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by mordant 10y ago
>The law passed by Congress in this case states that the immigration department is not allowed to discriminate based by country of origin. See Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: "(f) Whenever the President finds
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by mordant 10y ago
It may well enrage him sufficiently to begin the process of nationalizing Twitter and Facebook, so as to snatch the megaphone from the SJWs who currently seek to control public discourse. If they keep poking this bear, don't be surpris
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by mordant 10y ago
>google for 3 hours to find the cheapest thing I can always make more money. I can't make more time .
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by mordant 10y ago
And the United States would do just find without their pennies nor without the grace of their presence. The categories of people who're affected by the travel ban tend to cost the United States money in terms of public assistance, et
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by mordant 10y ago
The United States has a large enough internal economy and enough natural resources that it would do just fine without a single penny of import or export of goods or services taking place. Specific oxes would be gored, but it would be a wash
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by mordant 10y ago
>Trump is basically an insanely narcistic person who got the presidency, and it is a stress test of our instutions to see how well they resist illegal behavior. I'd be grateful if you could cite the specific illegal - i.e., agains
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by mordant 10y ago
>We have to push trump out of office. On what grounds? His immigration actions are well within the ambit of the law. Just because you don't like him?
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by mordant 10y ago
I've been looking at 'bright screens', for varying values of 'bright', for 40 years - and I'm not blind, yet.
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by mordant 10y ago
>While it's possible that discriminatory processes have happened at all these places, it seems these lawsuits can be targeted at whoever one wishes. That's no accident.
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by mordant 10y ago
'Data scientist' is just title inflation by statisticians.
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by mordant 10y ago
Satellite-based Internet service sucks. High RTTs kill TCP performance. Rain kills it, too.
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by mordant 10y ago
Link?
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by mordant 10y ago
The issue is that he wants Nintendo to engage in pointless SJWish virtue-signaling, and is disappointed they didn't take the opportunity to do so. The fact that they didn't do this makes me much more inclined to buy a Nintendo S
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by mordant 10y ago
Hitler told the world his 'secret plan', in advance , with Mein Kampf . And, unlike most politicians, he did his level best to fulfill the promises he made before coming to power. So, it's hard to escape the conclusion th
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by mordant 10y ago
If you're stuck in an open-office situation, investing in a good pair of wireless noise-cancelling headphones like the Sennheiser Momentum 2 or equivalent might help cut out all the 'collaboration'-related noise so that you c
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by mordant 10y ago
>In that it did not violate extremely well understood fundamental principles of physics Cold fusion violated the fundamental principle of 'Where are all the dead grad students caught up in the neutron flux?'.
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by mordant 10y ago
>If you're into left-wing politics , Ursula Le Guin wrote several novels that combine sci-fi with left-wing preachiness in a package that feels extremely overbearing . My favorite are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossess
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by mordant 10y ago
I've been to Ground Zero at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I've spent a lot of time in Nevada - and I'm just fine. People grossly, grossly overestimate the long-term effects of fallout. The main negative effects of nuclear
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by mordant 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba The trend in nuclear weapons has been for lower yields over the last 45 years or so. The reason is that advances in CEP precision due to better guidance systems means than huge
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by mordant 10y ago
The interments didn't happen in a vacuum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident It's also interesting to note that J. Edgar Hoover was opposed to the interments, but FDR overruled him.
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by mordant 10y ago
Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2 - the first near-audiophile quality Bluetooth headphones I've ever heard, and they also have decent mic quality.
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by mordant 10y ago
OVH walked back their claims of a 1tb/sec DDoS attack. Dyn walked back their claim of 'millions' of sources. It seems many organizations forget to subtract their baseline traffic from their peak numbers. And some may exagger
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by mordant 10y ago
The irony is that on my 12" MacBook 2016, the Esc key is yuuuge.
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by mordant 10y ago
I'm happy with the 2016 12" MacBook. All my 'heavy lifting' is done on servers I can access remotely from my MacBook, iPad Mini (with Zagg Rugged Book keyboard case), or iPhone 6+. I play games on the PS4, iPad Mini, or
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by mordant 10y ago
Your smug 'we're all good liberals here, and therefore must always distrust the Daily Telegraph and the Washington Times and the WSJ' attitude grates. We're not all good liberals, here. And even though I'm diametric
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by mordant 10y ago
Another term for 'exploding drones' is 'cruise missiles'.
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by mordant 10y ago
I don't understand why it still doesn't support landscape mode on iPhone.
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by mordant 10y ago
I guess you've never heard of Brendan Eich.
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by mordant 10y ago
Like actual AI (not the expert systems everyone is misleadingly labeling as 'AI' for marketing reasons), fusion power has been 20 years away for the last 60 years.
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by mordant 10y ago
I generally like Peter Thiel, and can't stand Gawker and their ilk - but I despise barratry and maintenance more than I like Thiel and dislike Gawker.

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