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10d ago
"Make America Great Britain Again"
I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a meme (complete with the not-yet-deceased queen) back in 2016. Life imitates art.
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10d ago
Are you being literal here? Having your hand pinned to a table with a fork sounds like a permanently crippling injury.
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24d ago
If the doubt over Russian Propaganda is the basis of raising questions, then you have an odd way of going about clarifying the potentially lamentable situation.
I think what the OP meant is that it would be lamentable if some people are really considering leaving over their belief that this place is full of Russian propaganda, not that the OP himself believes that the Russian propaganda is here.
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2mo ago
I don't think optics are made from cloth, and anyway they can always fall back to iron sights.
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4mo ago
Couldn't you test saliva? I assume that the virus is present in there if the bites are transmitting the disease? Or maybe cerebrospinal fluid, though that might be hard to sample from a very smol animal.
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4mo ago
Wait, you can't test an animal for rabies without killing it? Wtf?
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5mo ago
I'm afraid they just did it for the alliteration. There's nothing beyond. You have reached the apex of penis enlargement.
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6mo ago
David Friedman was a regular on SSC and is still active on one of the splinter forums, so chances are you heard about the book somewhere around these parts.
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7mo ago
(Presumably using group policy objects.)
A monarchy running on Windows? I shall fight against this travesty to my last bitter breath.
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7mo ago
OP doesn't sound very offended to me.
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7mo ago
Are you talking about the Vincent Weiguang Li guy? If so, then it seems like a very non-central example of a homeless bum. Guy had a degree, used to work steadily until his schizophrenia worsened, used to be married until his schizophrenia worsened. Wasn't on drugs. At the time of the happening was living with his ex-wife, so wasn't even homeless. And seems that he was in fact institutionalized for several years afterwards (up to nine, depending on how you count).
I'm taking those facts from Wikipedia, so grain of salt.
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8mo ago
I think prescriptivism is of vital importance, because without it language is completely incoherent. I find linguistic descriptivism to be rather vapid, actually - all you can really say as a descriptivist is "that person sure is using word X to mean Y". You can't actually say whether it is correct or incorrect.
You can say whether it's correct or incorrect, it's just that "correct" means "consistent with language norms of a particular time and place" rather than "consistent with the eternal unchanging Platonic ideal of English".
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8mo ago
How about multiple levels of Verizon customer support not being able to tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents? The discussion somehow reminded me of this ancient saga: https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
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8mo ago
Eh, not really? Executable files have structure in them other than raw code and still have to be parsed by a loader. A file that's all zeros should fail to load. (Yes, I know DOS had .com files with were just code blobs loaded at a fixed address and immediately executed and I'm sure there are even more ancient examples of that sort of thing, but surely Windows kernel modules can't work like that.)
Anyway, the rumors I've read said that it was actually a data file and that's why they considered it acceptable to deploy it on a Friday -- the assumption being that changing configuration without rolling out a new version of the executable wouldn't break things too badly.
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8mo ago
From this, it kind of sounds like rather than having an on-disk data representation that would be parsed and converted to an in-memory data structure, they just loaded the file and accessed the raw bytes as a data structure with internal pointers. Which is... an approach, I guess.
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8mo ago
That leaves Trump 3-1 at the moment, and I would say the sentencing in the New York conviction (currently set for September) is likely to get delayed until after the election (when, let's face it, it ain't going to matter)
Wait, hold on. Is this actual optimism or am I wildly misreading?
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8mo ago
We have chestfeeding at home.
Also he edited out the Ben Carson brain surgery question.
Huh? https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/16/hardball-questions-for-the-next-debate/
Maybe he did edit it out and then restored it, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that he'd be worried could get him in trouble.
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9mo ago
I too find it incredibly sad when the ones that do write about sensitive topics toe the line dishonestly, e.g. like Nick Bostrom did on race in his apology, and Eliezer and Scott Siskind on trans issues.
Why do you believe that Scott is dishonestly toeing the line on trans issues rather than genuinely believing whatever he wrote?
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9mo ago
They are not only playing those games. They keep winning them and getting away with it.
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9mo ago
Perhaps wild nature is in fact a giant suffering engine that should be abolished in its current form.
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10mo ago
From a SYG perspective, the key question is whether Perry was right on the merits, which comes down to how sympathetic you are to street protest in general and BLM in particular.
Isn't the fact that he was driving the car on a public street trying to get to his destination enough to make him right on the merits?
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10mo ago
There are startups working on synthetic milk. Seems like it would be easier to make than synthetic meat. At least nobody should complain about texture.
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10mo ago
Animals don't turn sunlight and rain into meat. You need to feed them plants. Which you have to grow first. Possibly on vertical farms run by hippy vegans.
Some animals can graze but I think this could sustain only than a small fraction of current meat production (after a quick googling, I saw the figures of 10% of beef production and 30% of sheep and goat meat production being sustained by grazing).
Maybe general distrust of government and (healthy?) paranoia that once a government has some capability, it will eventually find a way to use it in evil ways. I'm sure all five principled libertarians that exist in the world have been doing that kind of thing long before Trump, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
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