Youtube comments of disgruntledtoons (@disgruntledtoons).

  1. It's one thing to be the fattest kid in school. It's quite another to be the only fat person in your whole country.
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  2. Punishing children for being the children of their parents. The French Revolution was led by utter pieces of garbage.
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  3. If Tencent has lost sixty percent of its stock value, shouldn't we call it Fourcent?
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  4. One thing that was touched on really needs emphasis: The Iranian nuclear program managers had wisely adopted one of the most effective defenses against cyberattack: Their systems were not connected to the Internet, and it required what is effectively inside assistance to even begin to attack that system. Whenever I read about a security breach of any system, my first question is always, "Why was this connected to the Internet at all?" Many compromised systems did not require Internet connectivity in order to accomplish their official purposes.
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  5. The Chinese were able to do in one generation what the British did in seven generations because six generations of British had to discover things for the first time. China had the luxury of adopting practices that other peoples had already discovered. And if you have an authoritarian government you can impose those practices on a culture that never would have discovered them on its own.
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  6. It takes three things to be a great president: Straight talk, put America first, and don't start any wars.
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  7. Liz Cheney actually does have something in common with Abe Lincoln: Neither one is active in Republican politics anymore.
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  8. Seizing the passports exceeded the terms of the warrant. It is simply not possible that they were evidence of any criminal act whatsoever.
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  9. Fast-to-ship frameworks are how we get unmaintainable apps nowadays: 1. Slap together a demo of the app. 2. Management: "How quickly can you put this into production?" 3. You: "That cannot be accurately predicted." 4. Management: "I need a clear time-frame." 5. You: "At least four sprints." 6. Management: "Have it ready in two sprints."
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  10. Fun anecdote: Sam Lloyd was not able to patent the puzzle because he could not submit a solution to the challenge.
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  11. Ramaswamy's concession speech was pure class.
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  12. Somehow the Swedes have gotten the notion that they have to tolerate this in order to prove that they are good people.
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  13. Europe's leaders love their power more than they love their own people.
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  14. "Voter suppression" = "We couldn't stuff the ballot boxes."
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  15. Some decades ago, the band Genesis held a small-venue concert whose location escapes me. Only 500 tickets were sold and the venue was selling them, not any third party. The line was enormous. Just before ticket sales started, a limo pulled up, and the three band members (Tony Banks, Michael Rutherford, and Phil Collins) got out, manned the ticket booth, and handled the sale of each and every ticket.
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  16. They're called "influencers" because you have to be under the influence in order to take them seriously.
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  17. The Chinese's tolerance for corruption has come to bite them. Corruption doesn't just take the form of bribery, but also favoritism in hiring and promotions when the position has great prestige or high pay. With favoritism in hiring comes the hiring of incompetent people, and with the hiring of incompetent people comes shoddy engineering work.
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  18. The reason baby formula is so expensive, even when it's not in shortage, is because the federal government buys so much of it.
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  19. The reason this wokeness is a problem is because a very small sliver of our population have declared that they will throw their support fully behind even the most corrupt official, as long as that official will force that sliver's wishes on the rest of us.
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  20. In Singapore, this applies to wealth possessed by government officials. Any official who has more wealth than they can explain is assumed to be taking bribes.
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  21. She's lost her crap? She appears to still be full of it.
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  22. It would help if judges began to rule that municipalities have a duty to ensure that their officials correctly understand the laws they are tasked with enforcing.
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  23. When a politician claims ignorance of the cause of a major problem, you can bet your last dollar that the trail leads directly to them.
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  24. "Has been associated with" = "exists in the same universe as"
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  25. The whole trans movement is not about the rights of trans people. It is about whether a powerful clique can force their will upon all of society.
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  26. One thing that came up in this line of research was what took place with Italian immigration into America. It was observed that the children born in America from Italian parents averaged about five inches taller than their parents. It was eventually found that the reason for this was that the parents--born in Italy--were the product of marriages between neighbors or between people from neighboring villages. In America, this pattern was largely broken. Although the new couples were both Italian, their family trees came from widely separate areas of Italy, and that was enough of a difference for their children to be measurably healthier on average.
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  27. OBJECTION! No reasonable viewer would conclude that the "Slugworth" sub-plot is presented as legal activity. OBJECTION! There are no plants growing in the Chocolate River Room. Wonka expressly says that everything in the room is made of candy and is edible. OBJECTION! Assumes facts not in evidence. None of the kids died. OBJECTION! Assumes facts not in evidence. The Chocolate River is not dumped into the local environment. OBJECTION! Tax burden assumes Wonka is unfamiliar with estate law.
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  28. The most shocking part is how many were ready to condemn Israel making any response to the October 7 attacks.
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  29. I bet if the cop had seized $15,000 under civil asset forfeiture, there would have been no counseling letter.
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  30. Dr. Oz's ability to not cringe at Fetterman's meandering is a testament to his self-control.
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  31. Not only did it take them five years, with all of the resources at their command, there was the simple fact that every scrap of knowledge they needed to get the job done was already out there. The cultural issue is the chief obstacle. When it comes to manufacturing, Japan and Germany (and the American companies that have learned better) know that the key to quality is to do things the right way every time. Your videos make it very clear that doing things 100% correctly is simply not a Chinese virtue.
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  32. The only thing more cruel than taking school away from these kids is the insanity that they push onto them when school's in session.
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  33. The statement released by Kathleen Kennedy proves that she has no idea what she's supposed to be doing.
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  34. I'll bet that nine out of ten of these thieves were raised on public assistance.
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  35. The idea that love between adults is always either romantic or familial is a symptom of over-sexualized mentality of the person who thinks that way.
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  36. That $2.7 trillion? That's eight grand for every man, woman, and child in the US. About 7.5% of the national debt.
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  37. You didn't mention that there has been a recent wave of white landowners being murdered or driven from their properties. Whether it is just or not to expropriate the properties that they held is immaterial; because it is being done outside of the law, the benefits are privatized (i.e., they go to the thugs who are seizing the properties) while the harm (the sudden loss of the productivity of the seized properties) still impacts the community as a whole.
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  38. There is no getting around the fact that querying a relational database is a fundamentally different thing than just about everything that doesn't involve the DB. One language isn't enough if you care at all about getting the best performance out of your system.
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  39. "One answer is false. Giving a false answer violates the oath I just took. The other answer you demand is not the whole truth. That also violates the oath I just took."
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  40. And then it shows him in bed with Lewis Carroll...
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  41. If the poverty and lack of public support is causing immigrants to commit crimes at a high rate, why isn't is causing the native population to commit crimes at the same rate?
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  42. The troubling part is that managers will embrace this article as if it had descended from heaven on tablets of stone accompanied by angels with trumpets. Managers as a class are addicted to having a sense of control, even if it's an illusion. Having a simple metric for judging performance provides this illusion.
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  43. Episode X of Star Wars should start with Luke doing the exact same thing.
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  44. I've never voted "for" anybody. This year, as usual, I will be voting against the Democratic party.
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  45. One reason there's a skill shortage is because software managers keep chasing after new siren-song technologies that promise quick and easy creation and deployment of software. It seems like every time you turn around there is another front-end development framework, back-end scripting language, or general-purpose development language. I'm a full-stack developer with a decade of experience in software, and I can only fill about ten percent of full-stack job openings because the tech stack varies so much.
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  46. There is one rule about unions that is never broken: The unions are for the unions. Everybody else, including the rank and file, are further back in line.
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  47. It never ceases to amaze that every anti-capitalist (which includes crony capitalists) believes that he can act in defiance of the basis laws of economics. Each has the hubris that he is clever enough to avoid the coming calamity, is contemptuously dismissive of all criticism, and when the scheme arrives at its inevitable collapse, they scapegoat the very ideas whose rejecting made the disaster possible.
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  48. The other impact of agriculture: About ten times per century, the crops in any given location fail, leading in pre-modern times to famine and mass starvation. It was such a common occurrence that only the worse famines were recorded by historians.
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  49. C succeeded because it enabled engineers to get stuff done. Whether Rust overtakes C depends on whether Rust developers can get stuff done more quickly to the point that the advantages are clear. This means the learning curve must not be too steep, and there cannot be chronic situations where the developer has to learn something that won't be used for another sixth months.
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  50. The ad exec behind this was not trying to turn woke people into Anheuser-Busch customers; she was trying to turn Anheuser-Busch customers into woke people.
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  51. There was a strong anti-Catholic sentiment among intellectuals in 19th century Europe, who made up a lot of nonsense in their search for reasons to condemn Catholicism. Some of this was taken up by anti-Christian thinkers of the same era, who conflated the Catholic Church with all of Christianity (a habit of thought which persists to this day). The stamp of legitimate scholarship was placed onto accounts of things that never happened.
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  52. I wish that her downfall had come, but the last time I checked she was still in office. She's in a district where the Democratic primary is the real election, so the chance of her being replaced by someone with sound ideas is minimal.
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  53. And if you're writing a novel in English, you will do very well to use more of the words from Anglo-Saxon stock and less of the Romance, Latin, and Greek. "Jack needed a ride home" is a much better opening line than "Jack required transportation to his residence."
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  54. If the lender did not exercise due diligence in verifying the identity of the loan applicant, then it should be entirely on them. What's to stop lenders from fraudulently opening loan accounts and pocketing the proceeds?
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  55. Under Colorado's new body cam law, if a policeman turns off a camera that is supposed to be on, his testimony about events during that time cannot be entered into evidence.
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  56. Management clings to estimates, in the face of all evidence that they are largely guesses, because it gives them a sense of control. In every case, both in software and in other aspects of business, when something is made for the first time, statements of cost are true only in the past tense.
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  57. Right up there with "never talk to police" and "never consent to a search" there stands "never waive a right".
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  58. The coronavirus is not wreaking havoc on the world. It's the response of our governments that is doing this.
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  59. It already makes perfect sense. A camel can pass through the eye of a needle, by cutting it into very small pieces. This is no more radical a transformation than turning a rich man into someone fit for heaven.
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  60. There's a joke going around. A Russian soldier is walking around with just one boot. Someone calls out to him, "Did you lose a boot?" The soldier replies, "No, I found one!"
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  61. The Crow Creek Massacre is enough to tell us that the pre-Columbian peoples of North and South America were no more angels than were the peoples of Europe, Asia, or Africa.
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  62. If these poor fellows really were part of a flagellation cult, then that could have been the vector for the disease. Sharing sticks would have been the ancient equivalent of sharing needles today. All it took was to flagellate some fellow outside of the order who was carrying the disease.
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  63. The key sentence in the novel 1984 is "The Party is founded on lies." This will also be the key phrase of the history of the Democratic party.
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  64. "How did a low-level national guardsman get access to this top-secret material?" Access to classified material isn't determined by rank, it's determined by whether the person needs access to get their job done.
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  65. The law to fix this: "Whoever shall cause any defendant to be denied a fair trial, whether by any act under color of authority, or failure to commit any official act, shall be separately and severally liable for the cost of defense."
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  66. "We have strong opinions about American issues that do not concern us and do not impact our lives at all." This is mostly due to many Europeans feeling the need to prove that the European ways are better, against the smaller minority of Europeans who aren't so conceited.
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  67. People cling to the dramatic versions of the tale, particularly that the library was burned down by religiously-motivated throwbacks, because they want to justify their view of religiously-motivated people as throwbacks. The religious people of ancient times were just as enlightened as any of their secular contemporaries, and the secular people of ancient times were just as hidebound, bigoted, and anti-intellectual as their religious counterparts of the same era.
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  68. It is absolutely none of the customer's business to dictate these things.
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  69. When Pixar was good, they had a sign in one of the hallways that read, "Story is King." Pixar seems to have forgotten that, and many studios never learned it.
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  70. They almost certainly are.
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  71. The privately-owned guns are so heavily in Republican hands that they would win even if the US military took the other side.
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  72. Star Wars is dead, Marvel is dead, Pixar is dead, Disney is dead. What this means is that the field is now open for new entrants. We can crowdsource a new SF/Fantasy series. We need (1) a decent script, (2) good voice talent, (3) good animators and sound people, and thanks to the Internet none of these people have to work in any particular place. The results can be released on a video streaming service (YouTube is by no means the only game in town, either).
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  73. Trump should sell Mar-A-Lago. He's already living in so many liberal heads that he has no need for a house.
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  74. Police: "If we have a certain idea in our heads, it's an exception." SCOTUS: "Um, no."
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  75. "As to the sixth count, we find the mainstream news media guilty as the nine hells of lying about this case."
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  76. Food was also difficult for the besieging army to procure locally because whoever was in charge of the city could be expected to commandeer all of the food in the local area, or order its destruction to keep it from falling into enemy hands. So a siege meant a supply train, along with all of the hassles involved in that.
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  77. If I had a time machine I'd tell our Founding Fathers to put in some verbiage into the Constitution that there are to be no emergency powers.
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  78. Because India's politics are like how ours would be if the Democrats got their way.
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  79. "You said that we had an adult in the White House!" "No, I said we had a dolt in the White House."
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  80. "Dear Sir: Please be advised that someone is signing your name to stupid letters."
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  81. "But if the developers really care about the company they can just work harder." -- The Cardinal Rule of Imbecilic Management, as applied to technical debt.
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  82. She gets the 2024 Lance Armstrong Prize, awarded annually for the most egregious case of a person suing those who tell the truth about the plaintiff.
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  83.  @AcmeRacing  Wickard is the very worst Supreme Court decision that is still in effect. (Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson were worse, but they have been turned over.)
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  84. My company hires entry-level developers all the time. I was entry-level and so were all of my co-workers. The company tests for aptitude and trains in whatever technology is required for the role.
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  85. It's been known for decades that the purpose of Parent-Teacher Associations is to neutralize every parent who does not support the agenda.
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  86. If they tell me I can't take notes, I'm going to conclude that the defendant is being denied a fair trial, and I will vote to acquit on that basis.
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  87. I wonder how often a judge has wanted to let a case into court long enough to tell the plaintiff, "Get the ** out of my court."
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  88. This is why you leave your cell phone at home when you don't want your location tracked.
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  89. Lady, you lost to a guy who lost to Joe Biden. If that doesn't prove how unelectable you are, nothing can.
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  90. I have a meme where Foghorn Leghorn is holding that young chickenhawk in his hand, with the caption, "It's a joke, son."
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  91. As Margaret Thatcher said, "The facts of life are conservative."
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  92. It should be regarded a Fifth Amendment violation for a plea of not guilty to be a factor in sentencing.
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  93. C was created by engineers who just wanted to get stuff done. After creating it, they used it to get stuff done.
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  94. Persistently asking the question, "What can go wrong?" is not only valuable for engineering, it is also a key factor in what the US Navy calls Operational Risk Management (that acronym ORM again, but with a different meaning). Following it allows you to run a munitions handling operation with a minimum of whoopsies. In my own software development practice, I boil it down to the phrase, "In God we trust, but all user input and function returns get checked."
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  95. Actually DOING something about school bullying would require skills and discernment that most public school employees lack.
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  96. The "logic" goes like this: Abuse is bad. But we approve of Wendy, so what she did wasn't bad. Therefore it wasn't abuse.
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  97. I hope that our military leadership is learning from the new tactics and technology that is involved in this war. Unless something is done to reverse it, drone warfare promises to turn tanks into a very expensive way of donating large amount of metal to the local scrap dealers.
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  98. "It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him." -- H. L. Mencken
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  99. Now only if everybody else named Kennedy was as honest as this guy.
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  100. "A British-imposed border has complicated the issue..." And yet the British persist in their belief that American had no business seeking independence.
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  101. To win the game you must attack on as many turns as possible. You get a card at the end of each turn during which you take a territory, and turning in sets of cards earns the player doing so progressively higher numbers of armies each time this is done. After a while the armies gained for doing this are ridiculously high, and in a long-running game this provides the majority of the armies raised during the game.
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  102. He's not relying on hope, he's relying on wishful thinking.
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  103. If a prosecutor ever shows me a redacted report I'll beat that time.
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  104. If you've seen the electoral maps comparing gun owners (all states except Vermont are red) vs. non-gun owners (all states blue except Wyoming and West Virginia), you know precisely how a civil war between the two would go in the early stages.
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  105. The regulators watched them long enough to verify that they were on the blue side of the aisle.
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  106. It never ceases to amaze me how government officials exhibit a lackadaisical regard for the law or for due diligence in performing their duties, and yet feel as if ordinary citizens should be strictly denied the same leeway.
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  107. Tech lead is a management role. It should only be given to people who are suited to being good managers, and they should receive all of the support that a manager needs.
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  108. The best part of the movie was every scene with Zhukov.
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  109. The advice I see from the Youtubers who know about these things is that if you can't afford a 36-month loan on a car, you cannot afford the car. Warranties on new cars should cover all defects in design, materials, and workmanship for the duration of the loan period.
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  110. "Sales remained unharmed" = "Regular folks don't care what the caterwauling left says"
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  111. She appears to be one of those types who is utterly convinced of her awesomeness, and thinks that everything she does is automagically awesome, and consequently that everything that goes wrong is somebody else's fault.
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  112. FTFY: "It ought to be a capital offense for police or prosecutors to obtain any sentence for someone based on known fabricated evidence."
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  113. Which is a consequence of enabling people to live on public assistance. It creates an ever-growing voter base who don't question anything that the check writers say.
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  114. It never ceases to amaze that there are people who need the simplest principles explained to them, and far too many of such people wear black robes to work.
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  115. Something Sun Tzu told everybody who would listen.
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  116. Using semantic games to get around clear prohibitions has been the hallmark of bad government and bad management since the dawn of time.
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  117. There was a British band (whose name escapes me) who had a rider in their tour contract that the ticket price would not exceed a certain fixed amount. One night they learned that the venue had charged an extra pound (this was in the UK). When the show began, they announced their contract stipulation, identified the party who had violated it, and stated that they would not perform until the party in default showed up with enough money to refund each attendee for the overcharge. The obvious potential for mob action prompted the directed course of action.
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  118. The clip of Obama's speech should be followed with this statement: "The man you have just heard does not believe a single thing you just heard him say."
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  119. Interpreting the US Constitution as written would greatly help. The text authorizes protection for authors, and not for corporations. It'd be nice for a court to rule that under the US Constitution, only the original author can hold a copyright.
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  120. People who can be trusted don't complain when they are not trusted.
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  121. Many moons ago Omni magazine had a parody review of paranormal books, and one of the spoof titles was Garbage of the Gods , a parody of Chariots of the Gods and other stuff by Erich Von Däniken. The "theory" behind the parody was that aliens used Earth as a landfill and that all of the ancient great civilizations sprung up around one of these alien trash dumps.
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  122. After two years of living in Iceland, I knew they would be in the wind-power market.
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  123. When I was stationed there 25 years ago, they would not cut down any tree for any reason. Nice to see that they can do some limited harvesting.
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  124. It makes no sense. Just do what Disney did: Set up a different brand, with the same policies and functionality, but allowing the content that doesn't fit the family-friendly label.
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  125. "Often times version control history is the only documentation that exists for knowing why some complex logic exists and if it is still needed or what it should do." I blame the "good code is self-documenting" crowd for situations like this. Some devs and dev managers have a woody for deleting comments. My viewpoint is that I'd much rather see a comment I don't need than need a comment I don't see, and the time spent reading an unnecessary comment is far less than the amount of time spent trying to learn a code base that wasn't documented properly.
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  126. DA: "It depends on how we interpret the law.' Judge: "No, it depends on how I interpret the law."
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  127. For a moment I thought Dave had transitioned. In all seriousness, the cost of a meeting increases by at least the square of the number of people present. It consumes the time of everybody present (so it's at least linear), and the length of the meeting increases with the number of people present (so it becomes at least quadratic). And I bet some people talk more in larger groups than smaller groups, so the scaling is probably between quadratic and cubic.
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  128. "help those harmed by the pandemic." It should read, "help those harmed by the government's response to the pandemic."
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  129. The amazing part is how any economist who advocates for free-market policies could have seen this coming. It is likely that they would not have been able to make specific predictions, but one central tenet of free-market economics is that central planning always produces a house of cards, and the longer the central planning continues the greater the inevitable collapse.
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  130. This proves only that the material of the parchment was taken from something that lived during that span of time.
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  131. Sunday off means that there is one day a week which you can depend on to have off, and plan your life accordingly. For many of us that's as good as money.
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  132. This reminds me of the key aspect of Japanese management that enabled the Japanese to eat the Big Three's lunch. The Japanese approach to quality is to ensure that production methods are designed to produce higher quality. The Chinese try to kick things out as quickly and cheaply as possible, and throw out everything defective. (Americans wander drunkenly between these two extremes.)
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  133. Whoever on the Israeli side agreed to this cease-fire is a potato head.
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  134. The elections are four months away. They can't keep the drama going for that long.
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  135. Sorry, dude, but you lost me when you suggested that the events of January 6th were even close to coup.
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  136. Saving an aquifer involves one very simple rule: Limit the depth wells are allowed to reach, and whoever was depending on the well needs to have a back-up plan.
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  137. The more you learn about the American Civil War, the more you're glad you didn't have to take part in it.
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  138. Just enter the word "zero" in the blank.
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  139. I'd like to know if the possibility that these two are not identical twins has been conclusively ruled out.
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  140. A cursory reading of the eight amendment prohibits this.
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  141. If the original judge were sane: "What is the charge?" "Jaywalking, Your Honor." "ARE YOU FOR ****ING REAL? I'm holding you in contempt for bringing this into my courtroom."
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  142. How many of these thugs were raised on public assistance?
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  143. The thing that's wrong in Britain is that it never truly entered into the modern view of government as a servant of the people. It has always regarded the lands, wealth, and people of Britain as existing so that the government may achieve its goals. The goals have varied over the years but the attitude has not.
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  144. The phrase "Biden legacy" is simply hysterical.
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  145. If we hold people with a little bit of power accountable, it will lead to people with lots of power being held accountable, and we certainly can't have that.
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  146. Most likely the plaintiff made a minimal effort to notify and claimed to have actually succeeded.
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  147. Partially because they wanted workers to replenish the declining native population, and partially because the leaders wanted to prove their nobility to the world.
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  148. It actually turns out that a successful IT company requires a head who understands both tech (the potential of things) and business (getting people what they want at a price they don't mind paying). Sometimes execs dismiss a new thing because they don't understand its potential, and sometimes they latch onto a wifty new thing without first ensuring that somebody actually wants to buy it.
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  149. The Soviets regularly talked about the murder rate in the US and how it was proof that the capitalist system fails its people. They accomplished this by lying about the murder rate in the Soviet Union, which was chronically higher.
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  150. The most consistent trend seen everywhere is that fertility varies inversely with the participation rate of women in the workforce. When women buy into the idea of having a career, or when governments encourage women to work in lieu of having children, they delay having children, and often find that they have waited too long, and their participation in the labor force increases the supply of labor and thereby depresses wages, reducing the benefit of the second income. When women choose a home life raising children over careers, it frees them to raise the children, and also reduces the supply of labor, causing wages to rise and making it more likely that the husband can support the family.
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  151. After 40, it's all about companionship. If you spent your life up until that point operating from a shallow and self-centered viewpoint, you're going to be completely unprepared for the day that your other assets cannot compensate.
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  152. No innocent person ever says, "You can't prove it."
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  153. A fellow I knew spent a month recuperating because the stop sign he ran was obscured by a tree, and it wasn't an all-way stop. Failure to properly maintain signage is a safety issue for which official dereliction cannot be tolerated. So stop them from getting their money and they'll fall into line.
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  154. What is going to happen is that the cultures which cherish having children will proliferate, and the cultures which are focused on non-family goals will go into decline. This will be most prominent in nations in which the government has not arrogated to itself the privilege to determine cultural values. Nations whose pro-family segments are the smallest will go into the greatest decline until the recovery takes root and will undergo the most radical cultural changes.
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  155. "I will never turn my back on President Biden." I expect those words to vanish down the memory hole by the end of the Democratic national convention.
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  156. It's very easy to tell when recycling makes sense: When a private company that isn't getting money from the government will pay you for the items to be recycled.
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  157. This is what happens when the government does not see itself as the servant of the people.
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  158. A centrally-planned economy is always a house of cards, because everybody is tied to whether the central planner's assumptions are correct. In the long term, they never are.
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  159. I object to the use of civil law to accomplish goals that should be addressed by criminal law.
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  160. "What if we cover Zimbabwe with honest politicians?"
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  161. The regulators monitored FTX long enough to ensure that they were on the blue side of the aisle.
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  162. It should not be too hard for the states to make legislation stipulating that (a) HOA members can annually challenge any by-law of the HOA, subjecting it to repeal unless a vote of all HOA members supports its continuance (counting all non-voting members as opposed), (b) no HOA by-law can regulate any matter covered by a federal, state, or local ordinance, and (c) HOAs cannot seek punitive damages.
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  163.  @daniellarsen889  Until Vance came along I was sure that Desantis had a lock on the 2028 Republican nomination. Now I'm not so sure.
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  164. They saw what China did and said, "Hold my coffee."
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  165. Never say anything to a judge that is not a direct, polite, and honest answer to a question that the judge has just asked.
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  166. The only people cutting down rain forests are the people who live there. They generally do it in order to clear the land for farming. Unfortunately, rain forest land isn't very good for farming; the high temperature and humidity causes soil microbes to break down all of the organic matter.
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  167. That's an ironic thing for Kissinger to say, given that for decades he was a primary architect of US foreign policy.
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  168. The first rule of pointers (in any language that has them) is to design your code to minimize the need for pointers. Also, declare each variable on a separate line.
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  169. The pig that squeals is the one that was stuck.
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  170. "not fair" = "I want you to think it's bad but I can't give a good reason"
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  171. "The people need a way to control your profits!" "They do have a way to control my profits. They can refuse to buy my product."
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  172. I went through the same thing as a cryptographic maintenance technician. The NDAs for military security are more or less legitimate and serve a valid purpose.
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  173. I cannot imagine it being at all popular for the leaders of developing nations to barter away their countries' natural resources to China in order to obtain debt relief (especially when that debt relief is temporary). It would also be very easy for a challenger to seize power by promising to repudiate these deals, or even repudiate the debt incurred by previous regimes. (Whether or not they actually do this is another question.)
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  174. How many of these thugs were raised on public assistance with no father in the home?
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  175. I worked for Walmart from 2008 to 2012. I spoke with people who had been there during Sam Walton's time, and they all say that Walmart is not the house that Sam built.
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  176. Reynolds is going to need all of that money he gets from hawking Mint Mobile...
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  177. "Innocent until proven Republican."
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  178. China's interest in Taiwan is pride and nothing else. The US interest is the general interest against aggressive military action that all nations share, and the specific interest that Taiwan is a major technology manufacturer.
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  179. The codpiece is one pimp bit of fashion. I'm surprised it hasn't come back.
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  180. We know more about Roman brutality because their critics were literate.
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  181. The biggest contribution of homeopathy to medicine was to present an appearance of effectiveness. This forced allopathy (i.e., traditional medicine), which was tradition-bound and given to treatments like blood-letting, to shape up its act in order to stay in business.
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  182. The problem with California is that a large portion of the populace--perhaps a majority--have firmly embraced idiocy. For the people who oppose this, it is easier to move than it is to stay and fight. Those who stay will rationalize the decline as something that couldn't be helped, or blame it on the lingering constraints on the insanity of their government. They're like that guy who says that his hangover wouldn't be so bad if the bartender hadn't cut him off.
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  183. The actor who played Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason was asked how he felt about playing a guy who always lost. He said, "Burger doesn't lose. How can a district attorney lose when he fails to convict an innocent person? Unlike a fist or gun fight, in court you can have a winner without having a loser. As a matter of fact Burger in a good many instances has joined Mason in action against unethical attorneys, lying witnesses, or any one else obstructing justice."
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  184. The problem with the Department of Education is that it exists. It would be far better to block grant its entire budget to the states based on a head count of children from the ages of 5 to 18 in each state.
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  185. The man who taught the Japanese auto makers the management methods that enabled them to eat the Big Three's lunch had this to say: "Eight-five percent of all problems are caused by management." Traditional management are stuck in paradigms that don't work but are never questioned.
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  186. The Chinese middle class never really did consist of its small businessmen. In China, the upper class consists of the CCP brass, the middle class consists of the CCP rank and file, and the lower class consists of everyone who isn't a CCP member.
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  187. TL;DR: Just about everything we were told by Soviet apologists about the Soviet Union were lies.
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  188. Thirty years to go from $12 per hour to $15 per hour won't even keep up with 1% annual inflation.
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  189. OOP is simply a language paradigm that forces better organization for your code.
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  190. They may have competed in sports, but now they're competing in politics, and as in every other venue, people who after power care only about power.
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  191. It's called "drinking the Kool-Aid".
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  192. Rejection is always a good thing. If they rejected you for a valid reason, you would not have been a good fit for the job. If you were rejected for a bad reason, management is dysfunctional and you would have hated working for them. Always look on rejection as a bullet dodged.
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  193. I wonder what the results would be if you plotted each county's violent crime rate against the percentage of people on public assistance.
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  194. One minute we're told that Trump is an egomaniac, and the next moment we're told that he ceded the presidency to Elon Musk. At least one of these must be false.
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  195. So the third most densely-populated state is one of the emptiest states. I'm going to tell YouTube to stop recommending this clickbait channel.
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  196. Apparently some people seem to believe that they are entitled to our praise.
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  197. DeSantis has the luxury of not running this year. The only thing stopping him from waiting until 2028 is the possibility that Noem might jump into the ring that year; but they could agree to run a friendly primary and whoever does not win the nomination could be the running mate.
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  198. The man explaining the meaning of woke leaves out a very important part of the transition from an awareness of racism to its current usage. It transitioned to being aware of oppression in general, and then was taken up by people who saw oppression where it did not exist, and this is so in line with the standard leftist world-view that 'woke' became a term for leftism in general.
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  199. The amount of power that can be gained by championing the cause of the transgendered people is greater than the amount of power to be gained by championing the cause of homosexuals. Therefore those who care only about power--who comprise a large number of people who championed the gay cause--have abandoned the mine that's been worked out in favor of the mine that's still yielding pay dirt. That they have to forget everything they said fifteen minutes ago is immaterial to them. Do not expect people who are after power to be consistent or honest. Those are rational virtues, and the will to power is irrational.
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  200. That will be abused. Guy with connections buys a piece of land, cheap. Corrupt official "takes" the land, pays the guy ten times what he paid for it. It's gotta be fair market value.
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  201. The reason Africa hasn't recovered from colonialism is because of the attempts to unify different tribes into nations, and telling them that socialism was the way to go.
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  202. Junior devs are the acorns from which senior devs grow. Management is too short-sighted to resist cutting junior devs from the payroll, so in the future we will have fewer senior devs.
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  203. The key to Japanese manufacturing is a focus on ensuring that each process performs consistently.
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  204. One of the Disney theme parks is powered by a generator that is hooked to Walt Disney's tomb.
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  205. Chik-Fil-A is doubly careful about the character of the operators they take on.
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  206. The comments explaining that Italians are good at managing chaos because they are a naturally chaotic society illustrates why a free market will always be better than a planned economy.
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  207. This video is turning out to be remarkably prescient.
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  208. "Every stupid idea came out of the city."
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  209. I can't see the law needing to be more complicated than "Deal is void, buyer gets full refund."
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  210. Neil's reboot of "Cosmos" is one part stuff you know if you paid attention in school, one part theories enjoying current fashionability, and one part rehashing dubious tales about whoever happens to disagree with him.
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  211. Yes, we can have a society in which everybody is financially responsible. We cannot have such a society and still have many of the features of our current society (such as gambling, government deficits, government subsidies for business, much of what Walmart has on its shelves, etc.).
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  212. The gunners are probably the sort who would prefer to be trial lawyers. But there are lots of other things lawyers do, and none of them require alpha-dog behavior.
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  213. People fighting in court any abridgement of their civil rights should be compensated for legal costs if they prevail.
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  214. I was surprised to see firearms ownership as high among Icelanders.
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  215. This could all be simplified by making government immunity and sovereign immunity a thing to be decided by the jury.
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  216. A church that has that much money lying around has forgotten its mission.
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  217. C is a layer directly on top of assembler, and is best approached on this basis.
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  218. Never buy a pet from a pet store. If you want a dog for a companion, get a pound pooch. If you want a specific breed, buy directly from a breeder whose operations you are allowed to inspect.
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  219. "She wouldn't be any different from any other Democrat." That's exactly why we don't want her in the White House.
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  220. The encryption used when I was in the military was based on a 64-bit key. A million processors (easy to procure if you are a state actor) brute forcing a million keys per second (should be easy) will break the code in an average of 9 million seconds, or about 16 weeks. I don't know if the equipment based on this key is still in use; it's been twenty years since I left the military.
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  221. If the truthful answer made them look good, you can bet every dime you ever saw that they would give that answer.
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  222. China's obsession with saving face reminds me of something Lyndon Johnson said: "While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
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  223. As W. Edwards Deming said, "Drive out fear." Deadlines are the enemy of software quality. There is no good reason to set deadlines. Never. Not even once. New features should never be made public until they are ready to ship, and should never ever be promised ready by any specific date. Setting deadlines in order to pressure developers to be more productive is stupid; it hurts the workers and doesn't do the company any good. Only God knows how long things will take, and He isn't on the payroll.
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  224. His memoirs will be a shorter book than "The Modest Side of Charles Barkley," or "Economic Improvements under Socialism," or "Things that are Better in California."
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  225. They monkey branch because it is no longer a capital offense.
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  226. Made in America from 100% imported Italian parts! (There are probably a lot of people who think you look Jewish. Especially the flat-earthers.)
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  227. I'm for tabs instead of spaces because Microsoft recommends spaces instead of tabs.
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  228. A company that is publicly traded sees nothing that is beyond the end of the current fiscal quarter.
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  229. Most of the time, when you dislike a movie it's because there is something wrong with the movie. In the case of this movie, if you dislike the movie it's because there is something wrong with you.
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  230. Okay, peeps, here's the plan: 1) A handful of people who care about good stories more than they do about money or politics writes a compelling tale. 2) A handful of talented artists and animators bring the story to life. They scale back the artistic level to match their skills so that from a visual perspective everything has the same level of realism. 3) They release it on a monetized YouTube channel. There's no need for major studios or big-name stars anymore.
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  231. I want to know why Bernie Sanders isn't screaming about another big bank bailout. Isn't he supposed to be against that sort of thing?
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  232. The most important thing to remember when evaluating this announcement is that mainland China is ruled by liars without shame. Absolutely nothing about this announcement should be taken at face value unless and until it is confirmed by a source that is not beholden to the CCP.
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  233. English is the United Kingdom's most successful export.
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  234. I've read the literature from the temple of Satan, and it teaches its followers to be self-centered. School kids are already bad enough in that regard, there's no need to make it worse.
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  235. The ironic part about people voting for Democrats because of what Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson did for them is the fact that they had to fight their own party in order to get it done.
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  236. Yes. Sweden's leaders decided to prove their nobility to the world.
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  237. That's why we have appeals courts.
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  238. When a lawyer tells you that something is as simple as it sounds, it really is as simple as it sounds.
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  239. When you're an engineer you use Bob's approach the first time you see a problem of a given type. If you see something similar, you remember the solution to the first instance, and try to see if it is adaptable to the present problem. Eventually you find a generalized solution. But you don't worry about generalized solutions until you have a valid reason for seek them (at least, not while you're on the clock). And having found the generalized solution, in every application you also take the time to see if the specifics create a special case that lends itself to an optimization.
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  240. If I sued the crap out of my last company, there'd be nothing left of it... And from the news I just read, I'd have to wait in line.
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  241. I lived in Sunnyvale (south end of the SF Bay) from 1989 to 1992. My wife and I hated everything about it except for the friends we made there, and a couple of the restaurants.
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  242. One thing not generally known is that in pre-WWII Germany, the gay population was not a unified group like they are in the US. Gay men were in one of two groups: In one group the ideal relationship consisted of two men about the same age, and there was no effort to act or behave differently from straights (other than in their choice of life partners). The other group idealized relationships between older men and younger men, and were hypermasculine. The two sides did not get along, with the hypermasculine element absolutely detesting the others, whom they saw as "soft". The Sturmabteil (the SA, a.k.a. the Brownshirts) were primarily from the latter group; when their leader was liquidated by the S.S. in the Night of the Long Knives, he was in bed with a young man at the time the S.S. arrested him. The "soft" gay men were sent to the concentration camps, while the hypermasculine gays were more likely to become the guards that abused them there. Also, the book burnings for which the Nazis were famous were to some degree a cover-up of the gay Nazi leaders who had sought conversion therapy.
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  243. He'd be in real trouble if we had an objective news media. But then, if we had an objective news media, he would have been convicted of corruption while he was a senator.
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  244. The chief weaknesses of the claim that climate change is man-made are (1) the claim is based on data falling into an brief portion of the time that the system under consideration has existed, and (2) the unproven assumption that there is some state of climate that we are supposed to be at, from which the current state has deviated.
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  245. 1) The left hates her because her work was an indictment of the left in all of its forms. 2) Academia hates her because they're mostly leftists. 3) The religious dislike her mostly because of Peikoff's hostility towards religion. Rand, while being an atheist, didn't have the animus toward religion that he does.
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  246. The whole point of computers is that they do what they are told. The Genesis AI fails because it is deliberately coded to modify the user's request. Even if such modifications favored my politics, I would refuse to buy any product which did this.
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  247. I like how Obama saw fit to criticize the bad manners of his hecklers. Dude, your party's been the team of bad manners since you were a kid.
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  248. I like how being concerned about Russia was dismissed by Obama as an outdated concern in 2012, and then four years later was taken with all the seriousness of a ruptured aneurysm.
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  249. You know, if that "newspaper" that Bezos owns hadn't been in the Democrats' corner, maybe he would not have needed to raise this criticism.
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  250. The Center for Countering Digital Hate. Yet another propaganda group styling themselves as the precise opposite of what they really are.
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  251. He's more coherent now than Biden was twenty years ago.
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  252. It should be the law that any person making a false claim pursuant to a no-knock raid should be liable for any consequent homicide.
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  253. About thirty years ago I watched a video about paradigm thinking. Paradigm thinking is when a person's concept of something is artificially narrowed for no valid reason. For instance, the man who invented the quartz movement for watches was Swiss. The Swiss watch manufacturers, who dominated the market, were not interested in his discovery. In their thinking, it wasn't really a watch because it didn't run on springs and gears. He found a more receptive audience among the Japanese, to whom a watch was a wearable device that told you the time. It turned out that the watch-buying public had the same idea as the Japanese, and delivered the lion's share of the market to the Japanese. Software development managers can be guilty of the same thing. Management is done a certain way and no other, and any suggestion that we abandon the concept of deadlines is abandoning management entirely. We have to assign a point value to each project, and track how many of these points each developer accomplishes during the year, because we're not really managing if we do it some other way. We do performance review because that's how management is supposed to be done. And so on.
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  254. You know that all dignity has left the room when Don King shows up.
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  255. Studio execs want everyone beneath them to be replaceable at the drop of a hat. That means you hire mediocrities, and use gimmicks to cover up their shoddy product.
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  256. A sitting president publicly calling political opponents "domestic enemies" is suddenly cool with the party that had a meltdown over crosshairs being used in political ads that most people never saw.
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  257. It's easy as eff to avoid the culture wars: Stop trying to guide our beliefs.
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  258. How do you know they're trespassing until they've ascertained the property lines?
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  259. The prequel aspect also clarifies why the Star Wars prequels never really had a chance. We all knew that Anakin was going to fall. We knew Luke and Leia were going to be born. We knew that Palpatine was going to take over. There was no overall drama.
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  260. If you take the amount of CO2 that was in the air ten years ago, and add in the amount of CO2 we've put into the air during those ten years, and measure the CO2 levels now, you will find that the latter measurement does not account for all of the burning we've done. Natural processes have removed much of it. Plants are very good at getting CO2 out of the atmosphere; it's literally something they need to do to live. CO2 is also added by natural processes (forest fires, volcanoes, and the weathering of carbonate rock).
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  261. My parents built a cabin in the northern part of Michigan's lower peninsula. Dad made sure to insulate it well enough that the body heat of the occupants is enough to make it livable, and if there is any fire in the fireplace at all, the widows had to be open or the cabin gets unbearably hot, even on the coldest winter days.
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  262. Managers get sold on JS frameworks because they enable the rapid initial development of a web-based application. What they often neglect is that no framework does everything. The developer still needs to know JS in order to implement all of the work-arounds that will be required. Your tech stack is bigger, and future development costs more. For each change, your developer must first determine if the framework supports the desired end result (and it may take days to discover whether this is the case) and then determine how to get the framework to do it or how to get the base tech to do it. You also need developers who know both the framework and the base tech, so when a developer gets hit by a bus, the replacement needs to know a deeper tech stack, which means waiting longer or paying more for the replacement.
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  263. The point of a public space is not that the first person to come along can do whatever the hell they want with it. It means that nobody can use it in a way that excludes other people from using it.
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  264. First easy step: Outlaw zoning that limits housing density. Second step: Limit the legal challenges to housing permits to objective grounds that are expressly spelled out in law.
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  265. There's a bit about American pilot culture that may not be known outside of that community. When a mission group is out they don't radio back asking for guidance on anything. They have their objectives and the authority to deal with unexpected situations according to their own discretion.
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  266. Got screwed out of ninety-five grand? No wonder he looked pissed all the time!
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  267. "Holy bull** charges, Batman!"
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  268. The question raised by anything offered in the "please stay" spiel is, "why weren't you doing this already?"
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  269. Long-term thinking is punished in our society, because a legislator or bureaucrat can pass a new law or regulation that throws all of your plans into a cocked hat, and there is not a bloody thing you can do about it.
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  270. To turn this around: Set income tax rates on family size. Unmarried people pay the highest rates. Married without children pay a lower rate. Married couples and widows with one child pay a lower rate, a still lower rate applies for families with two children, and families with three children pay the lowest rate.
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  271. Apocalyptic environmentalism was always a rationalization: "If X is true, then my desire Y is justified. Therefore, X is true."
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  272. Being hired directly into a leadership role is a red flag to me. It tells me that they have trouble keeping supervisory people, AND their culture does not grow its people into leaders. The practice of continually cultivating people to enable greater responsibility should be endemic.
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  273. Fun fact: Vermont is the only blue state that would still be a blue state if only gun owners voted.
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  274. It's not that married men are less likely to drop out of the labor force, it's that men who drop out of the labor force are less likely to get married or remain married. Who wants to be married to a bum?
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  275. In all cases of one body orbiting another, they both orbit the barycenter of the two bodies. It is simply the case that when one body is much more massive than the other, and the distance between them is not that great, the barycenter will be within the larger of the two bodies.
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  276. One of history's most consistent lessons is that Communists are liars without shame.
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  277. We're suffering a "civil authorities with brains" shortage. They cling to policies that reduce supply, like zoning huge tracts of single-family housing.
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  278. I simply don't see the leaders of Europe concluding that a world war would be too costly. Without both world wars, the idea simply would never have crossed their minds. They were still in the paradigm that wars were the natural way that nations settled their differences and that backing down in the face of war was never to be countenanced.
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  279. What is perhaps the saddest thing about your videos is that many professional critics know everything that you know about the art of filmmaking, but give reviews that betray every scrap of that knowledge, and call films according to the external politics at stake.
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  280. Back then you needed that many gas stations because fuel economy was so poor that you were liable to run out of gas a lot more often.
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  281. People who are after power are liars without shame. This is because honesty is a rational value and the lust for power is an irrational urge.
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  282. The original Pike was pushed out because the actor who played him (Jeffrey Hunter) declined to be in the second pilot.
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  283. The problem with the strong female leads is not that they exhibited behaviors that were only accepted among men; they exhibited a level of assholery that is not tolerated even among men.
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  284. Young women are more woke because they have the luxury of getting by without having to face reality, or at the very least they believe that they can. They can get male attention with just a post on a dating app and this leads them to believe that there will always be someone to take care of them and so there's no problem if their ideas wreck society as a whole.
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  285. TL;DR: Unprocessed meat = good, processed meat = bad.
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  286. There was an article a couple years back about a woman who had a dozen or so of her embryos cryogenically frozen so that she could start a family once she had become established and successful. When she became established and successful, she discovered that none of the embryos were viable.
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  287. The only real fix for this is a Constitutional prohibition on government support for commercial enterprises and government-backed loan guarantees.
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  288. Pride is the seminal curse of the cosmos. It drives the Chinese government to be obsessed with power and prestige, the people to prize wealth over character, both of them to regard foreigners with suspicion, the bureaucrats to think that their meddling in the economy is wisdom and not foolishness, and so on.
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  289. The managers of JS need to bite the bullet and deprecate the features of the language that allow for slop code, with ever-more-noisy notifications to the user, and eventually remove them from the language altogether.
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  290. The academics of software development are weak because academy cannot keep up with the rapidly-changing fashions in development technologies. It takes a while to develop a course in C++ or Java, and by the time you've rolled out the class, the industry is pushing PHP, Python, and C#. A company that is prepared to hire entry-level talent will simply hire people with the aptitude, train them in the specific technology to be used, and see if they work out.
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  291. This is what dogs would like all over the world if we did not selectively breed for appearance.
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  292. A company that is forward-thinking should prioritize a minimalization of its tech stack. There are lots of frameworks out there, but once you start using them, you become dependent on them, and they can never replace the technology on which they are built.
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  293. The policies that Trump actually put in place did me more good than every other president since Reagan, put together.
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  294. This is just a technologically advanced form of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and it seeks to prove that we can't "really" know reality. I think that this is the most hypocritical argument ever set forth in the name of philosophy. If we can't really know reality, then the only logical response is to STFU, and so by maundering on with their argument, whoever advances the notion that we can't really know reality proves that they don't really believe it.
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  295. The reason we have to play whack-a-mole with laws like these is because we don't play whack-a-mole with the people who make these laws.
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  296. Also, if a policeman in Colorado turns off a body cam that is supposed to be on, the law presumes that it was done in order to hide illicit conduct by the officer.
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  297. Whoever did this has decided to be a parasite on the rest of us. If proven beyond all reasonable doubt, the penalty should be death. They have chosen to be a sub-human, so they have no claim to any human right.
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  298. The MSM needs to join the audio-visual club. They're very good at projecting.
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  299. From what this not-lawyer has been told by Youtube attorneys, I would expect to read that the defense moved for a directed verdict and the court denied the motion. If that is the case (I haven't looked into it), then appellate courts are within their authority to revisit that motion.
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  300. With a government like that I'd rather have enemies.
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  301. Feminism is to female sexuality what Marxism is to economics: A scheme to hand over control to an oligarchy, immune from criticism, consequences be damned.
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  302. The problem with the Left is that they are all about gaining power, and everything is weighed according to that criterion. If you're helping them get the specific scrap of power that is their focus, you're their friend. If you're opposing it in any way, even for reasons that they cited favorably fifteen minutes ago, you're worse than Satan. (Just ask JK Rowling.) Conservatives are beginning to grasp this.
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  303. In Air Force boot camp our training instructor told us of an airman who had gotten rabies when a bat flying overhead voided waste in-flight, and it hit him in the eye.
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  304. A judge has whatever authority he pleases until a higher court reverses him. That they conform to the law as written 99% of the time is immaterial.
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  305. The key to understanding America is that we are a nation that mostly wants freedom and equality, governed by a ruling class whose concern for these things is spotty at best. Don't blame our concern for freedom for every bad thing that happens here; much of the bad stuff results from the very anti-freedom acts of our government.
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  306. Always strive to work for a company which hires entry-level talent, even if you're not entry-level. In order to succeed and stay in business, these companies have to be prepared to provide the skills that they require (that is, training in specific technologies), when these skills cannot be found in the pool of available talent. Companies which are always looking for X years of experience with technology Y have no vision and will fail when their lack of planning bites them.
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  307. Getting rid of performance evaluation entirely, and simply learning how to manage intelligently, would work better.
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  308. The first thing that happened when the race criteria were dropped was that the self-styled "civil rights" community had a meltdown.
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  309. Yes you would. They have no duty to prevent crime.
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  310. Feminists were after power. If there is one thing that the twentieth century has told us, people who are after power are liars without shame.
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  311. The system wasn't weak. No supply system can cope with constant disruption caused by bureaucrats who are drunk on power.
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  312. Stating that either party controls the House or the Senate is always a bit of an overstatement.
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  313. One thing about England and then the US occupying Iceland. The English didn't ask. The Americans did. From 1992 to 1994, I made regular visits to the four radar stations mentioned @10:07 as part of a quality assurance team.
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  314. Persuade us via emotions rather than facts and logic. And they wonder why we consider them to be fundamentally dishonest.
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  315. Bugs will happen, but there's no excuse for releasing them.
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  316. The Kelo decision should have resulted in the immediate impeachment of the five justices who signed off on it.
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  317. There's no accidentally letting a 12-year-old work in a place like that. Lots of people knew.
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  318. If I got rear-ended on the highway because my lender shut my car off, I'd be seeing if the court can tip the loan balance in the other direction.
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  319. Can anyone name a single decision made by this administration in which they did not do the very worst thing open to them?
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  320. The one caveat is that China's claims about its technological advances should not be taken at face value without independent corroboration. The CCP routinely makes boasts about how advanced it is, but upon examination the claims often turn out to be entirely unfounded.
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  321. Prevention. You ascertain the offered salary range prior to agreeing to the interview, and agree to the interview only if the middle of the range is at or below your desired salary.
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  322. That they laugh about the misfortune of a Japanese public official is perhaps the least evil thing going on.
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  323. Now we know why StarCraft is such a bit hit there. They have nothing else to live for.
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  324. Islam was always going to come to this crisis, for the same reason that the Christian church in Europe did. Islam has relied on censorship to avoid criticism and terror to stop apostasy. While this has kept the heads bowed and the mosques full, it has also freed Islam's leadership from needing to developing any serious tradition of apologetics. After all, why answer the doubter's questions when you can brand him as an infidel for asking, and let mob violence take care of the most recalcitrant? So what happens is that the doubts are never resolved. Eventually the day comes when the power to punish the doubter is taken away, and the former inmates of the regime can vote with their feet. This is precisely what happened in the Christian West; the churches lost the ability to enforce their teachings, the numbers fell, and only now are valid arguments in favor of Christianity and against the secular viewpoint being developed and presented. Islam's fall will be even farther; first because it doubled down on the use of force to resolve doubts, and second because it is even more illogical than Christianity.
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  325. Japanese cuisine has three food groups: Rice, fish, and everything that isn't rice or fish.
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  326. The best Star Trek show is The Orville, and the best Star Trek movie is Galaxy Quest.
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  327.  @insatiablycurious  Clarification applied.
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  328. Mr. Pink Jacket is being way too charitable towards the cancel culture warriors. They're not possessed of noble motivations. They've weaponized the discourse because it's an easy road to fame, fortune, and above all, power.
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  329. Watching this in April of 2022. Biden is not looking good.
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  330. Cathay's air commander needs to be fired. They have near-complete air superiority. The entire battle space is their target, and yet they're focused on the front lines.
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  331. I'll stick with 355/113 for approximations of pi, thanks.
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  332. The other solution is that I get my army of robots and really start to shake things up. Getting sued will be the least of their worries. And I'll take cases for free.
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  333. Always nice to see Thanos on the panel.
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  334. Lad mags weren't the first lifestyle magazine aimed at men. Playboy has always been a lifestyle magazine.
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  335. The Left not only wants to have power, they want a society in which there is more power to be had. Since power comes from freedom that had been deprived from someone else, their goal is less freedom for us.
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  336. The picture where Kathleen Kennedy wears the t-shirt reading, "The Force is Female" should have resulted in her immediate termination.
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  337. If the adult Miranda's putative ignorance of his rights was a fatal flaw to his questioning, then juveniles should be presumed even less knowledgeable of their rights, and subject to even greater protections during custodial interrogation. It would not be going to far to ban the use of any statement made by a juvenile against him.
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  338.  @hi_tech_reptilezz  We really don't know if the models have any control at all, unless they're already an established public figure.
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  339. Telling a kid that she/he is important is the very worst thing you can do for her/his character.
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  340. If you cry loudly enough and aren't already a right-of-center interest group, the left will brow-beat the whole world into bowing to your demands, no matter how immature and outrageous those demands are.
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  341. I remember that otherwise-mediocre film, too.
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  342. Wealth has always been distributed in this manner.
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  343. Well, their strategy also included government funding of their media darlings.
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  344. Design for expandability, but don't implement a feature unless you have a good reason to believe that the user wants it.
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  345. It's time to crowd-source a new SF franchise. A couple people to write a compelling script, a few artists to storyboard (and maybe even kick out a web comic to what the audience's appetites), another team to model and animate the 3d elements, some voice work and music, and using on-line video services to deliver the product with ads.
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  346. Early on you make a rather critical error. Paul does not claim that Jews were trying to obtain salvation via the Law, but were trying to obtain righteousness via the Law.
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  347. That Kool-Aid mascot needs to look more like Xi, although I suppose that Winnie the Pooh would do fine.
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  348. They thought they'd have the chance to change their minds. Well, they do have that chance, but what they don't have is a chance at the opportunities that they passed up.
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  349. My problem with web page development is that HTML and CSS layout follows logic that is unpredictably arcane. Getting page elements aligned in a specific way requires careful editing of the CSS that is often breaks when the slightest change is required.
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  350. The woke cannot effectively use reason because they regard their entitlement to their wishes as a primary fact of nature that requires no evidence; and they are so accustomed to using coercion to get their way that they have never needed to resort to persuasion.
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  351. Somebody over there has simply gone insane. Their brand was previously viewed by most people as the most anti-woke of all. They had absolutely nothing to gain from this.
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  352. In a book about WWII that I read some time ago, it was observed that the Japanese had a fetish for developing incredibly complex battle plans, with apparently no room for adjustment when the battle went pear-shaped. News flash: The first casualty of combat is the plan. They were up against a nation whose military had a capacity for dealing with chaos that is still legendary among both friend and foe in the European theater.
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  353. Actual clinical research bears this out. It turns out that nobody is good at multitasking, doing it makes you worse at it, and the people who think they're good at it are in fact the worst at it.
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  354. Going off of the gold standard was not a mistake. It was a crime. It enabled the government to rob the people with impunity. The fact that economists consider this to be a good thing proves only that the field of economics is corrupt.
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  355. "Are you going to let me talk?" "Actually, no, I'm going to cut you off." Piers Morgan is the Stud of the Week.
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  356. Aluminum cans, BTW, are bringing in 45 cents per pound at my recycler.
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  357. They wouldn't be in the show if they hadn't turned their personal lives into sideshows.
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  358. @8:20: The company I work for produces dealer management software. The whole deal can be digitized (making instant retrieval a snap), and at the end of the deal the dealer hands the buyer a flash drive with all of the paperwork on it.
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  359. Being a decent human being puts you in four-square opposition to authoritarian regimes, no matter what the original culture. Such people were the first to go when Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, etc. gained power.
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  360. The one time I bought a car in California, the car came with the permanent plates. This is probably more trouble, but it's the right way to do things.
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  361. If they'd cast an Asian girl we could call her Snow Yellow.
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  362. China believes that its real estate practices boost their economy, but only in the short term. A building that doesn't have to be torn down and rebuilt means that the cost of tearing it down and rebuilding it could be spent on, I don't know, improving worker efficiency in another industry. China's economic growth, while impressive, would have been even greater if they could simply let go of their mania for home "ownership".
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  363. You can always tell the good military leaders, because even their enemies respect them. Rommel, Patton, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Zhukov all had this mark of respect. On the other hand, everybody hated Goering.
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  364. This might be what it takes to wake up Californians to the sheer idiocy of the people they elect.
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  365. Not "Who's running the country?" but rather, "Who's hand is up this puppet's back?"
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  366. I suspect that some of these shills are die-hard socialists whose dogma has metastasized into a moral compass that is 100% wrong. They become everything that they profess to hate, in defense of a nation which is none of the things they profess to admire.
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  367. It's as if communists are invariably liars from the word "go".
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  368. TL;DR: "It's fast and cheap because most of the work is done by another system. And maybe China is lying about the actual costs."
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  369. No company really wants a rockstar. They want a magician who can pull rabbits out of the hat to compensate for managerial errors.
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  370. The Boy Who Cried 'Racist'.
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  371. I can understand their not being allowed to answer questions over the phone. Could be anybody calling.
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  372. You have to be careful when discussing Islam, because when you tell the truth it's called "Islamophobia."
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  373. The chief lesson to be learned is that communists do not want communism in order to bring about a greater society. They want communism as an end in itself, even if it kills the rest of us.
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  374. If we allow judgement we have to scrap just about the entire Democratic platform.
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  375. Most new companies fail. Do software start-ups fail more often?
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  376. Waitaminnit. The governments all collapse but her nest egg is still good? That's the least believable part of it.
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  377. The Left nods approval to of thousands of children killed every day, it's no surprise that they approve of this, too.
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  378. The loss of mainland China and Taiwan as global trading partners would not turn the rest of the world into an economic wasteland. The economies of free societies are far more resilient than that.
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  379. You've left China since that time. How is she enjoying the transition?
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  380. Lara Croft was a hit game, so it's a given that you can have a strong female lead in a movie that men will pay to watch.
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  381. The revulsion of the British intellectual establishment towards the common American is merely an open form of the revulsion they feel for the common Brit.
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  382. They did not need to focus on causes that aren't present in other nations. They only needed to identify causes that are present mainly in other nations that are also mired in poverty.
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  383. Python is the new BASIC. You use it for testing new ideas. If you need better performance, then you re-implement in a more performant language.
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  384. Cenk does have a point. The Democratic gubernatorial nomination in California is effectively the general election, and as we've seen, kingmakers play a major role in it. If the kingmakers pick Harris, she will be the next governor. This is because the Californian electorate is dominated by voters who believe that their abortion rights, welfare check, union benefits, LGBT set-asides, etc., are doomed if a Republican gets elected.
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  385. If marrying the best man who will have you is "settling", you have an ego problem.
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  386. Now just think where this race would be if our establishment were objective.
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  387. My pronouns are stop/the/insanity.
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  388. Agile's failure is based on a single fact: Numbers that are not based on measurement are bollocks. The only correct way to deal with bollocks numbers is to disregard them entirely. There is no getting around this. Management treats these guesses as reliable numbers because it gives them a sense of control. We know that this is a false sense of control because the deadlines based on these guesses are not always met.
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  389. What we are going to see is that in each of the affected countries, the mainstream culture, which tells women to find fulfillment outside of parenthood, will continue its numerical decline, while the subcultures which deliberately reject this viewpoint will continue to have 3 or more children per family and eventually grow to supplant the mainstream.
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  390. It's interesting how often people rail against the way that legislators use their positions to enrich themselves. When you recommend measures that will actually work, those same critics are against you.
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  391. AI does promise to put click-bait article writers out of work. It don't require a human consciousness to write "The Seven Foods you Need to Stop Eating Right Now".
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  392. To the non-flat-earthers: If on some other issue you ever find yourself believing that you are one of the clever few who have seen through the lies, you're probably guilty of flat-earth thinking applied to another topic. As my dad used to say, "Don't let your halo slide down and strangle you."
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  393. It is not enough to show that the alternate worlds in their present state do not violate the laws of physics. It must also be shown that its history since its diversion from our world was compliant with the laws of physics at every step until now. An alternate world in which I am having pizza for lunch with Elon Musk must come about from an alternate where a manned space program to Mars exists.
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  394. Another thing you can do for arc length is to take the integral and calculate the first few terms of its Taylor expansion (which requires only taking the derivative), until you get the accuracy you want. you can also chop up the curve into segments of a circle.
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  395. She switched parties, and immediately became 100% sexier.
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  396. Because the managers were largely ignorant of software development, making them especially attractive targets for grifters.
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  397. Nothing that Snopes says should be taken at face value unless it is corroborated elsewhere or has absolutely no political consequence.
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  398. Kamala Harris does not understand struggle. Everything she has ever had was given to her. Also: Without a teleprompter, Obama is just as hapless as Dan Quayle.
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  399. Nine times out of ten (at least), when I make a call to a service, the user can't do anything until the response is received, and if the response comes back with an error the user can't do the next step anyway. The exceptions are when the user can go do something else, in which case the call can simply spawn a background task to run a job.
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  400. They're not stealing to survive, they're stealing to avoid working.
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  401. If I were single and were acquainted with these women, the first date would be for coffee and talk, with the next date being attendance at my church on Sunday. If they balk at that, they're not worth pursuing.
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  402. A better example of Batman being Batman is in the Batman-Superman special on the WB. Superman, having met up with Batman that day, and having used his X-ray vision to discern that Batman is Bruce Wayne, is turning in for the night. He doffs his costume, and finds a minute tracking device on it. He goes to the window and looks out, using his super-vision to look a couple miles off. Batman is looking directly back at him, gives him a thumb's up, and then vanishes into the night.
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  403. We only told you a couple hundred years ago: Government exists to secure the rights of the people. It is not an institution for using civil power to grant the desiderata of the ruling elites.
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  404. Of all of the people in America, I doubt even a thousand would turn down a role in a Pixar movie because the money wasn't good enough.
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  405. Of course the Democrats will say that you only cheered on the store owners because the thief was black. It will be a lie, of course.
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  406. Can a plaintiff be found in contempt just for having the audacity to file a frivolous suit?
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  407. My problem with most tutorials is that the authors tend to forget that they're writing tutorials, i.e. a guide to introduce somebody to something with which they have no experience. Most "tutorials" make assumptions that render them useless to the people who actually need them.
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  408. There is an image going around of Kathleen Kennedy posing with a bunch of other women, all wearing t-shirts which read, "The Force is female." That image should have cost Kathleen Kennedy her job, because it was a clear signal that telling compelling stories that had broad appeal was simply not a priority with her.
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  409. Is it me, or does Kathleen Kennedy look like what Kamala Harris would be if she were white? Also, Iger needs to demand a full audit of the entire Acolyte project and find out where every red cent of that $180 million went.
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  410. Why wasn't this a thing when I was a twenty-year-old guy?
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  411. The slide rule does the same thing more conveniently, but it didn't change mathematics "forever", either. Looks like an overblown title to me.
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  412. Of course there are controversies! Academics can't leave anything alone.
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  413. So many of the liberties we once enjoyed have been taken because of a small handful who abuse them. But if one of the government's powers, of dubious need anyway, is abused left, right, and center, it's somehow never an argument for doing away with it.
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  414. She forgot that the transgender movement is about power, and got between people and the power they want.
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  415. The first class in macroeconomics should be "An Introduction to Bubbles".
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  416. In the 70's my father built a calculator from scratch. The case was made of plexiglas and was about the side of a desk-top telephone set of the same period. It had a power cable for plugging into a power outlet. It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. He was working as an engineer at General Motors (in their tech center north of Detroit), and one day he came to work and it was gone. He went to his boss to report it stolen and found his boss using it. The boss begged him to let him have it for just that one day, and Dad agreed. The next day he went to the boss' office to retrieve it, and it was gone. Dad and his boss went to the boss' boss' office, and found that fellow using it. Dad passed on in 2003, but Mom still has the calculator and it still works.
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  417. For we little people, tell your 401k manager to shift your money out of private equity hands.
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  418. Socialism is the system of the future. We know this because none of the attempts in the past are ever admitted (by socialists) to be true socialism.
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  419. It could be that the people who wanted Trump to lose are avoiding all bad news by not watching any television at all.
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  420. Um, we're being told that Jupiter is a gas giant. Is that not true?
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  421. The artistic compass of every studio executive is pointed directly at the last place he saw money. That is why we have garbage sequels.
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  422. Geraldo has got the Caesar Romero esthetic going full-blast.
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  423. We know why the official word on where it was found kept changing. They needed it to be found in the location which was least secure, to make the cover-up as plausible as possible.
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  424. The Qur'an expressly denies the legitimacy of any government which does not prohibit those activities which are prohibited by Islam, and calls on Muslims to overthrow such governments.
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  425. Trump is on trial for getting between a Democrat and power, and in their heart everybody knows this.
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  426. I don't think that taking two integers, finding their logarithms, adding those logarithms, and then raising that logarithm to an exponent gives us any time savings, and if you need to know the exact value of the product, you are barking up the wrong tree with that process.
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  427.  @mrjava66  And don't forget the taxes that are passed along by the producers of everything you buy. Ultimately, all taxes are paid by working people.
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  428. These people have literally politicized the weather. Of course they politicized a fight in which a sitting Congressman's spouse was involved.
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  429. Marriage is the only contract where the state actively assists the party that wishes to break the agreement.
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  430. JPEG was designed and tested on pictures of pretty women in a state of undress. It's a bonus if it's useful for other purposes.
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  431. I thought it was because managers and HR types have their heads up their butts.
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  432. It's true that some of the people tearing down heroes don't know what they're doing, but there are some who know exactly what they're doing. They're nihilists. When nothing matters, there will still be power, the brief reign of being at the top of the pecking order, and nobody fighting against it.
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  433. They stop wanting to know once they recognize that sound economics means 'no' to their policy choices.
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  434. "This adds nothing to our understanding of the code." Sorry, but this is objectively wrong. Comments do greatly help a person unfamiliar with the code to understand it. They help us teach new developers how we go about things. They tell us what the code is supposed to be doing, which is information you won't get, even if you stare at the code for a thousand years. They well us where specific parts of the processing happen. They tell us about the overall organization of the code. They tell us the path of processing. They tell us what events trigger the code to be called. In my own 12 years of software development, I have lost far and away more productivity from needing a comment I don't see than from seeing a comment I don't need.
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  435. Sounds to me like Rust is not ready for prime time.
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  436. It all depends on who gets the bomb first.
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  437. If your life is all about you, soon your life will be only you.
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  438. Cities are where the college-educated and people on public assistance congregate.
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  439. If they can move from a state income tax to another tax base, they can attract larger numbers of remote workers, specifically, people who aren't insistent on living in a major urban area.
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  440. The Chinese Communist Party is the single greatest mass murdering organization in history.
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  441. How often do any of the non-Fox new channels have a conservative on for an interview and allow him/her to speak without interruption?
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  442. The divisibility check for 8: If the hundreds place is even, then the last two digits must be divisible by 8. If the hundreds place is odd, then the last two digits must be divisible by 4 but not by 8.
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  443. AIDS never "appeared to be an unstoppable pandemic" to people who understood how it was spread. There were known high-risk behaviors, and people who avoided those behaviors had a negligible risk of contracting the disease.
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  444. When you're too biased your idea of "humor" consist of throwing dung at your opponent and thinking that it's genuinely funny.
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  445. Nine politicians out of ten would sell their own people for money and power in a heartbeat, and the only thing restraining them is the potential of being removed once caught.
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  446. Churchill's "we shall fight them in the streets" speech contains one word that was borrowed from French: Surrender.
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  447. My term for roundabouts is "unmanned sobriety checkpoints".
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  448. 1. Your code will never be better than the data model on which it is based. 2. Well-written code tells the reader what the code does, but cannot tell the reader what the code is supposed to be doing. Comments are required to supply this information. 3. Let each function perform one task. 4. Let each task be performed by one function.
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  449. The attack destroyed 188 airplanes. Which were probably replaced within a week.
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  450. Funny how there aren't any knock-offs of Winnie the Pooh.
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  451. But a radix sort requires an iteration for each digit in n, so a radix sort is ultimately n log n complexity. It's easy to miss this because the implementation will often assume the highest possible value of log n for the sake of coding simplicity and hard code it.
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  452. It wasn't that nobody cares; it's that the people who care in the right way have been shut out of the process.
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  453. The biggest piece of misinformation on any platform is the claim that voting for Democrats is good for the United States.
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  454. The Celsius scale is no more or less logical than Fahrenheit. The zero point in each system was chosen based on specific repeatable phenomena, and there is no reason to prefer the freezing point of fresh water versus the freezing point of sea water, and the choice of either is arbitrary. In a like manner, choosing to put 100 degrees at the boiling point of water, or the human body temperature at 90 degrees, are equally arbitrary choices.
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  455. Red flag #8: They don't hire entry-level talent. That means they have no intention of investing in employees and will provide no training worth mentioning.
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  456. A good comany's interview process won't cause them to reject good workers.
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  457. The other piece of irony is how the progressive left cannot bring itself to criticize Islam in any way, unless it takes the form of an attack on religion in general. And yet Islam indulges in every philosophical vice that progressives profess to oppose.
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  458. The chief consistency of American politics is that to succeed, you must either be in lock step with the Democrats on every issue they consider important, or you must firmly establish that you are a straight talker.
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  459. The non-racist answer to the question is, "We cannot make assumptions about individuals based on their race."
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  460. Back in the late nineties the very dumbest soldier I ever knew tried to fake a set of promotion orders. He took somebody else's promotion orders, whited out the name and social security number of the actual promotee, typed his own identifying info over it, and photocopied the results. The font difference was painfully obvious.
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  461. "Why do they do this?" You got between the left and whatever it happened to want that day. They have the moral reasoning of spoiled children.
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  462. The caricatures from Atlas Shrugged have come to full-fledged life in California.
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  463. Someone needs to train those dragons not to melee until you have to.
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  464. In the military, poor performance is often the result of half-assed leadership.
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  465. The problem with apologizing to the people of New York is that they are so unaccustomed to hearing apologies that they will probably not understand what you're saying.
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  466. If she was able to buy the home without signing anything that notified her of HOA membership, then the court needs to take a dim view of the HOA's claim to any debt whatsoever.
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  467. Complex numbers turn AC circuit analysis from calculus into algebra.
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  468. Deadlines are the enemy of code quality.
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  469. Mark Hamill hates what was done to the character he played, but he loves the politics that drove that transformation.
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  470. If the Democrats had nominated Tulsi Gabbard in 2020: * She would have won by a margin large enough to put to bed all claims of voter fraud. * January 6th would not have happened. * The left would not have felt the need to weaponize our legal system against Trump. * We would not have a doddering idiot in the Oval Office. Instead they picked Mr. Potato Head.
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  471. In a previous life I was an electronics maintenance technician for Uncle Sam, and one of the principles was that a guy who had to maintain a piece of equipment had to be an expert on operating it; otherwise, how could he know whether it was working correctly? In a like manner, a person developing a piece of software needs to know the user workflows. This knowledge will often enable us to deduce the requirements with minimal input from the user community.
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  472. Just imagine how much farther right our politics would be if our cultural establishment (news media, entertainment media, and academia) was objective.
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  473. That search party looking for good men will find them at any church that teaches the truth. Try not to be crazy when you talk to them.
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  474. The intentions were to virtue-signal for the sake of political gain. Good?
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  475. Is our government stupid enough to have done this? Yes.
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  476. Just watch with the sound off, skip the parts that don't have pleasing bodies, and enjoy the film.
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  477. C was created by a couple of engineers who just wanted to get stuff done. They got it to where they could get stuff done, and then went on to get stuff done.
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  478. The reason scrum has in so many instance backslid into anti-scrum behavior is because American business management in general is dysfunctional. There is the widespread idea that if you're not holding a threat over a subordinate's head, you're not managing him properly. My current employer uses scrum, but if the number of story points I've completed is ever a "topic of concern" at a performance review, I'll be looking for another job.
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  479. However, the digits past the 40th one to the right of the decimal point have no practical value.
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  480. The simple fact that the New York legislature has not impeached her for partisan prosecution shows that honesty is not a trait valued in that body.
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  481. One thing that I have learned about the SCOTUS--and apparently the same applies to the Penn State Supreme Court as well--is that if they can rule on a procedural issue, they will. This avoids setting precedents. Personally I welcome the ruling because we need to uphold the principle that the government must keep its word. Whether the promise should have been made is a question worthy of debate, but once the promise is made it needs to be kept.
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  482. Never thought I'd see someone from ReasonTV claim that getting more tax money was done "with the best of intentions".
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  483. Even if this action does result in Trump being unable to run for president, all it does is clear the way for Desantis to clinch the nomination unopposed, leaving his war chest maxed out for the general election.
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  484. They shut down the office quietly because they're afraid of the pro-DEI people more than they are afraid of anyone else.
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  485. The reason some groups would be underrepresented in college without affirmative action is because they are more likely to go to an inner city school. And we all know that those schools suck.
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  486. @14:40 About China being reliant on hard-working cheap labor: Workers in India are often cheaper, and India doesn't have the same Cold War baggage that China has, so India is starting to supplant China as the go-to for cheap labor.
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  487. Ownership does not consist of having one's name written in the space labeled "owner". That is a young child's concept of ownership.
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  488. The idea the the US and Soros are in cahoots is hysterical on its own.
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  489. I'm surprised you didn't make jokes about sticky situations. But I did hear a probation restriction for a guy convicted of hacking computer systems. The probation terms included a blanket prohibition on operating any computer system whatsoever.
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  490. I'm thinking that if a guy's rap lyrics are the strongest evidence in the case, the judge really needs to throw the case out of court.
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  491. Require that 50% of proceeds from the sale of personal data go to the person, 45% may be kept by the gatherer, and 5% is a tax. Giving us half of the cut makes us better off, and the 5% tax makes it guaranteed that the IRS will go after them like a dog after dinner.
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  492. The greatest act of charity in Western society is our chronic failure to expel loopy academics from our institutions of learning. We simply find it too hard to believe that these whack-jobs believe what they profess to believe.
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  493. Red flag #0: You don't know how the other person handles money, criticism, or frustration.
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  494. The left has always been about power, and everything they say is all about getting power.
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  495. McConnell looks like one of the fish from the Spongebob cartoon.
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  496. Two hard-and-fast rules that they can apply to reduce abuse of internships: (1) Intern positions may only be filled by people who have not been awarded a bachelor's degree. (2) The number of intern positions at a company cannot exceed the number of full-time paid positions being worked by entry-level new hires.
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  497. Never apply for a job which does not include pay in the listing.
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  498. To answer the question, no.
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  499. This is why every state needs the equivalent of the Tenth Amendment, and a court system interested in enforcing it.
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  500. Then you no longer have capitalism.
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  501. There also seem to be lots of prime quads, consisting of sets of values 30k + 11, 30k + 13, 30k + 17, and 30k + 19. The gaps are, as is to be expected, larger than the gaps between prime pairs, but the JavaScript that I am currently running to find them has reached 170 million and is still finding them.
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  502. This review has got me itching to start work on a story idea I've had for a couple of decades.
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  503. Just think if Trump was able to prove that Biden never actually did one or more of the exercises of presidential power that his party wanted.
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  504. Exhibit #2,494 showing that communists are liars without shame.
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  505. Let's stop calling them "transgender females". Call them "boys pretending to be girls".
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  506. Every reason for leaving a job can be interpreted as a red flag.
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  507. "You want censorship! Here's your plane ticket home!"
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  508. What you don't do is to bunch a group of changes into epics which don't get put into production until every change is ready to go.
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  509. Feminism is the application of Marxist principles to female sexuality.
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  510. "Additional duties as required" = "management couldn't plan their way out of a wet paper bag"
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  511. At least it was a colorful battle.
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  512. Also noted in the clip of Biden's announcement: He's about as sharp as a marshmallow, something which the left called fake news until they accepted that his decline was a threat to their power.
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  513. Deadlines are the enemy of code quality.
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  514. Episode X of the series needs to start with a montage of clips from the sequel trilogy, each fading into the next more rapidly as the music crescendos, until it abruptly ends, with Luke suddenly sitting up in bed, shaking his head, and muttering, "What a crazy dream."
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  515. The main contributory cause is the courts permitting IP law to extend beyond the limits authorized by the US Constitution. It clearly reserves the right of reproduction to authors and inventors. The man Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney Corporation did not. The man Walt Disney should have enjoyed copyright protection, Walt Disney Corporation should not.
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  516. If the Republicans really want to make themselves look good, they should expel Brodeur (the bill's sponsor) from the party. It's clear that being in power for however long he's been in office has led him to think that rules simply don't apply to him.
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  517. The surprising part is that they managed to fit 17 counts into 15 pages. Most court documents would just be getting through the first count after 15 pages.
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  518. Alan is incorrect here. The road to hell is paved with evil intentions that are dressed up in noble-sounding palaver.
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  519. At its basis, it's the question that got Socrates killed: "How do you know that you're not full of s***?"
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  520.  @MaxPower-11  The solution that was already in use when I was in the service was to encrypt using one piece of crypto gear, and then apply a second layer of encryption using a different key and equipment using a different PRNG.
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  521. +1 for the Monty Python reference at 1:49.
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  522. The main reason we're in this situation is because the IRS was chronically butt-hurt over the failure of tipped employees to report their tips. They tried to get the employers to do this, but the employers had no incentive, until the IRS hit on the idea of allowing tips to be included as part of the minimum wage calculations. Now the employer has an incentive to track every red cent of tips and report them to the IRS so that the don't have to pay as much out of their own pockets. Up until now, tips (under law) were considered to be a gift from the customer to the employee, and the employer was not allowed to take them. Now, under the new policy, the first $5.12 of tips has essentially been taken by the IRS and given to the employer. This is why there is now a line for tips when you pay with your charge card, and why the percentage has gone up from the traditional ten percent to starting at fifteen percent with options for higher percentages. It enables employers to push their payroll onto the customer.
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  523. The only reason they're going after white people is because the people who firmly believe in limited government are concentrated among that identity group. If the white people were all Marxists and people of color had authored all the great works of classical liberalism, then European colonialism would have their unqualified stamp of approval.
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  524. Most developer unhappiness is the result of not being allowed to do quality work. Either we have to struggle with a code base that has major structural issues that management does not allow us to correct, or management foists unnecessary deadlines on us.
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  525. Why didn't you mention that in graph theory, a tree's definition precludes it from containing loops?
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  526. The chief difficulty in software development is software management.
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  527. Companies don't really want rock stars. They want magicians to pull rabbits out of hats, to compensate for management's failures.
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  528. Replacing Biden would be a confession that electing Biden was a mistake, and that therefore whoever opposed him in that election should have been chosen in his place.
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  529. China is an example of what happens when you prioritize saving face and wind up losing your ass.
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  530. The mistake was answering any question except to identify himself.
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  531. The root of the issue is that law enforcement was delegated to a private agency.
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  532. "In what context is calling for genocide not a violation?"
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  533. 小熊维尼统治着中国! Spread the word! 小熊维尼统治着中国!
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  534. I can imagine that very often a judge is tempted to say, "Get the #@$! out of my court."
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  535. LLMs are cargo-cult thinking, automated. They create the appearance of knowledge without the substance.
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  536. The Democratic party is only better on policy because their proposals don't have to run a news media gauntlet of lies.
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  537. Not only should the prosecutor and anyone else in the know be facing felony charges, the judge who admitted hearsay evidence needs to turn in his gavel.
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  538. If there are more people with degrees, then jobs which require degrees can afford to pay less. College becomes less effective at transitioning people from the lower class to the middle class.
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  539. Asking her to add two numbers is enough to give her a mental breakdown.
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  540. Two Words: Central planning. Centrally-planned economies are always a house of cards. Their continued success depends on the central planners being right in their assumptions and decisions, but that clique has an ever-decreasing chance of actually being right. There is also the simple fact that the bulk of China's growth has come from rapid increases in capital investment, a large labor force, and free access to foreign markets. The capital investment is reaching the point of diminishing returns, market access is not going to increase, and their labor force is about to go into steep decline.
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  541. Of course, the more liberal vacation day requirement has a downside: Germany generally has a higher unemployment rate than the US.
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  542. Those of us who remember the Democratic campaign headquarters on election night in 2016 remember Clinton's campaign manager telling the assembled party faithful that there was no plan to concede until they had reviewed the totals in the morning, and that everybody should go home and have a good night's sleep. Less than an hour after this, Trump went to the podium at the Republican headquarters. His statement began, "I have just received a phone call from Secretary Clinton.."
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  543. The stupid part is that people who don't share a residence with COVID-susceptible people should have been left to live their lives as they had been living them. We know this because COVID has infected just about everybody anyway.
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  544. @1:35 The UN warns of a perfect storm brewing without mentioning how much they've championed the causes of that storm.
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  545. She represents an inner city district (specifically, Houston). Her chief qualifications is that she be pro-welfare, pro-abortion, and pro-race-based preferences.
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  546. "Why would they do that?" They pay no price for being wrong.
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  547. What really surprises me is that disposable batteries are still legal. You'd think that the environmental movement would have seen to their abolition.
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  548. Do other nations have people like this, or is the United States unusual in some way?
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  549. I suspect that the judges behind this ruling are not sympathetic to the drug laws and were interested in any pretext for not upholding a conviction.
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  550. "Gentrification" is an anti-concept, a word that pretends to represent a clear idea but instead makes more difficult, and not less.
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  551. And the whole time these tests were in use, the blacks who were able to vote did so for the very party that was imposing the tests, in overwhelming numbers.
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  552. If I am ever asked if I support RFK, Jr. I will say that as a near relative of a President he should be constitutionally banned from holding the office, and that Dubya, Hillary, Jeb Bush, and Trump's children should also be likewise banned.
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  553. Trump should openly state that as long as Hamas holds hostages, whether Israeli or American, the IDF may do as it pleases in Hamas-held territory.
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  554. They returned the $5K, right? And why has Twitter not banned him for slander?
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  555. There some errors @20:05 and following. Syriac and Arabic are not "totally different languages." They both belong to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and have many features in common.
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  556. Once again, Maher is only saying these things because he believes that the Democrats are hurting themselves. If the same lies were being run in a year in which the Democrats were leading by ten points in every swing state, he'd be talking about something else entirely.
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  557. The reason that the big government people are manning the barricades to prevent all cuts from any government program is that the moment a cut is implemented, whoever was profiting from the cut program no longer has a stake in big government and will cease to support it. Why do you think people like Bernie Sanders, whose own rhetoric speaks against corporate welfare in any form, has done nothing to eliminate it?
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  558. It is an article of faith among Democrats that a reasonable and informed person cannot ever fail to agree with them. This is because their ideology is founded on lies and envy.
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  559. It's very easy to tell if recycling a type of waste is good for the environment: If someone who is not getting a government subsidy will pay you for your waste, the waste is worth recycling. Otherwise the recycling process uses more resources than it saves or results in a shoddy product.
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  560. And just exactly why did the union run a poll inquiring after political party support? They are supposed to be entirely outside of partisan politics.
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  561. The Tyranids' number one asset is the vast number of passes they get on the laws of nature.
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  562. It's simple to tell when recycling is worth it: The recycler will pay you for what you're throwing out.
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  563. It is so deliciously ironic that businessmen in formally communist China embody the stereotypes which communists push about businessmen in free-market economies.
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  564. "We"?
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  565. If the #2 product meets your needs, use it, especially if it's cheaper. It forces the #1 guy to innovate.
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  566. A gap of n-1 primes appears much earlier than n!+2. There will also be a gap starting at the least common multiple of 2 through n, plus two, a much smaller number than n!+2.
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  567. The best way to build a thriving private sector is to minimize the taxes and regulations that the private sector must bear. As to what that private sector is doing, as long as it's not coercive, fraudulent, or negligent, let the private sector actors decide. No subsidy is necessary, because a private sector that needs public support to survive is actually dragging the country down for the benefit of the well-connected.
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  568. We are coming to the day when the Germans may (and should) stop holding themselves guilty of the Holocaust: When the last German who was an adult in WWII has passed from this life. Only those who were adults at that time had any duty to stop the Nazis; those who come after are not guilty.
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  569. Joe Scarborough saying "If you want to save American capitalism" is like Hitler saying, "If you want to save the Jews..."
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  570. Round One of Whack-A-Mole.
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  571. One lesson to draw, for those who haven't drawn it: Nothing claimed by the CCP should ever be taken at face value. They are such inveterate liars that half of their lies are lies that they tell themselves.
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  572. "...the remaining forces begin retreating." And Khorne showers his wrath on them for their cowardice!
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  573. In a very real way, capitalism died when that court issued its ruling. A company should be run by its owners. If the minority does not like how a company is run, and cannot persuade the majority to its way of thinking, they have the option of selling their shares and finding another investment.
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  574. The only people who will be dissuaded by the verdict from voting for Trump are the people who get all of their information from the mainstream news media. There is so little juice left for the Democrats to squeeze out of that demographic that it will have little value at all.
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  575. There are things which AI can do, but which it isn't good at.
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  576. 2^6 * 3 * 17. Seems like a pretty quick journey to me.
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  577. If you want to see the multiverse concept handled properly, you have to read the Eternal Champion novels by Michael Moorcock. The separate universes are not (for the most part) slight variations. Most of them are completely different from each other; earth has different continents that are populated by different races of intelligent life, the laws of nature (and magic) are different, and the gods have varying levels of power in each. In others the major differences are of the "What if the South had won the civil war" level of different. Only in the Jerry Cornelius novels are the worlds more or less the same, and those novels are one part social commentary and one part nihilism.
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  578. Just buy an old school bus and convert it to an RV.
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  579. To cop a page from Orwell, the CCP will tell the people that the chocolate ration is being increased, shoot everyone who disagrees, and ride out the storm on the back of the people.
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  580. Maher is still in denial that the extremism he is presently denouncing is the inevitable consequence of the behavior of the party he supports.
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  581. AOC has Cute Privilege.
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  582. City Hall: "Don't do X. We have the skills and equipment and we've obtained all of the required approvals." Also City Hall: "We can't do X, because we don't have the manpower, equipment, or we're waiting on the required approvals."
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  583. The West's chief problem is not its strong cultural current of reason, but the complete rejection of reason by its ruling class. The US is a clear example. It is a nation founded on limited government as a servant of the people and equality before the law, whose government is in the hands of people who regard these principles as obstacles.
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  584. In the use cases where C is superior to other higher languages, assembler is better still and no less safe.
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  585. Don't forget Houghton Lake!
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  586. I suspect that helping a foreigner might bring you to the attention of the police in mainland China, and the people are afraid of being seen as too helpful.
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  587. The nineties did not have a new development framework coming out every time you turned around.
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  588. We asked 1000 people if they approved of the president. (However, that was the second question. The first question was "Who did you vote for in the last election?" and we stopped asking questions if they voted differently from us.)
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  589. If any lawyer from another state have approached you with a request to create a page like unto yours, but tailored for their state's law, I hope that you were agreeable to this request.
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  590. I was in a theater watching one of the Batman movies when a trailer comes on for a western. The audience was silent until the first shot with Clint Eastwood; then the audience went nuts. The movie was Unforgiven.
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  591. Stay tuned for "leaks" about what they found, which leaks are never proven but are taken as articles of faith by the anti-Trumpers.
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  592. Pretty sure that there were a few German generals who would have sued for peace as soon as Hitler's body was starting to cool.
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  593. Your workplace is your family if an only if the CEO gave birth to you, or impregnated the person who did.
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  594. When you hand over cash, the other guy hands over the title, on the spot. And your friend is there with a camera phone recording the whole transaction.
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  595. The Halting Problem proves that no algorithm exists which can predict the result of every determinate algorithm. Therefore, either there is at least one determinate algorithm whose result no human can predict, or the human intellect can do things which no determinate algorithm can do.
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  596. You listened to bad advice.
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  597. If a guy had shot me on my property and ever showed up there again, he'd get shot the moment he stepped out of his vehicle, and there'd be a gun in his hand when the police showed up.
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  598. The export restriction made no sense at all. There was nothing stopping our adversaries from writing their own cryptographic libraries for their own use.
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  599. The only reason most Democrats went along with the woke stuff was because they thought it was necessary in order to build the coalition of which their party is a product.
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  600. The chief cause of this is the persistent belief among the left that they are entitled to hold all positions of power.
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  601. Just cut off the EBT cards. The Democrats would be done within the week.
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  602. DRY best applies then the operation that is repeated has to be done the same way in every instance. Then you break it out into a new function.
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  603. @12:38 Only someone who has a warped view of capitalism (and selective memory of how the Soviets routinely treated their own people) could describe the treatment of Germans by Soviet industrialists as "surprisingly capitalist."
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  604. SNL mocks the Democrats when and only when it will not affect the outcome of an election.
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  605. They're not stopping him from seeing the blueprints. They're stopping him from seeing the blueprints without paying them a bit of cash for the privilege.
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  606. If the police ask to see your guns, flex your biceps.
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  607. They're surging because the people have realized that the lax immigration policies of the past couple decades were not instituted for any good reason.
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  608. This is a lesson that Walmart is just beginning to learn: If your suppliers outsource everything overseas, your domestic customers are thrown out of work and can't buy anything.
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  609. Obama would have made sure he knew how to load an fire that shotgun blindfolded before going out for a photo op. Walz has been spoiled by a press that covers for everything.
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  610. If the Democrats had nominated her instead of Hillary, she would have beaten Trump and would have been re-elected in 2020.
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  611. No, that that kind of spit-roasting...
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  612. Good heavens, Obama is so boring to listen to.
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  613. 1990 essentially spelled the end for Russia being able to face off even against the US alone. Throw in the NATO allies and it's now only a matter of how much harm the Russians can do before they are brought down.
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  614. The alternative is that somebody else with access to the White House is a cocaine user, and they can't throw that person under the bus.
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  615. Social Justice in video games will have the added benefit of encouraging straight white men to take up a more productive use for their time, like transporting all sensible people to another planet and letting Earth go to pot.
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  616. This illustrates why criminal defense attorneys will represent clients who are probably guilty, or even manifestly guilty: In order to lawfully prosecute any crime, the government must obey its own laws.
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  617. Bernie is the only one whose claim is plausible: "He seemed fine to me." It could have been Biden on a good day. The others made a point of extolling Biden's top-shelf faculties.
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  618. The biggest lesson to be learned is one that the Chinese government refuses to learn: Mao was an idiot whose only talents were political.
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  619. During the Clinton administration, when North Korea was first rattling its nuclear saber, Colin Powell stated that if North Korea were to use a nuclear weapon against any other nation, "North Korea will cease to exist as a political unit within the week."
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  620. This is what happens when the primary is the real election. Nothing ever really changes.
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  621. You avoid collective stupidity by avoiding collective thinking, and you do that by refusing to squelch minority viewpoints.
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  622. I'm not sure that the diagonalization proof is valid. From every finite set of reals you can construct a real that is not in the set. The same goes for any set of primes; from them you can construct a prime that is not in the set. So you've proven that the reals are not a finite set, but this particular proof does not establish a different cardinality from the integers. Perhaps there is a proof that establishes this, but the diagonalization proof is not it.
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  623. I'm more concerned with the possibility of a suspect demanding a lawyer dog at a certain point, and the man who drops in is a sheriff's deputy (in a suit and not in uniform) who gives advice that is guaranteed to get the suspect convicted (any advice other than "S.T.F.U." would fall into that category). If they got caught, it would go very badly for the police, but there may be a department somewhere whose hubris has grown beyond that point.
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  624. It's like in other areas of life: People don't care whether they do the right thing, they care about the consequences of doing the wrong thing. There should be an annual raise that keeps up with inflation, plus a bit more to reflect your extra year of experience. If that doesn't happen, don't negotiate, just find a greener pasture.
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  625. Whenever someone announces their candidacy for mayor of Detroit, the FBI starts their investigation. It's only a matter of time.
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  626. If the lefty press would call her on her non-answers, it would be a good thing.
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  627. I agree with the gist of your argument, but the Hero's Journey has nothing to do with the us-vs-them mentality.
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  628. You're forgetting that a computer player can cheat. This is how higher difficulty levels are implemented by lazy programmers.
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  629. It's simple, if you plan to drink while you're out, leave the car keys on your kitchen counter and get to where you will be drinking by some other way.
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  630. Trump's current term of office ends in January of 2021. To remain in office past that date he needs 270 electoral votes in December of 2020. The military is overwhelmingly Republican but it abso-****ing-lutely will not help him get these votes illegally. If you really need to feel paranoid about something, please find something that is likely.
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  631. They don't care who's telling the truth. They care about policy. They want abortion legal, no matter what. They want the welfare checks rolling, no matter what. They want an environmentalist policy, no matter what.
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  632. The problem with our military is that Democratic leadership have caused every senior leader who isn't a yes-man to leave the service. Republican presidents don't need yes-men as generals. Colin Powell, prior to the first gulf war, told President Bush, "Sir, if there is any other way, do not use military force." Powell kept his job. With Clinton and Obama and Biden, generals who didn't swing with the wind were weeded out.
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  633. Am I mistaken, or is this a gross violation of habeas corpus? Eight days cooling his heels before seeing a judge?
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  634. I wish, but this is not going to work. The Constitution stipulates that each state legislature sets the laws which determine how the Electoral College delegation from their state is selected. The court will reject it. The blue state legislatures will allow Biden to be replaced.
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  635. If our news media were objective, the Democratic platform would look like the Republican platform we have now, and the Republicans would be genuine small-government fiscal conservatives, instead of wobbly on those.
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  636. We need to figure out why our nation seems to produce more crazies who want to slaughter groups of innocents than any other nation.
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  637. The way that Cate Blanchett was required to speak her lines is an abomination. She talks like she's stoned.
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  638. We no longer manufacture because our government regulates the living snot out of everything, while China lets its businesses do whatever they want.
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  639. There is no line to be drawn between the "woke left" and the left. It's all one bunch. They're not dying out. The current situation is that they are tired, and the rhetoric they were using for the past few years is no longer working. They will able to rely on the single-issue voters whose single issue is opposed by the Republicans (abortion, welfare, and anti-tradition), and they are in no danger of losing their grip on our cultural establishment (education and entertainment). They'll be back.
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  640. The massive pressure to tip came about because the IRS got their knickers in a twist over unreported tip income. They found that by allowing tips to be counted as part of the minimum wages, employers were more than eager to report them. For states that allow the offset, the first $200 of tips (for a full-time server) goes to the employer and not to the server. Tip via cash.
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  641. "It's a very Californian thing to do." It's also a very Californian thing to not do much about a major criminal justice problem.
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  642. 1. The low point on the salary range is the salary. 2. If asked to produce an intellectual product and I am not being paid, I would put a statement: "Copyright MMXXIV by disgruntledtoons. All rights reserved." into whatever I handed over. And I'd keep copies.
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  643. The Supreme Court did not give to the president anything that all government officials did not already have. They cannot be prosecuted or sued for official acts.
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  644. It doesn't look like all of the show-offs were hit that hard. In some cases it seems that their brains shut off simply from being as dumb as they are.
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  645. "Googoo it."
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  646. Yeah, computers, as I watch this video on an 8-year-old machine.
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  647. The fate of their rocketry program tells the whole story. The chief criterion for promotion was political reliability and not technical or managerial competence. Google "Marshal Nedelin" for an example of someone who incompetent on both scores, and how that worked out for the project he oversaw.
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  648. Somebody should tell that lady that her new husband won't be able to go to game anymore. When you go out on the field like that you are generally banned for life.
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  649. There is still hope. Thanks to the Internet, you can write a compelling story, your friend who can draw and a good visual designer can collaborate with you to storyboard it, a good voice coach and some voice actors can perform the dialogue, and then the CGI artists can model and animate the story. None of this requires any two people to be in the same room at the same time. The only part that takes a long time is the CGI work. You release the preview reel on all of the video sites (YouTube, Rumble, Vimeo, etc.), and then release the rest as 5-minute episodes over the next couple years.
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  650. Every time someone on the left says that they lost this election due to their messaging, it's a confession that messaging was all they ever had. Good products sell themselves.
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  651. When it's the other party's base that's suffering, we hear about it on the news. White people in red states? Eff 'em.
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  652. The reason AC is uncommon in German is two-fold. Most of the time, even during the summer, it isn't hot enough to need it, and second, power is more expensive in Germany. This had a tragic outcome during the summer of 2003, when thousands of elderly people died during the heatwave in Europe.
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  653. You know the Democratic party is in chaos because one of its big names went onto what we all know is the biggest opposition media channel to the Democrats. If they had nominated Tulsi Gabbard in 2020 we would not be having this conversation. She would have beaten Trump with a large enough margin to smother all talk of a stolen election, she would have governed more toward the center, and she would probably be facing DeSantis in the general election.
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  654. Civil asset forfeiture is really a double injustice, because the LEOs seizing the assets presume that they are the proceeds from drug trafficking. However, the federal drug laws violate the Tenth Amendment. So CAF violates both the Due Process clause and the Reserved Powers clause. And the libertarians in the audience will argue that criminalizing drugs is not a legitimate power of the government at any level.
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  655. Every divorce in a family with children robs a child of a parent.
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  656. Political preachiness wasn't even new in 2009. Ferngully was propaganda that looked like propaganda, and that was in the 90's. And I'm sure that lefty propaganda dressed up as storytelling goes back even farther.
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  657. We allow people to deny the Holocaust because we think it's good for idiots to let us all know that they are idiots.
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  658. It is highly unlikely that the reports of failures and corruption are intended to catch us off-guard. The Chinese simply cannot bear to lose face, even if avoiding it requires choices that are bad for them, and everyone who has lived in China for extended periods of time are aware of corruption and shoddy work at every level of government.
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  659. A woman: An adult human who when born was equipped to give birth.
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  660. More plot holes in a single half hour than in the entire original trilogy!
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  661. "Processing fees" = "yeah, we didn't actually do anything for you, but we're going to take your money anyway".
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  662. It's not dead, it just smells that way.
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  663. Actually, the last time the Earth warmed was after the last Ice Age. That's how Ice Ages end, you know.
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  664. TL;DR: LLMs work by doing a gob-ton of math to predict the next word.
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  665. Enabling people to live without working is a mistake.
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  666. "What do we know about these impeachment articles?" We know that they're bull$#!+, lady.
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  667. #1 in charity. The rest of you can STFU about how we don't do enough. The American opposition to social spending has nothing to do with selfishness or callousness. We have no problem plunking down money to help others. We simply think that doing it through the government is a bad idea.
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  668. The common thread I see in the economic crises of the 20th century is the hubris of government. They try to rig the economy to produce a particular result, but their measures invariably put the economy on an unsustainable course which results in a crash, leaving everybody worse off, except for the cronies who initially profited from the intervention. And then the free market takes the blame, when the policies that caused the problem are very plainly not free-market policies.
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  669. A trespasser suing should bear the burden of proving that they were injured due to a man-made hazard. Also, liability for injuries suffered by unsupervised children should fall directly on whoever was negligent in providing proper supervision.
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  670. If a drug has the very slightest chance of enhancing performance, it is banned without a second thought by the governing authorities of every sport. Testosterone, having the same effect on men, should be banned in leagues where not everyone has access to it.
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  671. If you're dumb enough to let a celebrity dictate your vote, you were already going to vote Democrat.
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  672. Stories do end. Sequences of related events can go on indefinitely.
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  673. The Islam-Woke "alliance" highlights the fact that Islam commits every philosophic vice that the left professes to oppose, but the left can only muster the energy to condemn Islam if they can rope other religions--specifically, Christianity--into their criticism.
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  674. We need a brain transplant program so that the brains of sensible women in poor health can be transplanted into the bodies of good-looking witches like Deer Wang.
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  675. If you survive the initial blast, get as far away from every major city as possible. And learn how to live off the land right {filtered} now.
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  676. We have a few judges in Colorado who need to be impeached.
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  677. Because even if we traded with them, their oppressive institutions would still make them bad places to live. Getting your legs broken for speaking out against the Great Leader is evil, and providing free health care does not make up for that.
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  678. The change of religion tells me that the company employs or deals with members of a religion whose texts mandate the execution of apostates.
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  679. The project you should try is one that uses technologies that you don't already know. I'm writing a web site in Angular, Node.js, and MySQL because I had not used them.
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  680. If Hunter has any dirt on any of the Democrats who shoved his father off of the ticket, he can now be forced to spill the beans in Congress and in court. He can sit there and freely confess things like "yes I helped __ launder some money" with a s***-eating grin on his face.
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  681. To answer the question, she was dismissed because she exposed socialism's apologists as a pack of naked emperors. That's it.
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  682. These 'best intentions' were never even good intentions. The intention was to secure power, and the verbiage we hear consists of rationalizations and lies.
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  683. And to think that compared to Italian politics, this is the picture of simplicity.
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  684. "The first person to do ____" is an achievement. "The first ____ person to do _____" is not an achievement.
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  685. It's not because they're big, it's because they have friends in high places.
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  686. The people who run the agencies that help China have it both ways are probably getting bribed.
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  687. PLEASE DO NOT CALL A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM AN ACT OF CAPITALISM.
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  688. Guilty until proven Democrat.
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  689. The backdrop to Biden's speech looks like something the Syfy channel would have designed for a dystopian future.
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  690. All Biden has to do to secure the border is to stop doing what he's doing now.
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  691. Let's not leave off the fact that having a career has been hammered into men since the very first raid of one village by warriors from another village.
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  692. A politician whose only talent is mouthing the fraudulent generalities that get him elected. Imagine my shock.
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  693. The ultimate cause of Britain's political and economic stagnation is the arrogance of its political class. They believe that the people and wealth of the UK exist for no other purpose than to advance their schemes.
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  694. I would like to point out that at times a US Air Force fighter pilot will ask to speak to his commander about an upcoming mission. They will go somewhere behind closed doors, and after a period of time they will come out in perfect agreement about the mission. Behind the closed doors, the discussion would probably be considered a breach of military discipline. But that never leaves the room.
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  695. Immigrants who came to work and are willing to support the existing traditions of the nation should be welcome. Immigrants who came to live on public assistance, or to change the traditions of the host nation, are rightfully excluded.
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  696. Another example of rent-seeking. Put together, all of the forms of rent-seeking that have been passed cost us a good chunk of our wealth.
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  697. I would have argued an Eight Amendment violation. Seizing a $300K house over a $30K debt is clearly excessive.
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  698. You can color from 1 to 8 in two colors without any number being the sum of two other numbers of the same color. There is only one way to do it: 1, 2, 4, and 8 are one color, and 3, 5, 6, 7 are the other color.
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  699. Harris went to school on a school bus. The short one.
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  700. Charging your own troops for losing their weapons after being captured by the enemy is a dark age level of bean-counting mania.
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  701. A minor correction. In the first example you referred to 7 as the dividend. The term for the number being divided into the other is the *divisor*; the number into which it is divided is termed the dividend.
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  702. "I'm exempt from the rules I want the little people to follow because I pay for the privilege."
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  703. Birthright citizenship will require a constitutional amendment. Good luck with that.
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  704. I'd have to say that every dictator's lack of a grand strategy is from the impulse that drives them to be a dictator in the first place. At some level they have chosen their method of rule as the ultimate goal of their rule.
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  705. Reminds me of a story about an old couple who are riding in their car. In front of them is a young couple in another car, and between the two there is no daylight. "We used to ride that way," says the old woman. "I haven't moved," said the old man.
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  706. “While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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  707. Ms. Li seems to be a publicity hound. She's been on more news shows than Trump.
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  708. During a Sunday school lesson back in the nineties, the class teacher posed the question, "And how does Satan deceive the nations?" "The Washington Post?" I replied.
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  709. The reason dogs remain popular is because they carry a toddler's outlook into their teenage years.
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  710. Dat house was a-rockin'!
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  711. Who wants to bet that the German law against insulting people somehow slips through the cracks when the target is a Republican?
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  712. Tariffs should be used to offset government subsidizing by the source nation's government.
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  713. "All we have is cotton, and slaves, and arrogance."
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  714. If the FBI was worth a tinker's cuss Antifa would have been infiltrated and shut down within the first year of its activities.
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  715. I blame whichever nation was the first to engage in military combat ops against another nation.
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  716. But if you take the natural logarithm of that integer, divide by the square root of 163, you get a number that is 2.2373515 x 10^-31 away from pi.
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  717. Where the wealthier countries have the advantage is that they are in a better position to transition to a wealthy nation with a reproductive rate sufficient for replacement. This is because labor productivity is higher. Higher labor productivity means that families can have the lifestyle they want on a single income, freeing up one parent to raise the kids while the other works.
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  718. It looks to me like the reason that the October 7th attacks were such a surprise to the IDF was because they were devoting their intel manpower to gathering the data that they are now using to plan their campaign.
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  719. Will the Democrats learn from this? Only if they lose, and lose so consistently that they cannot blame the messaging.
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  720. Only a third of Americans are stupid, but the proportion of stupid people in Congress is higher than that.
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  721. In Texas or Florida they'd just post a sniper and set out a decoy package. Try to walk off with it, blam.
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  722. I see stores in these soft-on-crime states moving to the model used by the old Service Merchandise chain. SM was a department store in which none of the merchandise was on the sales floor. If you wanted something, you went to the check-out stand, purchased the item, and then picked it up from the part of the store where paid merchandise was handed over.
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  723. The single diplomatic failure of the past fifty years is the failure to treat communist regimes as anything but enemies.
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  724. "Where are all the good men at?" It's simple: You ran past them in order to chase the fun/good-looking/rich f***-boys who treated you like the flavor of the week.
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  725. "This is about us." Does "us" mean Americans or Democrats only?
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  726. In the realm of human affairs, the Allegory of the Cave serves only to make honest and humble people cautious and diffident while the dishonest and hubristic dismiss the allegory as an opiate for the gullible and press on with their schemes. The War on Certainty was never a was on certainty in general, but only on the certainty of those whose ideas are fundamentally sound.
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  727. Money is not the perfect solution for wrongful death, but it does replace the future productivity of the deceased, and the survivors may require grief counseling, which cost money.
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  728. You folks down there in Oz, if you're not going to have a First Amendment, then give us the good side of censorship and keep that creature @0:10 off the air.
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  729. I started learning German when I was 15, and took to it so well that the teacher had me skip the second year. Some years later (1989) I was walking through a bookstore in Britain (of all places), and I heard a woman speaking Hochdeutsch, and I was completely captivated by the sound and rhythm of the language.
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  730. A mainframe is simply a computer system that isn't designed to be used by just one person at a time.
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  731. As with factories, so it is with entertainment franchises: People who could never have built something on their own grow envious of the prestige enjoyed by those who can, noisily proclaim that they can run that thing even better than the person who created it, do what they can to seize the creations, and then go on to prove that their claim is a conceit with no factual basis.
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  732. Pure water is not a terribly good conductor, but it's a better conductor than air, and of course bath water has ions in it from the soap, making it a much better conductor.
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  733. You can see why the people behind this show have the politics to which they cling. Like a commissar seizing a factory for which he never could have been more than a line worker, let along have had any role in establishing it, the twerps behind this show took control of a legendarium which they never could have created.
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  734. I'm ashamed of being from the same state as he is.
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  735. I think that the outcome of a second American civil war can be predicted by a curious image prepared after the 2016 election. It consists of two electoral college maps. One map shows how the election would have turned out if gun owners had not voted. It is blue with the exception of West Virginia (still red) and Wyoming (a toss-up). The second map shows how the election would have turned out if only gun owners had voted. The map is red except for Vermont.
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  736. The other most useful tools (to engineers, at least) are complex numbers and Laplace transforms, which allow systems analysis to be done with algebra instead of calculus.
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  737. It has been the case that if Americans as a whole began to take ideas seriously, the American Left would be utterly destroyed.
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  738. The de-centralization of media is the chief culprit. Until the Internet, every journalist worked for one or maybe two newspapers. No matter your politics, there was probably only one place to work. Only towns with multiple major dailies had any room for ideological spread. So the paper had to accommodate journalists from the whole spectrum, and this moderated their tone. Now everyone can find a niche where nobody disagrees with them.
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  739. China is run the way that socialists accuse America of being run.
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  740. The fact that we can still get a signal from the probes is a testament to engineering.
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  741. This is considered a hard problem?
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  742. The irony of Virginia's place on the list is that the people in Virginia make fun of the people in West Virginia (a separate state) for being highly inbred. The fact that cousin marriage is legal in Virginia and illegal in West Virginia is dismissed by the people in Virginia with the claim that "we don't need that law". Apparently, they do...
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  743. Starting with the first PC I built from parts (1998), I have only chosen AMD CPUs for my desktops, because of the danger that Intel would fail to innovate if it had no challengers.
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  744. There is book titled Moscow 2042 in which a Russian man decides to destroy Communism from within by becoming the supreme leader of the Soviet Union and then doubling down and tripling down on communism until everything is wrecked and he is over thrown. Given what was done to Xi's family, it could be that he has realized that only the leader, with his power unchallenged, has any chance of bringing the system down. The other possibility is that Xi, like many people who only care about getting power and keeping it, knows only how to get power and to keep it, and is an idiot on all other matters.
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  745. Star Trek: Picard is to storytelling what Marxism is to economics. People whose only talents are people skills seize control of something they never could have built and pursue their own agenda with it, and because they have no idea how the system really works they wreck it.
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  746. There are jobs, there just aren't any jobs for people with useless degrees. My company needs software developers badly.
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  747. The only UBI idea that is even half sane: Take all of the money given for means-tested cash assistance, divide it by the number of American citizens, and allow every American citizen that much as a refundable tax credit for each person on their return. Any unclaimed money goes to pay off the national debt.
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  748. The other day I had to explain to my grandson what a phone booth is.
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  749. One indication of how status is important in Chinese culture. The Chinese word for older brother (哥哥, pronounced gege) is different from the word for younger brother (弟弟, pronounced didi).
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  750. "We call ourselves the '6th Panzer Army', because we've only got 6 Panzers left." -- SS Commander Sepp Dietrich
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  751. The human race will not be ready for the stars until we recognize and accept that the will to power is a mental illness and that anyone showing its symptoms should be locked up for the common good.
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  752. Is it me, or does the disinformation board lady look like Lia Thomas' older brother?
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  753. I suspect that Fermat's proof has been discovered at some point and was found to have an error in it.
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  754. Asia is going to have to move to industrial-scale hydroponic farming if it is going to meet its needs in the future. Or they can buy food from the US.
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  755. China's chief advantage in this resource is ideological: They are perfectly willing to make the environment take a back seat to any conflicting concern, whereas western nations often allow even the most dubious claims of harm to force a hands-off approach.
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  756. I'm persuaded that none of the people in charge of the SW franchise really know why it was great.
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  757. This is what happens when the government as servant of the people becomes mere lip service. Instead of doing what is best for the Irish people, the government decided that it was more important to demonstrate their nobility on the world stage, by compensating for the abject dysfunction within other nations; or rather, making the Irish people bear the cost of that compensation.
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  758. A lot of activities prohibited to children are actually quite safe. Every sensible adult makes their children mow the lawn, but you can't do it as a paid job until you are an adult. And if there's anything hazardous about the trash compactor, it will be hazardous for adults as well as children and the compactor should be shut down entirely.
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  759. Just think what all that water is doing to the foundations of the tofu dregs high-rise buildings. A whole bunch of those buildings are going fall over in the next few weeks and months. The worst is yet to come.
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  760. I work in software. Both of my jobs are for making software that businesses use for running their business. (Formerly dealer management software, now behavioral health). When anything involving money isn't being calculated correctly, we drop what we are doing and fix it. Screwing that up turns customers into ex-customers.
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  761. An explanation for why females test higher than males in certain cultures is probably due to systematic shielding of females from the influences that drive down IQ. In many environments, public school being the most notorious, boys are much more subject to physical bullying than girls, especially when they display any above-average intellectual gifts or interests in intellectual activities.
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  762. I'm not sure that the people voting with their feet will turn these places around. The people who leave due to blue-state and blue-city insanity are the people who are towards the red end of things. When folks leave California for Texas or New York for Florida, California and New York get bluer as they get poorer. The pols in both places can double-down on lefty policies and get away with it. Things will go on until all of these place financially collapse, at which point they will start beating the drums for state-level bailouts of blue cities and federal bailouts of blue states.
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  763. My first gig was at a software house where the flagship product is coded in COBOL. They have a utility that translates the COBOL into C++, which is then compiled down to Wintel object files. They recruit exclusively entry-level talent, and educate them in COBOL for coders who work on that product. Products that got their start since that time are written in more modern languages.
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  764. If I'm consistently told I'm horrible no matter what I do, then I'll do what's best for me.
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  765. To really create an app that's a big ball of mud, you need management's help. First, contract out the initial development, and tell the contractor to hurry. He'll slap something together using a framework. Check for basic functionality, end the contract, and put it into production. Second, whenever a new feature is envisioned, set a specific date for when it will go live, and pressure the developers to meet that date. Third, remember that re-factoring doesn't justify a higher price tag for your customers, but new features do.
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  766. All Trump would have to do is to simply be courteous during the debates and he would cream Biden in a rematch.
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  767. If p is composite, then (p-1)! will be divisible by p (because the factorial will include one or more pairs of numbers whose product is p), and therefore (p-1)! + 1 cannot be divisible by p. The other half of the theorem is trickier.
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  768. The stat about the future success of children born in poor neighborhoods: Did they control for family composition? It is well known that children in single-parent homes average far and away worse than children in two-parent homes. Perhaps single-parent families are overrepresented in poor neighborhoods.
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  769. I stopped watching when you claimed that most people don't know how hard their lives are. You have no business claiming to know this.
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  770. Everyone inclined to vote for Trump regards all of the court proceedings against Trump as politically-motivated mockeries of justice.
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  771. The logic of Xi not attacking during the visit is simple: If he can attack at a time when there will be no US response, that's the best time. Pelosi's visit is the time when the US is most likely to respond; Biden would have to do something if he wants to stay in the White House. So Xi can afford to wait. The bluster before the visit will be forgotten.
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  772. Four factors drive economic growth: Access to markets, capital investment, labor, and political culture. China is already at the maximum on the first score, and is nearing the maximum on the second. The third factor is in decline. The fourth factor has never held a candle to other nations and at the moment Xi is doubling down on authoritarianism. China will stop growing--if it already hasn't--and will never catch up to the US unless its political structure genuinely embraces individual freedom.
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  773. China's growth is due to the effect of infusing ever more modern technology into its industrial base. That can only carry them so far. They may exceed the US in absolute numbers, but they will forever lag in per-capita output until they also embrace Western principles such as the rule of law.
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  774. The Democrats were between a rock and a hard place. Part of the party was ready to burn the Democratic party down if they had gone with someone else, but Harris is an idiotic wind sock.
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  775. Time for HTML6!
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  776. The whole point of the requirement for recusal is to relieve the otherwise-affected litigants of proving that the judge was biased in his/her ruling.
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  777. This could have been The Top Ten Double Standards in Hollywood Today.
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  778. My diet is also plant-based. At the base are the plants. In the middle are some pigs, chickens, cows and fish that eat the plants I won't eat. At the top is me, eating the pigs, chickens, cows, and the rest of the plants.
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  779. Please take this video down, adjust the audio levels so that we don't have to crank up our volume settings, and then put it back up.
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  780. What these young people need to do is to tune out the voices that urged them to vote for Biden.
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  781. The root cause of crime is criminal thinking.
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  782. The only way we can directly observe dark energy is to listen to the top-shelf metal bands, like Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.
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  783. No patriarchies were smashed in the making of this film.
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  784. The part of our code that is holds a high proportion of technical debt is a module that was put together by a contractor, using a coding framework. It goes without saying that this one reason why code frameworks should be avoided; they allow the quick development of a new application of major feature, but code maintenance becomes far more difficult; unless the framework designers envisioned any desired extension or behavior when developing the framework, there is a good chance that the extension cannot be added at all, and a high chance that the time it will take will be greater than if the framework had not been used. Frameworks only increase the number of things that have to be learned in order to get any real work done. A lot of software shops inflict unnecessary technical debt by establishing deadlines for the completion of a change. All such deadlines are based on wishful thinking. Every program or code module, while it is being written, is being written for the first time. Any guess about how long it will take is a guess, which can be wrong. In many instances the deadline is entirely unnecessary. If the new feature is being developed to make the product more appealing to prospective customers, and not to address the needs of existing customers, there is no need to inform anybody that it will be ready by a given time, and no reason to inform the customers that the feature is forthcoming. Wait until the new feature works as advertised, has survived all efforts to break it, and its place in the application is fully documented; then announce the feature to the world. The only technical debt consists of the bugs that got past QA (and there will be fewer of those). Re-factoring can be done by baby steps, but it requires vision and perseverance. Instead of making a small change, testing it to make sure that it doesn't break anything, and then pushing it to the production branch, managers often want a developer to keep everything for a new feature in a separate branch until it is all ready to go, and then merge it into production. The risk and cost of each change is not linear with the size of the change, and so the huge merge is very costly it time. I've suggested doing major changes by small steps, but my supervisor shot this down because if the project is cancelled then it will take time to revert all of the changes; but should cancelling projects be common enough to warrant such concern? Also, managers are often too afraid that a change will break things. If the fear is real, why hasn't the head of QA been sacked?
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  785. Rhode Island is not a right-to-work state. I betcha the rep who introduced the legislation is in the union's pockets.
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  786. Michigan's not on the list?
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  787. We have a company policy against using AI tools for software development, because we are concerned that either the process or the product will compromise our security.
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  788. "Who did you vote for?" "Sir, I've never voted for anybody. I voted against Clinton."
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  789. The key difference between this year and 2016 is that in 2016 the Democrats were so overconfident they only made half-hearted attempts at rigging the vote.
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  790. All government projects have to have a timeline with deadlines. The people who manage these things at the top level will not accept the answer "It will be ready when it is ready." If you've worked in software development for longer than your onboarding period, you've learned that the chief effect of deadlines is the premature release of software to production.
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  791. If they'd shoot for a government that's basically honest, that would be a start.
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  792. Correction: Computers can have millions of cores. Processors cannot.
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  793. Here's what common sense tells me: In the era of spy satellites, you take action to ensure that they can't see anything worthwhile.
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  794. I hope the pilot had the knowledge to employ this phrase: "I will answer no questions without an attorney present."
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  795. My pronouns are stop/the/insanity.
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  796.  @kasperkjrsgaard1447  The studies which arrived at this conclusion were controlled for wealth. It wasn't just the nutrition.
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  797.  @findingbeautyinthepain8965  The taller generation of which I speak were the products of children whose parents met in America.
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  798. I just wanted to point out that this movie is the reason that Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson were put on this planet.
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  799. The real tragedy is that it was better than the shows that sucked up all the oxygen then.
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  800. Anyone who has used ChatGPT already knows that AI can produce bland casseroles. Since a lot of Hollywood output is exactly that, the people who write it are in trouble.
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  801. The working class is no longer loyal to either party. Their loyalty is to proven leaders and straight talkers, and in spite of the Democrats' hysteria, Trump is the closest to that ideal.
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  802. "Accidentally"
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  803. The band Gary Lewis and the Playboys received legal paperwork from Playboy magazine, alleging trademark violation. Their manager said, "Don't worry, they don't own a copyright on the English language."
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  804. Williams made their final move into gambling machines after coin-op video games and pinball stopped being profitable.
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  805. Maher still clings to the lunacy that Trump's election endangers democracy.
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  806. Easy to get around this stupid law. Simply move all of the merchandise out, move out the equipment, and keep the store open and the lights on, but with nothing to sell.
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  807. I knew NdGT was a fake after watching his show. Once.
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  808. Oh, come on. I remember how the left reacted to Bush's election. They foamed at the mouth just as much as they did when Trump was elected.
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  809. The only reason Sisson is famous at all is because he spouts lefty nonsense.
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  810. He consulted with ten lawyers? He probably asked them if he could make some kind of wang-doodle defense, and when each of them said "that won't fly" he went to another lawyer.
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  811. It is all about power. Peterson calls into question the excuses that the left uses for grabbing power.
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  812. Adele could have begun her career any time during the last eighty years in the US and she would have fit in every bit as well as she does today.
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  813. Nice spin in the CBS headline, laying it all at the feet of "conservative activists", as if they could not discern any other forces at work.
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  814. When Angus passes on, Gibson should just stop making the SG model. Nobody will ever play it better.
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  815. It was the track that made thousands of people say, "Peter who?"
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  816. The root is that in Democratic epistemology, whether something is good or bad is part of the definition of words. Racism only racism when it's bad, but since the Democrats never do anything bad, they never do anything racist. A recession is bad, but the economy is only ever bad when a Republican is in the White House. And so on.
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  817. The problem with the Democratic Party is that they have always been about getting power. Power is, at its very basis, the ability to make other people's decisions for them. So not only to Democrats feel the urge to occupy the positions of power, they have the same urge to increase the power of government so that they have more power, which they rationalize by claiming that if we are allowed to make these decisions for ourselves, we will choose the "wrong" options. It also leads to people within the party having more control over the direction of the party than the rank and file; hence "superdelegates" in past party conventions, and the candidate for 2024 being hand-picked by party mandarins who clearly felt that the hoi polloi would choose the "wrong" candidate. It's looking more and more like the attitude of these party leaders is an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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  818. I suppose they had a backlog of diverse women and wanted to get their contracts filled as quickly as possible.
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  819. So the environmentalists are useless when we need them: To push for holding all nations to an environmental standard, and not just the west.
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  820. According to Wikipedia, the number that Graham actually cited in the proof was F(F(F(F(F(F(F(12))))))), where F(n) is 2(^n)3. This is a much smaller number than the number described here, which Graham had used in an unpublished work and which was later made known under that name by Martin Gardner.
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  821. Apparently, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down just wasn't enough. Now they're stealing things that are nailed down.
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  822. I'm totally mystified why someone who got where he is by the means he chose would see anything he wants in the Democratic platform or have genuine grounds to be afraid of anything in the Republican platform.
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  823. Looks like Jon saw how much respect Bill Maher was getting for shedding some light on the loony left and decided that he could use some, too.
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  824. It seems like we came to programming in the same way, in my case getting detoured by twenty years as an electronics maintenance tech for the US military. But I started with putzing around in BASIC in 1980, getting into assembler a couple years later, and then into C a few years after that, and working with POV-Ray for the better part of a decade, before completing my degree and finally securing my first paid position.
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  825. The English Rule would have prevented most of this.
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  826. Sure we can control AI. As long as nobody puts AI in control of the power switch.
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  827. He's no longer a Democratic donor and they need to show that the system is honest. (Sad trombone here)
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  828. The SCotUS should have no problem tossing this law. The Constitution does not permit any state to deny anyone equal protection of the laws.
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  829. The easiest way for some Roman soldiers to defeat a tank would be to intercept the tank crew before they were able to get into the tank. Only a fool pits his strength against his opponent's strength, if he can instead pit his strength against his opponent's weakness.
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  830. Trump needs to negotiate an agreement between Russia and Ukraine where all troops on both sides go home, and Ukraine is freed from their nuclear disarmament agreement.
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  831. "I want you to answer yes or no." "And people in hell want snow cones."
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  832. It won't be long before California passes a law allowing you to sue another person for being richer than you are.
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  833. No, the Hollywood Halfwits aren't going to have to jump through the legal hurdles that the hoi polloi face. They (or, should we say, their contractors) will be ushered to that roped-off door behind which special people get special treatment.
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  834. The 'enterprise' version of software is the version that is selected based on the authority of its proponents. Whether it is the most reliable or cost-effective is unimportant.
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  835. In the forty-five years I've been typing, I've found that typing is fastest and errors are fewest when the typing alternates between the two hands. The optimal design will minimize runs of keys typed with the same hand.
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  836. Looking at the demographic crash that is coming, and the storm that will sweep over their real estate market (which is 30% of China's GDP), and you realize that China is soooooooooooooo screwed. I suspect that China will invade Taiwan for no better reason than to boost the CCP's prestige from a successful military operation. The only thing the rest of the world needs to ensure is that China doesn't drag us down with them.
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  837. Paradoxically enough, the solution is not less private ownership, but more. California is an experiment in some people being allowed to own some things, and it's failing.
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  838. With any new theory, look at the underlying assumptions. Drill down far enough and you will find an assumption that does not come from science. In many cases these assumptions make the conclusion reached inevitable.
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  839. Put up a sign in your window that says, "FBI agents wet their beds" and other insulting things. Have plenty of visitors who sell you bags of flour and sugar in your front living room.
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  840. Someone tell that idiot that the reason we're having this conversation about Biden and not about Trump is because Biden is showing signs of cognitive decline and Trump is not.
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  841. You saved your one funny joke for last.
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  842. I cannot say that I am voting for Trump, but I can say that I will be voting against the Democrat, no matter who she/he is.
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  843. Activating the device when the payments are not past due is a violation of the implied agreement of the purchase agreement, i. e., if I make the payments, I can use the car.
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  844. The main contribution of atheism to the field of theology is to prove that atheists are very poor theologians.
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  845. It really should be a law that when the creator of an IP passes from this life, the IP enters into the public domain. That way the IP does not hang on just one studio which can destroy on a political whim.
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  846. I am ashamed to remember that Al Gore is a somewhat distant relative of mine (fourth cousin to my late father).
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  847. "I will die making movies." That's a slight shift from now, where she makes movies that die.
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  848. We can't trust them because they no longer regard honesty as a sine qua non of journalism. They made that choice when they decided to be players in politics. The rot goes back farther than most people reading this have been alive.
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  849. There is a fine line between this recruiting pitch and the pitch you get from those fly-by-night people who lure you to hear their spiel about how you can get easy money, all you had to do was to pay for their training course.
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  850. Desantis has the luxury that the nomination is a fight he does not have to win. He can bow out and let Trump be the nominee. Trump will either lose in the general election, and have even less of a chance of beating Desantis in 2028, or he will win and be term-limited. Desantis can always run again in 2028.
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  851. Any anti-illegal-anything campaign is designed to fail if it does not focus on reducing demand.
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  852. Allowing Snoke to manipulate Luke deprives Luke of his agency. A story where the heroes don't have agency is not a story.
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  853. The thing is, people who can write software generally enjoy it enough that slacking doesn't really appeal to them.
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  854. "My good intentions trump your civil rights."
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  855. The committee has voted to hand a microphone to Trump. Methinks they're going to regret it.
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  856. I'm wondering if the women in these places are making babies (since the stressors in industrialized societies which cause this are not present) or if it's just another trip to the abortion mill.
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  857. The only thing the Democrats have managed to accomplish with their latest round of caterwauling is to confirm that they are liars without shame.
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  858. The difference between an ideologue and an opportunist is that an ideologue believes the world should be run a certain way no matter what the consequences are. Clinton was an opportunist, and Obama probably was. Biden is an idiot who brought a bunch of ideologues with him.
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  859. PETA is the essential leftist organization. They have arrogated to themselves the privilege of putting everything under an ideological microscope with a view to eradicate any belief or practice that does not meet their ideology.
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  860. WWI pride was caused by the stubborn pride of Europe's political leadership.
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  861. It's almost like Hollywood producers don't know anything except shaking down would-be starlets for sexual favors.
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  862. The reason for uncanny valley is there can only be one top priority, and everything else is nice-to-have. Either performance is sacrificed for dev velocity or dev velocity is sacrificed for performance.
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  863. Exactly what do the Bidens think they achieve (or protect) by snubbing the seventh grandchild? It hurts the kid, and doesn't do them any good, so it meets the definition of stupid.
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  864. We simply can't let any half-assed nation kick us around.
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  865. The reason that leftists are not deterred by the effects of their policies is because they believe that these policies should be in place no matter what the consequences are.
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  866. This should be the law for HOAs: No HOA may initiate litigation against a member unless approved by a majority of the HOA membership, with all members who fail to vote being counted and recorded as opposed.
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  867. Somehow I don't think that a whole boatload of liberal voters leaving America is going to obstruct a conservative agenda.
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  868. The attitude of Biden, Harris, and the top level at the Secret Service towards the assassination attempts has been, "We understand the situation, but we don't see what the problem is."
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  869. Reading between the lines: The judge thinks the wife deserves far less than what the law requires, so the judge is giving the ex-husband something the ex-wife doesn't want to hand over.
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  870. The reason Democrats attribute their declining fortunes to poor messaging is because their success has always been built on messaging.
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  871. Plowing long-distance highways directly through urban areas is the biggest mistake of highway design. It causes each such highway to become a commute corridor, which is not their purpose.
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  872. There was a fellow who sent a letter to the Cleveland Browns, threatening a lawsuit over the disruptive behavior of other spectators at a game. The Browns' response: "Dear Mr. ____: Please be advised that somebody is signing your name to stupid letters."
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  873. Even number of divisors = light is off. Odd number of divisors = light is on.
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  874. The biggest mystery is why the most beloved franchises in fantasy and science fiction have been handed over to people who clearly do not understand what made them good. Star Wars, Star Trek, and now Lord of the Rings.
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  875. Get plane tickets to a nation with whom the UK does not have an extradition treaty, and transfer it to an account there.
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  876. The Iranians were overconfident because the last American they had to deal with was Jimmy Carter.
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  877. The 30 percent are the hard-core anti-Republicans.
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  878. Episode X should start with a montage of scenes from the sequel trilogy, culminating with Luke waking up in his bed, shaking his head in disbelief, and leaving the room, which turns out to be his quarters at his Jedi Academy. Kylo (back to his birth name of Ben Solo) is there and has not fallen to the dark side. Rey is there, and she is either Ben's sister or Luke's daughter. The sequel trilogy is just a crazy dream that Luke had one night. Han Solo shows up and they talk about Leia's assassination, which sets the plot in motion. We watch as the gains from the original trilogy are squandered by galactic politicians, with a shadowy manipulator the background. Solo gets assassinated in the film near its conclusion. Luke dies in episode XI, after unmasking Snoke as the manipulator. Then in episode XII, Snoke gets beaten, somehow. It can't be worse. And throughout all three films, people who look like Rian Johnson or JJ Abrams are kicked in the nads for no apparent reason. Repeatedly.
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  879. Who wants to bet that the chemicals in the paint, and the chemicals leaching out of the plastic leaves, will do more ecological damage than they are covering?
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  880. Sometimes the government doing nothing is better than what they would otherwise be doing.
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  881. If the television version of the law is correct, nobody has an excuse for being ignorant.
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  882. An economy is a house of cards to the exact degree that it is a product of top-down economic planning. Economies that are formed bottom-up, with every player either delivering value for value, or fading from existence, are much more stable.
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  883. I'll settle for simply knowing whatever one is talking about.
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  884. Sisu translates quite easily into English: "Balls"
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  885. George Orwell published his own list of rules. The final rule was, "Be ready to break any of these rules in order to avoid saying something barbarous."
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  886. The reason scrum fails is because it bandies about a number (the story point) that is not based on measurement. A number that is not based on measurement is bull****, and nothing about things averaging out changes this. Managers take those story points and treat them as if they were legitimate numbers, and use them for setting deadlines or (heaven help you) as a performance metric.
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  887. I've known several people with doctorates in education. All but two of them are fountains of stupidity. Jill Biden is not either of these two.
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  888. There's also the fact that the original story in the battle of Helm's Deep was written by one of the gods of English literature, whereas the Amazon show was written by lobotomized apes.
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  889. What do you mean that there's going to be an investigation? When you announce your candidacy for mayor or city councilman of any major American city, the FBI opens the investigation. They've learned over the years that it's only a matter of time.
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  890. The percentages that come with these tests present the idea that the places of origin were genetically homogeneous communities of people. With only a few exceptions this is ridiculous.
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  891. I definitely wouldn't want to buy a Saturn, at least not until they start having collector value.
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  892. This would not have happened if hospitals were allowed to refuse to treat people who are not able to pay. It forces them to pass on the costs to whoever agrees to pay for their own treatment. The problem of paying for medical care for the indigent needs to be solved in a planned, systematic way, and not in a "hey you" fashion.
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  893. Require that the first language of the customer service rep be the primary language of the region served.
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  894. California is proof that federalism needs to be kept alive in the United States.
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  895. Are they real? Complex numbers are essential for AC signal analysis. They turn calculus into algebra.
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  896. I have what I call the Optimistic Conjecture: "A practical application will be discovered for every discovery in mathematics."
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  897. The only reason she was in the Democratic Party in the first place was because it was the only way to get elected to anything in Hawaii. But it will all be for nothing if we do not strip the Democratic Party of their stranglehold on our educational establishment.
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  898. Before they release the Win95 source they have to remove the stuff that was copped from the Amiga.
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  899. To answer the question: Only people who are connected to the government have real property rights.
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  900. If you're so proud of being black, why did you try imitating a hair color which naturally exists only in white women?
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  901. Red hair and blue eyes developed in the British Isles because God wanted the British to have the most beautiful women.
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  902. As a juror, I would consider the claim that "nobody was threatened with arrest" not only false (as it objectively was), but defamatory, because it implies that the people who claim otherwise are liars.
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  903. Islam is not a religion. It is a political movement pretending to be a religion.
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  904. Why did you pick the poppiest crap from half of these bands when they have tracks with genuine progressive cred?
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  905. In order to be successful, a tech company must be led by someone who understands both business and tech. The tech side understands the product, and the business side understands the market. And for heaven's sake, don't become publicly traded, because then the people who know these things get shoved aside by people who only understand the next quarterly report.
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  906. I suspect that the Jeffrey Epstein visitor list is being kept away from the public not only because of who's on it, but also because of who's not on it. As things stand, the FBI (or whoever has the list) can "leak" an enemy's name as being on the list, and continue to refuse to allow this fact to be independently verified. This will damage if not ruin the person targeted, and they will never be able to regain what they lost through the false leak. Once the list is publicized, this can no longer be done.
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  907. I never thought the words "Senator Kennedy" would ever stand for something good, until this guy got elected.
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  908. I don't know where it was said first, but the chief cause of false convictions is systematic misconduct by the prosecution.
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  909. Simply program them to do only what they have been told to do.
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  910. One major public policy step that would be very effective, but which would be fought tooth and nail by the vested interests, would be to remove fruit juice from WIC/food stamp eligibility.
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  911. They're only telling the truth because the next election is too far away for what they say today to matter.
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  912. Makes a California surfer dude seem like a Rhodes Scholar by comparison.
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  913. Hey, forty percent is higher than most Congressmen.
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  914. VanSickle's Conjecture is that every discovery in mathematics will eventually have an application outside of mathematics. I'm wondering what Van Eck's sequence will be used for. (Proof of VanSickle's Conjecture is left as an exercise for the student.)
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  915. Poaching workers would involve paying more than absolutely necessary, which is something for which fast food restaurants are not famous.
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  916. Did you meet up with the guy who blogged under the name Azrael? Black guy, about 6 foot five. Came to Japan around 2000 to teach English. His first blog post was titled, "My Students are Perverts".
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  917. TL;DR: Most women have unreasonable expectations, and the best way forward is for them to accept this.
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  918. While the misguidedness of the elected officials is the immediate cause, the antecedent cause is that for state-wide offices in California, and most other offices as well, the Democratic nomination is the real election. And if you follow politics, the nomination depends more on one's ability to manipulate the party machinery than it depends on presenting a compelling case to the electorate. The race goes to the slickest. But the cause of the one-party rule is the electorate, specifically, the voters who care only about ideological issues and vote to preserve the Democratic position on that issue, even if it means voting for a potato head.
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  919. Women named 'Karen' should marry managers. That way they can see the manager anytime the mood strikes them.
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  920. Michelle Obama is probably the only Democrat who could beat Trump or DeSantis, although Tulsi Gabbard would give them a run for their money.
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  921. Modern women got into the problem by embracing self-centered attitudes. They will get out of the problem by rejecting self-centered attitudes.
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  922. Nothing says, "My way of life should die out" like birth control.
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  923. A competent physicist who is not ideologically committed to any particular viewpoint will tell you that as a physicist he has no idea how consciousness works.
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  924. The people of the UK are so dead set on proving that they're smarter than Americans that they reject out-of-hand any policy that looks like an American might support it.
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  925. Not quite a stupid as the young man who was in court for a traffic violation. The judge decides to put him under oath. The defendant had his hands in his pockets at the time. As he took out his hand to take the oath, crack cocaine came out of his pocket and fell to the floor. Even if drugs were legal, I would not use anything that makes you this stupid.
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  926. Kamala Harris could only be the product of artificial intelligence research if that research had consummately failed in its objective.
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  927. When Scooby-Doo stands in for Yoda's voice talent.
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  928. This is why criminal defense at public expense should not be means-tested. An innocent person should not have to pay to stay out of jail.
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  929. Where is the mass from potential energy?
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  930. I was already starting to look for another job when I got laid off. Still looking (it took eight or nine months for the job I had), so I'm not unduly worried.
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  931. The chief thing that Trump needs to do is to ensure that the Democrats don't get any opportunities to turn things around for their party in the next four years.
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  932. Sorry if using words for what they stand for in an appropriate context offends anybody, but if you don't want children, stop fucking.
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  933. It's a research bill. No child depends on the bill for the care they are currently receiving.
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  934. The most conservative/least liberal are the first to leave, so Cali gets bluer from the emigration.
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  935. The court is correct that civil damages are not the proper remedy for police who fail to provide the Miranda warning. The better solution is disciplining the officers involved. A law that I could see California passing would forbid prosecution of any person who does not receive their Miranda warning, unless the officer(s) who failed to provide the warning are punished in a meaningful way.
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  936. How much of China's catching up is due to espionage, and how much of that is abetted by institutions in the West accepting Chinese money to allow Chinese nationals to participate in their research?
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  937. Note that he says, "If we don't dump Biden, we'll lose to Trump," and not, "If we don't dump Biden, we'll have a senile president."
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  938. All the money in the world wouldn't cover the damage done by the CCP.
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  939. Celebrity political endorsements had minimal effect because people who were stupid enough to get their political views from celebrities were already going to vote Democrat.
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  940. The American public school system is the reason most Americans aren't very bright and why the bright ones are libertarians.
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  941. Gutfeld has rivals?
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  942. The precarious nature of China's position becomes clear when you observe that many of these nations are unstable. All it takes is one coup, and suddenly the Chinese are kicked out and the whole loan deal is repudiated by the new government.
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  943. Some of us predicted in November of 2020 that Biden would set a record for being the puppet with the most hands up its backside.
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  944. There are three definitions of fascism: (1) The nationalistic form of socialism. (2) Communism without the facile theorization. (3) (The definition used by socialists) Everything that isn't socialism.
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  945. From what I've scraped from history, it appears that the hearts of the Italian people were never really behind the war, or even behind the idea of being a unified nation under Mussolini.
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  946. It would not help them. It won't gain them any votes that they're not already getting, but will cost them votes that they already receive.
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  947. "...and his wife is a practicing thespian, and has done thespian acts in front of audiences for money!"
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  948. There is so much that is so howlingly wrong in this video. And did anyone consider that the Chinese seem to have no trouble learning Chinese? Ditto for every other language.
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  949. Sounds to me like it costs more to fight an accusation of hiring underage kids than it saves in hiring them.
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  950. Note to self: After winning the Powerball, go to Oregon and build them port.
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  951. This is a reason why the drug laws need to go. It is simply too easy to frame innocent people. Also, there needs to be a three strikes law for prosecutors: If they obtain three guilty verdicts for defendants who are later exonerated, they suffer lifetime disbarrment.
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  952. TL;DR: Most women are in denial of how shallow they are.
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  953. What power imbalance? An employee can quit at any time without jumping through hoops.
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  954. Sarah Palin once issued a public statement asking her critics to "stop making things up." I'm reminded of that every time I hear a Democrat talk about Trump.
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  955. In most of Michigan the LEO you're most likely to encounter is the game warden.
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  956. His poll numbers are highest among the most ignorant segment of our population.
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  957. Fun fact: The recommended tip amounts that your bill will oh-so-conveniently have (for tips of 15%, 18%, and 20%) can at times have higher amounts than the percentage stipulated.
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  958. "Bipartisan" generally means that the party that actually stands for what's right on an issue compromises that stance away in exchange for promises that are not kept.
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  959. Whoever did it is banking on the liberal news media to do CPR on his/her career.
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  960. This also means that police no longer have qualified immunity when arresting somebody for their political speech. The Supremes have ruled that it is a violation of the arrestee's civil rights.
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  961. My heart forebodes that the red wave coming in November will not bring the results we want. First, the non-Fox news media will throw everything they can at the Republicans, and lie without shame about what the Republicans are doing, all with the intention to make Americans forget how bad things were before the election. Second, Republicans are utterly spineless when dealing with the non-Fox media; they should immediately pass a law that prohibits social media companies from censoring official releases from Congress, and then use social media to reach the people.
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  962. All I ask is that the left deal with the Trump win with the same level of emotional control that they demanded of us when Trump lost.
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  963. I'd be curious to know if the contract was written with an immediate termination in mind.
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  964. A better title would have been, "The Drummers from Ten Really Popular Bands".
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  965. The other reason that studio execs want to rehash old, successful ideas is because they want writers whom they can treat as disposable objects. Writers who create stories that are both fresh and good tilt the balance of power in their favor.
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  966. Shoot the messenger, and you'll find yourself surrounded by liars.
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  967. Unrealized capital gains are not income, they are allegations of income.
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  968. The Democrats who are doing this are simply not thinking. Taking Trump off of the ballot in blue states can only help him, by galvanizing the Republican turn-out in those states. Even if the decision to remove Trump stands, a high enough Republican turn-out wins the state for DeSantis. Also, the high Republican turn-out wipes out every Democrat in a purple district, so the Republican lock on the House, and the state legislatures, gets stronger. And if the electoral votes going to DeSantis prevent Biden from securing the majority, the House of Representatives, which will be firmly in Republican hands, will award the presidency to Trump.
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  969. Why are the French so proud of the Mona Lisa when it wasn't made by a Frenchman?
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  970. Much of discussion illustrates the annoyance that experts in a field experience when arguing with people whose "knowledge" of that topic comes from watching television or having conversations in bars.
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  971. You notice that when they first show the Newton's cradle in action (@:55) the momentum is not perfectly transferred to the final ball. The balls are slightly out of alignment. That probably affected the results.
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  972. All approval pools need to be handicapped by at least ten points, depending on the party of the official in question. Thanks to extreme press bias, a Republican polls ten points lower than where he or she would be with a news media that was balanced, and Democrats poll ten points better.
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  973. And then in later centuries comes alternative circuit theory, where the complex numbers allow us to replace calculus with algebra and make engineers' lives much, much easier.
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  974. It's easy to explain how California teamed up with Texas: After the EBT system was brought down, the blue areas were destroyed in rioting, causing California to flip.
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  975. We now get to see whether the willingness of the Chinese people to endure the coming suppression will wear out the CCP's ability to impose it.
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  976. These calculations are a bit off. If two people are entirely unrelated, it doesn't matter how inbred either of them are; their children are not inbred at all. The only important consideration is how much common ancestry the parents have.
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  977. The American Left has simply been coddled too much. The entire movement regards itself as above the law.
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  978. My experience appears to be the opposite of what other commenters here have experienced. They started me at $10K higher than what I asked. I stayed with them for ten years.
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  979. The rot goes back decades. We now know that Walter Cronkite, who was one of the most trusted voices in television news, misled his audience on certain particulars of the Vietnam War.
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  980. Complex numbers have great practical use in the analysis of AC circuits. They turn calculus into algebra.
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  981. Every other official of our government already has immunity for acts that are within their authority.
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  982. Satisfying the Left is a goalpost with wheels on it. They want power, always, and no reason for denying it is ever acceptable.
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  983. How many student loans could have been paid off with the money spent protesting this?
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  984. If Trump makes his tariff increases offsetting (as in, they apply only to imports of products that enjoy government support in their source nation), then they would actually make much more sense.
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  985. At the beginning it shows all of the Nurglite forces, and then a GUO asks, "Where are Khorne's troops?" Then a messenger comes and says, "They heard there some Slaaneshi off that way and decided to go fight them, instead."
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  986. The idea of humans constructing such an AI is already sheerest fantasy. The proposition that such a being would decide to torment us is based on the argument from ignorance, a fallacy in which something is assumed to be true because the evidence against it is lacking. This "dilemma" will only bother people who are trying to avoid dealing with the real problems in their lives.
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  987. There is also a Sixth Amendment issue at stake. All defendants have the right to a fair and speedy trial, and that has to include the right to gather evidence for any such trial or potential trial. If I can record a police encounter, I can defend myself against a large category of false charges.
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  988. The key benefit of mycelium replacing petrochemicals is the political fallout of reducing our dependency on the latter. With any resource of limited quantity that can be found only in specific locations, the race goes not to whoever is most efficient at producing resources, but to those who are most efficient at seizing them.
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  989. Aside from the forced ignorance, property rights are basically toast. If you are not connected to the people in power you can be robbed with impunity. That state of affairs guarantees chronic poverty.
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  990. We used to joke about this with our own announcement text: "If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been told to put your head between your legs and kiss your butt good-bye."
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  991. We've seen that when AMD falls too far behind, Intel gets fat, dumb, and happy and doesn't make much effort to advance its CPU line. For this reason I always buy AMD to help ensure that Intel cannot rest on its laurels.
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  992. Just remember that what the law says means nothing at all if the judge who decides the legal challenges is a Democrat. If the law favors the Democrats it will be enforced, and if it does not favor the Democrats it will be ignored.
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  993. If you're afraid to get your hands dirty, this was not the era for you.
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  994. The people about whom Newsom truly cares would constitute the world's shortest book.
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  995. Under Michigan law, the general rule is that a body of water is private property only if all land that adjoins that body of water is privately-owned. If the government owns even one inch of the shoreline, the entire body of water is public property.
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  996. The paradigms are simply ways of organizing the processing that needs to be done. None of them are substitutes for discipline. None of them are substitutes for proper code documentation.
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  997. When I get my army of robots, guys like the tax assessor are going to wake up in unfamiliar locations.
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  998. Technically, gaslighting is a systematic for of deception which is aimed at making the victim doubt his faculties.
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  999. 1) You can make jokes about men getting raped or depict a man getting slapped by a woman and it's treated as acceptable humor. Men are the primary victims of sexism in our culture, and the only reason anyone opposes doing anything about it is because fixing the exact opposite idea in our heads has been the ticket to power and attention for many people.
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  1000. Every language has some aspect of it which is simply crazy.
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  1001. The solution to cyberwarfare is to simply apply the same rules of information security to computer assets as we applied to information prior to the advent of the Internet. The principle of need-to-know is the 800 pound gorilla of information security; if you don't need to know something, you are not granted access. It doesn't matter how "important" you are. We can apply the same principle to automated systems. If an automated system does not need to be accessed by every Tom, Dick, and Harriet on planet earth, there is no need to connect it to the Internet at all. This will inconvenience some people. They need to suck it up.
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  1002. If a Republican ever gets elected in Chicago, the voters will turn over in their graves!
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  1003. The strategy behind the segment? Support Democrats at all cost.
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  1004. It's because people of both sexes become more self-indulgent.
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  1005. Clinton was not as strong as Trump. When the press wasn't 100% behind him, he became as whiny as AOC. Trump's had every non-Fox news network against him for the entire time he's been a Republican and he's still swinging like a man.
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  1006. A German officer did record in his diary that they encountered a partisan guerilla who said flat-out that if the Germans had come to remove Stalin from power, the people would have sided with them. As it was, the Germans began applying their racial policies as soon as they moved into an area, which guaranteed that whoever had the means to resist would try.
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  1007. You way overrated the stability and confidence. It's a command economy run by a oligarchy, 3 out of 10, tops.
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  1008. Sorry, but palladium is never going to be a viable substance involved in any power-generation method. There simply isn't that much of it.
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  1009. The important stat is which degree programs have a high rate of graduates working a job that requires that degree?
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  1010. Trump needs to Trump twice as hard.
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  1011. The key reason the ruling was right was because the amount owed was not expressly spelled out in the written agreement. There is nothing stopping the hospital from doing this.
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  1012. As Fetterman recovers from he stroke he becomes less Democratic.
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  1013. When Google said, "Don't be evil," they really meant, "Don't be Republican."
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  1014. A '68 'Vette for $3500? How much of a wreck was it?
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  1015. The message being sent by the self-appointed leaders of the trans movement is, "No matter who you are, no matter how hard you try, we will take what you have earned and give it to somebody else, merely because it suits us to do so." This dove-tails with the entire Democratic party platform perfectly.
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  1016. The key is to never let a law be based on a scientific theory. That way the crazies can say whatever they want and it will not affect the rest of us.
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  1017. There are either an infinity of Lychrel numbers, or there are none at all, for each Lychrel number, when reversed and added, must yield another Lychrel number, or else it's not a Lychrel number.
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  1018. Except for Japan, China's territorial disputes stem from the pride of China's rulers.
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  1019. Well, most law-abiding in North America.
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  1020. This is like Mark Twain's essay, "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper". The balderdash is so uproariously funny.
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  1021. I went to a job interview yesterday and everybody working on software had seen something like this.
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  1022. I've come to the conclusion that the chief contribution of atheists to the field of theology is their demonstration that atheists make very poor theologians.
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  1023. And there are engineers there who can take one look at the fires and instantly tell by the color whether there is something wrong.
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  1024. When the Libertarians depart from the libertarian position on an issue, it is always a shift to the Democratic position on that issue. That should be enough to tell you that the Libertarian Party primarily siphons votes from the Republicans.
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  1025. It's much harder being a woman in the human world. Sure, men suffer the highest rates of depression, suicide, homicide, on-the-job fatalities, and combat deaths, but it's really the women who suffer the most.
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  1026. For the next one you can show that the series 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + ... +1/p + ... also diverges.
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  1027. The problem is the fools who agree to buy things as a result of unsolicited sales calls. If it weren't for them the robocall problem would go away.
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  1028. The other prediction: If Trump wins the popular vote, the Nation Popular Vote Interstate Compact will go poof!
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  1029. What's not been said too much is that Desantis only has to do a good job as governor for the rest of his time as Florida governor--his term ends in 2026 and he has to take at least one term off before being re-elected--and in 2028 he will have the front row seat for the Republican nomination. Trump will not run in 2028; if he wins he can't run again, and if he loses he will have no chance of being renominated. This is not the end of Desantis' political career.
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  1030. Zoning laws are a human rights violation. The libertarian party has been saying this for decades. The Democrats would agree if they cared about anything but power.
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  1031. Reminds me of the exchange when JJ (WRIF morning guy) was looking at Dick the Bruiser's tax paperwork: "Where are your W-4's?" "I threw them out! They went country!"
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  1032. The stupid part is that two different agencies had the authority to dispose of the house.
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  1033. We are never going to wean the American public off of the automobile unless and until we make public transport work for all of their needs. If the typical American needs a car at any point during the week, the marginal cost of using it for everything else ranges from ten to fifteen cents per mile, a figure that public transport can only meet in high-usage areas like New York City. This is because land-use policies in the US are based on the wishes of preserving property values for an influential minority than on government legitimate functions. Any zoning regulation that does not have a bona fide health and safety rationale should be abolished. Then and only then can we get people housing that is cheap, affordable, and close to work and shopping, and only when that is accomplished can we wean people off of their cars.
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  1034. The people who walk their dogs over canon are to art what socialists are to factories. They can't create, they cannot build, but they can seize.
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  1035. The reason we are still debating this is because the "right" side was caught fabricating data.
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  1036. The root of the issue: China's incessant fiddling with the economy--always for the benefit of the well-connected--is turning the mainland economy into a house of cards. They didn't learn from any of our crises--all caused by the government fiddling with the economy in some way--and now they will reap the penalties.
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  1037. In your description you stated that the officers responding were shouting multiple conflicting orders to the people inside. That is a clear failure of the law enforcement agency in charge to ensure that responses to situations like this are well-organized with a view to minimizing fatal errors. The suit against the city should have been allowed.
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  1038. What we're going to see is a spate of bean-counting managers try to replace developers with AI, and getting some things done but other things done in a half-assed way, and eventually hiring a real live human to do what the AI can't.
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  1039. @1:07 the crowd that gets its therapy from Dr. Katzenwein.
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  1040. They didn't take serious action until she went after someone with a weapon. Her disruption of peaceful speech wasn't bad enough for them.
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  1041. The English have a military advantage because war is chaos, and as an English-speaking nation they practice chaos on a daily basis.
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  1042. I don't blame a previously-not-well-known actor jumping at the chance to be part of a long-standing franchise, but I do blame them when they get petulant over rejection.
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  1043. The new Hollywood writers are confusing strength with power.
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  1044.  @aoeu256  I think that if we began to measure prosperity by per capita consumer goods consumption, we would quicky find that China has not grown nearly as much as we've been led to believe.
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  1045. You know how Texans feel about Texas? That's a faint shadow of how Ukrainians feel about their nation. The exceptions are ethnic Russians who live there.
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  1046. The greatest sin of this movie is something you mentioned: The premise of a criminal adopting a new identity and trying to make up for his past is a good concept that could have made a good film. But the good premise was squandered by inept handling and political messaging.
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  1047. They didn't drop the ball, they spiked it on the fifty-yard line.
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  1048. It's helpful to remember that employers don't hire people for the hell of it, and so they don't fire people for the hell of it, either. You were hired because you were needed. As long as you're needed, and don't make life difficult, you chances of being fired are not worth worrying about.
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  1049. You do have a condition that makes the patient say a phrase twice for no apparent reason.
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  1050. The women are a 50-50 split between doormats and hyper-entitled.
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  1051. Sound economics is not complicated. It consists of a handful of laws. Bad economics is complicated, because of all the twists and turns that bad economists use in their failed efforts to get around these laws.
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  1052. It doesn't matter if the merger of two game companies creates a monopoly. We can all just go outside and play.
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  1053. You lost me when you maundered on about how vulnerable women are in the context of abortion, blanking out the fact that the unborn are far and away more vulnerable.
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  1054. I want to know if Microsoft is reviewing their QA procedures to find out how this bug made it to release.
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  1055. The Left: "Sexual orientation is fixed at birth." Also the Left: "Gender is caused by socialization."
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  1056. Feminists want equality everywhere except in those exact instances where Western women already have it better.
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  1057. You don't even go out on a date until you have learned how the other person handles money, criticism, and not getting their way. And never fuck anything you haven't married; your life may be less fun, but you avoid soooooo much trouble by sticking to this rule.
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  1058. It's really simple: Don't put AI in direct control of anything important, like launching missiles or operating motor vehicles.
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  1059. Blitz would have been saved by the English rule.
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  1060. After R. Lee Ermey so perfectly filled that role, it should be illegal to cast anyone as a drill sergeant unless he/she was a drill sergeant in real life.
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  1061. This is not a surprising result to anyone who follows courts. If there are procedural grounds on which to rule--which was 100% the case here--the court's opinion practically writes itself.
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  1062. That's my home county!
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  1063. The other possibility for the origin of our language families is that the story of the Tower of Babel is fact and not folklore. Society completely broke down, humanity grouped according to family and perhaps clan; the inability to communicate with outsiders destroyed all hope of trusting them, let alone intermarrying with them, leading to the advent of races; each group developed its own language by creolizing all of the radically-different idiolects spoken by its members.
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  1064. Meanwhile, Pixar has (or, at least, had) animators who could put realism into the physics. When Mr. Incredible lifts the huge block of stone he has to carefully balance the load to keep himself steady. The block looks like it weighs tons. As Brad Bird stated, this is not something CGI does out of the box.
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  1065. "We want you to pay for it." "Yeah, and the rich man wanted Lazarus to bring him a drink of water."
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  1066. The people in jail without bail on this charge will simply have another charge thrown at them. We can't have LEOs admitting they were wrong.
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  1067. Don't worry about spoiling any movie. You can't spoil a good movie, because a good movie doesn't depend on the surprises in it to be enjoyable.
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  1068. Thirty years ago (and longer) W. Edwards Deming was telling everybody who would listen that not only do you need to understand your users' requirements, you need to understand why they require them.
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  1069. The fitting punishment for climate crazies is to ban them from the use of any vehicle making use of fossil fuels at any stage of power production, to include the power plant from which electric vehicles are charged.
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  1070. Most software development managers could vastly improve their success if they would follow two clear principles: (1) Prioritize bug fixes over new features, and (2) never make a promise about new features.
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  1071. Just a reminder that Brave and DuckDuckGo don't have these problems.
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  1072. When I left California in in 1992, the state government was already a fountain of stupid. The laws passed by the legislators are pushing the smart voters out of the state, making a turn-around in the governing philosophy less and less likely to happen.
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  1073. The other thing about ATC controllers: Retirement is mandatory at the age of 56. So they need some extra cash to prepare for retirement (or, at least, the time spent looking for work until they retire).
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  1074. Our culture really needs to jettison the idea that virginity is a disease.
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  1075. "Where's the proof?" There is no proof. The NAACP leadership knows that it can lie without shame and nobody who supports them (and nobody they support) will question them.
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  1076. There's also the fact that pro-life people have more children than pro-choice people, which means that in 18 years the relative numbers will tilt towards the pro-life side.
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  1077. A conspiracy requires people you can trust, and nobody could trust anybody near enough to Stalin to be useful in a conspiracy.
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  1078. The US Navy probably presented the problem in its academy because the goat is the mascot of the US Naval Academy.
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  1079. Your argument rests on the premise that our consciousness is entirely a product of our physical makeup. This premise is unproven.
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  1080. A person only needs to know, off the top of his head, things that are used at least monthly. For everything else, there's Stack Exchange.
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  1081. The CCP can afford to pay its soldiers very cheaply. That accounts for a good bit of the difference.
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  1082. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
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  1083. It would be very difficult to fit even one percent of Germany's culture into an EPCOT pavilion. When I was stationed there we were told that you can live in Germany for two hundred years and not see everything there is to see.
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  1084. The reason that gays and lesbians want to deny the existence or reality of bisexuality is because it means that there is someone whose sexuality involves some kind of choice, and that is anathema to the gay rights movement.
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  1085. Let's just add in that opinion polls for the sitting president need to take press bias into account. If Biden were being attacked in the mainstream press the same way that Trump was attacked, his poll numbers would be in single digits.
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  1086. Tell your fund manager to GTFO of China, tell your procurement department to find other sources for parts and materials, and tell your government to roll back regulations so that domestic suppliers can take up the slack from China's decline.
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  1087. I'm impressed at how he can speak at length without verbal stumbling.
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  1088. One of the most consistent rules of American electoral politics is that straight talk gives you a leg up. It's not a silver bullet, but it helps very much.
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  1089. I suspect that the judges had already fired any court personnel who called them on their insanity, and inflicted it only on juveniles without legal representation.
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  1090. "Write in C, write in C..."
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  1091. I hate software frameworks that are great for slapping together a prototype, but for which customizations take more work than coding directly in the base technology. I hate management that refuses to allot time for refactoring or code documentation.
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  1092. This is why there should be no means test for public defender services, and the public defender's office should be funded as well as the district attorney's office.
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  1093. I see that you've taken your first step towards emulating Winston's style of dress. Now you only need a collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket that fits your arms.
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  1094. I don't mind a comparison between Jesus and AOC, as long as AOC takes a distant second on any measure of worth.
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  1095. The most important thing that must exist to prevent a commodity-based economy from turning into a kleptocracy is the rule of law. Norway and Texas had the rule of law when oil was discovered. Neither Saudi Arabia nor Russia had them, and Venezuela's rule of law was weak and crumbled.
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  1096. The other difference is that Tolkien firmly believed that man has a spiritual component to his character, and that this is why things like courage and especially honor are important. Modern Hollywood, because of the choices that Hollywood's leaders have made for their lives, firmly believes that man is just a clever animal. There is no honor among animals, just the false notion of honor that makes people claw their way up the social order.
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  1097. Any economist to the left of Karl Marx can tell you what will happen when automation replaces a worker: First, the cost of that task drops, which benefits every but that worker, to a greater or lesser degree. Second, that worker is now free to perform other tasks. He requires only training. There are still to many tasks that require a human being for AI to be a problem. Eventually we may get to the point where we have to re-evaluate this, and adopt a policy that AI is allowed only for tasks that involve significant health and safety issuers for a human performer, and for tasks where the AI consistently outperforms humans, and for which good performance is a safety issue. For instance, if AI gets to the point that it can operate and maintain a nuclear power plant more safely than a human, AI should be given the task, with a human monitor to ensure that it doesn't go off the rails.
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  1098. JK Rowling has more balls than any trans person.
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  1099. It can't be any harder than trying to understand the German spoken by American servicemen stationed in Germany.
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  1100. That guy who thinks that the whole rest of the world is cool with LGBT advancement lives in a bubble.
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  1101. Did the observed numbers match your model?
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  1102. If the administration could categorically say that the cocaine was not brought in by or on behalf of any Biden family member, there would be no reason to refrain from saying so. They could even lie about it and the left half of the news media would print it as incontrovertible truth.
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  1103. You can see that just like the Communist Party of the USSR, the Communist Party of mainland China, and the Nazi Party, Democrats are conflating the good of their party with the good of the nation.
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  1104. Star Trek: The Acolyte
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  1105. The real crisis that a thirty-six-year-old Kirk should be facing is the growing question, "Is this it?" With every step up the ladder of success, he finds that the success isn't as fulfilling as he hoped it would be. This mostly strikes people who are at the pinnacle from which there is no further potential to rise.
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  1106. Well, one time the Nobel Prize for Peace went to a guy who had not done anything except get elected.
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  1107. When you were talking about how bland Pixar has become, you were showing clips from the John Lasseter era, when their stories were still good.
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  1108. Given that whatever Trump did with Stormy Daniels was not a crime (or else they would be charging him with that), paying her to not talk about it cannot be a crime.
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  1109. About the only rationale for this is the public policy that if you don't have the time to pay attention to what happens on your property, to the point that somebody can squat on it for years, you have no business owning it. However, this runs afoul of the takings clause of the US Constitution (or, it did until the execrable Kelo decision).
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  1110. I'm an American and I've never been confused by any of the Anglicisms described here.
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  1111. The worst SCOTUS decision that is still in effect is the Wickard decision. That unleashed the monster.
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  1112. Is it even good MST3K fodder?
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  1113. We can call the high population density and the liberal viewpoint a case of double-density.
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  1114. The reason we don't trust them: They told us that voting for Biden was a good idea.
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  1115. The mortal enemy of software developers is the guy in marketing who sells features that don't exist yet. My previous employer (whom I left only because pay was not competitive) rarely set deadlines for development, and this freed us to do everything right the first time. Each developer had a list of projects, of varying priorities. If the high-priority projects were blocked, they has lower-priority projects on which to work. There was no feature branching.
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  1116. The only thing worse than UBI is a means-tested benefit program. It has all of the problems of UBI, but is guaranteed by design to ensure that the recipients do not better themselves.
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  1117. Must have been a really slow time for the police in that town if they remember that this guy on social media was a guy they saw at a house a while back.
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  1118. Imagine living downstream from a dam in China.
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  1119. If you've read a {expletive deleted} history book you don't need this video.
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  1120. To live by yourself can be done on $3000 take-home per month, if you have even half of a thrifty bone in your body. You get a cheap apartment within walking distance of work and the grocery story.
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  1121. Why are behaving as if you believe that you have free will?
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  1122. That dreadnought reminds me of the fearlessness of a toddler roaming around grandma's house. And he looks like he's having just as much fun.
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  1123. Caroll O'Connor being well to the left of the right-wing caricature that he portrayed is understandable. That Rob Reiner is well to the left of the hippie he portrayed is a feat beyond words.
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  1124. The public perception that lefties who commit violence get the kid glove treatment probably led them to think that they would be let go with minimal punishment.
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  1125. How did the Chinese companies get the listing exemptions? I bet that an audit of SEC officials' finances would answer the question.
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  1126. The starting analysis of a strong economy vs. a weak economy makes on error that explains it all: Just because an economy is strong and growing doesn't mean the voters will vote for long-term sensible plans. There is an element in every modern society that wants the government to give them some people's money, and there are always politicians who don't give a tinker's cuss for the long-term good of the nation, but who will promise massive rafts of public assistance if elected.
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  1127. The reason that it is banned in Islam is because it is banned in Judaism; that's were Muhammed got the idea.
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  1128. It's time for a new SF franchise, created and produced on the Internet. One team writes. If it's live action, one team films against a green screen while another team builds digital sets and composites the video. If it's CGI, one team does voice work while another models and animates. Another team adds music and mixes the sound. Distribution is via YouTube, Vimeo, Rumble, or anyone else who will support monetization. Start with short stories in a shared universe, move on to serialized dramas, and then finally produce feature-length work.
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  1129. So who was the mastermind who decided that it wasn't necessary for multiple cards on the same account to have distinct chips?
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  1130. They probably intended to use the files for blackmail. Otherwise they'd have started shredding documents on the day after the election was called for Trump.
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  1131. That anti-stabbing drill was the most ridiculous thing in the world. He was very clearly not trying to get past the "guards". All propaganda to convince the kids that the government cares.
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  1132. It's the same story, over and over and over. Every time the government dickers with the economy, in an attempt to achieve a specific result, the immediate goal might be met, but it always brings about forces that undo the gains. The key to the strength of the consistently strong world economies is their tendency to avoid this habit.
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  1133. It's not tricky. Elites want to be on the top of society. Leftists want to be on the top of society.
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  1134. It's simple hot the Left lost its mind. They concluded that what non-Leftists call "common sense" was getting in the way of their power.
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  1135. When a comedian attacks only one side of the political aisle, he does not become 50% less funny. He becomes 100% less funny.
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  1136. Do not underestimate the full-court press we will get when Biden is replaced.
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  1137. It may have been Alex posting the sign.
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  1138. Tyson tells people what the establishment wants them to hear. His show is one part stuff you know if you paid attention in school, one part fashionable theories about scientific matters, and one part propaganda against any world-view that might question the government's moral authority.
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  1139. The thing is, we have a photo from before The Force Awakens, which shows KK and a bunch of other non-males wearing t-shirts that say, "The Force is Female." It foretold that good storytelling was going to take a back seat to promoting an agenda. It wasn't fan pressure that made Rey a Mary Sue; that was entirely on Disney. It wasn't fan pressure that made Rian Johnson treat the franchise the way Beavis and Butthead would have treated a class assignment; that was entirely on him.
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  1140. Tyson's show is one third stuff you learned in science class if you paid attention, one third the current fashions in cosmology, and one third straw men attacks against traditional ideas.
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  1141.  @Dale-e2u  Thanks to YouTube, Vimeo, and Rumble, you don't have to go to the movies. The moves can come to you.
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  1142. "Do you know what Italy is?" Politically, it's howling chaos.
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  1143. Both sides AI could use a bit of smartening-up. The ranged units should be concentrating their fire on enemy air and ranged units.
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  1144. The word "instinct" has no place in discussions of human behavior, except to deny that humans have instincts to any significant degree.
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  1145. A cold? Those of use who remember out Cold War history knows how to take that claim.
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  1146. Please drop the objections to HFCS being worse than regular sugar. When sugar reaches your small intestine, an enzyme called sucrase splits that sucrose into glucose and fructose, which is chemically identical to HFCS. Sugar and HFCS are the same chemical; only one is much cheaper, so much so that not only has it replaced sugar in most commercial recipes, it has been added to foods that previously did not have sugar.
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  1147. Many American servicemen spend two or three years in other countries during their time. You will hear very, very few of them talk about America the way that American college professors do.
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  1148. The left never fails to exhibit the attitudes they attribute to the right.
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  1149. What tax cut will move the needle on growth? Any tax cut will do that.
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  1150. As a software developer I can't see YouTube having any trouble enforcing their ad policies. The length of each ad is known. When the user requests a video, the ad is sent to the client machine, and then transmission of the the video waits until the time taken to watch the ad has passed. The end user either watches the ad or waits doing nothing for an equal span of time.
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  1151. Proving Mark Twain right about school boards...
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  1152. 3 more government policy fixes: Your marginal tax rate goes down for each child you have, your pension is based on the number of descendants you have, and no public assistance for able-bodied people.
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  1153. So Hunter was unfairly targeted... by prosecutors who report to Biden. So this confirms that he presides over a criminal justice department that targets innocent people.
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  1154. This does not bode well for the Red Flag laws.
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  1155. "...in light of new law." We all know the effect light has on roaches.
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  1156. Conservatives oppose big government because it's wasteful and oppressive. Show us a big government that is neither and you won't find us so reluctant to support it.
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  1157. The reason that socialists are deaf to the evidence of socialism's unbroken track record of failure is because they are only interested in improving people's lives if it helps them gain power. Socialists want the world to be run according to socialist principles, regardless of the effect. They do not look on the loss of individual freedom as a necessary but painful means of accomplishing their goals; rather, they look on the loss of individual freedom as the goal.
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  1158. There is a more radical form of this game where you take anu number, and express it as a sum of powers of two, and then express each exponent in that sum as a sum of powers of two, and so on, until no number greater than two is found in the entire express. Then for each step, subtract one from the expression, and increase each remaining two to three. Subtract one from this expression, and replace every remaining three with four. Continue with the process of subtracting one, and then replacing each remaining n with n+1. The number will soon grow beyond calculability, even with low starting values, but it is easily proven that the game will eventually end.
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  1159. The judge lied, because if a person was dense enough to believe that there was no conflict of interest, that person's head would form a black hole and consume the earth.
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  1160. I actually like the giant sculptures more than the billboards.
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  1161. I suspect part of their thinking is that the person doing the abduction is a policeman in plain clothes, and to interfere means that you disappear. Of course in Texas--where I live--the reaction of bystanders is going to be loud and possibly fatal.
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  1162. The communists among us see this and say, "fascism," while the fascists among us see this and say, "communism". The rest of us either see that Bukele is getting too authoritative or they admire the fact that he is getting stuff done.
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  1163. "Unwavering devotion to the party in charge," except when Republicans are in charge.
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  1164. If HAL could carry out the mission without humans, why were humans sent on the mission?
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  1165. In a meeting I mentioned having begun to code a change for a project. My supervisor said that I should have completed the design before starting to code. My response was, "But that's how I find out whether my design is any good." Managers who plan in the waterfall paradigm are also notoriously resistant to refactoring code. In the waterfall paradigm, the entire application must be rewritten and tested before any of the modified code can be deployed, and so this creates the illusion of a massive undertaking with enormous costs. And when they can be persuaded to approve the rewrite, or are ordered to do so from above, they insist on making it a big project, handled by a separate team, which is forever playing catch-up with the team that is making improvements to the application. And waterfall makes maintenance development more difficult and expensive, because a bad design decision can never be fixed, because, again, nothing can move forward until everything is ready to move forward. So developers struggle for years with an application with major design flaws, because fixing the bad design is always deemed too risky.
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  1166. The video hits a key point, but does gloss over a deeper point. If a process costs more than it delivers in profit, it is because it consumes more resources than it saves. Recycling a commodity is good for the environment only when the process is efficient enough to enable a real profit. About half of the copper goods we produce are made from recycled copper, and copper recyclers will pay good money for your copper. The same goes for aluminum and steel. I'm hoping for thermal depolymerization to become efficient enough to become viable; then we can turn all of that plastic into the feedstock for the petroleum industry.
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  1167. Inexplicable stupidity is the very worst plot device of all.
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  1168. Every nation that entered the Belt and Road Initiative can ditch the whole agreement the moment the head of state changes. All it takes is "proof" that the agreement was produced by bribery, and the new government can repudiate the agreement, exercise eminent domain over whatever the Chinese funded, and expel all Chinese citizens from the country.
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  1169. The victim hierarchy is very simple: The newest fringe group that the Democrats have chosen to cultivate is at the apex. Beneath them is the next-most-recent fringe group, followed in turn by the prior history of fringe groups that were in turn manipulated for political support. Exceptions are made for anybody who opposes the Democratic platform in word or deed.
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  1170. I am about to listen to this for the first time, and because it's Nigel Farage I'm expecting it to be good.
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  1171. Most years it's the nominee who seems to be having the most fun.
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  1172. They always fall back on their messaging, because the Democratic party is built on propaganda.
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  1173. "We" aren't losing, Bill.
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  1174. So as a guy in my early twenties I should be manning the barricades to ensure that my mom has access to abortion? Uh, you haven't thought this through, have you?
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  1175. It is the essence of modern liberalism to be wrong on every major moral issue. It's not because they're stupid. If they were stupid they would be right, every now and again, sheerly by accident.
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  1176. It was a bit comical watching all of these guys whack each other.
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  1177. The OT restrictions on pork seem to be aimed at getting the Israelites to thinking about spiritual matters.
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  1178. Whole numbers, natural numbers (the whole numbers, and zero), integers, rational numbers, quadratic numbers, constructable numbers, algebraic numbers, computable numbers, and then the reals.
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  1179. If you're so upset about a middle-class worker paying a higher tax rate than a multi-billionaire, why don't you cut the taxes on the middle-class worker?
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  1180. Making peaceful revolution impossible makes violent revolution inevitable.
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  1181. Democrats attitude towards their policies is that they are going to implement them, no matter what, and any resulting problems will be handled with a government program. When they're not caving in to the left, Republicans implement policies whose after-effects don't require a government program.
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  1182. The reason people are interested in a three-element vector that can be multiplied is likely so that a three-dimensional analogue of the Mandelbrot set can be generated.
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  1183. Think of your head as a club, with all of the ideas in your head as the members of that club. The club has a rule that no new member is accepted if any of the current members objects, but if there is no objection, then the new member is welcomed into the club and is allowed to make himself at home. Highly intelligent people are no less prone to this than low-IQ people.
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  1184. There is a certain element that craves control over other people. They want the power to put everything you under an ideological microscope and to go after you when you don't measure up. It is utterly foolish to hope that they will ever be satisfied.
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  1185. The moment a story makes use of mind control, the story is over. What happens after that is simply a series of meaningless events.
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  1186. Michigan and Ohio are on this list entirely because of the Michigan-Ohio rivalry.
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  1187. To the degree that it has occurred, women are more radicalized towards the left because the ideology of the left always opposes personal responsibility, and our culture encourages women to jettison that very thing.
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  1188. Is there a way of solving this that doesn't involve giving Marxists the treatment they intend to dish out to the rest of us?
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  1189. If you want to know one thing about Adolph Hitler, know that he rejoiced at the outbreak of WWI.
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  1190. So for password hash checks, have a pass/fail flag, and a dummy flag, and set them both to true. Loop through the entire hash, checking it against the has of whatever was entered. For each match, clear the dummy, and for any mismatch clear the pass/fail flag. Code these two paths so that they take the exact same amount of time. Always check the entire hash, even if the first character of the hash fails the check. Return the pass/fail flag. The result is that password checks always take the same amount of time, no matter how closely or badly the password matches.
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  1191. Let's not forget that taxes and government spending and government regulation have been slowly growing for the entire time that this video discusses. More for the government means less for us.
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  1192. Nothing is ever as good, ever as cheap, or ever as good as you are initially led to believe.
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  1193. The video title is misleading. The police cannot legally force a confession anywhere in the English-speaking world. What they can do is trick people into it. Frankly it should be a crime to knowingly cause a wrongful conviction.
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  1194. Maher feels about his party's establishment the same way I feel about the Republicans.
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  1195. Cute, but no, you cannot simply appropriate company property to satisfy a debt without going through the legal process.
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  1196. Special pleading by any party to a case should be treated as contempt of court.
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  1197. If there's a correlation between the number of people denied returns, and the racial make-up of the local community, you've just earned yourself a racial discrimination suit under the principle of disparate impact.
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  1198. If the history of China after WWII does not make you want to burn every scrap of paper with Marxist rhetoric on it, your moral compass is broken.
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  1199. Obama, like Clinton is an opportunist. The only part of the ideology either of them cared about was the part that made them more important.
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  1200. Disneyworld is powered by a generator that's hooked up to Walt Disney's tomb.
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  1201. "The easy way is that you tell me I am free to go."
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  1202. We most certainly do not live under capitalism. We have a mixed economy. We have private ownership of production and layers of state controls.
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  1203. The key to understanding the Left is power. If they think it will increase their power or secure their hold on power, the Left will embrace it. At the present time, trashing men in order to curry favor with feminists is an easy path to power.
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  1204. Either Adidas' leadership believes the trans nonsense, or they're afraid of being targeted for a boycott.
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  1205. Current mortality stats also show that mortality is at its lowest in the tenth year.
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  1206. The most important part is only lightly touched on in step 6. The governments which do these things also curtail the rights and freedoms of the majority group, only not to as great a degree at first. This because curtailing the rights of the people was the ultimate goal all along.
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  1207. I tried guessing the thing that Kamala could never do, and the first thing that came to mind was, "Getting the correct answer to every problem in a math book."
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  1208. Now waiting for the tofu dregs high-rises to fall over due to poor foundation work. This will be going on for the next six months.
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  1209. If it leads to more women with nice figures dressing like @0:42, I can put up with just about anything. But good writing, acting, and directing do help.
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  1210. They're not in the EU because their respective governments and news agencies aren't riddled with quislings.
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  1211. Xi is terror of being overthrown is due to the lingering scrap of the sense of justice that still resides in him. In the deepest core of his being he knows that the Chinese people's best interests are best served by overthrowing him.
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  1212. The reason it looks like Trump is already in charge is because everything that doesn't align with whatever he wants is going to be swept away by February, and people with smarts do not waste their time and energy.
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  1213. Sounds to me like CPUs could be cheaper and simpler if they simply didn't do branch prediction, and let the developer and/or compiler optimize away branches.
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  1214. Europe has paid leave and they still have a sub-replacement birth rate, so clearly it's not working as intended.
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  1215. A contract that allows the other part to stop providing the service at their own discretion is not a contract.
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  1216. Remember, about one third of Americans polled said that Biden won his debate against Trump.
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  1217. And of course Patreon's practice of suspending the accounts of people for their political views has nothing to do with this, amirite?
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  1218. The other drawback of living an agrarian lifestyle is that about one year out of ten, the crops fail. The other benefit of aerobic exercise is that visceral fat (which is the worst kind) is the first kind to be burned.
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  1219. It's not helping that the people who most loudly shout about this issue have a reputation for living as if it were not a problem at all.
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  1220. I could not care less what was best for the GOP, either in the long run or the short run. What I care about is whether it was good for the US in the long run.
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  1221. For rule ten, simply tell them that your decision will be based on the first figure quoted. If it is too high, adios. Make good on that statement.
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  1222. "They don't come when they're called"? What cat does?
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  1223. It never ceases to amaze people who understand economics how often officials talk about something as if it were an enigma, when the easily-grasped law of supply and demand--AKA Economics 101--explains everything neatly.
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  1224. Most trailers portray the film as being worth the admission price. This is often misleading.
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  1225. The conservatives in Hollywood can take over Hollywood in the same way that lefties took over our colleges. Keep your head down and work you way up until you become untouchable.
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  1226. You and laowhy86 managed to land a Chinese woman without owning a home. Is that why they want all the foreigners to leave?
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  1227. For years Apple was in the "better but more expensive" portion of the price-performance graph. With the M series they are now in the "better and cheaper" quadrant.
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  1228. According to reports, Hilary was so overconfident in 2016 she didn't even try committing fraud.
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  1229. The biggest hearsay exception is that a police interviewer can testify to what the defendant said during questioning.
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  1230. Putnam looks like one of those places that could be developed into a mammoth retirement community by somebody with cash.
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  1231. They need to stop all of their other lying, too, but then there would be nobody left in the Democratic Party.
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  1232. A sane fund manager would have seen the leverage levels and would have stayed out or gotten out long ago.
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  1233. The Californian state government is possessed of the most raving idiocy. This will bring down the state, but reversing it requires that the people who want this reversal remain in the state; but it's easier for them to leave.
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  1234. It's something air force people have known for decades: "The initiative rests with the commander of the superior air forces."
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  1235. So the easy legal fix is that a corporation cannot assume the debt of a purchaser.
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  1236. If you think that Bush, Obama, or Trump are enough like fascists that you don't laugh off the accusation, I cannot see value in your opinions.
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  1237. They consider themselves entitled to power as their Gaia-given right. Therefore they don't feel the need to develop any particular qualities that would warrant trusting them with power. So yes, they're both.
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  1238. Sure the two are different. Coding is when you find out whether your design is any good.
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  1239. @2:48 an actual view of the inside of a can of whoop-ass. On one of the plane tails you can see the letters AMC; the plane belongs to the Air Mobility Command, which is one of the USAF's major commands. You can see the blue clusters on the pilot, indicating that he is a lieutenant colonel.
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  1240. Microsoft pushed out a change that wasn't adequately tested. Again. That's the TL;DR.
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  1241. It would be hard to think of a more apt name for a town that would have taken this position.
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  1242. You left out Buckaroo Bonzai!
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  1243. How to tell if something is recyclable: Someone who isn't getting a subsidy will pay you for the waste.
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  1244. It looks like Chinese manufacturers run their businesses the way American public education districts run their schools.
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  1245. But the coconuts could have been carried to Germany by a swallow!
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  1246. Step 0: Management pulls its head out of its arse. The other steps become more like after this happens.
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  1247. She was the darling of every organization that hates my nation.
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  1248. ChatGPT can replace about 90% of most news media writers. Ask it "Write an article about the seven foods everyone should avoid," or, "The president met with Congress about the budget yesterday. Write the article."
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  1249. Complain to HR when your lawyer says that you will have them by the short and curlies in court and their only hope to avoid a huge legal mess is to settle on your terms.
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  1250. The system was already broken before Common Core. Common Core failed to fix the system because it was the product of the same establishment that broke the system.
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  1251. I want to know who's really been running things at the White House.
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  1252. It's simple. The Evil Queen will see Snow White and fall in love with her. We'll have a song about how her love is superior to what any man feels for her. Enter the Cardinal (a new character), who is a raging homophobe (with perhaps a dash of boy-raping hypocrisy tossed in) who leads a revolt of unwashed peasants against the happy couple.
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  1253. A question from the back: What otherwise unsolvable engineering problem is solved by the introduction of cosets?
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  1254. The difference is that girls are allowed to be girls until long after they should start acting like women, but boys are expected to be men long before they are ready to be men.
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  1255. The reason Episcopalians can't play chess is because they can't tell a bishop from a queen.
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  1256. The height of buildings in NYC is due to the stability available for the foundation. The bedrock is actually near the surface at the ends of Long Island and is deeper down in the middle.
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  1257. "Protecting the teachers" was bushwah. You can't be a public school teacher unless you already have the Chuck Norris of immune systems. If they didn't already have immune defenses that could send COVID-19 back to China, they wouldn't have been on the payroll in the first place.
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  1258. When you choose your political opinions as your mrans of proving that you're a good person...
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  1259. The Collatz Conjecture is a mathematical question, not a scientific one.
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  1260. Kamala Harris comes across as a person who takes her own awesomeness as an article of faith, and that everything she does will be awesome because she's doing it, and anything that goes wrong cannot possibly be her fault.
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  1261. The Californians are moving to Mexico instead of Texas? Woot! And how flat-footed could the WH press secretary be if she's not ready to answer a question about one of the top ten issues facing Americans.
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  1262. It's all very simple. The Left's stock in trade is to seize control of things. It is the linch-pin of their approach to everything. It explains why economies, schools, and creative studios all become hollow shells of their former selves. Each has suffered seizure by the Left, who lacks any of the skills required to make them successful, and everything goes pear-shaped.
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  1263. The question we all want answered now is, "Whose hand has been up this puppet's butt for the past four years?" The cabinet knew Biden was not capable. They've known for months if not years. It is simply not possible for people in regular contact with the president to fail to know what many Americans learned Thursday night.
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  1264. They're trying to propagandize their way through things because the only thing they care about is staying in power, and they've always been able to accomplish that with palaver.
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  1265. The interviewer opens up with the most counter-factual statement I've ever heard on a channel styling itself as a news channel.
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  1266. Truth be told, God's disgusted with both parties. If either were good enough to enjoy His approval our nation would not be in its current state.
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  1267. Naturally Bernie Sanders would advocate for a leader clinging to power until it was ripped out of his hands.
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  1268. When a leftist says "unfair" they mean, "not rigged in my favor".
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  1269. Or in Florida, suspends your driver's license if your insurance lapses and you don't get re-insured, and charges you $170 to re-instate your license. So if your new insurer drops the ball and doesn't notify the DMV, you're out $170.
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  1270. Had a job interview a couple weeks ago. He didn't answer the questions, he simple rattled off some boilerplate about the subject of the question. For this and other reasons, we're confident that he was using voice-to-text to capture our questions, auto-feeding them into some AI bot, and reading the answers off of the screen.
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  1271. That the police do not have to state the reason for the stop is a gap in the protection of citizen's rights. If they have to articulate a reason at the time of the arrest, they cannot arrest someone for a spurious or illegal reason and then fish until they find a reason.
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  1272. The only way that Trump is like Hitler is that Maher would happily vote for either of them if they ran as Democrats.
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  1273. I had a tech interview yesterday, which consisted of a coding exercise. The instructions had a mistake in them. (It was not a deliberate mistake, either.) An AI never would have caught the mistake.
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  1274. I was stationed in the UK when this went down. My unit had no involvement in this at all, but it was covered fairly well in the Stars and Stripes (the US military's official newspaper). The headline read "Iranian ship 'dead in the water' after attack by US". I did a bit of cut-and-paste to turn this into "Iranians 'deader than s***' after nuclear attack by US".
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  1275. The irony is that if Intel and AMD don't both get their ARM-compatible chips running, they will find themselves out of a market. Apple's M1 and M2 have finally enabled Apple to produce a MAC that is price-competitive with Wintel-based desktops, and releasing an ARM version of Windows requires very little work.
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  1276. I don't care whose side they were on when working in Syria; if the go after the CCP, fine with me.
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  1277. The reason for the Electoral College is that we are a union of fifty states and not a union of 340+ million people.
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  1278. Peterson points out that Marxists either don't know how a business is actually run, or that they refuse to know. Marxists are a good example of the truth that people will cling to the version of events that justify what they plan to do.
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  1279. The chief reason to grant immunity is that it is impossible to guarantee a fair trial to the president.
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  1280. Although Tyrus points out that few of the people dying from fentanyl were knowingly taking the drug, how many were knowingly taking an illegal drug into which fentanyl had been added?
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  1281. Just another example of how management is responsible for 85% of all problems. Why are you insisting on specific values of something that literally cannot be measured?
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  1282.  @Jedimaster36091  I would look to see what existing product came the closest to meeting my needs in its current form, buy that, and tell the provider which features I would like to see added. As a customer I pay for products and not promises.
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  1283. China's official figures aren't worth the paper on which they are printed? Imagine my shock.
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  1284. The most damaging part of colonialism's legacy was when the colonial powers built nations out of multiple tribes. Since the head of state has to be just one guy, that means that a lot people in each nation lived under a government run by a member of a different tribe. Maybe the tribes got along well before this, but when the stakes got higher the contention became fiercer, making wars between tribes even more likely. If a tribe can't get behind a leader of a different tribe, then put them all back on their original tribal land and make that land a single nation of its own.
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  1285. We need this amendment: "No court or official of the United States or of any State shall construe to exist any exception to this Constitution that is not expressly stated herein."
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  1286. I suppose that most of what the Russians said to the Korean troops was some form of, "Sure sucks being you guys."
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  1287. If you don't want holes blown into you, don't break into people's houses.
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  1288. It's going to come down to whether her conduct bears on the merits of the case and Trump's ability to get a fair trial. The sins of the prosecution do not establish the innocence of the defendant.
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  1289. I can see most nations starting to pass laws requiring all products made after a certain date to either be fully biodegradable or economically recyclable, so that there is no long-term waste of any kind.
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  1290. Biden is doing more to destroy the Democratic party than any other entity during my lifetime. The Republicans would be crazy to impeach him.
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  1291. The Democratic party has always been about gathering as much power for themselves. The difference is that this now requires them to agree with lunacy.
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  1292. Why would I care whether the now-grown child of someone famous can buy any particular house? It's not like he inherited his father's fan base.
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  1293. Google's motto is, "Don't be evil," but it's getting harder and hard to figure out what they mean by that.
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  1294. The insinuation is that they are closing their doors because the neighborhood has more people of color. As if the most woke of the big-box stores would do that. Of course, being the most woke of the big-box stores makes you even more vulnerable to pressure group warfare. Once you paid the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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  1295. I don't want the Democrats to figure out what caused them to lose. I want them to keep losing, in 2026, 208, 2030, 2032, and on and on.
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  1296. You of course know this, but from where this amateur scientist sits, the biggest flaw in this is the sample size. Ten wallets still leaves lots of room for random variation.
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  1297. I worked for a company which made no use of third-party libraries. Our VP told me that when dealing with the management of firms we were buying out, they tended to ask why. His thought on hearing this always was, "Who's buying out whom?" If an in-house library is broken, the guy who broke it is down the hallway and you can go talk to him.
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  1298. Is there any mention of how US tax law, for some really stupid reason, was modified so that the compensation paid to software developers cannot be counted as a business expense?
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  1299. America alternates between demonstrating the wisdom of bottom-up societal organization and the folly of top-down societal organization.
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  1300. What's their model which explains how the sun appears to go above and below the horizon, at different times in different places? That failure alone blows away the whole idea.
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  1301. I won't call it a seismic shift until we have another election and the groups that shifted to the right stay shifted. It could really be that Kamala was too toxic for the center.
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  1302. There is one thing worse than science corrupted for corporate purposes: Science corrupted for political purposes.
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  1303. Back when their films were still good, there was a sign that hung in Pixar studios which read, "Story is King."
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  1304. It's even easier to make AOC look like an idiot than it is to make Kamala Harris look like an idiot.
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  1305. Eleven-year software developer here. Leetcode tests do not resemble on-the-job software engineering in any meaningful way. The day-to-day experience of software rests in finding bugs and making modest changes to existing products. Even the occasional greenfield project involves straightforward business logic. Finding the ideal algorithm for a specific task is a once-in-a-while situation, and most of the time this is done for developing libraries.
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  1306. It should also be kept in mind that a business which moves from a high-tax and high-regulation state like California, Illinois, or New York, to a low-tax and low-regulation state like Texas or Florida, is consequently able to operate more efficiently. The economy of the gaining state grows more than the economy of the losing state shrinks, so overall the national economy grows when businesses flee from anti-business states to pro-business states.
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  1307. Liz Cheney looks even more like Miss Piggy than Hillary Clinton does.
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  1308. Tomorrow morning a new developer will report for work at the company where I got my first job. Part of his on-boarding will be to learn COBOL.
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  1309. Linked lists are best when you want to implement a highly performant LIFO queue and never need to access anything but the last item added.
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  1310. Why are the leftover jokes funnier than the regular shtick?
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  1311. A lefty wants power. Nothing new.
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  1312. If you want to know what Wikipedia says on a topic, simply ask ChatGPT.
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  1313. The reason Kamala blew whatever chance she had was simply because she has never had to work for anything, and never learned how.
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  1314. A 2x2 matrix, where the first row is [a, b] and the second row is [-b, a], emulates all of the behavior of the complex number a + bi. If you raise e to the matrix, you get the same result as for Euler's formula. And so on. I haven't checked to see what 4x4 matrix, if any, emulates a quaternion.
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  1315. The last game I paid for was over a decade ago. The plethora of free-to-play games is enough to fill the time I have to spare for games.
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  1316. Even in the non-Fox news media, the case against Blagojevich was presented as open-and-shut, with no doubt that he was guilty. We now hear otherwise. What's the truth?
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  1317. Bob Iger's "explanation" claims that project in the works will reflect the "true nature of DEI". This seems like another way of saying, "Stop saying that we pushed DEI, that wasn't real DEI."
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  1318. And after Germany invests the billions that it will take to make this happen, and makes itself dependent on the power made there, some dictator will seize the plants, piss on whatever agreement has been made, and use it to shake down the governments of Europe for as much money and other concessions as he can get.
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  1319. Skipping to the final result, North Korea ceases to exist as a political entity.
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  1320. What New Yorkers should do is tell Biden that they'll be voting for Trump if the border isn't closed.
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  1321. Our senior military leadership is a pack of yes-men who care only about their careers. This is because the honorable officers exit the service when they find themselves serving under dishonorable presidents, but the opposite does not happen.
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  1322. If you have a problem, take it up without boss. If that doesn't work, either lump it or find another job.
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  1323. There is an anecdote which says that Che Guevara was put in charge of the Cuban economy when Fidel Castro asked if any of the group he was talking to was an economist. Che misheard him as asking if anyone was a communist and raised his hand.
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  1324. Trump got absolutely no loyalty from the GOP establishment, he owes them no loyalty in return.
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  1325. Who wants to bet that they'll still jerk the tenants around on getting their deposit back?
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  1326. It is worth remembering that none of the humans on the boarded ship were acting on their own will. They were all psychically dominated and had no control over their actions. That's why the one gunner's eyes were glowing like that.
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  1327. Every collapse seems to begin with the assumption that the market will always be bullish. It also goes without saying that it will be much easier for the US to find alternate sources for its imports than China to find new markets for its exports.
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  1328. He can have a set of EO's that stack higher than the Obamacare bill.
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  1329. It's easy to get around the law. Announce the store closure, keep the lights on, but remove all of the merchandise and equipment. Have one guy in a booth whose job is to call the police if there's any criminal activity. When the six months is up, turn of the lights.
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  1330. The Left has always been censorious. The only time they have not been striving to stifle dissent is when they are busy with some other attack on freedom.
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  1331. In 2016 Hillary was so overconfident that she didn't arrange to have the election stolen.
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  1332. Also, for each prime, the repeat period is either p-1 or some number that divides into p-1.
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  1333. Nothing says "we're really smart people" like starting an on-air discussion about somebody when you're not sure about how to correctly pronounce her name. Maybe you have some good points, but this is not a good look.
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  1334. The real problem is that Bragg faces no meaningful penalty for his abuses of power.
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  1335. I'm willing to bet that the parties to this suit spent much more than the price of this car on legal fees.
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  1336. If you don't mind getting walked out by security, sure, go ahead an lie on your resume.
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  1337. Halon is not an inert element, but it is a fairly inert chemical. It works by obstructing the combustion process at a chemical level, resulting in chemicals that you are much better off not breathing.
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  1338. It takes a really stupid person to fail to distinguish between portraying an idea in order to examine it and portraying an idea in order to promote it.
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  1339. Why was Italy involved? Because Italian politics are f***ing insane.
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  1340. Pretty sure the reason the polls don't show a wider gap is because they have inherent bias in favor of the left. I've never been contacted by a pollster, and I suspect that any poll which excludes my demographic is going to lean left.
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  1341. In the military it is joked that the difference between a second lieutenant and a first lieutenant is that a first lieutenant knows that he knows nothing. A second lieutenant doesn't even know that.
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  1342. The Democrats will always have the abortion-on-demand vote, the welfare-for-life vote, and paranoid LGBT vote, and the public sector union vote. They will move just enough to the center to secure electoral victory.
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  1343. This reminds me of the movie "Christmas in Connecticut", which is about a magazine writer whose in-print persona as a picture-perfect farm wife is a complete fabrication. She is tasked by her editor--who believes her image is entirely legitimate--to host a US sailor for the Christmas holidays (the movie is set during WWII). Hilarity ensues as she tries to cover up the deception.
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  1344. AS Margaret Thatcher put it, "The facts of life are conservative."
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  1345. Whoever was supposed to show due diligence when the certified letters were returned either thought it was somebody else's job to follow up, or they acted as if it were.
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  1346. I suspect that there is only one proof, and the different "proofs" only appear different.
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  1347. "A thousand years of peace." Anyone who's even slightly familiar with human history knows that any prediction of a thousand years of peace is utter balderdash. Some parts of the world can't get through a week without somebody making somebody else die for his country.
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  1348. The Chinese economy cannot do anything but shrink in the near future. The main factors in economic strength are labor, capitalization, regulatory environment, and access to markets. Their labor pool has peaked and will decline for as long as their birth rate is sub-replacement. Their capitalization has also peaked, since their current policies are driving away investment. Their regulatory environment is becoming more authoritarian, which knee-caps productivity, and their access to markets has peaked and will decline due to increasing competition from India, Mexico, and South America.
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  1349. How many of the people who died from fentanyl were not knowingly taking an illegal drug of some kind?
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  1350. It's not that they were too interested in the plight of fringe groups, it's that it led them to appear indifferent to the plight of just about everybody else.
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  1351. Everything not made by the original creator is fan fiction. It might be good fan fiction once in a while (some TNG, some DS9, Rogue One), but the chances of shoddy product are high.
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  1352. I'd like to know why the Eighth Amendment didn't come up. I'd have argued that the phone call didn't cause $500 in damage to the person called, or anything remotely near that amount.
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  1353. And just think how many they would have lost if Hitler had not inserted himself into operational planning. Hitler's delusions of competency constituted Stalin's greatest asset in the conflict.
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  1354. If they had nominated Tulsi Gabbard in 2020, the election would not have been close, Tulsi would have had the same backbone towards our enemies that Trump had, and the domestic policies could not have been worse than they are now.
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  1355. There seems to be a chemical in the NYC water that destroys the drinker's capacity for self-awareness.
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  1356. The RCC would not have been in this position if it had contented itself with the teachings of the Scriptures. If it had done so, they never would have accumulated the wealth that is at the center of the scandal here. Instead it would have gone to the relief of Catholic laity. Sure, the church buildings would be humble structures and the teachers in the Church would go about in humble clothes, but that appears to be precisely what God wanted.
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  1357. Women built the Sherman tanks, but it was men who died in them.
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  1358. The root of California's problem is that the Democratic primary is the real election for every state-wide office and most of the other offices as well.
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  1359. If you're worried about being convicted based on your testimony, from what I understand, you either have immunity or you have the right to remain silent. If you don't have one, you have the other.
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  1360. Estimates and deadlines are only "necessary" because management insists on establishing specific dates when a product or feature will be ready, because they try to sell a product or feature that doesn't exist. If you limit yourself to selling the product that already exists, you don't have to say when or if a new feature will be ready to roll, and you can take the time to do things right.
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  1361. I can't say where I read this or who it was said about, but yes, back in what we call "ancient times" there were people--nobles and other rich people--who collected antiquities.
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  1362. I think they gave less coverage to the Chief of Naval Operations (the senior officer of the US Navy) taking his own life. There was never a bunch of navel-gazers as the left side of journalism's ranks.
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  1363. I've been involved in the hiring process. You don't have to justify refusing to hire somebody.
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  1364. The key factor is whether an irreligious majority is able to dragoon the youth into state-run schools that peddle anti-religious propaganda under the guise of enlightenment. In the US families can shield their children from this, either by finding a private school that teaches their values, or by home-schooling the children.
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  1365. Bipartisanship is when the party that usually stands on the correct side of an issue compromises with the party that's on the wrong side of the issue.
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  1366. One outcome of the trial was that millions of Americans found out how tedious court actually is.
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  1367. As a great example of someone who does no real work at all, and yet lives the high life, may I submit for your consideration Chairman Xi?
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  1368. They know it's not a winning issue, but they can't afford to lose the support of the fringe groups that push for it.
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  1369. The US military took a different tack, going back decades. They prohibited the use of racially-charged language, racist humor, and membership in supremacist organizations (specifically, the Ku Klux Klan). It is now the number one place in the US where people of any race can lift themselves out of poverty.
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  1370. Any dev org which puts front-end and back-end on separate teams is going to have troubles. Full-stack devs are forced to understand the whole process. There is no substitute for knowing the whole process.
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  1371. The ironic thing is that this is not a battle Desantis has to win. Failing to secure the party nomination is not fatal. He can always come back and try again in 2028. His policies will be proven by four years of implementation, and Trump will either be term-limited out or he will have lost two national elections; and if Biden is re-elected, the 2028 Republican nomination will be the election, because everything will be a dumpster fire after four more years of Biden/Harris.
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  1372. If you want to reduce emissions from burning fuels of any kind, the best way forward is to reduce the amount of burning that needs to be done. Plan our cities so that everyone can live within walking distance of work, school, and shopping, and the need to ride around in motor vehicles will drop accordingly. "But who wants to live next to a factory?" If the factory creates an environment in which nobody wants to live, fix *that*.
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  1373. With some of these videos I can tell that the case at hand is mostly amusing, but in this one I can hear that you are incensed. And rightly so.
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  1374. The pastel coloring suggests that Army of the DEI would be a better title.
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  1375. The technology to venture to the Americas existed, but without a definite expectation of finding something the Romans never would have launched an expedition. The fact that nobody visited from the other direction would have strongly suggested to them that there was nothing out in that direction.
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  1376. Sounds like we need to have some officers in the dock for making false official statements.
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  1377. Although Gaetz was the victim of major shenanigans here, one simple trick would have saved him all of this trouble: Do not fuck anyone to whom you are not married. Problem solved in the best possible way, by prevention.
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  1378. Extended warranty companies are fly-by-night operations that fleece their customers? Surely you jest!
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  1379. We've had patent trolls for decades. Now we have trademark trolls.
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  1380. We need a program where the brains of intelligent people with terminal conditions can be transplanted into the bodies of good-looking woke activists. That way a perfectly good body doesn't go to waste supporting a malfunctioning brain.
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  1381. Every federal official already has immunity for acts taken in their official capacity. The left is only caterwauling because it's Trump.
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  1382. The cultures that predominate two centuries from now will be the ones that feature large families as a rule and not as an exception. The culture that can support an advanced economy and large families will dominate the earth.
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  1383. Rock Hudson got onto the FBI's radar because he crashed a party being hosted by Ladybird Johnson.
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  1384. And just think that every cell of your body is thousands of times more complicated than this chip fab.
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  1385. That's one high-testosterone jawline on that "lady".
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  1386. It's a very simple principle, which in fact underlies the whole legal profession: The government must obey the law.
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  1387. I do take exception to the final point. In most organizations, whenever there are problems, management really is at the root of it, about five times out of six. Most juniors are raring to do more than code; they want to develop a quality product whose usefulness to the user is maximized, and they want to be involved in the architecture as well as the implementation. It's managers who say, "Shut up and code." It's managers who treat questions as a sign of weakness. It's managers who press for code done quickly instead of code done well. It's managers who decide to ship code that doesn't work.
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  1388. The headline was written that way because the non-Fox network media feels compelled to always prove that the Democrats were right and the Republicans were wrong.
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  1389. California is turning one of Ayn Rand's claims into reality: Businessmen are the most oppressed minority of all.
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  1390. If nobody had used exponentation up until that point, just write a 9 down and to the left of what the previous entrant left on the board.
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  1391. "I feel like that might not be enough paper." Since you said that you would label all of the primes, your feelings are correct.
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  1392. My pronouns are stop/the/insanity.
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  1393. Of course if you're an engineer and don't need all that many digits of precision, you can (a) assume that there's a Taylor's expansion for the desired behavior over time, and (b) work out a function (with the initial conditions as the arguments of the function) that gives you each coefficient.
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  1394. The reason NK gets away with so much s*** is because its leaders have always been careful to stop before doing or saying anything that would justify China or the US from instituting regime change.
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  1395. Eric Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" is far and away better than Bob Marley's. Joe Cocker simply annexed "Feelin' All Right," "The Letter," "With a Little Help From My Friends," and "Unchain My Heart." And ELO's cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" is one of the best covers ever.
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  1396. "Put a chick in it and make her gay, they said. I'll show them! I'll put a dozen chicks into it and make them all gay!"
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  1397. Now commenting after the election: Emhoff nothing to stop him from moving to South Korea.
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  1398. There is no getting around the work of being a responsible account holder. Keep every receipt, compare every receipt against your bank statement, and instantly dispute every discrepancy, even if it's only a penny.
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  1399. Why did the Liz Warren joke go unused? It was funnier than anything else you did all week.
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  1400. If the Democrats had nominated Tulsi Gabbard in 2020, we would not be having this conversation. She would have beaten Trump by margins big enough to silence Trump entirely.
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  1401. Somebody seems to have forgotten how nuclear reactors have been designed since 1986 (and were designed before that in the West).
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  1402. We need a constitutional amendment: "Neither the United States nor any State shall have or exercise emergency powers."
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  1403. There are people whose only concern is whether their EBT card will be topped off every month. There are people whose only concern is whether they can abort their children. There are people whose only concern is whether their intersectional status or union membership will give them the advantage that they should have sought through honest work. There are people who only care that the environment not be put to any use other than for the privileged to walk around in it. None of them care whether their government is honest and none of them have any thought for the consequences of having their way. Such people are the Democrat base.
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  1404. Don't set foot in the dealership unless you are pre-approved for a loan and have a firm quote on the trade-in value. And if you can't make the payment on a three-year loan, you cannot afford the car.
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  1405. Mark Twain wrote a short story about a man who was on trial for gambling. The law specifically banned betting on "games of chance". The defendant argued in court that the game at issue was a game of skill, and not chance, and therefore was not illegal. The jury was divided six vs. six on the verdict, and were hopelessly deadlocked, until someone proposed that the two sides play the game against each other. Whichever side won would return the verdict and the other side would go along. At some point in the deliberations there was a request by one side (the side claiming that it was a game of chance) to borrow some money from the court spectators. Eventually that side went bust and the defendant was acquitted.
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  1406. Their official religion expressly commands its followers to overthrow governments which don't follow the religion. If the government is not already strong enough to fight back, instability will be a constant issue.
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  1407. Question from the back: Every real number has an efficient sequence of approximations. However, does every constantly-increasing sequence constitute the denominators of an efficient sequence of approximations for a real number?
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  1408. Military veteran here. Nobody, and I mean nobody who engaged in fisticuffs on duty would be allowed into any part of the ship except the brig, let alone the bridge, let alone the captain's chair. TNG was pretty far removed from how a real military goes about doing things, but things got worse as they went along and with the new movies it's a complete mockery.
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  1409. If you try to work and to save for tomorrow, the government can dash all of your plans with a stupid plan of their own. If you don't try to work and save for tomorrow, there's a politician who promises the good things of this life to you in exchange for your vote. Fix that, and you'll fix America.
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  1410. The things that happen can only matter if there are things that cannot happen.
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  1411. Cenk is learning that among the left the only unforgiveable sin is to get between them and power.
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  1412. I wish that most of our presidents had spent their terms playing golf.
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  1413. China will soon go into major demographic decline. If they're allowed to leave, it will be worse.
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  1414. Meanwhile, the left is saying, "Baggins! We hates him, we hates him forever!"
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  1415. The live-action Mulan is the Chinese Rey.
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  1416. I'm bugged that Twitter held itself out as being neutral, with censorship rules that may have been worded in a neutral way, but which operated on a distinct slant.
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  1417. Until you have verified how a woman handles money, criticism, and not getting her way, do not consider her as a potential partner.
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  1418. The mainstream press is playing a longer game. If they thought that Biden and Harris had a chance at re-election, they would be falling on their swords to shore up the poll numbers to make it a comfortable victory. They've given up on this, and so they are trying to position themselves as unbiased, and also trying to prepare the way for the Democrats' rehabilitation.
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  1419. Why would someone giving away a guitar--which is a several hundred dollar item--want you to cough up the shipping, which is $50 or so?
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  1420. Kamala Harris gives every sign of believing that her awesomeness is not open to serious question and that whatever she does is awesome just because it's her doing it, even when every scrap of evidence points in the opposite direction.
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  1421. The number i allowed us to use algebra to solve problems with AC circuit theory, instead of having to use calculus. This makes engineering power systems much easier. The modern world really does depend on this invention.
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  1422. One of these days the Democrats will have to learn that words mean things.
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  1423. The problem is not that a private for-profit corporation is allowed to run things. The problem is that you are not allowed to start one and compete.
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  1424. The US actually still depends on rail for freight than Europe does. Rail is effing cheap (only water transport is cheaper), and businessmen know this.
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  1425. Google is a two-tiered search engine. First it searches its database of advertisers, and then it searches the Internet as a whole.
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  1426. If I were the judge: "The plaintiffs will approach the bench." (Police shuffle forward) (Me, after reading the summary brief.) "I am granting the defendant's motion for summary judgement. I am awarding the defendant all legal fees. You will each pay ten thousand dollars as a fine for bringing a frivolous suit before my bench. Case dismissed with prejudice. Get the %$#! out of my court."
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  1427. The company is not the proximate cause of the victim's harm. The suit against the company should have been dismissed with prejudice.
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  1428. The only weak points in the film were where the film deviated from the book. That's how good the underlying story is.
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  1429. Is it me, or does Mitch McConnell look like one of the fish in the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon?
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  1430. Then there's the issue of how something can be a nuisance if it takes a drone flying over the property for anybody to know it's there.
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  1431. The shooter was an ideologue born with a silver spoon in his mouth? That's not at all shocking. The only thing stronger than liberal white guilt is liberal privilege guilt.
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  1432. It's a major accomplishment to commit grift so egregious that even the Democrats shun you for it.
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  1433. You know, we'd have a whole lot fewer of these guys who ignore the laws and act like they were law unto themselves if we didn't have a government that ignored the law and acted like it was a law unto itself.
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  1434. I dislike money going from someone who has done no harm to someone who has produced nothing.
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  1435. Hillary clearly believes that holding power is her Gaia-given right.
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  1436. The title of this video is baloney. Math does not have a fatal flaw. We use it to get stuff done every day. Ask any engineer. Math is still an excellent tool for telling us which way has the best chance of the best results. The fact that some people aren't satisfied with some remote level of abstraction is immaterial.
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  1437. The conditions for declaring the end of COVID are a goalpost with wheels.
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  1438. Jon Stewart gets laughs in the same way and for the same reason as a schoolyard bully. What a schoolyard bully does to his victims is not funny, but his friends laugh because they get the same kick out of seeing the victim get hurt.
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  1439. Trump is up because American trust in the news media is down.
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  1440. When I get my army of robots, bureaucrats who won't give straight answers to questions like "what are you up to" will find themselves waking up in unfamiliar locations.
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  1441. What do you mean 'would be'? They already are making plans to spend the revenue.
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  1442. Islam does not deserve to call itself a religion at all. It is a political movement masquerading as a religion.
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  1443. Giving squatters time to move out only gives them time to trash the place first. Immediate eviction is the only acceptable solution for home owners.
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  1444. The fantasy-land thinking started decades ago on the Left Coast. Because each step created problems that could easily be swept under the rug by a press dedicated to getting Democrats elected at any cost, growing numbers of politicians got the idea that they could indulge their fantasies without consequence, and growing numbers of voters were on the public dime and voted to keep the checks rolling out.
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  1445. How red is West Virginia? In 2016, they are the only state that would have gone to Trump if gun owners had not voted.
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  1446. The ruling upholds the founding principle of a free republic: Regardless of its goals, the government must obey the law.
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  1447. This probably would have been prevented if car dealers were required to ensure that everything on the lot was properly titled. Then when it was recovered it could have been returned to them. Adjusting titling fees so that they are not revenue sources would help this.
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  1448. If Trump and Homan are smart, the first deportees they trot out will be convicted of heinous crimes. "This is ___ from _____. He robbed a Seven-Eleven in Iowa. We're sending him back to _____. Take him away, boys." And on and on. And from time to time Trump will be in attendance when people who legally complete the process are given their oaths of citizenship.
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  1449. I would bet my last dollar that Eisenhower, as supreme commander, spent much more time dealing with logistical issues than he did with strategy.
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  1450. They have a demographic crash coming, they cannot innovate to save their souls, and the government fiddles with the economy for the benefit of the well-connected. They will never surpass the US in per capita wealth, and will probably never surpass the US in total wealth.
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  1451. Do you know which American demographic polls the highest on self-esteem? Convicted criminals.
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  1452. The real lesson that has not been learned is that we should never try to achieve economic growth by debt. It always comes back to bite us.
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  1453. If such an announcement could have spooked the bulls on Wall Street then the former stock prices were bubbles.
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  1454. Jon Stewart has been bitten by the same bug as Maher. They both see that the current rhetoric is helping Republicans get elected, and they want it to stop. If the same rhetoric had gained the Oval Office and filibuster-proof majorities in the House and Senate for the Democrats, neither of them would be complaining.
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  1455. Trump is doing better in more diverse states? Thanks for pushing diversity, Democrats!
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  1456. The left's moral compass is pointed directly at the nearest locus of power.
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  1457. If you're not on Biden's pardon list, and a friend who has dirt on you is, guess what they have to do to avoid jail on contempt charges?
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  1458. Who put the witches in charge of the witch-hunt?
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  1459. They could just let on that a specific sequence of frames in a video will mark that place for ad insertion. YouTube's server can then insert an ad into the video feed at that spot and pay the content creator a higher rate for the ad money. This will defeat most ad blockers.
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  1460. An armed society is a polite society.
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  1461. The other danger of an organization of the nature of the Daily Wire is that the larger it gets, the more the Left will try to co-opt it.
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  1462. I'm wondering how much grift was involved in all of that gigabuck they spent.
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  1463. She's got my vote when she runs for president.
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  1464. The problem with the deification of reason is that the "reason" being deified is a false one. True reason leads to honest dealings, truthfulness, and non-aggression. The Humanist Manifesto professes itself to be a product of reason, but it is nothing but a rationalization of political pandering to the infantile.
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  1465. How to spot a scam: You are offered something for nothing.
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  1466. No, the same amount of work does not have to get done by fewer people. They let people go because there is no work for them to do.
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  1467. Feminism first rejected the entire Judeo-Christian ethical framework. Since atheism is spiritually, philosophically, ethically, and emotionally bankrupt. Paganism (white-washed to downplay the elements that feminism professes to oppose), stepped in to fill the void.
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  1468. We don't have to change the law in order to kick illegal aliens out.
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  1469. Things are only important if they server as an excuse for grabbing more power. That is the entire Democratic approach.
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  1470. Here's some 4-d chess for you. If the Democrats try to impeach Joe Biden, because he's destroying the party, the Republicans have every incentive to deny them the two-thirds majority they need. They know that his replacement will be a Democrat, so they'd rather have a doofus who can't get anything done.
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  1471. TL;DR: Disarmament cannot be a routine measure unless the circumstances of the case warrant it.
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  1472. Every time I see Xi I get the Winnie The Pooh theme as an earworm. 小熊维尼统治中国!
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  1473. Flat earth theory == modern-day epicycles out the wazoo!
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  1474. I first started working in software development in 2012. The flagship product of the company that hired me is written in COBOL. They still hire entry-level candidates and give them a quick COBOL boot camp. For several years now, the COBOL is translated via a utility into C++, which is compiled with more modern tools into the appropriate libraries. Theoretically, they could pick a given code module and make the generated C++ the basis for all future development, but it would be a sea change that might cost more than it's worth.
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  1475. Um, we already knew that feelings don't care about the facts. That's the problem with them.
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  1476. Someone doesn't seem to be aware that electrical fires require a very different type of extinguisher than petrol fires.
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  1477. For me it depends on whether wearing a helmet improves or reduces the safety of other users of the roadway. I know that on a bicycle, an insect flying into your face can precipitate an accident. Hitting a bug at three to five times the speed of a bicycle will definitely compromise your ability to safely operate the motorcycle.
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  1478. HR's job is to minimize the employer's cost of the employer-employee relationship. This doesn't necessarily mean taking the company's side against the employee, but that is often what's best for the company.
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  1479. People who are motivated by power can't let go because there is no other outlet for their urge. People who want to save the world or save their people or make life better have plenty of venues to accomplish exactly that.
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  1480. Punitive damages constitute criminal prosecution without the legal protections that attend criminal trials.
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  1481. That's easy: Promise only whatever is working reliably.
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  1482. The image of Kathleen Kennedy standing with the other women, all wearing shirts that say, "The Force is Female" should have resulted in her immediate termination. It was a clear signal that good storytelling was going to take a back seat to woke politics.
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  1483. I hate the term because it is a horrible description of what it does. "Library importation" would be a more precise term.
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  1484. Next we'll be hearing that interracial marriage is an expression of white supremacy.
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  1485. I'd like to know why the video producer seems to think that the new fifty countries would naturally start fighting each other.
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  1486. You will need a state law forcing HOAs to allow them. Home wind turbines are a good idea, so it's a given that the Karens of the world will come out against them.
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  1487. The effects of the American Civil war lingered in some of the southern states over fifty years. Some forms of destruction take generations to repair.
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  1488. War itself leaves a mark on the defeated nation.
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  1489. The Halting problem proves that no algorithm can understand every algorithm. But we have many people who can understand every algorithm. Therefore no algorithm can be smarter than us.
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  1490. Being fired for not being fun is the basic case for 57% of divorces. But in France you have to be dead for at least five years before they can fire you.
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  1491. #6: Thinking for yourself.
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  1492. It's ironic that politicians who would have dismissed Trump as a fascist (and probably still do) have taken an even stronger anti-immigrant stance than he did.
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  1493. Brent Spiner has fallen farther than Bill Cosby.
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  1494. It would be simpler to simply learn how to safely handle naked pointers.
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  1495. You only go to jail for getting your taxes wrong if (a) you underpay by a lot of money and (b) you're not a Democratic public official.
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  1496. This also tells you that their concept of honor was fundamentally flawed. People with genuine honor get along fine.
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  1497. I hope this wasn't intended to be serious. A three-to-four meter increase in the sea levels isn't going to wipe out humanity.
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  1498. The Left's four-square demonization of all opposition is because the Left is about power, and you cannot value power as an end in itself unless you have abandoned reason.
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  1499. Thanks to 3d printing and this thing we call the Internet, it would take very little time for a group of like-minded hobbyists to generate their own lore (set in a different legendarium) and downloadable models, make it freely licensed, and thereby open the market to a level of competition that GW could not withstand.
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  1500. Also, there is a practical application of finding the repeat period. You can convert some text into an integer (by concatenating the codes into a massive integer), and divide that integer by a smaller number. The remainder becomes a checksum for that text. The best divisor for this is a prime with the longest repeat period when dividing binary numbers.
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  1501. Hot Rod magazine said that the very worst category of used car is the used taxi cab. "Buy one of these only if you're on your way to a demolition derby."
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  1502. The intention of socialists is to run the world in a specific way. It is not a means to an end, it is the end.
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  1503. This is an indication that boards of directors should have no say at all about the sale of the company they oversee. If the board can block a sale, they effectively make themselves the owners.
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  1504. DeSantis has time on his side. 2024 isn't his last chance to be president. He can let Trump get the nomination, and if Trump loses again then the field is his in 2028.
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  1505. I'm reminded of something Lyndon Johnson said: "While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
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  1506. Stephen King was on a writer's panel, and he asked this question of the audience: "Do you really want to be a writer, or do you want to be one of the people up here on the stage?" I think we know Wansink's answer to that question.
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  1507. How does the sequence grow if inventories are not self-referencing?
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  1508. The lady is crazy or guilty, perhaps both. An honest person in her right mind would not be spinning randomly-changing stories.
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  1509. Back in WWII a general was removed from command after his battlefield performance was seen as inadequate. His superior (Eisenhower, IIRC) said, "I don't know if he was incompetent or just unlucky and I can't afford to wait and see."
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  1510. Government economic support always goes to the least deserving, because the more deserving you are, the less likely you are to need it.
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  1511. Kamala Harris clearly believes that everything she does is awesome because she's the one doing it, that the disasters that follow her like dogs follow the smell of gravy are never, ever her fault, and that all criticism is motivated by racism or sexism.
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  1512. The Catmull-Rom spline gets the first half of its name from one of Pixar's founders. The cubic B-spline is the limit curve of the Catmull-Clark subdivision scheme. Also, a mostly-sparse matrix can turn a series of points along a path into a uniform B-spline whose path will pass through the original points.
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  1513. The whole agenda of the Left is violence against opposition. The only differences consist of the point at which they resort to it.
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  1514. First of all, calling them all Arabs is a grave error. Only the people from Saudia Arabia are Arabs. The people from Egypt are Egyptians, and the people from Palestine are Palestinians. They consider themselves at least as distinct from each other as the British and the Americans. The Russians and the Ukranians are closer to each other than the Egyptians and the Palestinians, and we can all see how well they're getting along.
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  1515. The US has rare earths, but unfortunately we also have environmentalists and officials who like campaign donations.
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  1516. Does it make a good wind turbine?
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  1517. The constitutionality of the hearings depends on what Congress tries to do afterwards. Right now they are simply making noise and wasting time, and having the people who refuse their subpoenas prosecuted. These are all within their power. However, in order to take action against anyone who was never asked to appear, they have to refer the matter to the executive branch. They cannot simply declare that Trump has done things which preclude him from seeking election, because that would constitute a bill of attainder. It requires a lawful sentence consequent of conviction by the judicial branch.
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  1518. All he had to do was listen to the public.
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  1519. The loss of the election is rationalized in the same way that their urge to seek power in the first place is rationalized: "The common people are always making the wrong choices."
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  1520. Well, her husband does...
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  1521. All that death so that some fat guy could impress people who really didn't care. Pride is the seminal curse of the world.
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  1522. He is far kinder to the early history of the UN than it deserves. It went lefty and authoritarian almost immediately.
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  1523. Trump's defense should move to dismiss on the grounds that as a former president who is attacked daily in the news media, he is not able to get a fair trial in any venue.
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  1524. If being against child trafficking is a 'right wing thing', I want nothing to do with any other wing.
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  1525. I regard roundabouts as unmanned sobriety checkpoints.
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  1526. To any CEO who is reading this: Your HR department does this to reduce their workload. None of these extra hoops increase the quality of applicants.
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  1527. They also could have nominated Tulsi Gabbard 2020 instead of Biden. She would have beaten Trump with a solid lead in enough states to give her an Electoral College majority, sending Trump into his post-political career. We'd have the first Democratic president in my lifetime who understands what the US military is for.
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  1528. I fully expect some nations to ignore the treaty, whether they are signatory or not.
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  1529. I'm guessing that some employers consider it a feature, and not a bug, that they are making applicants jump through unnecessary hoops. HR workers certainly don't mind anything that filters down the number of applications they have to process, and some employers have the notion that employees should be infinitely dedicated and loyal.
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  1530. "All of these ideas are coming out of Washington." As Senator Kennedy could tell you, "Every stupid idea came out of the city."
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  1531. When I get my army of robots, stuff's gonna change.
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  1532. You do have to admit that it does look like weakness. At the first whiff of opposition he dropped out. But now that he is a private citizen, defamation suits against anyone who accuses him from this point forward won't bear the burden of proving malice.
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  1533. One minor nit: Shouldn't the drainage be directed toward the storm drain system instead of the sewer? I don't want my toilet backing up when it rains.
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  1534. It's not surprising that Germany has a government that sucks. The two worst political philosophies ever devised came from Germany.
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  1535. The new Syrian government is most certainly not going to be chummy with any nation that is not hostile to Israel.
    1
  1536. It's been said that presidential elections are won by the person who appears to be having the most fun. On that score, Trump is going to win.
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  1537. Another reason they wanted foreigners out. If foreigners are treating you better than your own people, you begin to question what your government says about them.
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  1538. When I get my army of robots, a whole bunch of judges and other government officials are going to find out what it's like to be on the receiving end of this kind of treatment.
    1
  1539. One lesson: If you're studio exec, you organize the production team so that in any given creative conflict, one of the two people butting heads can overrule the other.
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  1540. My question is whether the court directed the plaintiffs to pay the defendant's legal costs.
    1
  1541. Every poll about the president should be handicapped by at least ten points. If the press were as unbiased as they expect us to believe, Trump would have polled at least that much better during his entire term and Biden would be that much lower.
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  1542. It was probably looted from the temple when Judah fell to the Babylonians. Apparently God revoked the prior policy of killing unworthy people who touched it. At some point somebody in Babylon or Persia scrapped it for the gold.
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  1543. Any civilization run the way our political establishment runs things would never make it into space. The aliens probably regard our planet in the same way that we regard North Korea.
    1
  1544. "Mother box" has got to be the stupidest name for any techno-doodad, ever.
    1
  1545. I'll bet that working for a living is too hard for these kids, too.
    1
  1546. That pill could make me hear chihuahuas barking and it would still be an improvement.
    1
  1547. Legalizing casual use while keeping trafficking illegal is every bit as stupid as keeping it illegal across the board. Trafficking exist only because casual use is legal.
    1
  1548. Lotsa sales = lotsa R&D money (unless you're stupid). Lotsa R&D money = better products.
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  1549. Electrons emit photons when they move from a quantum state to a quantum state with a lower energy. If the electrons can pass through a conductor without experiencing any changes in the energy of the quantum states, then they lose no energy and so there is no resistance. So the key to superconductivity is to create a large mass of material whose quantum states have identical energies throughout.
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  1550. Need a new state constitutional amendment: "No activity by persons acting in a private capacity shall be prohibited, except in consequence of a law specifically identifying that activity as a crime." No more using civil law, which has far fewer protections for defendants, as a means of controlling behavior.
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  1551. A company being able to charge as much as they please, because there is no competition, is known as a "coercive monopoly" in the parlance of economists. With some exceptions, coercive monopolies don't last long; as soon as they take advantage of their status (by raising prices), other sellers can enter the market and customers will seek substitutes (whether by finding a less-convenient supplier or substituting a different produce). The enduring monopolies generally have the direct and active support of the government; the government either prohibits other sellers outright (your cable company likely has a legal monopoly), or they issue licenses preferentially (the would-be grocer can't get permits for a new store to compete with the old), etc.
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  1552. The AI prosecutor in China is 97% right because it simply declares 100% of defendants guilty and they're only able to beat a confession out of 97% of them.
    1
  1553. The stupid part of all this is that we now know that going communist weakens a nation, and this has been proven over and over and over.
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  1554. TL;DR: Bring on the bacon and eggs!
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  1555. The Left is only mad at her because she was supposed to bring down Trump. Her conduct may have enabled Trump to avoid prosecution altogether.
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  1556. Just about every rural county in a state with a major city in it feels this way. Most of Texas would love to get rid of Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. A great deal of California would love to be rid of SF and LA. Western Massachusetts is nothing like Boston. And so on for Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York State, etc.
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  1557. The celebrity endorsements had no effect because nobody will be influenced by them unless they are already dumb enough to vote for the Democrats without the endorsement.
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  1558. For polynomials higher than degree three, would a method based on quadratic approximations get you there faster? If the parabola intersects the x axis, the x value of the intersection is the next iteration of x; otherwise, the x-coordinate of the parabola's vertex is the next iteration.
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  1559. It's a shame that you can't get funding for infinity.
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  1560. What we can do is put out a mobile game where you can play either as Taiwan or China in a simulated war. Make the Taiwanese forces OP, but allow the Chinese player to buy power-ups with real money.
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  1561. In Canadian dictionaries, the entry for "hypocrite" needs to have a picture of "Anne" Andres.
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  1562. The left does have an interest in publishing and hyping polls that show Kamala in the lead: If she loses, the Democrats can scream that the Republicans cheated.
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  1563. And when you're in traffic court, it's not for a crime, but for an "infraction".
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  1564. Not only did he slay the media dragon, he has vindicated the Citizens United decision.
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  1565. Most of China's growth is due to rapid catching up in industrial technology, leveraged by working the people harder. With four times as many people as the US, we would eventually expect China to have an economy four times the size of the US, if all other conditions remained the same. But they're not the same. It's too early to claim that the corruption has had no effect. It may be that with US levels of corruption China would already have passed the US, or maybe would have bypassed the US years ago.
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  1566. Has anyone died from fentanyl who wasn't using illegal drugs?
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  1567. Ultimately a dictator chafes against reality.
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  1568. It isn't old people ruining politics. The people who want power more than anything else are ruining politics.
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  1569. I worked at Walmart. The reason we didn't have a union was because everyone who had been in a union was against it. The union had not actually raised their wages, and was charging dues for their entirely useless services.
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  1570. The Cardinal Rule of Imbecilic Management: "Every problem can be fixed by an employee who is sufficiently dedicated."
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  1571. She says that the college campuses were "really thick". Yes, but in the British sense of the word.
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  1572. The reason that you can start with any two positive integers and get a sequence with ratios approaching phi is because for any two positive integers a and b such that a < b, the absolute value of phi - (a+b)/b is less than the absolute value of phi - b/a.
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  1573. The simple facts are: Democrats stand for abortion on demand, welfare for everybody, and fringe ideologies being handed everything they want via government fiat. Their party base will be there to pull the lever for them unless you can convince them that the Democrats no longer stand for these things.
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  1574. If comments from trolls stop women from participating in our political discourse, then either no troll goes after Kamala Harris, or she is lying.
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  1575. @1:08: "City leaders and police have been working with REI for several months..." You don't need to "work with" the victim to stop crime. You just have to prosecute it effectively. The city is in the hands of an ideology that doesn't want to do this.
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  1576. I'm a libertarian, but the government should ban unsecured personal loans. It only transfers wealth from poor people to rich people.
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  1577. But the books do have the solutions. Each exercise contains its solution.
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  1578. "It's not 'pouncing' when we do it."
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  1579. Best idea: Pitch the idea to simplify the tax code. Immediately launch a bribery investigation against every Congresscritter who votes against it.
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  1580. The Democrats' whole stock in trade is to grant unearned benefits and privileges to disaffected elements of the American public, at the expense of everybody else. That's not going to change anytime soon.
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  1581. If you loved your son so much, why didn't you marry his mother?
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  1582. You do have to admit that a man in Germany who always says that it's raining is right a great deal of the time.
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  1583. My layman's knowledge of chemistry suggests that releasing ions from a block of dry salt is going to require a whole lot more energy than a 40W bulb is going to put out.
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  1584. Am waiting to learn that the green junk is toxic.
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  1585. When they said that, they meant, "Don't be Republican."
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  1586. How mercilessly did the left mock Quayle and Dubya for their alleged lack of intellect, and yet they're falling on their swords for Biden and Fetterman?
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  1587. To English ears the two ladies speaking West Frisian sound like they're speaking a really funny kind of German.
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  1588. Where has this ditz been the last four years? Money was appropriated to build a wall; Biden did nothing to build the wall and tried to sell of the materials that had been purchased for it. The SC ruled that student loan forgiveness broke the law. Biden went ahead and did it anyway. We could go on.
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  1589. We really should have the death penalty for people who run scams. They are choosing to be parasites on the rest of us, and we owe them no more human concern than we owe to ticks.
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  1590. "I've been following this case in the news. I hope they get the SOB."
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  1591. It so happens that in Florida (and other states), participants in equestrian activities cannot sue for any resulting injuries.
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  1592. Sigh. Giordano was not martyred for his cosmological views. His cosmological views were unorthodox, but it was his specifically theological views that got him killed.
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  1593. I don't care who wins until somebody starts talking smack.
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  1594. Locking up a lawyer for 30 days? There are not a few lawyers who have deserved at least that who are walking around free.
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  1595. The better legal theory for bumping the $9K to $10K is that since the parties agreed that it should have been $10K, it was not a question before the jury and so whatever they said is moot.
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  1596. A lot of these flags come about because some managers have an overwhelming urge to control things that can't be controlled.
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  1597. It's typical public official behavior. Whatever they did was their Gaia-given right and nobody has any business seeing anything wrong with it. Officials from both parties do it, the difference being that the mainstream media usually buries it when Democrats do it, and Democrat voters are more likely to excuse it.
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  1598. I'm waiting for the turkey shoot. That's when an authoritarian government lifts restrictions long enough for dissidents to think that it's safe to speak out. They are then identified and silenced.
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  1599. Regarding deadlines: Deadlines are the bane of software quality. Every non-trivial program, while it is being written, is being written for the first time. There is no reliable way to tell how long it will take to do something for the first time. Each "estimate" is a wild-arsed guess. Managers and the bean-counters will push for these estimates to be pushed down for reasons having nothing to do with whether the deadline is reasonable. Holding developers to these guesses only serves to stress them, causing them to make more mistakes. If the project is not complete at the deadline, either we let the deadline slip--in which case the deadline may as well have not been made--or we can put the project into production as-is, in which case the deadline has forced us to ship an unsatisfactory product.
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  1600. And there is one insurance company which will hire a lawyer to go to bat for the uninsured motorist who hits you so that they can avoid paying out claims for uninsured motorists.
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  1601. The key issue of modern times is the failure of our intellectual establishment to understand human freedom, and perhaps this is by choice. They have taken the position that freedom means doing whatever the hell you want. Some of them do this in order to excuse authoritarianism, others do it to cultivate popularity with the audience that is being granted this license to act.
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  1602. The most unusual part is that fact check really was a fact check.
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  1603. Mexico can best position itself for a permanent and relatively peaceful rise by establishing the rule of law and eliminating corruption.
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  1604. The reason that the left decided that attacking working-class men was a good way to gain their support is because that same tactic actually worked with college-educated people.
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  1605. The funny part is that if it weren't for Barack Obama, Hillary would have been elected in 2008 and probably would have been re-elected in 2012. She should be blaming him far and away more than Trump.
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  1606. In my debates with the left, when I point out the facts that are contrary to their narrative, they flat-out refuse to believe them. "Trump said the sky was blue yesterday." "No! He said it was green!" "I have video of him saying it's blue." "No, I saw that video, he said it was green!"
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  1607. If you look at the successively higher powers of phi, you notice that the difference between the value and the nearest integer grows smaller, and in fact the difference is a power of the inverse of phi. Lucas numbers follow the formula phi^n + (-phi^(-n)).
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  1608. I suspect at some point the Democratic press will simply report fake polls showing the Democratic nominee to be twenty points ahead. The name of the polling company will be invented, and will change at the start of every electoral cycle.
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  1609. The Democratic party abandoned working Americans when it decided to take money from them and give it to people who don't work. And every problem about which Bernie complains is the result of policies that he fully supports.
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  1610. Chomsky probably thinks all telephone poles lean to the right.
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  1611. Now of the media could stop publishing the opinions of Monday morning quarterbacks, that would be great.
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  1612. Actually, the official pastime of California is to embrace every idea that a sensible person would reject.
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  1613. "America's not the best nation in the world." "Oh, which one is the best?" "(Some Scandinavian country) is better." "You know, they have hardly any people of color. Are you racist?"
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  1614. But the lock-downs didn't fail. Their purpose was to make public officials feel important. On that basis they were a resounding success.
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  1615. My favorites shots are @0:49 (the tank shooting on the move) and @0:54 (the guy is walking like a boss).
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  1616. We have a mainstream news media which defines "truth" and "falsehood" is a backwards way. Instead of "This is true, therefore you should believe it," we have, "You should believe it, therefore it's true."
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  1617. No, Malala Harris did not read the whole thing. She tasked an aide to read it and asked for something that could be twisted into an accusation of racism.
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  1618. An accusation of cheating that is not based on direct evidence of the means by which the cheating was accomplished should simply be tossed out.
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  1619. If the people of San Francisco understood economics, California would be a red state.
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  1620. It'd be amusing if some of the people grabbed from the mall were people who had begged their way out of jury duty.
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  1621. Every nation on earth with a First Amendment also has a Second Amendment. Everyone who wants to take away the Second Amendment wants to take away the First Amendment as well (although many are in denial).
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  1622. It may not be well-grounded in fact or law, but I think by the time the courts are done with it, it will be very well-grounded in case law.
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  1623. First use for a time machine: Go back and tell the founding fathers to put the following into the Constitution: "No monies shall be drawn from the treasury of the United States or of any State in order to support any person in idleness."
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  1624. The heavy rains from a few months back is going to bring a whole lot of tofu dregs construction to light. If they're that slap-dash with the part you can see, how slip-shod is the work on the foundation, which you can't see?
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  1625. The training should be that if the card fails on the first scan, the entire sale is immediately cancelled and the manager summoned.
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  1626. It's not the end until January of 2025 or when his successor is sworn in, whichever comes first.
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  1627. The reason the non-tech corporations are lining up behind Wokeness (aside from the few CEOs who genuinely agree with it) is because they think they can boost their bottom lines that way, or because they're afraid. No conspiracy among them is necessary.
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  1628. It's bad enough being the fattest kid in school. Imagine being the only fat person in your whole country.
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  1629. Newsome's not nearly the dumbest. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) is dumber by a country mile.
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  1630. Feminism is only making it hard for men to date. For women, it's their choice to accept feminism that makes it hard for them to date.
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  1631. The Win32 API had a lot of issues, but it was documented as well as any developer could want. I wish the same could be said about DirectX.
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  1632. Google knows that Trump, with a stroke of the pen, can stop all federal government use of any service or software provided by Alphabet. They would survive as a company, but it would make a major dent.
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  1633. So the AI still needs to be told all of the geometrical facts it uses to solve the proofs. Come back when the AI can discover these facts on its own.
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  1634. Ayn Rand said it best: "What is your pass-key to the moral elite? Your lack of value."
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  1635. The moral compasses of Hollywood producers are pointed towards the last place they saw money.
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  1636. Step one: "We have to do X! We have to do X!" When X backfires: "We never said to do X!"
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  1637. I hope that feminism is genetic. Then by refusing to help them have children we can put an end to their nonsense.
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  1638. The reason for any nation remaining mired in poverty is always the same: The rulers have no respect for human rights.
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  1639. The Lennon-McCartney strife should have been #1. Oasis simply isn't important enough to warrant being in the top half of the list.
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  1640. As with most chronic problems, it continues because the government is trying to treat the symptom of the problem instead of the cause. People don't have enough money? Give them money. The money inflates so even with more money, people still don't have enough. Unemployment is the result of people whose skills are not in demand in the market for labor. Fix that, and unemployment goes away.
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  1641. The reason the Hilbert hotel appears to be a paradox is because infinity is not an actual number and so any comparison of it to another number is an invalid operation.
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  1642. It would really help if Harrison Ford had not been so cynical about his roles in the first place. He had no attachment to the roles he's played, no matter how beloved those characters are to the rest of us. If the check clears he's on board. Some selectivity would have forewarned us that this movie, or Star Wars sequel trilogy, was garbage to be avoided at all costs.
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  1643. Another way to approach the same issue is to take the prime factorization of (10^n)-1. Counting only the primes that were not in the factorization for lower values of n, you get 3 when n = 1, 11 when n = 2, 37 when n = 3, 101 when n = 4, and so on.
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  1644. The thing about Computer Science degrees is that this year Congress decided to monkey with business taxation. Normally a business can deduct labor costs from income, so that labor costs are not taxed. Congress made an exception for software developers. Their pay has to be spread out over the current tax year and the following four years. It's the real reason that software developer hiring has taken a hit as of this writing.
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  1645. Maher isn't truly un-woke. He still slams the Bible without even bothering to check if what he's saying about it is true.
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  1646. Giving a nation that has historically lacked anything like human rights, the rule of law, or honest government a valuable economic resource is a recipe for more corruption.
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  1647. The easiest way to tell the value of a degree is to look at the math requirement. The harder the math, the fewer people get the degree, the fewer you have to compete against.
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  1648. What I have noticed amongst the left is their resort to categorization as their primary method of argumentation and even as their primary way of defining concepts. We all agree that racism is bad, but for the left, "bad ideas about race" is effectively the formal definition of racism. If they agree with an idea about race, it cannot possibly be racism, and if they disagree with an idea about race, it cannot possibly be anything else, and the dictionary be damned.
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  1649. Guess who isn't protected by this? The Democrats who shoved Joe off of the ticket. If Hunter has any dirt on them, he can testify in court and before Congress, confessing to every criminal act he assisted, with the biggest s***-eating grin on his face.
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  1650. To answer the question @14:33. The reason that a three-day fast for a healthy teenage girl is dangerous is the character was not doing this from a healthy psychological perspective.
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  1651. Next time they'll say the correct magic words that get them around the Fifth Amendment.
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  1652. Trump is doing this well when every news agency that isn't Fox is forging their own swords just so that they can fall on them for Biden. If our news media were objective the Democrats would have to be several points to the right in order to avoid getting creamed.
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  1653. Fifth Third is going to wish they could go after the idiot employees who just cost them a huge payout.
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  1654. Just think how good Trump's numbers would be if the mainstream news were objective.
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  1655. The Republicans had every major news outlet (except one) against them, as well as virtually every member of the academic, governmental, and entertainment establishments. If the field were not radically tilted left, Republican policies would dominate.
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  1656. I'm now more skeptical about a certain political party's claim to be on the side of consumers versus big business.
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  1657. That first lady is such a clear case of the pot calling the eggs black.
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  1658. Quantum computing will always be the technology of the future.
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  1659. It's the same story over and over and over. Somebody in the government gets the idea of making the economy grow faster than market conditions can support; the effort, no matter its form, produces short-term results but creates long-term counter-forces which must be chronically kept at bay with increasing application of the market fiddling that was seen as such an easy way forward. Eventually the efforts become impossible to implement to the degree required to maintain the system and it comes crashing down. The lesson is consistent: Keep the system honest, but otherwise let the market reward the winners and punish the losers. But nobody ever learns this lesson; officials persistently act as if it was the details that led to the failure, and not the basic approach.
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  1660. I betcha that if any Walmart employee confirmed the alibi, the police response was "That's not what we're hearing from other witnesses. Are you sure it wasn't some other night?" This was repeated until every witness "remembered" the guy being there on some other night. Also, you never tell the police your alibi. You tell your lawyer your alibi. If you tell the police your alibi, they will build a case against the times for which you don't have an alibi, or they'll even try to "prove" that you alibi is a lie. If you don't tell them your alibi, then your lawyer can use your alibi to establish reasonable doubt.
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  1661. The root of China's problems can be summed in one word: Pride. They cover up the bad things, they live for being important and being in charge, they cannot bear to lose face, all of it. Pride is the seminal curse of the world.
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  1662. AI isn't replacing humans at jobs which require human intelligence. If you ask ChatGPT to write a boilerplate feature article it can fit the bill. It can give you the Wikipedia version of events. But sometimes it blunders catastrophically and cannot recognize its mistake.
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  1663. Why do I get the impression that Maricopa County government is irredeemably corrupt?
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  1664. What China should have done during the past few decades is to explore and develop hydroponic food production. Their growing shortage of arable land would be far less of a problem.
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  1665. The left is not indifferent to the effects of its policies. It merely believes that society should be run according to leftist principles, regardless of the effect it has, and the negative effects should be addressed by more government action.
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  1666. A billion dollars was appropriated to solve the homeless problem, and now nobody can account for the money? And nobody is going to jail?
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  1667. What depresses me is that the dissenting judges are usually the ones who usually have the most sensible rulings.
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  1668. Never mind that four attorneys out of five deserve worse than being shackled.
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  1669. Ice-free waters also cause more water to evaporate, which means more water vapor, which means more clouds, which means less sunlight reaching the earth, which means a cooler earth.
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  1670. The root of the problem is that urban planning in the US is horrible. Most US cities have extensive tracts of single-family residential zoning. That means hundreds or thousands of people who need a car to get to work, shopping, or recreation. Once you have to own a car, its marginal cost of us (pennies per mile driven) makes it the cheapest form of transportation for most trips. So all of those people who are using cars are not riding buses or trains. Abolish single-family-only residential tracts, and do a better job of mingling commercial and residential property, and you will see people give up their cars.
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  1671. I'd like a hit of whatever AOC is smoking.
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  1672. I like how everyone talks like C is the the lowest level of programming. Those of us who coded apps in assembler are a bit smug at this.
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  1673. I have never heard from a pundit on the airwaves that the medical system in Canada is a failure. If anything they are as guilty of white-washing it as Jim Carrey is.
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  1674. The one thing that Carlin came very close to realizing is that every enigma about America can be explained by one simple fact: America is a nation founded on the principles of freedom and equality that has usually been governed by people whose regard for freedom and equality has been lukewarm at best and outright hostile whenever it ran against their wishes.
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  1675. The error in any proof about the interior of a black hole is the assumption that the only effects at work are the ones known to science and that the conditions in the black hole do not cause them to behave in an unexpected way. It's possible that quantum effects prevent any object from being smaller than a certain size, regardless of the forces at play.
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  1676. To be a bit more pedantic: A number is constructable if it can be derived via a finite number of quadratic operations.
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  1677. The tubular bells serve another purpose. While Neil was playing them live, Alex was not playing, but instead was switching from the 12-string acoustic to a six-string electric.
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  1678. "Police are supposed to be out there protecting us from crime." Pass that on to New York's governor. She does not appear to have gotten that memo.
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  1679. I've never heard anyone sound as Italian as Joe Piscopo sounds in this clip.
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  1680. To best answer the question in the title, there is a small but very loud group who simply hates technology.
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  1681. When traffic is flowing smoothly, I set my cruise control to the posted speed limit. I've never been asked if I know how fast I was going.
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  1682. If someone would reboot the old Batman show, and keep it just as unserious as the original show with Adam West and Burt Ward, I'd start watching television again.
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  1683. The governments on both sides of the Atlantic had clung to the notion that they know better than the common people, and it often takes the form of pursuing a given social policy as an end in itself, with a blithe disregard for the costs and the consequences, and a firm conviction that any information which might lead the people to doubt their government is necessarily false and must be kept out of the public discourse.
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  1684. The most surprising (and refreshing) part is that the activists are facing actual skepticism from the media.
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  1685. So now we need the sequence of even values which have a greater number of Goldbach representations than any smaller even number, and the sequence of even values which have fewer Goldbach representations than any greater even number.
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  1686. Cashapp is named that way for a reason. Only use it to send money when you would hand over cash to the exact same recipient.
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  1687. If your deployment isn't automated, you're doing it wrong.
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  1688. The NinjaKidz YouTube channel made their own parody of this which ends when the Mother Boxes are combined. Steppenwolf's mother comes out of it and scolds him, grabbing him by the ear and forcing him to go home. Much better, methinks.
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  1689. What will happen is that the cultures which favor small families will dwindle and the cultures which favor large families will prevail. The challenge for the latter is to prevent their children from being inculcated with the former culture's values.
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  1690. It's easy to make your marriage survive anything (except abuse and sexual affairs): End all arguments with sex.
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  1691. The worst person at any stage of software development is the person who makes things more complicated than they need to be. Needless complexity is the enemy.
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  1692. From what I've read from the Innocence Project, the one recurring theme in wrongful convictions is systematic misconduct by law enforcement.
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  1693. If we had a truly objective news establishment nobody like Biden could ever get elected to anything.
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  1694. In every culture people will naturally drift over the generations towards identity based on shared values. Working-class blacks and working-class whites are beginning to see that they have more in common with each other than either of them has with welfare-class people of the same race. It cannot be overstated that unity among the working class, when that unity is not controlled by the elites, is the thing that the elites fear the most.
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  1695. Many of them are Lions fans, too...
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  1696. Actually a lot of the people moving from blue states already have the red-state mindset. It's why they're leaving. The blue states are getting bluer from all of this; it's why there doesn't seem to be any effort to stop the insanity in any of them.
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  1697. All of this punditry leaves out the fact that by prosecuting Trump in New York, the prosecution has a good chance of a jury who will convict regardless of the evidence of what the law says.
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  1698. I do wonder how much extra it would have cost to code many of our applications if NULL had not been invented.
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  1699. I like how every time Trump does something the lefty press reacts as if Biden and Obama and Clinton didn't do the exact same thing, even if they have to lie about it.
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  1700. The best way to recycle plastic is through thermal depolymerization.
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  1701. Should have just stuck with the herbivores. Just as much tourist interest, much, much less liability.
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  1702. How many people noticed that x^3 + 5x + anything has no local maximum or minimum as soon as he first sketched the graph?
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  1703. I sometimes respond to an urban legend, starting with the phrase, "This isn't political, so Snopes can be trusted:" and then include the link to the Snopes article.
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  1704. Not mentioned so far: A large number of recently-constructed buildings were built to very, very low standards. I doubt that they did anything above the bare minimum of foundation work, if that. These floods are going to bring down more than a few of these "tofu dregs" high-rises.
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  1705. "Let's put in all the letters and numbers and puntuation marks. Where's that put us?" "About sixty." "Oh, good, six bits." "But the CEO wants lower-case letters, too." "That puts us over six bits. Seven bits it is." "An odd number of digits just doesn't feel right." "Yeah... I know, we'll add a checksum bit." "Eight bits it is. Glad to hit a power of two."
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  1706. You have to get the Japanese to leave US territory alone. Once Pearl Harbor happened, there was no keeping us out.
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  1707. Keep your gun case where the police cannot casually observe them during a stop.
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  1708. If I were approached on that basis I'd agree to do the lessons in a quiet public place.
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  1709. She's safe from Captain Ahab, because everyone knows he's searching for the white whale.
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  1710. I despair of every getting anyone in authority in the state of California to behave intelligently.
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  1711. It's true that Walz's moral compass is broken, but by and large Democratic voters don't care.
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  1712. The reason that we had that view of the environmental movement while growing up is because we had not learned to question the viewpoint we were presented. It turns out that they were always some variant of anti-humanity: Anti-technology, anti-industry, anti-development, and always, always, always anti-capitalist and anti-freedom. Preserving nature was never their reason. It was their pretext.
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  1713. China will invade Taiwan as a last-gasp effort to build up the CCP's prestige.
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  1714. I've never heard the second myth.
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  1715. They should simply have created a new brand for wokies.
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  1716. Does Detroit still have an income tax on residents? Shift from that to property taxes (or a simple land tax) and it will help bring residents back.
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  1717. I am beginning to wonder why Bill Maher dislikes Trump. Everything reason he gives is a distortion of the facts.
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  1718. The people in charge of Star Wars either have no idea what made Star Wars good, or they actively want to change our thinking about what is good.
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  1719. The banks can't help him, my ass. They simply don't want to.
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  1720. Gaia forbid that the American film audience be encouraged to embrace an objective moral framework.
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  1721. It is completely impossible for a major party candidate to receive a fair trial. That alone should preclude prosecution.
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  1722. A high school friend's dad approached the vandalism issue from a different direction. He detached the box from the post, and kept the box in the house at night. He put it on the post as he left for work in the morning and removed it when coming home at the end of the day. No problems with vandalism, and the post was cheap to replace if there was an accident.
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  1723. If you're going to go to the trouble to produce a science video for YouTube, please learn logic.
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  1724. I don't know if there is such a spell in TWW3, but there should be a spell that makes mortal Chaos followers turn on each other.
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  1725. You aren't practicing the belief that free will does not exist.
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  1726. Your alternative to print debugging is to learn something that is far and away more complex. This does not help.
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  1727. It sounds like China is one big trailer home: It looks nice when you first see it, but after a few years the low quality standards become obvious. The other reason not to buy property in China: You have even less protection from expropriation than you do in the West.
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  1728. This is the case of someone being jackass-stubborn about getting their way.
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  1729. We aren't even close to using up all of the fossil fuels that reside in the earth.
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  1730. My least favorite language is the development framework.
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  1731. Opposition parties do in Singapore what AMD does for the CPU market: They provide an alternative that keeps the top player on its toes. Singapore has a reputation for having no public corruption worth noting. You did not go into whether this more-or-less true or is an artifact of official propaganda.
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  1732. I'm waiting for thermal depolymerization to get to the point where it's economical no matter what the price of oil is.
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  1733. Rand is opposed by the philosophical establishment because she showed us that socialism's apologists are a pack of naked emperors. That's it.
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  1734. Maher is a pragmatist who wants Republicans to lose. He's brutally honest about the Left because he believes that the Left's excesses will cause Republicans to be elected, and argues against their insanity to get them to tone it down so that they can keep Republicans out of office. When he isn't working that angle he is a lock-step lefty.
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  1735. One could argue that after putting the man and the woman into the garden, God waited until one of them tried to order the other one; and then he reversed the relationship.
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  1736. I like how Granholm and Obama dismissed criticism by claiming that they didn't have a magic wand to fix things, and then along comes Trump who fixed things by implementing sound policies.
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  1737. What legal hurdles must be met in order to commit a mentally unstable person to an institution in Finland? Most homeless in the US are struggling with a mental health issue, and their homelessness first became a national issue when it became illegal to put them into an institution without first going through a lengthy legal hassle.
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  1738. Trump voters all sent a three-part message to the Democrats: "He's not Hitler. I'm not racist. F*** you."
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  1739. Simply pass a new law: "A criminal conviction shall have no repercussions if the infraction consists of p***ant bull****."
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  1740. It's ironic that Pol Pot, who wanted to rid the Cambodian people of "foreign influences" had no problem with Marxism or with his goons using rifles, neither of which were invented by Cambodians.
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  1741. While watching 3,714,289 being trotted, out, I first subtracted 35 from the thirty-seven, leaving 214289. The 21 and 42 are each divisible by 8, so those are dropped, leaving 89, which leaves a remainder of 5 when divided by 7, all before the camera cut back to James.
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  1742. You should have limited this to movies in which there is an attempt to make the pseudo-science plausible.
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  1743. Why learn the new language? Because I've been out of work for five months and nobody will hire me for a position requiring that language unless I can prove I know that language.
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  1744. So the judge was hoping that the parties would come to an agreement over the weekend. Once again, a judge is setting aside the law in order to indulge his wishes. The plaintiff had no standing to sue. That should have ended the suit.
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  1745. Sounds like the massive centralization of the music industry is at the root of the problem. A few gatekeepers determine what gets hyped and what does not.
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  1746. Meanwhile, ARM's dominance in the mobile market brought lots and lots of R&D bucks into that line, leading to Apple doing something they've never done before: They released a price-competitive Mac.
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  1747. If the grief of your father's passing brings you to tears, consider yourself lucky.
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  1748. Still can't decide whether Amala is cuter than Brett Cooper or vice-versa.
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  1749. The real civilian gun ownership stat is that American gun owners outnumber the combined militaries of the entire world, including our own.
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  1750. 6. They don't make payroll.
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  1751. I fully agree. We should segregate all non-Muslims to places outside of Saudi Arabia.
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  1752. Take any criticism that the progressive left levels against Christianity, and you will find that Islam guilty of the same behavior, and usually to a far greater degree, without a peep of complaint from progressives.
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  1753. Decades of being able to lie without getting called on it has made the Democrats fat, dumb, happy, and completely unprepared for situations where the left side of the press is skeptical of them.
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  1754. I'm 58. I haven't seen the Democrats be intellectually honest.
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  1755. When I hear anyone use the label "far-right" it tells me that the speaker is part of the loony left and that the person under discussion is somewhere to the right of Karl Marx.
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  1756. The most amazing thing is that graph theory, number theory, topology, set theory, and calculus are all interconnected.
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  1757. Joy Reid is an anti-clue. If she interacted with a clue there would be a massive release of energy with no physical material remaining.
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  1758. It's the same as with any other framework. No framework does everything that can be done with the underlying layer of the tech stack, and someday the requirements will go outside of the framework's box. You will need to know the underlying layer in order to code the work-around. With some frameworks the need to work around a limitation is so pervasive that you're better off not using the framework at all. And when you need a new developer to replace the guy who just won the lottery or got hit by a bus, he needs to know both the framework and the underlying tech layer. That's a greater delay and increase personnel costs.
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  1759. I pity the people who bought homes there when the city leadership was merely leftist and not outright insane.
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  1760. Wickard is worse.
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  1761. The strategic error made by Intel was their failure to get into the mobile market. Whether this was by choice or inability makes no difference. The mobile market had volume sales that even Intel could only dream about, which mean more profits for R&D. ARM designs got better and better. Eventually they hit the B 'N' B sweet spot (better and cheaper) and with ARM desktop systems, the sun will now begin to set on the x86 era.
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  1762. The law should simply state that if the defendant is a law enforcement official in any capacity that they must receive the maximum sentence allowed under law, with all aggravating factors presumed true.
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  1763. Managers crave these numbers because it gives them a sense of control. They crave it so much that they deny the impossibility, like the dictator who denies that good and decent people could ever want to be rid of him.
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  1764. In a strange way it's a good thing that mainland China has wasted so much on these crazy schemes. Just think how powerful they'd be if all of these resources and manpower had been spent building up their military.
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  1765. People assume that knowing statistics will make one more prone to playing poker. Maybe it will make one less likely to play poker.
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  1766. Incel at 6:35! Probably thinks he'd have a girl if these filthy foreigners weren't luring them away with the big bucks and good looks!
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  1767. We have these problems because people are willing to date people they hardly know. If I am ever single again, I will not ask a girl out until I know how she handles money, how she handles criticism, and how she handles not getting her way. These are things you can learn outside of the context of romantic pursuit.
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  1768. Who does a secret Santa in an office of three?
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  1769. Agile's problem is the same as the problem faced by the total quality movement back thirty years ago: It requires managers to think differently. People used to being in charge don't like to be told that their thinking is wrong, and they swiftly fall back to their previous mental habits. What you get is agile's vocabulary being used to discuss waterfall behaviors.
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  1770. It's very easy to tell when a given category of waste is environmentally beneficial to recycle: People who aren't subsidized will buy it from you.
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  1771. Rowling didn't misgender anybody. This person is a man. Possibly a mutilated eunuch, but a man nonetheless.
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  1772. If the Democrats really did feel our pain it would be the supreme instance of poetic justice.
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  1773.  @timh8324  No, you can simply check up on the employees and see who's goofing off and who's actually working.
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  1774. People who reject belief in God but regard the multiverse as a serious theory do so because the multiverse won't tell them who they can have sex with.
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  1775. The main bottleneck in 3d rendering is the need to divide by an arbitrary floating-point value. If you are able to eliminate even one divide operation, everything needed to accomplish it is essentially free.
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  1776. The only reason there are so much barmy economics going around is because there is a short-term advantage in pushing bad ideas.
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  1777. The more general point: Freedom allows bad things to happen, but freedom allows us to address the bad things.
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  1778. Governor Noem would so totally kick Biden's butt in a 2024 match-up.
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  1779. The process by which consumer waste is turned into public debt is called "recycling".
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  1780. After the 2016 elections someone published a set of images depicting how the election would have gone based on gun ownership. If the gun owners had stayed home, every state is blue (Democrat) except for Wyoming (a toss-up) and West Virginia (still red). If only gun owners had voted, the entire nation is red except for Vermont (still blue). A second American civil war would result in the complete end of the American left.
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  1781. Hey Jeff, if you hadn't helped that guy get elected, your customers would have more money to spend on your e-commerce site.
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  1782. Is it a "highly trafficked" area or is it a "high trafficking" area?
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  1783. Of course the mental hospital has access to the Internet, because the Internet is crawling with crazy people.
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  1784. If there is a group of people more sympathetic to the protesters' viewpoint than the attendees at Burning Man, I haven't heard of them. This protest accomplished nothing but honking off people who would have supported them.
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  1785. Taking what one person has worked for, and giving it to someone else because it suits the taker to do so, is the Democratic Party's stock in trade.
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  1786. This is why most Congressmen need to be voted out of office. They could have repealed DST in a day.
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  1787. And the sad thing: You can probably walk from the westernmost point of Iran to the easternmost point of Pakistan, and at every village the language is so much like the last village and so much like the next village that you cannot tell them apart. They could be all at peace; but no, somebody always has the urge to order other people's lives.
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  1788. "Right-wing" = "to the right of Karl Marx"
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  1789. I grew up a few miles from the leader dog school in Rochester, Michigan.
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  1790. For a moment I was worried that this video would be everything it professes to oppose.
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  1791. The best approach to dealing with any official statistic from the mainland Chinese government is to remember that they are liars without shame.
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  1792. If the unions had not made themselves an appendage of one political party, the other party would not have been motivated to knee-cap them.
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  1793. Harris is the sort of politician who believes that she is naturally awesome, without needing to prove it, and that everything that goes wrong is either an outright lie or is somebody else's fault.
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  1794. If you haven't done a "The Drinker Fixes: She-Hulk": a) She starts out as a successful lawyer but a very self-centered person. In the first episode she is walking out of her apartment and runs into her neighbor, who tells her that she is going to divorce her husband because she's found a new man. Pre-She-Hulk agrees with this course of action. b) After works, she goes out to dinner with her fiancé. Over dinner he breaks up with her. c) In her car ride with Cousin Bruce, she breaks down and asks, "Where are all the good men?" Bruce's response: "You ran past them chasing men who were fun." d) Being unable to handle criticism, she blows up at him, leading to the accident. Instead of blood mixing, she gets her powers because Bruce was carrying with him a lock box with a radioactive whizzo in it; it gets broken open and she gets exposed. e) Her new powers, combined with her self-centered nature, cause everyone in her circle to end their relationships with her. f) A superhero situation comes up. She totally hits her stride fighting the bad guys, feeling on top of the world. The bad guys flee, leaving some innocents in imminent danger. She gives chase, and after catching the villains she learns that the innocents she left in danger were killed. g) She walks home, feeling horrible, and as she crosses a bridge she sees a man about to jump off of it. It's her neighbor's soon-to-be-ex-husband. Let's say his name is Wesley. She persuades him to stop, and they go out for coffee. He bares his soul, utterly devastated, and she sees the immense harm caused by something that she approved of. h) It is then revealed that her ex-fiance is the new man that her neighbor has found. She starts throwing cars and other things that warrant a superhero intervention. Her cousin Bruce is only barely able to keep her from wrecking the city. i) The fight ends when Wesley talks her down. "The best revenge is a good life."
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  1795. We really need a brain transplant program, where a person with common sense but in poor health can have her brain transplanted into AOC's body. That way a perfectly healthy body doesn't go to waste carrying around a clearly malfunctioning brain.
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  1796. There's a reason "everyone" gets the meaning of "Closing Time" wrong. The lyrics don't support the meaning that the writer claims for it. And, um, it's been known for some time that Phil Collins wrote "In the Air Tonight" about his then-wife's infidelity. And I don't know anybody who thought "Born in the USA" was intended to be patriotic.
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  1797. On the second story: If you can be acquitted because of your politics, you can be convicted because of your politics.
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  1798. Remember: If you weren't hired, you dodged a bullet. Either you weren't a good fit for the role--in which case you would have been miserable--or they rejected a good fit for the role, in which case management is dysfunctional.
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  1799. Why did you have trouble saying that banning Communists sounds like a good idea? Given their track record in office, that's every sane person's first impression of the proposal.
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  1800. Thanks to smart phones and video conferencing, you can interview in your car on your lunch break.
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  1801. Mitch McConnell looks like some of the fish characters from the Spongebob cartoon.
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  1802. The problem with creating a space for white men is that the space was not created until it became apparent that an election was at stake, and it is palpably obvious that the space will be closed the very instant its purpose is served.
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  1803. The Onion did something funny? That's definitely news.
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  1804. Every application and piece of code, when it is being written, is being written for the first time. Do you remember the last time you did something for the first time? Did it take exactly as long as you expected?
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  1805. Men are not approaching women because a woman can treat an unwanted advance as if it had been attempted forcible rape.
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  1806. There is actually a good reason for stripping the sex-identifying pronouns from performance reports and any other record that is part of the promotions process. It will ensure that there is at least one portion where discrimination based on sex cannot take place, neither in the kind that was prevalent in the bad old days, or the kind of sexism that masquerades and anti-sexism.
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  1807. Every Congressman in a purple district knew his/her days were numbered when Biden was awarded the presidency.
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  1808. I don' think Trump cares at all about the Republican party, beyond the need for there to be enough of them in Washington to preserve his legacy, but if he can get stuff done in Cali, where the state government could only flail about like idiots, he will deal a hard blow to the Cali state Democratic party.
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  1809. We can see that Xi's anti-corruption campaign was only a pretext for eliminating opposition. If he'd cleared away corruption regardless of loyalties, the scope of this problem would be far smaller.
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  1810. TL;DR: If there's a legal way to get what you want, try that first.
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  1811. They won't be completely cut off. They'll still be trying to hack our networks.
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  1812. The most important question in philosophy is "How do I know this?" The kid's first answer every time was, "Somebody told me."
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  1813. Every employer should blacklist the graduates from every institution which has speech codes, selective enforcement of hate speech, or has open Marxists on staff.
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  1814. Hollywood ruins books because the egos of producers leads them to think they can improve on the books. They usually don't.
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  1815. You effed up the explanation of how tipping affects the minimum wage. If the tips do not bring the employee's pay up to the minimum wage, the restaurant is required to make up the difference.
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  1816. The reason there won't be a collapse that brings down the CCP is because the people who aren't party members have been disarmed. If their backs are against the wall, the CCP will simply shoot whoever they believe they need to shoot in order to straighten things out.
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  1817. "People run for office because they want to solve problems." Unfortunately, that problem is, "I'm not as important as I wish to be."
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  1818. The people willing to be influenced by an entertainment figure were already stupid enough to vote Democratic anyway.
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  1819. Also, a black hole cannot be smaller than the wavelength of any of the particles involved, otherwise the quantum nature of these particles would place them outside of the Schwarzschild radius, causing the particle to leave the black hole. This would cause the black hole to shrink because of the lost particle, cascading to a complete evaporation of the black hole.
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  1820. The reason that western liberals don't see militant Islam as a existential threat is because they are focused on retaining and expanding their domestic power, and they don't see militant Islamists as an obstacle to that. To the western liberal, the western conservative is the only enemy of importance.
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  1821. This implies that faster-than-light travel is practical.
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  1822. In California the real election is the Democratic nomination, and that is determined by politicking.
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  1823. The integers are a field for the operation of addition, and are a fully complete field; one of the integers is the identity value for addition and every integer has an additive inverse which is also an integer. The reals are not a complete field for multiplication, because one value (zero) does not have a multiplicative inverse.
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  1824. If our press were truly objective the American political landscape would be full standard deviation to the right.
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  1825. "The vice president has been consistent in her values." Yes, she has, and that value has been to get as much power as she can by any means.
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  1826. You could say that the leakers are in the doghouse, which under Noem is not a good place.
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  1827. "Guilty until proven liberal" is Nazism in a fresh set of clothes.
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  1828. The biggest firearm lie that you will see in film and television is this mythical thing called a 'silencer', which when mounted on a gun turns the ear-splitting BOOM into a soft 'thrip' that's easy to miss. This is so completely untrue that any producer depicting such needs to be prosecuted for deceiving the public.
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  1829. "Racist" is the left's dog-whistle. It means, "you're supposed to hate this person and their ideas, or else you're not one of us."
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  1830. They should remove the judge for having such horrible judgement.
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  1831. A full-color LCD is only 2 bucks, but I was talking to an engineer in the early 90's, and I joking said, "save five cents per unit," and he replied that saving five cents a unit is actually a big deal in consumer electronics.
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  1832. If we had a truly objective news media, what is today called the far right would be labeled conservative, what we call conservative would be labelled as moderate, what we call moderate would be labelled liberal, what we call liberal would be called far left, and what we call the far left now would be involuntarily committed to insane asylums.
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  1833. Rowling has more balls than the men who are butt-hurt about being called men.
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  1834. I do hope that Nikki Haley has the wits to realize that if she were to garner the Republican nomination, the masks will fall off of the Democrats who have been so nice to her lately.
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  1835. This judge has gotten too big for his britches.
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  1836. Who thought it was useful, let alone necessary, to inform a blind person what color the speaker's hair is?
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  1837. "Bring the spent fuel here. We have places where nobody lives."
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  1838. They're not getting that money. If I had $9.9 mil I wouldn't be living in Montana.
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  1839. Yeah, it can't be good for a dictator if there's some guy from California telling his Chinese friends, "No, we don't arrest people for making jokes about our leaders."
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  1840. Canada and California are in a race to see who can embrace the greatest stupidity in pursuit of humanitarian goals.
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  1841. If you get the job and find out that they're lying, continue looking for another job while working for the liars, and once you find a new position, quit without notice. I don't want a job where I have to lie to get the job. Lying to protect a secret is unacceptable; simply say that the topic cannot be discussed due to confidentiality requirements.
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  1842. The people who knowingly use federal dollars to obtain and preserve their power aren't really that intelligent. It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts to buy votes.
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  1843. I'm wondering how difficult it would be to set up a legal race track near Flint.
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  1844. What Winson Smith said about the Party in 1984 is true about the Democratic Party in 2021: "The Party is founded on lies."
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  1845. Administrative errors should never negatively impact anyone except the person who made the error.
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  1846. Most of these ideas are simple corollaries of the principle that the government works for the people.
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  1847. The problem with California politics can be summed up on one statement: The Democratic primary is the real election for all state-wide offices, and most other offices as well. The immediate effect is that getting elected depends more on working the party machinery than it does on either competence or on supporting an agenda that works for everybody.
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  1848. The cultures and sub-cultures which do not value large families will be replaced by ones which do.
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  1849. So the closest thing to a valid rationale is that she might go driving. That's balderdash, but the rationale that someone might do something harmful is the rationale for a lot of laws we have, mostly unnecessary. (Yes, our legislatures should take a second look at these laws and repeal them where they protect us from boogeymen.)
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  1850. Carville went on to tell some kids to get off of his lawn.
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  1851. Just a reminder that no price is too high for the person who doesn't have to pay it.
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  1852. If you want to know what the elites are planning, review what they accuse their opponents of doing.
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  1853. The more Xi runs thing the way Mao did, the more China will be stuck in a tar pit the way it was under Mao. Stolen technology, currency manipulation, and bribery of foreign leaders can only get you so far.
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