yostrovs

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by yostrovs 7y ago
Being gay is very important to most gay people. They don't become famous for that. He's famous for his science. The gay aspect of his life is an interesting interlude for us (not for him mind you).
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by yostrovs 7y ago
But aren't his possessions valued because of his accomplishments in computer science rather than because he was gay and prosecuted for it?
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Considering the amount of jewelry in the Diamond District, there isn't a full time turret installed by the NYPD. I've walked through there in the middle of the night and it was dead like most other midtown streets around it.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
They should be protecting everyone equally by patrolling the city. Security guards protect specific places and things, such as museums.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
They could be preventing murders in the South Bronx. Aren't lives more valuable? Tiffany has enough funds to cover security of moving 50 feet.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
A .22 can weigh less than 1.5 grams. But it is ridiculous regardless to compare weight of a ring to something most people don't really know the weight of and that something that seems light as is.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
1. I'm glad you find it funny, but the reality speaks for itself. 2. Americans do tend to respect very wealthy people, like Musk. But Musk, for examine, is not a monopolist. You're just lumping all rich people with monopolists.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Nobody fetishises monopolies in the US. Some naturally come about, such as Facebook, and they naturally come about much easier and faster in the United States than in Europe. So they become world monopolies. If there wouldn't be compet
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by yostrovs 7y ago
You must be under the impression that there are no successful businesses smaller that Google in the United States.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
It's probably your age. Mass media, particularly in Europe, has been laughing at Americans'stupidity for generations, predicting all kinds of terrible things. They laughing off of people like Reagan, the Bushes, Sarah Palin, etc,
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Higher speeds are safer where there are no barriers to hit, no pedestrians, no traffic lights, etc. The driving environment is relevant for deciding what is too fast.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
You really mean that when the driver releases the break pedal, the car immediately slows down at a rate faster than had the car been moving slower initially. It's a safety feature it seems.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Does Nagasaki not matter? It rarely seems to matter these days as it's almost never mentioned.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Yup, from the article: "Police did not identify speed as a primary factor in any of the 14 fatal crashes on 75 mph freeways in 2018, the highest number in five years."
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by yostrovs 7y ago
If you've never driven a BMW, you may get stuck, as the reverse is in an unexpected place and you have to lift the lever to get there, also unexpected. (As far as I remember)
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by yostrovs 7y ago
If you buy a new car these days you'll spend quite a bit of time figuring out the controls for the stereo, heat, interior lights,etc. Had someone standardized that we wouldn't have to spend time figuring out every car maker's
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Let's take this further still. Why not mandate identical car tire sizes, having the fuel door in the same spot on every car, all the controls inside the car be universal... How about actually just making one car that embodies every Eur
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Here's something you may like https://www.medgadget.com/2019/12/medgadgets-best-medical-te... :
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Ellison will buy another yacht regardless of polio eradication status. He'll either want the yacht or want to be charitable. And if polio is gone, he can fight malaria, dengue,etc.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
I didn't support the trade war myself, but I listen to NPR and in the last few months heard them do a number of stories about how the war is affecting consumer prices and how we're all supposed to be impacted. Yet I don't not
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Did you know farmers in Iowa cut down trees around their fields to minimize shade? The graph you provided is completely irrelevant to this discussion. Corn yield growth is resultant from political decisions to fund biofuels.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
What data?
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by yostrovs 7y ago
The pads used for the turbines are quite large, they require an access road, power connections, and the turbines create substantial shade, reducing the productivity of the ground below.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
If homelessness was a housing problem, housing the homeless would help. The real problem is mental issues and addiction to drugs. When society realizes that and addresses those issues somehow other than offering shelter, homelessness would
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Do we really need to teach French to undergraduates that won't ever use it nor remember anything from these courses? My university also had a swimming requirement. Seems like more than half of the courses were not terribly useful or mi
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by yostrovs 7y ago
I think you have no argument to claim that homeless people actually travel across the country to reach California. That's why the quick goodbye.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Yeah I'm sure the homeless in New Jersey buy themselves plane tickets to SFO because the weather is better and nobody kicks them off the sidewalk where they would prefer to lay. Blame everyone else for San Francisco problems...
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Well, disposing of excrement in the street was a normal part of life in many cities. Now that rules about that are not enforced in California, it's becoming dangerous to simply walk in some parts of it.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Or backward. Depending on one's view of any particular policy that California does that the other states choose not to.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
The NYT peddled the Russia conspiracy theory for two years, even won the Pulitzer prize for it. It was presented as a case that just needed Mueller to confirm. Turned out the entire thing was based on lies and assumptions, but mostly the wa

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