mmm_grayons

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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
No, I don't want to restrict ownership of howitzers. Though personally, I'd prefer an M61 vulcan. So no, I wouldn't say I'd restrict based on body count.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I certainly hope I'm not a dying breed, though the last few months have sadly made it appear that you may be right. I don't see why a sufficiently large number of people believing otherwise is a good argument against my position,
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Ahh, I love the McNuke argument. It's like "what about the roads" but for firearms policy. I've actually thought pretty hard about it, but no, I don't think so, and I believe my reason is consistent with the ideol
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
There's also the concern of immediate availability, i.e. if shark-derived squalene is available today and the plant-derived version takes time to scale, we can't just start using that if we want to mass-produce a vaccine very quic
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I'd argue a fairer metric would probably be to compare gun deaths to car deaths; nearly twice as many people died to cars in 2019 [0] [1]. I definitely don't think Trump will be "Hitler 2.0". He probably won't even
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
That doesn't matter. How many people does something have to be able to kill before being banned? The truck attack in France was deadlier than any mass shooting in America. There are costs to freedom, including the potential for abuse
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I mean, why do you think they've been trying to progressively restrict guns for years?
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
If that was sarcasm, apologies. In a better world, I'd indeed assume it was, but social justice warriors have spoken to me in that manner with a straight face, and it's hard to know for sure.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I wasn't complaining about the use of the term, I was simply rebutting the parent's claim that the framing of "salesperson" as the deviant term rather than "salesman" was disingenuous given that "salesman&
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I'm not going to "get with" anyone's plan before I know what it is and why I should support it.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Well, the generally-accepted term has been "salesman" for over a hundred years. Whether or not you approve, it's definitely a conscious choice. As an aside, can someone explain why a generic "-man" suffix is taken
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
No wonder it runs so cool. That thing is an absolute unit of a box. It does give off that "premium product" feel, though, even to someone who's never owned a console and probably won't buy one. The fact that the stand
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Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas (2013)(project-syndicate.org)
1 points by mmm_grayons 6y ago|0 comments
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
That's an interesting starting point, though I do see some potential issues, especially in the human rights provision. Namely, who defines human rights? The UN has its own definition that has received some attention (and indeed, it a
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
No, it's more like if you go to a surgeon, he may suggest a surgical remedy because that's where his expertise is focused. Same here: a guy writing for this site is likely to focus his research on denser urban planning as a solut
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
No, I don't think I'd ever want to do that. I've lived for a short time in a dense urban environment and I hated it. I've seen pictures of European cities and they seen way too cramped for my taste as well. Like it or
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Just as I feared, the government has abused so-called "emergency measures" to exert an unprecedented level of control over Americans' lives. Give an inch and they'll take a mile.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
> Using threads -especially low-level threads- can lead to a real education in debugging. Oh yeah it can. I'm still scarred by an error that took me a month to solve: I was self-teaching pthreads and kept getting an access violatio
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
This is exactly right. The treatment of Secretary Clinton and Judge (now Justice) Kavanaugh before the Senate are excellent examples of how the cameras cause senators pontificate and castigate rather than gather information and form policy
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
We can thank the Slaughterhouse Cases for the disaster that is legal precedent in this area; the idea that a citizen's privileges and immunities don't limit the police powers of a state is ridiculous. This would almost certainly
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Same here... looks like he wrapped every entry in <ol></ol>, so not a rendering bug, just poorly-written.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Crashed my Firefox on Android, too.
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
It's a chance for investors to get in on the next big thing and invest specifically in data warehousing. No one can put his money directly into BigQuery or Redshift. Edit: why are so many people downvoting this? Is there some other r
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Okay, I don't really use social media. No Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tick Tock, Snap Chat, or whatever else the kids these days are using. What happens with those jobs, loans, etc. if no data are available?
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
This is correct, and why I began by stating that this wasn't a normative statement. I wasn't passing judgement on whether or not they ought to continue precautionary measures, I was simply stating that I don't believe they w
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
All normative opinions aside, this cannot become a new normal. People will not tolerate it. The majority of the population will not continue to remain cloistered in a small area due to the vulnerability of a minority. It's also econ
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Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah has died(cnbc.com)
1 points by mmm_grayons 6y ago|0 comments
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
If your son is stealing your stuff to go buy booze there's a bigger issue and the answer is not invasive biometrics, nor is it government restriction of alcohol sales. Kids will drink if they want to; only a willingness not to do so w
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
I honestly don't care that much about kids buying booze. The "think of the children" argument also typically leads me to be suspicious of the motives of those that make it. Kids are going to drink if they want to; I didn&#x
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by mmm_grayons 6y ago
Or we could (radical idea here) not use biometrics . I don't mean to be dismissive, but what advantage does this provide over opening a web site and hitting "pay" or maybe some sort of NFC tap? This looks like biometrics f

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