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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Kinda obvious, though: it's not like Obama could realistically pledge more. He entered into this agreement unilaterally as it is, with no vote of Congress (treaties do require 2/3rds majority), so pledging the "fair share&quo
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
NATO mandates that members of NATO spend at least 2% of their GDP on their own militaries. The vast majority of them do not, they just count on the US stepping in for free if shit hits the fan. The point of NATO is that countries keep up th
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's some weird set of numbers you got there. But I got a better one: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-c... .
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
>> That doesn't mean we should just roll over and give it all to them. Unless you run an ad blocker and/or EFF Privacy Badger, that's exactly what you're doing. Your consent is not required. There are literally _do
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
If by "citizen" you mean a "silicon valley yuppie", then sure. But then it's also considerably more than that. I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people in this country are struggling as it is. You
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
You guys need to pick which figure to quote. Here's a number from 2015, from NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459502597/... . Quote: "To help developing countries
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
As a taxpayer in one of those states, I'm more worried about whether they plan to pony up the $100B/yr that the US was obliged to under the agreement. If they do, I'd like to know where it'll come from. And if they don&#
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Further clarification, my bad: 0.3 degrees _greater_ warming if the US withdraws. Not 0.3 degrees total. The climate is warming, no one is disputing that. It's not warming anywhere near as quickly as models from 10 years ago predicted,
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's if _everyone_ withdraws. That's not what's happening. 0.3 degrees is if the US withdraws but everyone else proceeds as planned. But we aren't even withdrawing per se. Immediately after announcing his decision, Tru
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Pros: the US was signing up for a _minimum_ of $100B/yr in foreign aid to help others implement the accords. When you're up to your ears in debt that's kind of stupid. Cons: estimates say that the climate will be warmer by 0.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Ballsy move. I strongly suspect this could jeopardize the massive federal subsidies that keep Tesla afloat (and probably Solar City, too). $7.5K per car (which essentially amounts to a 10% per-unit discount out the door) times 84K cars is $
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Your activity is being tracked irrespective of whether or not you have a Facebook account. Google and Facebook will track you anyway and then correlate your browsing patterns with those of other people (about whom they know more) and infer
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, just from the screenshots it looks pretty good. Will give it a try.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I can tell you exactly why I'm not using FF: due to extremely poor support for switching between multiple profiles. Oh, it's possible, but compared to Google's seamless support for the same, its very awkward, even if you inst
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
The US is the same way. A significant fraction of US population thinks everything was invented here, and the US single handedly won WW2.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Is it just me or the "trillion dollar" figure is completely unrealistic? I mean, even if there are no price wars (and they are inevitable), there isn't any realistic possibility to capture all of IT spend. With price wars in
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Standard strategy. Google has the info, they data mine this to death on a yearly basis only to find that when confounding factors are accounted for there's no "wage gap". That's not something you can publicly say though,
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I'm not talking about Go. Google fibers are C++.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I wish Google would open source / standardize their implementation of green threads ("fibers" as they're called internally). You basically write linear programs with those (with proper stack traces etc) and they're
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Dude lasted less than a year at Google, and the only thing he produced was a huge google doc containing a diatribe on how wrong Google's approach to software development was. Googlers had a good laugh and then carried on as before.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
No, athletes don't train "30 hours a week". With proper intensity, anything over 2-3 hours a day is detrimental. This time includes stretching and warmup.