big_chungus

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by big_chungus 6y ago
I am suddenly very envious of Pakistan.
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by big_chungus 6y ago
The obvious warning - be very careful if you intend to fire it, do your reading first, yadda yadda. It's legal in America, though some states restrict production of certain things. Yes, you can absolutely make a non-replica, but if
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University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT(wsj.com)
229 points by big_chungus 6y ago|351 comments
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by big_chungus 6y ago
And you want us to believe it will be okay if the government just "does something"? When will people quit turning to the federal government to solve their problems and take responsibility for themselves? Everyone ought to make h
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by big_chungus 6y ago
I'll note that you edited your comment after I posted my reply, and are now making it sound like you didn't. It originally included something to the effect of, "This shouldn't be allowed to happen."
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by big_chungus 6y ago
I hope this convinces people to become more self-sufficient overall and grow a little of their own food. Living farther out from dense urban cores on more land will help, and conveniently, it will also make one less likely to fall ill. Te
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by big_chungus 6y ago
Dark sky is not a public good, it's a for-profit business that puts a shiny interface on the same information available to everyone. It also added user reporting and analytics, so added material value. The app cost money. Why don&#x
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Redactable Blockchain, or Rewriting History in Bitcoin and Friends [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
3 points by big_chungus 6y ago|2 comments
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by big_chungus 6y ago
> Math: > + - * / Why no modulus operator? While it could be implemented, it seems like a bit of an oversight.
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by big_chungus 6y ago
So sorry to hear that; praying he gets well, along with all others sickened. Thanks to him and to everyone else who worked on the internet; they're the reason why we can still function and communicate at all.
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Threads Considered Harmful(web.archive.org)
4 points by big_chungus 6y ago|0 comments
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by big_chungus 6y ago
Not all, no, but a good few do (I'm sure this varies by industry, region, etc.) Ambitious people tend to do so more than others; there are only so many promotions/pay raises/etc. to go around and I'd rather I get it tha
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by big_chungus 6y ago
There's also a third group with an equally-valid point: the people who don't want to pay for any of it. I think they've gotten drowned out by the others.
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by big_chungus 6y ago
> You're willing to sacrifice a million people to keep your house of cards economy going instead of fixing the root cause. There's this bizarre idea that the only people who are harmed by a bad economy are "those evil one
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by big_chungus 6y ago
Where do you get that conclusion? You think crashing the economy won't hurt people? > Shame on you. Seriously?
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by big_chungus 6y ago
Am I missing the part that makes it upsetting? I was expecting something full of cusses and ad-hominems.
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by big_chungus 6y ago
This is exactly right. The economy has grown to unsustainable levels based on the economic habits of the average American who can't be bothered to save, hence the crash we're seeing now. At sixty hours a week, that guy should be
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by big_chungus 6y ago
How is shrinking the government to blame? It's expanded colossal ever since the new deal. Grover Norquist, the guy you're quoting, is not an elected official. He was just saying what he believes. That's pretty weak eviden
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by big_chungus 6y ago
The worst-case projection is 1.7 million: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est... . If the media hadn't spent weeks fearmongering and spinning this as some killer exotic plagu
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by big_chungus 6y ago
3.28 million people are already out of work, likely a good deal more than that. One million are most at risk. There won't be zero impact, but that's less than a third, right out of the gate. Long-term we'll see significant
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by big_chungus 6y ago
For this not to bankrupt the nation and retard our growth for the next twenty-five years, we need to all go back to work, today. Even if coronavirus kills a million people, the rest will probably be fine in the long term. If we shut down
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Critical Vulnerability in Mumble VoIP(github.com)
2 points by big_chungus 6y ago|0 comments
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AP exams will be held online this year(campusreform.org)
19 points by big_chungus 6y ago|12 comments
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by big_chungus 6y ago
I just re-discovered MTG a week or two ago. I was wondering with a few friends what we could do to socialize, and as none of us are big video game guys, we decided to try playing via Cockatrice. I was able to quickly set up a server and g
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Rand Paul Has Coronavirus(twitter.com)
13 points by big_chungus 6y ago|2 comments
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by big_chungus 6y ago
407.32 this is the best I've seen. The guy who made it got 461, though, so I think he's got the high score. I did get 438.34 on this: http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=035420.KS&currency=KRW&name=... Seems
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by big_chungus 7y ago
This order won't get individuals arrested, either. It's more targeted at businesses: no place to go, why bother going out.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
In a big enough depression, even "the one percent" might not produce enough to cover that sort of expense. Where else where you go? This has a global reach, so you can't really borrow from the next country over. Can't
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by big_chungus 7y ago
That's kind of a big statement to make without support. What do you mean "viewed as a utility"? What policy or economic outcomes would result from that? Remember, utilities aren't perfect either; they're still mo
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EU Closes Borders Due to Coronavirus(cnbc.com)
2 points by big_chungus 7y ago|0 comments

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