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But think of all the sweet conference talks you can give after inventing the latest new shiny woodworking tool!
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Given how frequently some are equating wrong opinions as violence, it seems to be a matter of time before they respond in kind.
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To some, the mere expression of an outrageous opinion is a form of violence in and of itself. Following this logic, any who express such ideas to others should be sanctioned as if they committed physical violence.
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Couple the tower to an enormous array of venturi tubes. Whether the vacuum generated from the flow is adequate for hyperloop use, and how to actually connect the vacuum lines from the absurd contraption to the hyperloop tube in a structural
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To be fair, Patreon also took down an Antifa publication ("It's Going Down") that was receiving ~$1,000 monthly.
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The Unorganized Militia as defined in 10 U.S. Code Section 311 is effectively all able-bodied fighting-age male citizens: The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided
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It's interesting that some consider the notion of freedom as extremism, with all the attached implications. Here lies individualist-collectivist divide.
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See Privately-Owned Public Spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space
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Such videos are already against Google's terms of service. This new policy and the tech that backs it are little more than a political cudgel.
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It's effectively a privately-owned public space, due to the network effects. Simply presenting the ISIS vs cat videos dichotomy is intellectually dishonest - it ignores the subtler effects of a politically motivated private entity bec
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> It still definitely counts as an edge case though, in the sense that if the building were torn down or foreclosed I don't think its block would still warrant its own code For example, the World Trade Center's zip code was ret
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Worse, but swept under the rug. I wasn't officially notified of the OPM breach until a year after it hit the news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
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It's a small passerine bird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthatch
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Citing Minecraft's success is a shining example of survivorship bias, approaching the level of baby-boomers assuring any kid with programming talent that "one day you'll be the next Bill Gates".
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I'm sure some SV companies will be more than happy to comb over this leak to fire employees for wrongthink.
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I asked a forester. Admittedly this is not the best response for a pseudonymous internet forum. Further searching for links on serotinous (externally triggered) cones turn up sources that almost all refer to the Lodgepole Pine [0]. Also n
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Sure, if the area is clear-cut and not replanted. It wouldn't be good for business if there weren't any more trees to log a few decades from now. Believe it or not, we do think long-term in the timber industry ;) Controlled burn
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Which is where we come in the loop, logging for wood instead of burning. It's when we suppress fires and don't thin the forest that there's dangerous fuel accumulation.
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> But still, it's a decade later and we don't seem to have made much progress. Despite all the "IIoT" buzzwords their marketing may spout, industrial vendors operate a decade behind the software curve at best. Arcane
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Justices typically recuse themselves from cases that pre-date their nomination.
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Industrial automation isn't particularly visible to the average consumer on a day-to-day basis.
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It'll be amusing if this thread pops up on n-gate's weekly HN summaries: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
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To be fair, New York City also has more municipal employees than the United States Air Force has active-duty personnel. 461,500 local NYC government employees - https://www.labor.ny.gov/stats/cesemp.asp 456,452 USAF pe
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Those agencies tend to pre-purchase ammo years in advance, and the "militarization" of police is mostly from agencies receiving surplus equipment from the DoD for pennies on the dollar. Lord knows civilian cops don't have th
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Physics is hard. In the cycle of a 2400MHz DDR4 clock, a photon travels 12.5cm. The memory bus distance is on a similar order of magnitude. Main memory latency will be the big performance bottleneck for the foreseeable future.
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A wilder example of loop unrolling in C is Duff's Device, which exploits an unusual aspect of fallthrough behavior within switch statements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device http://www.drdo
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A chicken egg is a single "cell" grown over a number of weeks, whereas beef is composed of many tissues with varying cell types grown over several months. I'm not a biologist, butcher or genetic engineer...so take my answer w
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The prosthetic ovary consists of a printed scaffold that carries ovarian follicles (egg precursor cells), sourced from natural donor ovaries. From the Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15261 >
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> Still though, IR cameras by their nature are always-on and always transmitting data. In the case of near-IR night vision CCTV cameras in common use, yes. The case of Kyllo v. United States specifically involved very expensive long-w
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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