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by sfblah 5y ago
That's interesting. I don't pay for CNN+, so I'm just familiar with their standard news coverage, which is definitely left-slanted.
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by sfblah 5y ago
That second quote you gave is just really slanted. The right framing here is Trump is not a smart man. Sure, his folks talked to Russian operatives. That's for two reasons: 1. They're stupid and easy to manipulate. 2. They urgentl
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by sfblah 5y ago
My take on this was it was just a clone of the Fox News pay service. The CNN one would just be from a left-leaning perspective or some such. I bet if they market it better, it will do OK.
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by sfblah 5y ago
I used it to avoid reflexive downvoting. I'm not sure how else to even have a conversation online these days....
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by sfblah 5y ago
It depends on the level of poverty we're talking about. A decently large percentage of undocumented migrants from Central America own cars, for example.
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by sfblah 5y ago
I thought Kazakhstan produced the best potassium.
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by sfblah 5y ago
Not in the past 5-10 years...
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by sfblah 5y ago
Admittedly, this would assume the computer is connected to the Internet, but is there not some theoretically reasonable way to get entropy off the Internet? Maybe some server with a known certificate that can return entropy from lava lamps
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by sfblah 5y ago
Maybe the html tag could include an important flag
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by sfblah 5y ago
If the intention had been to comply with laws, why use “!important” as the keyword?
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by sfblah 5y ago
https://i.redd.it/mfw55duw9h971.jpg
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by sfblah 5y ago
The solution is to set interest rates to a historically reasonable level, say 4%. Then, accept you're going to have a recession as asset values reset to reasonable levels. The reason you need a reasonable risk-free rate is, without tha
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by sfblah 5y ago
Can you say more about Rust being barely able to compile its own compiler? Do you have a reference for that? (I've never used Rust)
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by sfblah 5y ago
How do we know they were as smart as we are?
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by sfblah 5y ago
I used to use a Motorola phone I got off Amazon for like $200. It was great, but various factors have caused me to return to using an iPhone. Looking online a bit maybe it was the G7 plus? My favorite "feature" of these Android ph
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by sfblah 5y ago
You do realize the issue isn't technological (blockchain is a technology after all), it's regulatory. The reason people say blockchain "solves" this "problem" is that it renders regulation much harder through c
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by sfblah 5y ago
The site says you can’t even do the transfer.
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by sfblah 5y ago
Outside of pretty narrow specializations, research into IQ is extremely touchy. Am I missing something here? How is this a result of my bias?
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by sfblah 5y ago
Makes sense. Thanks.
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by sfblah 5y ago
Couldn’t they solve that macro issue using C89 by just having the macro create a block around the loop, and then declare the variable at the top of the block?
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by sfblah 5y ago
It's not at all a straw man. Large swaths of the political spectrum in the US now reject the notion that there are different levels of intellectual capability.
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by sfblah 5y ago
It probably isn't possible, but maybe if you combined that wage with various assistance programs, it could provide a path out of poverty for those who want to try. I'd much rather be able to get a job and start my journey than be
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by sfblah 5y ago
I don't fully understand why so many people can't accept the notion that people have different levels of capability to succeed. Maybe most folks who are poor just don't have the mental capacity to do much more than they'
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by sfblah 5y ago
I agree that the generational attacks are pretty pointless. But, I think articles like this do identify a real social phenomenon: For some large percentage of people in developed countries (maybe even a majority), at some point in the past
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by sfblah 5y ago
I guess you’ve never read about Xenu. Some people believe volcanoes are pretty important.
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by sfblah 5y ago
How does Mars help if the sun explodes?
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by sfblah 5y ago
I may not agree with all of his ideas, but I find his speaking style just fine. Honestly, I prefer someone who reaches for words but says what he means to say.
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by sfblah 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't realize we weren't allowed to discuss the point of the presentation.
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by sfblah 5y ago
I completely agree with this line of reasoning, which is why I called the fixation with Mars Quixotic elsewhere in the thread. I was discussing this with some friends. Why not just pick some other totally inhospitable environment and try to
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by sfblah 5y ago
Let's say someone argued instead that we should figure out a way to establish a human settlement inside of a volcano, or at the bottom of the deep ocean. Couldn't you make all the arguments you just made in favor of doing that as

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