poiuyt098

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by poiuyt098 6y ago
I was thinking it's more like pollution by oil companies. Profit from subsidized sugar, externalize the costs. We also put warning labels on cigarettes and make them inaccessible to minors. Classify sugary "bread" as dessert
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by poiuyt098 6y ago
in-person voting is done by secret ballot. Oral ballots haven't been used since the 1800s. No one will know how you voted except you.
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by poiuyt098 6y ago
Creating problems instead of solutions. The answer is to STOP putting sugar into everything so that people learn what sweet tastes like. Fast so that you know what hunger feels like, and so when you eat enough calories stop eating! instea
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
> Lives are on the line You could say that about many patents, probably most medicine ones. Also no one would want to do business with Italy, and it probably breaks EU & international laws.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
yep, the goto example is doing something completely different and less than the exception code, of course it will look more messy.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
"borders become irrelevant" On the contrary, citizens become more nationalistic. The pendulum will swing right again. EU falling apart already due to it.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
you might get kicked out, or you might be held hostage as retaliation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/16/canadians-deta...
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
I'm not here to pettifog about various definitions, studies and calculation methodologies. "Literally impossible" was claimed but now requires, uh, interpretations . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
> It is literally impossible for ICE vehicles to be carbon neutral. Biodiesel and [m]ethanol fuels are a real thing.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
Would caffeine lead to early graying then?
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
Yeah, this is not the math I learned in school. fta: > y = x1 w1 + x2 w2 = 0.2 * 1.0 + 0.4 * 1.0 = 0.6 ?
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
> show how much you can easily improve C, with little work, and how many unsafe things in C are about lack of abstractions C has always badly needed built-in strings (and arrays with size info, generally). To save a byte, C designers com
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
literally all life is based on survivor bias
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
> 1mm robo taxis What is that, a robotaxi for ants?
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
The Jews did not willingly pile into the camps. They didn't send their children across dangerous terrain with coyotes and birth-control pills. They didn't have the option to go back at any time they wanted. The grotesque analogies
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
do you believe africa was some peaceful wakanda-like utopia before europeans arrived? arabs got there first anyway.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
"only women, children, and dogs get loved unconditionally" --Chris Rock
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
i find gothic steampunk kinda sexy.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
>That’s the correct lesson to learn from surprises: that the world is surprising. That's a mistaken analysis. Not surprised.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
Should be required... in highschool junior year, as a prerequisite for college applications.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
Brainfuck has been extremely stable. You can learn every operator in minutes.
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
The first point here is what came to mind. I try not to cut people off, but some may be droning on, or repeating or slowly pacing around a point even though my brain is 5 steps ahead already. I get bored and impatient and want to move on. M
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by poiuyt098 7y ago
> Wait; why couldn't they again? Due to getting hanged, shot, or stabbed, probably.