cnnsucks

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by cnnsucks 9y ago
House sparrows (and purple finches) are actually being crowded out by the house finch across North America. The house finch competes aggressively for nesting sites. But it's a pretty little bird so I don't expect any anti-house
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
That's just normal bird stuff. Lots of different birds do that.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
I have a feeder I put about two pounds of seed in a day. Doves, red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, house finches and house sparrows all get their share. The sparrows aren't "swarming" anyone out. If anything the
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
This could be down to older fathers having more basements, garages and tools. There are fewer degrees of freedom when you live in a drywall and carpet apartment.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
>> Why would there be any need for a contingency plan? That question is probably best put the person that wrote the statement and mentioned that it was under discussion: Christian Decker. He is a published block chain researcher and
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
>> the space moves incredibly fast What can you cite that demonstrates any change in the merge situation during the last 4 years?
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
The accepted answer from a Bitcoin researcher sums up the merge problem pretty well; "As for the merge, this is still being discussed and we do not have a good contingency plan." Okay.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Read code written by others. In the case of C there is a large base of high quality open source code you can study. C is a simple language that is used for large scale, complex work so a vast amount of convention and idiom has developed.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Externalization is highly desirable to _all_ interests. The interest of manufacturers is self evident. The interest of environmentalists has a level of indirection; without the frictionless externalization available to manufacturers the p
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
>> Frequency response and total harmonic distortion aren't measured in these cases because they're useful or relevant. They're measured because they're easy to measure. We've evolved our senses around the sign
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
"It's a pretty common criticism of GDP." ...with no more veracity than your hypothetical. You don't understand what GDP measures. You've allowed yourself to believe that the economists involved are naive. You are
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
That's true, but it doesn't salvage your argument. Your accounting fiction isn't a 'service' for the purposes of GDP.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
The premise itself is fiction. The P in GDP doesn't stand for exchange or transaction. It stands for "Product." It measures the net amount of new wealth, not how many times existing wealth is transferred among parties. If
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
>> I am not an economist but I suspect China's debt might not be such a big problem....until it is I'm not an economist either, but I have a working memory, and I can remember being warned about Chinese debt in the early aug
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Mental gymnastics.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Good thing MAD worked.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
"A kid that believes that he is inherently naughty" Occasional negative feedback doesn't create an inherent self-image. "It is not even actionable command" These are children, not puppies; children are perfectly cap
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Because your "5 minutes" is pure bullshit and your engineer knows it. Your engineer knows that if she writes your "5 minute" query without careful analysis, peer review and documentation and the query ever produces a que
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Broken home, broken kids. I know that antagonizes a lot of people, some of whom found their role as parents incompatible with their preferred lifestyle... The truth is a bitch.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
The 5 commissioners of the FCC are appointed by the President of the United States. The commission may not have more than 3 members from the same political party. Effectively this means the FCC is dominated by the party of whomever is ele
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
>> “Engineers are like that,” Mr. Kim said. “We don’t lie.” Hmm. That's pretty general, but he may be right. The engineers willing to lie tend to get promoted to management to do the necessary lying on behalf of the engineers t
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Indeed. I observe that women somehow managed without 32% of all births being Cesarean[1]. The last time I looked up that figure a few years ago it was 24%. What a racket. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/del
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Manuals. Compilers came with comprehensive manuals. When you paid for things like Turbo C++ or Paradox or MS Cobol you got a well edited, indexed and quality printed book that covered the entire language and tools comprehensively. From t
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Typical rent seeking behavior that happens during long periods of peace.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Ok, so you're past claiming that "pretty much everyone in the country" has the benefit of "wide availability of cellular service that provides broadband speeds." Well, that's progress anyhow.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Is that actually the case? The cell services I know of have very low caps, one or two orders of magnitude higher cost and suffer congestion problems.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
"Conclusion: Parallelization isn’t too bad in either language. Each has its own annoyances. In Go’s case, this is due to not having a real type system. In Rust’s case, it’s due to the libraries being immature and not doing everything y
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
I would, since the figures show that it's not necessary. If it becomes necessary it will be because WMF failed to control spending growth, something the cynic in me says is likely.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
Yes, geology is a big factor in engineering a well. Pressure is another. Every well is engineered to the prevailing conditions and requirements. Sometimes it is possible to elide heavy casing which can save large amounts of money.
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by cnnsucks 9y ago
"Anyone know as to why this is the case?" Think of a telescopic antenna. That structure is similar to what is done to bore a well. You start with large casing diameter and add progressively smaller casings until you reach the ta

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