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19hr ago
This is what makes Atlas Shrugged evergreen. Its depiction of a society that regresses technologically not because of loss of knowledge or expertise but simple loss of will will always be terrifyingly plausible.
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19hr ago
At that level of dilution, the radioactivity would not be detectable above background, let alone acutely hazardous.
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19hr ago
The problem is the "morally unimpeachable" requirement. The only way to gain this attribute is to avoid doing anything of real substance.
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19hr ago
Why wouldn't that be covered as a search incident to arrest?
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1d ago
Nobody else mentioned it, but as best as I can tell 100% of the attempts to scam friends and family have been from subcontinentals. They stole my friend's elderly mother's savings, without remorse. Kitboga alone has probably done massive reputational damage.
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2d ago
Perhaps, but it still has to be someone's job to do that for it to get done. I think Charlie is probably correct that whoever was managing the remaster didn't know or simply forgot that this was a thing that was needed, nobody got the job, and nobody at that level took the time to QA the final product.
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6d ago
You don't have to actively care about something for it to have profoundly affected your life. In fact, I would guess that often the most disruptive things are the ones that people move on from, because that's how you get past it and move on with your life. But it will still have affected you!
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6d ago
Ultimately we are both going to have to fill in the blanks as to what the "proper" interpretation of the rubric is. I suppose it comes down to who you trust to interpret the rubric properly - the instructor or Fulnecky. In this case, I have to give a little deference to the professor, because she created the rubric and I've experienced similar grading standards in the past. I suppose this sort of thing is what the University is interested in finding out.
I agree with all of this. My problem is I just don't have any confidence that these kinds of standards are applied in a consistent manner, and I don't have any particular reason to trust this particular instructor any more than I trust the rest of University administration, which is not at all. I will never, ever, forget how much this story about a University essay crushed me: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-accepted-stanford-after-writing-blacklivesmatter-100-times-application-n742586
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6d ago
You could get a LTO-9 robotic tape library capable of storing a lot more data than that for a few million.
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8d ago
I don't doubt it will be a tough cycle for Republicans, but off-cycle elections are not very reliable indicators, because gaps caused by differing voter propensity are greatly magnified compared to normal on-cycle elections.
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8d ago
It's one of the few things they can do that can't be undone by a judge.
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9d ago
In part, as a corrective to the perceived over-sensitivity of the prior military bureaucracy.
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9d ago
How so? People are justifiably killed in the process of routine law enforcement all the time.
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11d ago
Perhaps not, but you are the one bringing up the context of a criminal trial, which does not otherwise seem relevant.
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12d ago
I think Nyb is talking about cases where it could be clearly demonstrated that the President was not involved in the approval process. Later saying he would have approved it anyways wouldn't cure that.
I think there are two related reasons: one, motivation dies quickly after becoming mired in bureaucracy. Someone who is highly motivated to provide a mentoring opportunity for a group of boys might not be able to find the drive to complete more than a single form, let alone typing up paragraphs of baloney. Same thing hampering science IMO.
Second is legitimate fear of liability. Even if you jump through all the paperwork hoops, even a minor accident can easily result in years of expensive legal wrangling, even if you ultimately win. Insurance against this is expensive and yet scourge bureaucratic hurdle to doing anything.
As usual, if you want to make the world a better place, first kill all the lawyers.
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16d ago
A better analogy then would be that the SVP of your division says your boss is still employed, but a SVP of a different division which contains HR says he's not
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17d ago
I just finished the CP2077 main storyline yesterday, but I had left a lot of the side jobs undone. I'll definitely be going back to do some of those, but after a while I really miss the humor and sarcasm of, say, GTAV, which makes just wandering around the world fun.
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21d ago
Treason is defined in the literal constitution in a way which doesn’t seem to apply here (who are the enemies of the United States being given aid and comfort to?).
Treason and sedition are two different things. However, U.S. code does not authorize death as a punishment for sedition.
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24d ago
I finally read The Road by Cormac Mcarthy. Great book, and hard to put down, with no chapters or any other breaks at all. I don't know why I mentally associated Cormac Mcarthy with abstruse James-Joyce-style "literary" fiction, but while the book has a large vocabulary and was semi-poetic at times it was not hard to follow. Might check out some of his others.
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25d ago
They can and have been doing that over the last decade. It's just a nontrivial amount of work and not a high priority.
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25d ago
There's very little developer energy for desktop applications for any desktop platform. Mobile apps and their promise of easy monetization has sucked up most commercial interest, and cloud-backed client apps get most of the rest. Even open source dev energy seems most interested in services, not desktop apps.
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29d ago
Even if you were prevented from selling it for several years, at which point it may or may not be worth anything? Most people need actual money to live on in real time.
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29d ago
True, and they were blamed accordingly
Low - they typically use resistance heating elements that cannot thermally runaway because they become more resistive the hotter they get, they are manufactured from flame-retardant material, and have integral overcurrent detection and/or GFI sensors to prevent short-circuits. Since the heating elements are directly against the body, they don't get all that hot.
I would also suggest a fleece or flannel hooded-cloak-style bathrobe. These can be worn over clothes and are effectively a wearable blanket. The long cloak-length ones should cover your legs.
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