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by yaakov34 6y ago
Since South Korea's birth rate has been very low for many years (e.g. there are about half as many people in the 5 to 9 age group as in the 45 to 49 group), what exactly did they think was going to happen?
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by yaakov34 6y ago
Why are you playing dumb? Rejecting things as "too white", "too black" or "too Asian" is racist.
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by yaakov34 6y ago
I didn't downvote it (and I very rarely downvote anything other than spam), but your comment is precisely the sort of ad hominem dismissal that this thread is complaining about. A glance at the blogs on cato.org shows a pro-business ed
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by yaakov34 6y ago
And the other side attacked actual Jews with rocks and bottles recently. What, that's not "your side"? Neither are those guys "their side".
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by yaakov34 7y ago
There are much more significant instances of Soviet retrenchment and retreat during this period. Probably the most notable is the withdrawal from Austria. The USSR held a significant amount of territory in Austria at the end of the war, wit
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by yaakov34 7y ago
I remember hearing a joke around that time - "Who is the happiest man in America right now? - Gary Condit." Condit was being tossed and gored in the media for his supposed role in the disappearance of the intern with whom he had a
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by yaakov34 7y ago
It means that you can produce the same design (IP or intellectual property) on both processes. The denser process should then result in a better frequency or power performance without a redesign. Many processes do require a redesign because
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by yaakov34 7y ago
I wasn't there, but from what I understand, the whole place looked like a concept drawing from a magazine, and there was nothing as convenient or comfortable as a couch with actual cushions. So that's one problem solved. As for th
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by yaakov34 7y ago
I have a story on point. My brother is a manager at a company which installs electrical and HVAC systems, working mostly with very high-end private homes. They had this couple as clients, both very fancy architects, who designed their new h
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by yaakov34 8y ago
Given that he is at the peak of his popularity and his coalition is expected to win reelection in a landslide - I doubt that the people you've been talking to are a representative sample.
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by yaakov34 8y ago
A slowly developing putsch by the Israeli bureacracy against the elected politicians. Welcomed by those who want those politicians gone, not welcomed by the rest. I would instead think ahead and decide how much I like the idea of rule by bu
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by yaakov34 8y ago
The fact that dollars are widely used in international markets, e.g. in oil trading, is what enables the US to borrow money abroad in its own currency. Which is a pretty big deal, since owing money in currency you don't control (which
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by yaakov34 8y ago
Because it's below the $800 minimum on which import duty is required for a parcel imported by a single person on a single day. So Amazon would have to pay the duty on whatever they import, and you wouldn't. It does become a loopho
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by yaakov34 8y ago
These early SGI machines did not have good support for printing. Even if you did have a printer, the only way to print was to take a screenshot, which had much lower resolution than laser printers and did not look good. My first paid job -
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by yaakov34 8y ago
This is all completely irrelevant, and has been discussed to death. The price of the lithium in the Tesla battery is on the order of $150. If it goes up to $1500 because we run out of easily extractable resources, it's going to be econ
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by yaakov34 8y ago
Sorry, you are the one with the wrong math. The building is out 14 inches at the top. You divide that by the height to get the angle. What you calculated is the lean for a building which sank 14 inches on one side. That would be way worse -
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by yaakov34 9y ago
> I don't think a successful crew capsule abort would be likely past a couple of hundred miles per hour. If that. That's not true at all. Every manned space launcher has provisions for bringing the crew down safely on a suborb
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by yaakov34 9y ago
Here's the paper link (kudos to the journalists for at least giving us the title of the paper, if not a link we could follow; sometimes the article in the popular press looks nothing like what the scientists published). http:/&#x
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by yaakov34 9y ago
People are commenting here without reading or understanding the ruling [edit: I should say that headlines like the one techdirt gave their article are also misleading; they are playing up the "banned from the internet" angle]. Wha
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by yaakov34 9y ago
Well, it's like Bernie Madoff said - "there is no innocent explanation". They hiked the price from $130 to $500 while matching Mylan every step of the way; they fixed prices. Their lawyers may be good enough so that they neve
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by yaakov34 9y ago
Sorry, still not seeing the good-and-evil story here. Look at the graph here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/10/26/epipen... (possibly what you meant by prices in line with EpiPen)
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by yaakov34 9y ago
So Mylan is more evil than Satan's pet vulture for hiking the price of EpiPen to $600, and the good guys just released a new version of their device for $4500? Or am I reading TFA wrong?
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by yaakov34 9y ago
OCS is not as completely foreign to Russian speakers as Old English is to English speakers; I would compare it more to Chaucer than to Beowulf, although whether you can understand a specific text depends very much on the subject and the con
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by yaakov34 9y ago
They did do exactly that in many cases - the ES systems were not transistor-by-transistor copies of the IBM systems. The original article (PDF link) has a letter from Andrei Gagarin which mentions that the ES1065 had entirely original hardw
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by yaakov34 10y ago
You underestimate them. They've created a web of vaguely worded, overbroad laws which everybody is violating all the time without even trying. It allows the government to demand any user's data at any time, to have all Russian ISP
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I am not sure I follow you - you can't have Be6 since your bishops are all on dark squares. Anyway, I am not that interested in this particular position - there are better examples of horizon effects and so on. There is a great collec
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Yeah, that's a great enhancement to the original - having the queen around lets the computer avoid mate for longer than its horizon, so it prefers keeping the queen. Then again, I am not sure the computer will lose in even this scenari
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by yaakov34 10y ago
It's not really a position you can force from further away than one move, since it would require complete cooperation between the players to create such a position. But yes, given a chance to get into this position, sure it will - e.g.
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by yaakov34 10y ago
True, but the engine does see that a pawn move by white results in checkmate in a few moves, so it would actually play this position correctly and get a draw, despite the huge negative evaluation.
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by yaakov34 10y ago
That would lose - it would not be a stalemate, no matter where the bishops are, since white has pawn moves; and starting with the next move, black would begin checking white and will quickly checkmate.

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