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by pmiller2 5y ago
You miss the point. Take over Canada and make it part of the US. Move the people, not the water.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Sure it is, when Canada becomes part of the US and people who live where the water isn't just get to move there.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Canada is close enough for the army to get to.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
You know, having a lot of a critical resource the US needs is not exactly an enviable position to be in.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Would you rather be poor or face the collapse of global civilization?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I love when people reference Kaczynski's work in serious discussions like this. Ted Kaczynski the domestic terrorist and murderer was not a person to be admired, but Ted Kaczynski the anarcho-primitivist philosopher is one of the most
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I own an electric cello that I occasionally play and used to take lessons with. Back when I was looking for a teacher, I had a hard time finding anyone who'd let me use it during lessons. Most of them wanted me to rent a wooden cello
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Such an organism probably wouldn’t be compatible with life. Inflammation is necessary for healing wounds and immune response, among other things.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Here's a video with all the Mac startup sounds and chimes of death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwmtvrdJlQ I've gotta say, I like the Performa startup sound best, and the later Chimes of Death are pretty amus
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by pmiller2 5y ago
That mostly depends on your definition of "fun." Assuming by "fun," you actually mean "competitive," then it depends on who else enters, I suppose, but the more proficient you are, the better.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Directories are just another type of file. So, if you do this, and your filenames are n characters long, you'll end up needing to do n file accesses just to find the file you're looking for. Unless the underlying file system d
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by pmiller2 6y ago
My guess is it's Docco: http://ashkenas.com/docco/
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by pmiller2 6y ago
As @chungy says in a sibling comment, this is what's known as a literate program. It never really took off, and I suspect it's partially because doing it well means you'll be writing a lot more text than you'd typically
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's even a bit debatable. Weed is definitely better now than in the Stone Age (it got stronger when prohibition started coming down hard on it), and they might have had access to thinks like shrooms, but we have stuff like LSD and
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I agree that the virus is unlikely to have been engineered in the manner you describe. But, I'm wondering: where is this circumstantial evidence for the leak scenario, be it a natural sample or one that had some help evolving? (I a
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This really misses the mark for me, as well. There was also absolutely no mention of any thought of climate change, besides a flippant, throwaway passage about how "with global warming and ozone depletion, we'll all either die of
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yes, I'm sure. Continue reading, please.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Your point probably stands, but COVID is not a respiratory disease. It's a vascular disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, it's not sarcasm. If a business can't afford to exist without abusing workers by paying below a living wage, that business's business model needs to be rethought. If that means people don't get unlimited breadstick
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Oh, wow, so some people actually made a living wage. Yeah, that sounds great.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yeah, it kinda is, unless you're a total shitbag with no empathy.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Oh, but what is "natural" is not "coercive," at least according to capitalists.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Alright. s/get vaccinated/get vaccinated or the anti-tax death cult has its way/g, then.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
The real problem [edit: with scores] here is that scores are reported on a 200-800 scale. If they were reported in terms of standard deviation from the mean, then those 20-40 point differences wouldn't matter to admissions officers.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's only likely to be the case if enough people get vaccinated, which is somewhat in question.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You seem to be assuming that people getting their first dose will receive priority somehow in vaccination. As it is right now, those 20 million doses only represent ~15-25% of all Californians being fully vaccinated and around 30-35% havin
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's a terrible idea: > Using Covid-19 vaccine passports to tailor restrictions, however, has drawn staunch opposition based on several weighty concerns.1 First, while vaccine supply remains limited, privileging people who are for
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I think I know when I'm being disingenuous, thank you very much, and that was not it. Mistaken, perhaps, but not disingenuous. Even so: > In any case, even small effects can be unfair. Let’s assume the effects of short-term coachin
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You know test prep courses are a thing, and that the wealthy are the primary consumers of them, right? Pretty much everything in the USA is pay to win.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
For any n, there are only a finite number of hypergraphs on n vertices, much less linear hypergraphs. It is therefore correct, and equivalent to say that the proof omits "only a finite number of hypergraphs," when the result is s

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