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by reallydude 7y ago
CCP Makes a pretty good case regarding livestock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk America did offer a new disease that ravaged Europe. Syphillis.
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The article mentions a purge of 107k voters in, what I thought, was a reasonable approach to regulating polls. > In July 2017, more than half a million people were removed from Georgia's voter rolls. Of those, 107,000 were purged be
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by reallydude 7y ago
some languages (eg Erlang) do use dots as terminators. Dots are harder to see and verify. Imagine: A = something+"some string.".
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by reallydude 7y ago
I haven't eaten before noon regularly, since I was 10, nor does my wife. I'm not unique among my friends, each who are thin and eat 2 meals a day (sometimes snacks). I'm over 40. My mom, who is losing weight, eats exactly twi
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by reallydude 7y ago
Just from a casual look, the cancer diagnosis modeling is flawed. > the doctor would need to consider the overall incidence rate of cancer among similar women with similar symptoms, not including the result of the mammogram That's a
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by reallydude 7y ago
I always interpreted that comic to be synergistically thoughtful. If the sun exploded, it doesn't matter who has the $50, so it's a good bet from a pragmatic standpoint.
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This is fundamental to Chaos theory (how small initial states can lead to rich systems that contain both expected and unexpected outcomes), which isn't a theory as much as an area of mathematical modeling of the most complex systems. M
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by reallydude 7y ago
Careless or not, you would be charged as a military serviceman. The double-standards are obvious, but the wordplay makes good news fodder. https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar380-5/vi.htm How the FBI class
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by reallydude 7y ago
They got replaced by videos of the games in action (as opposed to the specific "let's play" genre). The screenshots + description + a video + reviews informs me about most games on STEAM. A random game I have up in my queue o
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by reallydude 7y ago
> rotten to the core https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/101323... Dishonesty is so pervasive, it's considered integral to success in every strata. A Chinese citizen getting arr
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by reallydude 7y ago
Humanity is the blink of an eye in the universe. Claiming the suffering is always worth it (ie doesn't matter), is defeatist. Not sure how that's an argument for how dissemination of medical tech is "working".
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"Already" 30 years later. https://hab.hrsa.gov/livinghistory/timeline/1995.htm
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Having personally had 3 open heart surgeries (where they remove your heart, do work and put it back), it's important to pay attention to which hospitals are the best at which types of care. Veteran care has improved drastically since t
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ALL permanence is relative, due to entropy, as you tried to say. We still use the word permanent as a useful term. Permanent, in the headline, is certainly meaning something like a ferrite magnet or ceramic magnet. "Permanent" mea
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by reallydude 7y ago
> These things are not comparable That's just true on your single characterization, which is not relevant to making a equivalency. The ultimate outcomes of those resources are irrelevant and it's a disingenuous comment to re-fr
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by reallydude 7y ago
> The fact is, github adds value because it isn't "decentralized" Exactly. It's the most popular brand, same as Disney buying Hulu. Not to make Hulu into Disney, but to bring the customers into an arena for control. W
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by reallydude 7y ago
It's 18 months because of upcoming UN meetings. Which means nothing, so it's making an alarmist headline to tie to a story, which has no bearing on the reality. The UN can't keep humans from slaughtering each other, so what c
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by reallydude 7y ago
> Building HSR is expensive and takes a long time to do Bids and bonds have already been levied against those estimates. Even if you make up new ones to match reality, it was fraudulent in concept. With less than half the length (515km v
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by reallydude 7y ago
I didn't get that "point" from your post. I was just trying to assert the oft-ignored type of person (I am not an aberration) that still likes coding, after a lifetime. Even when I am inevitably confined to a hospital bed, I
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This "theory of mind" can be called "imagination" in a limited form. Allowing our conceptual self to act and predict what will happen is key to "consciousness". We don't need to die by walking off a cliff,
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The California High Speed Rail was also corruption. It's all over everywhere, because nobody is accountable for it, except the people over-charging, while simultaneously pointing out that they are taking all the liability when things
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by reallydude 7y ago
> would mean banning every EULA and software license That seems proper. AFAIK, these have (statistically) never protected the public, so the legalese is there for protect the company's ability to restrict and penalize the user, as w
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by reallydude 7y ago
I've written code for fun since I first taught myself how to do it. After decades of work, I still do it for fun.
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by reallydude 7y ago
Going back the moon is the logical next step in going to Mars. You don't send off materials and bodies in the hope that years later it will work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon It t
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> The Well Architected stuff While that is the topic, that is not what I was referencing. "produced literature" is a bit more expansive than that and casually accessible (eg https://media.amazonwebservices.com/a
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> the idea that you can just pay opex to run in multiple regions and lay off your SREs, > That is not AWS's intent. Yet that's what all their produced literature describes. > its FUD to suggest that somehow cloud vendors
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by reallydude 7y ago
There was nothing crippling about php5 when it came out, why would it matter now? Not having some nice-to-haves like null coalescing, return types, etc are not core features. The biggest php7 selling point was speed improvements, which isn&
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> Who owned the real estate? Ray Kroc? From wikipedia: At the closing table, Kroc became annoyed that the brothers would not transfer to him the real estate and rights to the original San Bernardino location Regardless of the legal agree
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https://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm Just googling the history, so you can understand what happened, is a minimum when having a discussion about history. Whoever went so far as to wasting a point downmodding me, d
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by reallydude 7y ago
Ray Kroc is analogous to Adam Neumann. They both expanded a marginally profitable (and hard to grow) business by expanding a few locations than leveraging the capital to buy real-estate, which allowed them to stop caring about the original

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