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by robonerd 4y ago
As a general rule, it's not reactors functioning inside design parameters that are cause for concern, but rather failed reactors that have spew their guts and stopped working. Those are the reactors that will fuck you up.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think you should read my comment again. I agree with the premise of a right to privacy being found in the 14th Amendment. It you understand that I understand that and are trying to draw my attention to something else, then I'm afra
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by robonerd 4y ago
Warren Buffet could do it if he wanted, using his wealth to earn the favor of the right government officials. He could even buy himself a private police force to do the seizing. A real police force, licensed by the state but employed and
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by robonerd 4y ago
Hmm, I don't think that's accurate. Roe v Wade did say that Texas's statutes against abortion violated the fundamental right to privacy found in the 14th amendment. If Roe v Wade had simply said "It's a federal
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by robonerd 4y ago
That depends on whether the Meta employees were wise to the true nature of their relationship with this woman. Did she tell them what she wanted before she had sex with them? The article doesn't make this clear, but I suspect she d
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by robonerd 4y ago
I suspect you're right. From the article: “We met up and like I fucked a couple of them and I was able to get my account back like two or three times,” she says. “ It sounds like she's saying she met up with more Meta employee
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by robonerd 4y ago
Governments doing stupid shit like this only encourages "sovereign citizens" to think similar word games and semantics will work for them too. They're naive of course; they seem to think the system is a machine indifferent
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by robonerd 4y ago
I looked her up, she isn't my type. But if she's making it in this line of work, there obviously must be men who lust for her. Much uglier prostitutes than her don't have trouble finding interested men.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> She didn't want her Instagram back because she's addicted to insta as a user. She wanted it back because her social media presence is part of the business she runs. Are you sure there is a clear-cut line between the two? W
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by robonerd 4y ago
That's very cold-hearted. Is that the way you think, or the way you believe she thinks?
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by robonerd 4y ago
The meta employees didn't necessarily understand the transactional nature of their relationship with this woman. It might be the case they thought there was a genuine connection and the request for an unban only came after rapport w
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by robonerd 4y ago
Note that the second crew to drown included the inventor of the submarine, H. L. Hunley himself. And they still tried a third time... He's listed on wikipedia's page for inventors killed by their own inventions: https:/&#
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Nobody complains about "airtight enforcement" of laws against, for example, murder. Even then, there is prosecutorial discretion. There are all kinds of edge cases, like brainwashed/abused accomplices, and the gray a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> asphalt, which is just concrete (cement, sand and lime) with some of the cement replaced with oil/tar. As far as I know, asphalt concrete doesn't contain any portland cement, at least usually. It's just gravel, sand,
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by robonerd 4y ago
> On the other hand labelling these people in some completely "other" group probably is not helpful either I'm inclined to agree. Recognizing and accounting for harmful traits in others is important, but some of the rh
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by robonerd 4y ago
There are some good lessons in Art of War that I think are broadly applicable, particularly the admonishment against making others feel like they've been backed into a corner. Give people an out, some way to save face, and you can avo
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by robonerd 4y ago
In some areas, the tap water is perfectly safe but tastes foul. For instance in many parts of Florida the tap water tastes like rotten eggs because it has a lot of sulfur in it. Safe, but not very tasty (or an acquired taste?)
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by robonerd 4y ago
Does anybody else feel the hair on their neck rise when they hear accusations of narcissism? A few times in my life I've known people who tried to control me by accusing all of my other friends of being narcissists, telling me that I
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by robonerd 4y ago
Historically, torpedoes were bombs on the end of sticks that you'd ram the enemy with, but these were generally not intended to be suicide weapons (the stick was for safety.) Self-propelled torpedoes came later, and the original bomb-
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by robonerd 4y ago
LSPs are great, I think they've proven fairly easy to integrate into many text editors. But consider something like the Scratch programming language. How many editors support Scratch? Once you stray from code-as-text, adding suppo
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by robonerd 4y ago
I never found a source for this, but I once heard that during the Second Punic War the Roman senate stalled Hannibal's army in a similar manner, using prostitutes.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's not something special to Shinto. Similar programs have been proposed and developed (if not actually carried out) in many other ideological contexts. The Chinese used suicide tactics against the Japanese, as did the South Koreans
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by robonerd 4y ago
The Nazis planned to use similar suicide tactics with a manned version of their V-1 cruise missile. They built and flew prototypes, but Hitler was persuaded to drop the project before it was put to use. Formalized suicide attack programs w
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by robonerd 4y ago
That's a difficult principle to generalize. Surely cops shouldn't get juries comprised of other cops. A lot of professions are known for circling the wagons and protecting their own (and I think tech is not the worst, but certa
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by robonerd 4y ago
Both at once works better than trusting just one. Think of it as Defense in Depth.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I believe the saying is a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.
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by robonerd 4y ago
On the other hand, airtight enforcement of all laws is a serious threat to liberty. Laws are imperfect and prosecutorial discretion is an important safety mechanism to prevent people in odd edge cases (which it turns out, are common) from
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It all adds up. If that's true, I would expect logographic writing systems to cause less reader fatigue than alphabetic writing system. But as far as I'm aware that isn't the case, and the two are roughly equivalent.
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by robonerd 4y ago
""Learned""
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I get the same vibe from certain other groups in this industry, most recently from functional programmers and Rust afficionados Perl one-liner guys used to exemplify this. But I don't really agree that functional programmers d

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