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by plonh 11y ago
They should still allow people to request testing of actual emissions , upon request.
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by plonh 11y ago
The vast majority of consumers won't notice. Some will be upset, because They bought the car for the specs on paper just to feel cool. Similar to how the fanboi segment of consumers by video cards and computers and stereo equipment.
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by plonh 11y ago
Capital punishment is a deterrent against rational actors.
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by plonh 11y ago
If the other driver didn't use a mirror, how is a bike more threatened than a car?
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by plonh 11y ago
Quantum computers are well understood and prototyped by experts in the field. What most people don't understand is that Q cannot solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time.
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by plonh 11y ago
It is fair to say that planes don't come crashing down much, because the FAA prohibits it. Private enterprise had a very low bar for safety, when left to its own devices.
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by plonh 11y ago
That's awesome, the editors spitting in the face of their readers and the graves of their ancestors. It puts a clear point on what's wrong the Times, though: rich kid rambligs in a classic font.
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by plonh 11y ago
Or best, educated.
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by plonh 11y ago
He did explain in detail. The only part he left out was the not true part about it being a real or fake bomb.
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by plonh 11y ago
Clocks are not banned in Christianity.
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by plonh 11y ago
HN does tend to have a bare minimum level of intellect and a maximum level of abject racisim for avoiding downvotes , higher than the free speech bar.
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by plonh 11y ago
Note: it is not true. Irving government is one of the racist groups pushing "anti-Sharia" laws.
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by plonh 11y ago
Anecdote: The only Hmong people I ever met were at an Ivy League school.
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by plonh 11y ago
Because they were born in China and they learned the rules of the system where they grew up.
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by plonh 11y ago
Zuck started his business at Harvard with Harvard cofounders and harvard content and later Harvard employees. Jobs credited Reed classes for inspiring the beauty and font quality that made Mac a standout. They were great fits for their scho
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by plonh 11y ago
Consider if the components interact multiplicatively, not additively.
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by plonh 11y ago
Those NFL concussions don't seem so great.
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by plonh 11y ago
And "what implementation to use for a map" is a decision nobody makes at first, as it depends a lot on hownit ends up used. In reality there are a few worst spots in our code. Being 2x too slow isn't big a deal except in the
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by plonh 11y ago
Indeed, it is wrong for a novice to ask a professional how he accomplished his work, and then call the answer "silly" without any evidence or reasoning in support.
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by plonh 11y ago
I can't sympathize with a technical discussion Mandarin. Lucky it is a big internet with lots of blogs.
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by plonh 11y ago
It is pretty obvious what most of LACCN grads are doing 10 years later. Harvard has a more economically diverse bunch of academics, authors, engineers, homemakers, and CEOs. Harvard's mean is higher than its medianm
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by plonh 11y ago
Pro-Education is different from pro-collehe, but yes. And when there is only room for say 10% of the population to succeed , making 100% of the population meet today's arbitrary selection criteria will only serve to usher in new select
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by plonh 11y ago
Standards are not correlated to giving. Unless you mean football standards, or elite breeding standards.
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by plonh 11y ago
University teaches a lot of very expensive lessons. Ideally his is not one of them.
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by plonh 11y ago
I don't expect everyone to know all the names of all he thngs they should never do, although it does help to know which languages to avoid.
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by plonh 11y ago
You are assuming that there is a talent shortage and that universities know how to rank the talent. Not really true, considering how many PhD seats there are and how few faculty seats there are.
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by plonh 11y ago
I vaguely recall that Ruby promoted spaces inside parents, in part because Japanese (where Ruby started) programmers have some trouble with quickly visually separating parentheses from English letters when scanning code.
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by plonh 11y ago
If you are careful, and parse the whole poem instead skilling the parts with especially nonstandard grammar, you see the inconsistency between the path-walkers thinking and the narrator's thinking and the "ages hence" perspec
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by plonh 11y ago
English poetry alters word choice and order in order fit the pronunciation into patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and to convey emotion by putting certain words together or apart. It is nearly ungrammatical, or you could say that each poem has
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by plonh 11y ago
That is an allusion to life and death, but I don't see anything about suicide.

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