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by tropo 8y ago
That $.5 notepad can handle all 3 of your talking points, and it comes with privacy. (read the recent HackerNews article about DNA info being secretly shared if you can't see the problem) Getting fancy, you can buy nice charts with col
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by tropo 8y ago
No, the deadliest mass shooting in American history was at Wounded Knee. The government, which had been confiscating guns, shot 146 people to death. So that's 146 who died due to an effort to take their guns. Let's not repeat hist
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by tropo 8y ago
Yes. The immigration act of 1968 hadn't yet brought in much conflict, nor had the illegal immigration gotten bad yet. Previous waves of immigrants had pretty well assimilated by that time.
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Will we ever again break up a monopoly? The attempt instantly becomes a political battle. The moment a politician takes sides, the other party opposes, and the initial politician's party backs him up. Politicians collect lots of money.
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It's still an issue for the road owner, which will generally be a town. The town pays for that road surface, with the expectation that it will be mostly used by those with some other purpose for being in the town. It's a bit like
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by tropo 8y ago
It's abuse because in suburbs the parking is provided at the expense of the property owner, intended for the benefit of those using the property. Neither I nor Walmart would be pleased to have empty cars showing up to park on our prope
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I would have mine continuously drive around the block. Another option is to have the car drive out into the suburbs in search of free parking to abuse. For a family, the car would drive home to be available for other users. Each trip thus t
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Often I can't even say for sure if the forecast is wrong or not. For example, what is a 10% chance of rain at 10? That could mean 10% chance that rain will occur at some point from 10 to 11, 10% chance that it will be raining at a rand
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by tropo 8y ago
I would think that adverts for talking therapies should go to any friends of the suicidal person. The suicidal person would be much more interested in purchasing stuff like rope, pills, life insurance, inert gas, and firearms.
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by tropo 8y ago
The article describes the problem as a building that extends above the surrounding 3-story neighborhood. (5 if I remember right) That is the problem to be solved, so carving off the top couple stories would do the job. There are less-practi
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by tropo 8y ago
It's not a euphemism. It's an accurate description of what matters. I would have chosen "collapse the building" or "level the building", despite being undisturbed by the death. The writer isn't about to di
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by tropo 8y ago
Females did select, in multiple ways. First, they sometimes cheated. Second, arranged marriage is normally set up by people who largely share DNA with those getting married. (the parents negotiate) Since the DNA is pretty much the same, gen
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Lots of those feel sort of tainted by the economic and legal situation. Bloomberg totally left out any measure of citation impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact
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by tropo 8y ago
They are luxury, but not silly. Aluminum disintegrates in acidic food. It has been associated with Alzheimer's disease. It can crack. Wood can not be cleaned, it splits, and it even has slivers. Plastic melts or burns. Plastic cracks.
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by tropo 8y ago
The entire article is political flamebait, so on-topic comments would also be political flamebait.
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If they remain in SF, yes. Departure is a reasonable option.
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by tropo 8y ago
Central direction is redundant. No response could be more obvious than "Learn to code!".
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by tropo 8y ago
You opt in for this, and it's kind of the whole point of the PSAT. You're taking the test so that colleges will send you discounted offers. There isn't much other reason to take the PSAT.
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Lack of timeliness has affected our appetite for capital punishment. Consider Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated president William McKinley. The assassin was electrocuted just 45 days after the president died. Today, 45 days is unimaginable. Y
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by tropo 8y ago
We could trade those of course, but we could also connect them. It looks like Point Roberts needs an 8-mile tunnel and the Northwest Angle needs an 11-mile tunnel. Causeways would probably work too.
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by tropo 8y ago
This is a terrible name conflict. Bon, along with New B, was an immediate ancestor to C. The history gets more confusing with another Bon showing up half a century later. Bon was created for Multics by Ken Thompson. His wife Bonnie, like th
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by tropo 8y ago
I nearly ended up living there. It's a place that actually is unsafe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_bear I suppose that the situation is fine once you and several friends are old enough to bring a couple ri
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by tropo 8y ago
It sounds like some sort of obsession/compulsion thing. It can get weird: I once knew a guy who felt a need to balance left and right turns. He would count. After descending a normal multi-story staircase, he would spin in place to unw
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Bit ordering and byte ordering are both endianness. Word ordering is also endianness, as is nibble ordering. It's all endianness. The fact that we typically refer to byte ordering doesn't mean the others are not also endianness.
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by tropo 8y ago
You're looking at unintended consequences, the result of outrage and action to prevent keeping prisoners physically separated from each other at all times. Well, if they aren't separated, they do things to each other. This should
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by tropo 8y ago
That's a conflict of interest if there ever were one. If you are paid to catch violators, you want more violators. Also, you're conflating "illegal immigrants" with "immigrant populations". When mentioning crim
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Romney, Collins, and Murkowski are RINOs. Previously, McCain and Flake were. Republicans are split: libertarian, nationalist, religious
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by tropo 8y ago
According to the naming, yes indeed 1 byte has endianness. I know that isn't the intention. It isn't unheard of for 1 byte to have endianness. To be specific, we can call it "bit endianness". It matters when serializing
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by tropo 8y ago
The naming is far worse than that. For example, from_ne_bytes seems to imply that bytes could have an endianness. That would require bitwise addressing.
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It might be nice to socialize as a normal youth (debatable) but that ship has sailed. It simply isn't possible to have normal peer conversations. The mismatch for vocabulary and sentence structure is huge. It would be like a normal adu

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