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691.
by tropo 9y ago
War may be like earthquakes. Keep putting it off, and you'll get a 9.
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by tropo 9y ago
The middle of the country is of value. Depending on your politics, it is a place of safety from either ocean intrusion or SLBM launches. Also, do we really want million of people moving to places like Palo Alto? Aside from landlords and peo
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by tropo 9y ago
A single individual you say? I present to you the clonal colony and the synctium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncytium
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by tropo 9y ago
They could move to the city and work retail. Even if that gets them a higher minimum wage, they would still be worse off due to the cost of living. They would also be in an unfamiliar environment without their friends, adding stress and red
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by tropo 9y ago
It shouldn't surprise you that you "find them still working as a cashier at Walmart". This isn't even a rural/urban issue. Urban environments are full of people who work retail and never move out of the city. It&#x2
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by tropo 9y ago
Unlike a shotgun, the AR-15 is usable by frail people. You can be 90 pounds, be on blood thinners, have weak muscles and bones, and still practice with an AR-15. Essentially, a requirement to rely on a shotgun would be discriminatory, parti
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by tropo 9y ago
The ancient philosopher Plato tells us that the ideal marriage ages are 16 for women and 30 for men. One might suspect that he was 30 at the time, but Plato is quite respected. Consider taking his advice. Biologically it makes sense, leadin
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by tropo 9y ago
Suppose that The Motor City wanted to help the local car industry. Would they build roads that favor keeping a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry for 20 years, or would they build roads that require yearly purchase of a huge SUV or a full-size AW
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by tropo 9y ago
Families are never torn apart by American immigration law. There is nothing in the law that prevents an American citizen from leaving the USA. If they won't leave, then that says something about how much they value the family. You coul
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by tropo 9y ago
How do you feel about identity theft? Is it ethical to take measures to reduce identity theft? Note that ICE is very strongly involved in reducing identity theft. How do you feel about a living wage? Is it ethical to take action against peo
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by tropo 9y ago
It seems that we could get our perfect ratios now that we have computers. As the computer plays, it uses a psychoacoustic model to determine which notes would have significant local tonal impact in the listener's mind. (the automated c
702.
by tropo 9y ago
Aw darn. My first thought was protection from knife attacks. If that worked, you could also sell to that company making the anti-rape pants.
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by tropo 9y ago
That often gets banned for crudeness, but otherwise yes. It has the right idea. I object to it for a completely different reason: bad spelling and grammar. I think a kid's book should set a perfect example.
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by tropo 9y ago
I object to both. The whole-word method is required for Chinese languages. Phonics is obviously proper for Spanish and Russian. English is not so extreme. Phonics is useful, but it falls short. I've seen the disaster that is pure phoni
705.
by tropo 9y ago
It's mandatory to be boring. Anything else is offensive. Little kids want to read about flinging poo, farting, projectile vomit, violence, and every possible misbehavior. Supposed "children's books" are actually marketed
706.
by tropo 9y ago
Let's work that through. We'll do a few generations, starting with 8 families of each type, with each type on their own separate isolated island to keep things simple. We start with 16 people on each island, half male and half fem
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by tropo 9y ago
In the long term, this can only happen when mortality is very high. There are lots of things that seem to reduce the rate. We can consider education, birth control, taxes, child support, alimony, custody laws, religion, heathcare costs, day
708.
by tropo 9y ago
You could reset your expectations. Paying the bills every month is a lot better than many people manage. OK, you aren't getting absurdly rich... but the bills are paid. There are probably personal things to focus on. You can treat work
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by tropo 9y ago
They haven't covered rural. I don't think they are even close. I know people in multiple states who like to shoot rifles (AR-15 style) and shotguns in their yards. One hunts pigs in his backyard. A different one can hunt turkey. I
710.
by tropo 9y ago
For this, the attack is from the operator of the GPS signals. There is no defense; the attacker could digitally sign the signals or even shut off the satellite. For an attack in a foreign country, digital signatures only prevent false infor
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by tropo 9y ago
It's moot. Bombardier already made an agreement with Airbus to build those planes in the USA.
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by tropo 9y ago
Moving is harder because property taxes will suddenly reset to much higher values. Long-term owners are partly protected from tax increases. We also have high transaction costs for homes. Considering both sides of the transaction, something
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by tropo 9y ago
Where? Who pays? Right now, we allow immigration. If we continue that but pay people not to breed, then we're just getting rid of Americans. This is called "ethnic cleansing", and is frequently considered to be unacceptable.
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by tropo 9y ago
Nope, not going to agree on that one. The robot is not going to molest my kids and the elderly. The Robot will not cough tuberculosis spores onto them, will not touch their food after picking a nose or wiping an ass (both of which the robot
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by tropo 9y ago
When in "long mode", meaning a 64-bit OS, you can execute everything other than 16-bit protected mode code. You can still run 16-bit code that was designed for real mode. This means you could run some really old DOS programs, but
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by tropo 9y ago
Scratch and Alice look like actual programming to me. The odd features: You have a structured editor. You are tightly tied to a graphics library that focuses on cartoon animation. I would prefer that you could have one feature or the other,
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by tropo 9y ago
Close, but not quite. ULA was and is capitalist. The term "free market" originally meant "competitive market", not "unregulated market". An unregulated market does not remain a competitive market for long. Comp
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by tropo 9y ago
Nope. This is in fact why TIFF is pretty much dead. The format is very extensible. It was originally specified to have 5 ways to encode data: uncompressed, LZW, fax, RLE, and JPEG. The use of proprietary encodings is normal however, along w
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by tropo 9y ago
The media owners have died. Yes, there are new owners, but those new owners are not putting forth the effort required to enforce a viewpoint. It takes real effort to keep the line workers from setting the tone. Walmart used to be all about
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by tropo 9y ago
or a Florida birth certificate (WTF?) If you need to fax one, you'll need to find a really old fax machine without color printer or scanner capability.

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