mikec3010

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by mikec3010 8y ago
What's ironic here is how conservative your position is: defending the status quo that the n-word must reflexively provoke outrage. People are imploring you to accept that times are changing and the word is being disassociated from h
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I'm in San Diego and I regularly watch crows fight hawks in midair, which defiantly ignore them.
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why do you assume it's a market in the first place?
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Source: The extraordinarily large amount of PCs I fixed for people during that era.
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Not true. Product liability lawsuits have been around for ages. It's just that the tech industry has been able to escape them, by and large. I think one of the greater injustices in business was Microsoft's avoidance of a lawsuit
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~~conspiring with~~ accepted an "offer" they couldn't refuse.
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And can you imagine the impact of false positives? Prosecutor has the perp on video committing a heinous offense but it's still insufficient evidence because of a software bug.
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>And the overall solution is to allow them to fail next time Then pass a regulation barring the US from ever giving another "bailout". In the aftermath of '08 those corporations played the US like a fiddle to get their bil
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That's a false dichotomy that because there was a blockbuster nearby they automatically had every classic movie in stock. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix's total active catalog size is much greater than what was in a block
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You could say the same thing about doctors. How dare they try to collect a paycheck saving vulnerable trauma patients who can't even consent to treatment. To me, where it becomes a scam is if/when they proffer completely ineffecti
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Exactly. I've been a C, C++, and java developer for the past 12 years and never used Big-O for anything other than a shibboleth to get past the door. A couple places practically used C++ itself as a gatekeeper: they want people who are
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>No legal use case found to date Thanks to regulatory capture and governmental privacy erosion that eschews anonymous transfers such as cash.
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I think it could be useful in congested cities with lots of stop and go driving. If there were magnetic flywheels in the street that mated with magnetic flywheels in the vehicle, energy could be transferred at stop lights. Provided the fiel
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The west isn't forcing them, but it's choosing them for manufacturing because they are the cheapest. One reason they are cheap is because of no environmental regulation. There's a great documentary on YouTube about the ship
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25 pages that could be shown in one page if they skipped all the talk and just showed carefully selected examples .
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To me what makes a drone a drone is the control system algorithm that keeps the aircraft stable. I thought "model aircraft " had to be operated by a sufficiently skilled operator to keep it from crashing. Whereas "drones &quo
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I wonder why they don't donate it to the patient? Or conversely, why they don't pay the donor at the hyper-inflated healthcare rates that everyone else in the "network" charges?
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I believe there are "green" ways to burn tires if the conditions are properly controlled and emissions captured. I saw a YT vid about a cement plant in CA that burned them in a furnace for heat to dry the concrete powder. Also, &q
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I'm convinced that one or more of these advancements could revolutionize air travel: * Back to the hub and spoke model, but without preplanned routes. You show up at the airport and they have a Just-in-time routing where you get one le