mkempe

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by mkempe 8y ago
Your comment does not address the contents of the proposed legislative changes, at all -- as such it is a sad example of resorting to the fallacy of ad hominem.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Your general skepticism about other aspects of the coming revision of the MacBook Air may be warranted -- nevertheless a retina display would be a great improvement. Further, if your prediction is correct, why wouldn't Apple already ha
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by mkempe 8y ago
It won't be awkward once Apple updates that computer's display before the release of Mojave. I'm looking forward to that.
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by mkempe 8y ago
You're right. Avocado -- mid 17th century: Spanish alteration (influenced by avocado ‘advocate’) of aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuacatl. Guacamole -- from an Aztec dialect via Nahuatl "āhuaca molli", which translates to "avo
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by mkempe 8y ago
Red/Green/Blue Mars implies that it's within the lifespan of the current generation between 30 and 50.
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by mkempe 8y ago
You're attempting to insult a completely invented quote. Or are you both recording one stream of your consciousness and describing your mental state?
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by mkempe 8y ago
There are countless uses of drones that endanger nobody and create no such risk. And private firefighters are just as real as any other firefighters. You should give up this totalitarian impulse to have the government control all uses o
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by mkempe 8y ago
Can you change your legal name?
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by mkempe 8y ago
Did you mean "pithy"?
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by mkempe 8y ago
How dare they value their own home? How dare they pay for private firefighters to save their own home? How dare they even consider using modern technology to help track and fight the wildfire so they can save their own home? Thanks for the
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by mkempe 8y ago
You're oozing contempt for both those who pay companies to try to save their homes in the middle of wildfires and those who don't have the resources or foresight to do so. In your world, why would firefighters bother to stop the w
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by mkempe 8y ago
Is that the cowardly principle of how people should decide what to do? "if there is a risk of loss, or the possibility of a great loss, don't even try." Who cares what could be achieved? or what risk mitigations are possible?
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by mkempe 8y ago
If the riot comes to your home you have the right to defend yourself with guns, including those of a private security force.
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by mkempe 8y ago
To continue with your parallel, private security is not pre-emptively banned from owning nor using weapons.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Ok then, society über alles!
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by mkempe 8y ago
Private firefighters are real, no matter how rude you choose to be. Nobody asked you to believe anything. The facts speak for those who are willing to know. Clearly you know nothing of Colorado wildfires, nothing of how to fight wildfires
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by mkempe 8y ago
Nice insult: "real". The thousands of people who lost their homes during Colorado fires while some of their neighbors did not -- these victims wished they had had the right private fire insurance instead of only your "real&
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by mkempe 8y ago
Similarly, optimal military squads have 8 people.
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by mkempe 8y ago
In recent years, during wildfires in Colorado many homes have been saved by private firefighters because the owners had paid premiums to certain private insurance companies, which are determined to actively save assets not just pay for dama
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by mkempe 8y ago
Although it's classified as French, I think of it as a Spanish movie because of who made it: a 1929 silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí.
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by mkempe 8y ago
We could record and curate all of our personal encounters, conversations, activities, and crafts. Imagine being able to sit in on someone's long-past, deep discussion with Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Adam Smith, Newton, Galileo, Aris
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by mkempe 8y ago
It's a brilliant business move, since they are important enough to motivate many people to take on the work. The greatest value will come from having a group tracking the performance and methods of all these small entrepreneurial compa
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by mkempe 8y ago
So evidence of being a comet, or cleverly disguised starship?
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by mkempe 8y ago
> changing the declaration order of a struct can silently break code that uses it This is terrible for safety. Which is not surprising in a long line of questionable language design choices made for C++.
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by mkempe 8y ago
What about the cost/amount of excess food consumed by obese people, and the cost of medical care for obesity-caused illnesses?
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by mkempe 8y ago
And then also think of those who purchased below $1.
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by mkempe 8y ago
This decision enables a state-imposed tax on inter-state shipping of goods purchased in other states (via mail-order catalogues or internet e-commerce -- aka "virtual showrooms" as Kennedy's decision calls a website, in order
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Would you give up having children to save the planet? Meet the couples who did(theguardian.com)
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by mkempe 8y ago
How does this apply to traditional mail-order catalogues? I thought their no-sales-tax orders were the model for e-commerce.
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by mkempe 8y ago
How can someone rise to such a position and at the same time be so stupid as to talk like that?

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