Kroem3r

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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Well, it was until you pulled back the curtain.
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
if Ukraine had retained the nuclear weapons, they would have been the Russian weapons, and Ukraine would not have been flirting with the EU/NATO sphere, etc ... your implication is tempting, but does not include all the story
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
You can imagine the pretty natural go-go-stop behavior. "Good for prestige: go for it." versus "Going to have Mossad and cruise missiles all over the place; shut it down!" versus "Bring it on you !@#~!!!~!ers!"
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
The failure of Democracy to scale. More specifically, the failure of people who would have common cause within some topic to actually come together over that cause and effect a change. Instead, people seemingly fall victim to 'wedge is
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
well, and also 6 year olds. Every now and then, while talking to a 6 year old, I try to imagine what it might be like to be forensically interviewing one. Very tricky and very easy to leave the result of such an interview open to post hoc c
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Interesting, but it does not settle the question as to whether the US justice system is inconsistent based on the nationality of the corporation. This list might carry some weight if it discussed the fact that some of these are settlements,
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
The Great Tranformation by Karl Polanyi, wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer, and just finished Anne of Green Gables
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
That was the point that I stopped reading. I started out looking forward to the map regarding "thinking" but it seemed a foregone conclusion.
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
What did you make of the discussion toward the end of the article, where it discusses ensuing lightening of the jaw bone?
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Yep. Nope. You've outed yourself in an unfortunate way. Everyone wants to do business in the US and everyone is prepared to jump through the hoops to do that business. US regulation accomplishes a bunch of things, including adding fric
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
It's a fine example. Are you saying that 3 case statements is too many? Why optimize the code to support cases that don't actually exist yet? Or even better, why optimize the code in ignorance to how it will need to be optimized i
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Funny you should say that, that's my family motto: "Qui stupidi sunt, ut strenuus me". That he thinks it is ok to cut through residential neighbourhoods because the freeway is backed up is more than stupid, really. It is dang
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Hard to say. Some places need 3 x 1 hr to figure out if a person has the chops. Other places can just figure it out. IMHO, it does seem unnecessary and could point to the area of difficulty, but some places are just goofy that way. For sure
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Yep. But it's not. The difference is that utilities are especially regulated because they have monopolistic operations. Part of the quid pro quo for going forward with the monopoly is that they have to be open to buying power back from
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
This is the one thing that I will not forgive MS for. They bought the lead guy from Borland rather than compete against the product. I guess it's all fair in business, but it was a gutless defense of VB - an admission, actually - that
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Ya, good call. It is a super interesting fallacy that people interested in disassembling dysfunctional status quo models should be good at calling-out. Something like a "post hoc rationalization". For me, another use case is &#x27
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
I'm calling it: TOD, 12:20 AM PDT REUTERS - In the small hours of the morning Irony coughed up a lung and died. It had been on life-support for nearly a decade when a seemingly innocent ...
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
Pff. If 'molten salt' reactors are an inch closer in 10 years, I will eat my hat. The idea is only slightly more appealing than having the reactor fly around under it's own power. What makes you think The Economist is interes
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by Kroem3r 12y ago
search and replace as the last launch step
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This Is What the GOP's War On Science Looks Like(io9.com)
3 points by Kroem3r 12y ago|1 comments
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The Verdict on Thatcherism Is Clear(thetyee.ca)
2 points by Kroem3r 13y ago|0 comments
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Kind of sad, really, because it once had some useful meaning - like 15 years ago. And we hardly need another synonym for "clueless douchebag". I have to admire the trajectory of the word's decline. It joins the ranks of &quot
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Ya, no doubt. But perhaps he took it as an opportunity as he was stepping away from prominence to do something positive with it. A favorite example being Eisenhower's farewell address.
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Why Boeing? Why not Motorola? It would seem to come more naturally to Moto; I mean if they built jetliners there would have been no reason to invent the phrase "jet lag".
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
This seems like a myth to me. Radar? Rocket engines? Turing? Stealth bomber technology? Nuclear powered aircraft carriers? ICBMs? Stuff that was happening regardless of a war and stuff that was nearly useless. Perhaps military first adopter
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
I think it is newsworthy, but not for the technical details. It's newsworthy because it's such a huge budget, because it's been neutered, because fusion energy research is pathetically funded, and because NIF is like a mean o
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
This is newsworthy despite "They didn't get more fusion power out than they put in with the laser"? After decades of work they are orders of magnitude away from break-even. Makes me wonder if the goal is actually break-even a
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
My fave is when the wheels freeze to the ground; so when the noob guns it - since the truck seems reasonably warm, yet stuck - the drive shaft snaps. Depending which universal joint breaks, the flailing remains can cause impressive damage.
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Pardon the snark, but I think that you and that misnamed philosophus dude missed the boat on this one - perhaps you didn't read the entire piece? The punch-line is that non-participation in shared (public) resources by the wealthy is a
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
You will find flood stories from around the world, from peoples with no contact with each other. You're looking at some combination of common unconsciousness or events at the end of the last ice age.

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