with all this stuff? Why, because Comcast said so? It warrants sarcasm because it was transparently obvious bullshit when it was announced, Comcast did some P
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by mikeash 7y ago
Ok, so this is a highly intelligent and definitely user centric improvement to their network, and the only reason nobody else does it is because Comcast patented it. And the fact that the limit matches the amount of data used by popular spe
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by mikeash 7y ago
Make the executives do this.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The article I linked is a PR piece. Don’t get technical details from it. I linked to it just to show how they’re proud of their bullshit. Here’s some better info: https://www.dslreports.com/faq/14520 Relevant quote: “P
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s only a zero-sum game when their network is at 100% capacity. If they were playing games to optimize usage at peak times I might not care (although they should increase capacity in that case) but when they do this at 5AM it’s clearly bu
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by mikeash 7y ago
The difference is that CPUs burst above the speed they can sustain. The alternative would be running slower all the time. Comcast, in contrast, just lets you use more of their otherwise idle capacity, then throttles you. The alternative wou
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by mikeash 7y ago
Your feeling is spot on. They definitely burst to a higher speed at the beginning of a transfer. What’s really amazing is that they’re proud of it! https://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/what-is-powerbo...
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by mikeash 7y ago
I think this one has transcended the realm of bad gestures and ended up deep in the territory of illegal wage theft.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s possible, but beyond a certain point it becomes difficult to extend the benefit of the doubt.
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by mikeash 7y ago
If you aren’t a denier then why are you repeating a classic, thoroughly debunked denier talking point? https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars.htm
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yep, I scored 12/13 and the only reason I missed one is because my pessimism briefly overrode the obviousness I’d the quiz’s bias.
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by mikeash 7y ago
NASA exists to be the civilian side of the US’s aerospace ventures. The military side is the Air Force.
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by mikeash 7y ago
require(‘left-stick’)
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by mikeash 7y ago
Flying faster exposes you to those interceptors for less time and makes it harder for them to reach you before they run out of fuel. As for accuracy, they already had trouble reliably hitting any target smaller than an entire city so I don’
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by mikeash 7y ago
Most (all?) washing machines are 120V. Electric dryers rarely are, because they need a lot more power. I had a small washer/dryer combo unit years ago that used 120V, and it took about four hours to dry a load that was about half the s

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