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> He tricked her into having a baby with him Come on now, these are consenting adults. She wasn't a child getting tricked. She was a grown woman who had consensual sex, didn't take birth control or use protection, and choose to
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>> Given the relative diversity of sources available today > My first issue with this claim is that it's a straw man argument. It's not a straw man, it's history/law. The US Supreme Court was asked to rule on th
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The fairness doctrine went away in 1987. It was created during an era where virtually all Americans had only the big three television stations as news sources. Given the relative diversity of sources available today, serious questions exist
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Bit frustrating how myth 2 is totally devoid of facts that would permit further reading. What's the scientific names for these different types of insulin and the actual physiological difference between their effects?
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A few from me: * The US economy will maintain the post war status quo. The decade will feature no more than two but probably one recession which will have been trigger by an "X bubble" where X is something everybody uses (e.g. hou
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I'll disagree with you on this one: 25% unemployment due to automation - not due to strong AI, just steady incremental changes (eg how McD's has already replaced human till operators with "select your meal from a tablet
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> many More like several, and no high-prestige awards. They've also published several incorrect stories and hold the dubious honor of being the only publication Robert Mueller called out for publishing incorrect information as fact
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The proponents of the plan refuse to estimate it's cost. I don't think it's unreasonable or unexpected to use opponent's estimates when they are the only estimates available. The (left-leaning) website factcheck.org note
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Barely. Upcoming water and energy crises are primarily because of rising standards of living. If our climate woes were non-existent, those problems would remain.
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> What's the downside to "believing" in climate science, though? Let's say it's all a hoax. The way I see it, the worst thing is funds are diverted for things that don't help us that much. The "green ne
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With the application understanding that the top level object is an array of independently parsable json objects, it should still be possible to stream the format I suggested, assuming you use a streaming / sax parser.
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Not sure what's confusing. "[01]" is not valid JSON. JSON being a subset of JavaScript means that all valid JSON constructs are valid JavaScript constructs. So, the subset statement says nothing at all about "[01]"
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Why is concatenated json a thing? In what sense is: {0}{1} better than [{0},{1}]? Presumably, if a few bytes are a major concern, you aren't using JSON anyway.
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From what I can see from your link, the agreement seems to be that intercept capabilities are useful for outlier adversaries like Iran and North Korea, but not for major adversaries like Russia or China. Fwiw, I tend to think that linking t
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It reached a 50% success rate in 2005 and since then, hard data has been hard to come by. We are talking about classified military projects. It wouldn't surprise me if what "everyone already knows" based on 90s news stories i
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Humans are able to fill in the blanks on arguments that they already understand and do so implicitly without even noticing. So, if you make an argument the professor agrees with and is familiar with, you can skip steps, and the professor wi
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It's a simple pattern. 1. Offer extra credit for some wacky experiments with students 2. Make it clear to the experimental subjects what results you want to hear in advance 3. Complete the experiment without any rigour (blinding) and h
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s/determined/desperate/
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He's also one of those people who fetishizes the humanities. See his article "If I Didn't Laugh I'd Cry: An Essay on Happiness, Productivity, and the Death of Humanities Education" > Productivity has become the r
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Sometimes. The fancy consulting firms place a huge premium on those elite private schools and pay huge salaries. University prestige matters for jobs and salary, even if it doesn't matter for how much you learn.
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> One friend recently told me that her son has his heart set on a pricey out-of-state engineering program, despite the fact that a fantastic engineering program exists at the public university in our town. “It’s a reach school, but if h
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> At least with DevOps, there is no doubt that it's about Linux systems and automation. Windows Server still exists and maintains some market share. Automated, continuous delivery, and monitoring of web applications to Windows Serve
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How can I configure an iPad so that my 91 year old grandmother can use it?
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The people who don't have insider information. When you adjust for the value actually created by a company, the stock market is a zero sum game. Insider trading moves profit allocation from evenly divided among shareholders to an uneve
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Non-sequitor. We were talking about legal and you jumped to moral. I don't believe that anybody should have legal consequences for speech that doesn't incite violence or libel. Even with moral, I'd argue that the consequences
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Of course I intended to convince people. What's your point? Adults are responsible (and in particular, legally responsible) for their own actions, not the people who taught them to act that way.
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Your first example is perfect and flatly contradicts your second. We don't punish the movies that showed people lighting cigs at gas stations when a gas pump blows up, we punish the person who actually committed the bad action. Speech
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He certainly does not revoke press credentials of journalists just for criticizing him. He did revoke the credentials of a single journalist who was apparently incapable of waiting his turn and repeatedly interrupted the press conference. I
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There was a recession in 2001
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What's wrong with SOAP? SOAP is a lot more than REST, so you'd need to explain an additional technology beyond REST in order to recommend moving away from SOAP.
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