pluto9

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by pluto9 6y ago
How else should one interpret this sentence other than, "I've already corrected you on this, so you should know better"? > We've been through this argument, recently, and I'm a little disappointed that you'r
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by pluto9 6y ago
Do you doubt that even one does? Because if one does, it gives them such a ludicrous advantage that the others can't even be competitive if they don't.
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by pluto9 6y ago
Good thing all my games are on PC ;) I think people give too much credit to the government for being a rational and calculating actor. I don't find it difficult to believe that they attempted a "men who stare at goats"-style
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by pluto9 6y ago
For what purpose? Do you have any evidence of this?
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by pluto9 6y ago
That's how all of physics is constructed. Even things you may think are obvious, like Newton's 3 laws of motion, are only accepted because they agree with our measurements. How else should we determine their validity? > There a
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by pluto9 6y ago
Let me save everybody a click. From their website: > Suncell® directly generates electricity from reaction of hydrogen to dark matter using water freely available in the humidity in the air. Lol
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by pluto9 6y ago
I don't doubt that you've seen examples of that, but I've seen plenty that go the other way. Heavily downvoted comments that are only slightly defensive of him, and others that rise to the top for bashing him when it isn&#x27
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by pluto9 6y ago
There is little difference in maturity between a 17 year old and an 18 year old, and I would not consider either a child. And 17 year olds cannot be deployed. But since we're being legalistic, yes, we signed the convention. But we did
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by pluto9 6y ago
I enlisted right out of high school. Did my 4 years and got out. I think it made me more mature, or at least less naive about certain things...eventually. The experiences were valuable but it took a long time for me to fully reflect on them
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by pluto9 6y ago
Unfortunately I can't find it now. I was looking for it earlier because I wanted to reread it myself. Wish I'd bookmarked it at the time. Sorry about that.
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'm talking about the men in this article. Both of them were career military officers. It's fair to say that that was their choice. Certainly there's propaganda that goes into recruiting naive young people in the US, but it&#
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by pluto9 6y ago
Sure, let me just call up all my buddies from my old platoon and apologize to them because some internet know-it-all said I should feel sorry for them. They're all doing great, so they'll laugh at me, but that's probably jus
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by pluto9 6y ago
There's an element of the "just working here" mentality, but it's more than that. I was in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, and in my mind, we were fighting against the abuses and brutality of the Taliban. The guy sho
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by pluto9 6y ago
It's not weird at all. Soldiers on opposite sides have a lot in common, just as you might have a lot in common with someone of your profession from a different country. Their conflict is that of their respective countries, or they may
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Then he told me to go fly a kite, because that’s usually what happens when people are wrong and have zero evidence that their stance is right and yours is wrong. It's also what happens when socially clueless strangers interrupt yo
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by pluto9 6y ago
> they take out a large short position, then they publicise their research. If the market agrees with them, the uncovered fraud tanks the stock price, and they make a healthy profit. This is giving the market a lot of credit for being a
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Outside of a city, good luck getting the police to come to your house. Where I used to live they would take at least 20 minutes and it wasn't particularly rural. Even living in the city doesn't necessarily help. I once called
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'm not sure how either of these articles support your point. Your first article is someone criticizing prior efforts by others to reduce public education funding. The only person using the word "defund" is the author. Though
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by pluto9 6y ago
They talked about reducing funding.
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by pluto9 6y ago
That's a poor excuse. They're low resolution, but not so low resolution that you can chant a slogan and then claim you meant something else entirely. Why not "reform the police", or hell, even "disarm the police&quo
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by pluto9 6y ago
This can happen even without regulation, simply because the company doesn't want the risk of using a less-than-fully-tested design. I used to work at a kiosk manufacturer that would do the complete hardware design, fabricate it, put it
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by pluto9 6y ago
> A military’s job shouldn’t include security of the legislative head? Yes , our military does not do that. That is the job of law enforcement. Look up the Posse Comitatus Act. There's a lot to be said about the evils of the milita
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by pluto9 6y ago
"The DOD" (actually just a single National Guard unit) was ordered not to by their civilian leadership until a few hours ago. This has nothing to do with the military's budget or capabilities and everything to do with civilia
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by pluto9 6y ago
It seems to be even more complicated than that actually, on second glance. Also from the Wikipedia article: > Supervision and control of D.C. National Guard was delegated by the president to the defense secretary pursuant to Executive Or
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Is the police force and now the national guard not controlled by the DC Mayor's office? No. National Guard units are normally controlled by state governors, but since DC is not a state and has no governor, the DC National Guard is
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by pluto9 6y ago
They can definitely find replacements, but they're still hurt by the knowledge that walks out the door with their former employees. My previous employer had a large decade-old (at the time) codebase that was only well understood by peo
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by pluto9 6y ago
> I will feel bad exiting (making the rotation even smaller) and without having moved anything in the right direction. FWIW, I've quit jobs on short notice because of poor conditions like this, and my leaving increased pressure on t
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by pluto9 6y ago
Fair point.
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by pluto9 6y ago
It doesn't. The status page is currently showing information about the outage. And the 100% uptime number is probably still correct, since it's only been out for a couple of hours.
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by pluto9 6y ago
Why? It can be inaccurate for individuals because it can show lean but muscular people as overweight, but those people are a tiny fraction of the population.

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