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by tropo 7y ago
...says the people who want to keep lower-class wages from rising.
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by tropo 7y ago
Working in 49 countries is not the job of the CDC. They have a duty to exactly 1 country. Cutting the workload should help them stay focused on that 1 country. It really is crazy for a US government agency to be supporting 49 countries. I h
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by tropo 7y ago
They signed up for email from all candidates, then assume that Trump didn't send any emails because nothing showed up. A more chilling possibility is that the email was simply deleted by Gmail, never even making it to the spam bucket.
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by tropo 7y ago
I don't think "very normal" is what we should accept. In an emergency, flight attendants need strength and speed. They should look like decathlon winners.
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by tropo 7y ago
Flight attendants should be able to rescue the 99th percentile passengers. This means carrying the passenger, unconscious or screaming, to the door of the aircraft and beyond. There may be rough ground or water. The passenger should be move
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by tropo 7y ago
Winter squash is a vegetable. Calabaza and hubbard squash are particularly durable.
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by tropo 7y ago
Here you go: life insurance
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Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab(nypost.com)
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by tropo 7y ago
Humans enjoy pretending to be bots. It's a meme. This is a problem for the Turing test. Real humans sometimes want to appear non-human. Also, I've known real humans who were banned as bots. They tended to be people with strongly c
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by tropo 7y ago
I got a large life insurance policy to support my family if I die before the kids are grown.
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by tropo 7y ago
Roughly, that is 20 million jobs lost. (assume $50,000 each) Cutting $1 trillion is a change that affects 5% of GDP. This issue is part of why Obamacare kept the insurance companies. Killing jobs didn't go over well.
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by tropo 7y ago
Fox didn't create the highly suspicious facts. What Fox does or doesn't report is not relevant. Also, anybody can sue anybody for anything, so that means nothing either. Here we have an email recently obtained via FOIA, from Peter
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by tropo 7y ago
That could change with Amy Coney Barrett, who is from Notre Dame.
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by tropo 7y ago
It's pure bias of the most obvious sort, completely 100% political. Note that none of the complaints involve being unable to report news, fake or otherwise. Meanwhile, better rankings go to numerous places where you literally can'
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by tropo 7y ago
The alternatives are worse. The choices: 1. purchase it with their own money 2. purchase it with money from bribes 3. blackmail party insiders for the nomination and support Using their own money is the cleanest and most honest way to do th
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by tropo 7y ago
The gap is there in DC, which gets special federal funding. DC is spending over $30,000 per student. DC schools are so bad that you should wonder if excess funding somehow makes things worse.
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by tropo 7y ago
Sweden and Germany are no longer homogeneous at all, and anyway isn't diversity supposed to be a strength? The specific example I gave, DC, simply destroys the argument that local funding is the problem. DC is very well-funded from nat
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by tropo 7y ago
If education in the USA is underfunded, then education is underfunded in pretty much every country. The USA pays more per student than Japan, Sweden, Germany, and Korea. Look: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indic
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by tropo 7y ago
We hope for "a 3-year-old child who is running, jumping, telling stories, making friends, and learning to read." It could also be biting, jumping off of tables, hiding poo, poking holes in drywall, poking both ends of the dog, hit
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by tropo 7y ago
Once GPS is destroyed, a great way to navigate would be via the laser reflectors that were left on the Moon. Many long-dead satellites also have them. You just need to receive an update on the orbit, which could come via VLF signals.
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by tropo 7y ago
It is perfectly legal to ask, but that opens you up to accusations that you also discriminated. You no longer have the defense that you didn't know the information, and the court would want an explanation for why you were asking. It&#x
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by tropo 7y ago
It's perfectly legal to ask. It is however an invitation for legal trouble, because it will change the presumption of discrimination. If the question isn't asked, then the employer doesn't know, and thus it isn't possibl
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by tropo 7y ago
Normally that would depend on the architecture. For x86, you would get an exception. Of course the compiler could insert a check for 0 and a branch, avoiding the exception. For PowerPC and I believe most RISC, there is no exception. Most pr
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by tropo 7y ago
Sure, the attrition rate was terrible, but we sent them anyway. That is war. Under the right conditions, today's voters will tolerate the same. Human brains haven't changed that much. We don't tolerate the losses when playing
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by tropo 7y ago
They survive pretty well. Don't expect perfection. It's war. Check out the loss rates for WWII bombers over Europe, but we sent them anyway and they worked fine. The A-10 of course is capable of SEAD. It carries the equipment. How
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by tropo 7y ago
Misses are deadly against soft targets. Those are exploding shells made out of pyrophoric metal.
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by tropo 7y ago
The A-10 is quite MANPAD resistant. Look carefully at the engines and tail, and remember how nearly every MANPAD operates. Almost every MANPAD uses an IR seeker, not radar. The A-10 engines are mostly hidden from the ground, inside a wrap-a
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by tropo 7y ago
SuperHornet, the F-18D and F-18E, was great. Basically the navy pretended to update the Hornet (F-18A, F-18B, F-18C) but actually built a completely new plane. Clearly it isn't the same, because the airframe is dramatically larger. The
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by tropo 7y ago
I like your uncle. Bullets don't need to be cheap. China solved the cost issue: simply charge the family for the cost of the bullet.
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by tropo 7y ago
I wasn't trying to justify the prison system based on anything. We use incapacitation, but that doesn't justify anything. I wasn't trying to don some faultless, sterile, harmless guise. To eliminate your suspicion: my prefere

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