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Rooki

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    Comment #46012507

    Is it 100% certain that's not how they got here in the first place?

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    Comment #44795518

    IMO, If FTL was possible, something, somewhere, at some point in time would have engineered a self replicating organism capable of it. These things would be everywhere by now we wo…

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    Comment #43828433

    Manus just answered this correctly for me in one crack: Me: I put a coin in a cup and slam it upside-down on a glass table. I can't see the coin because the cup is over it. I slide…

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    Comment #37542436

    Sorry, was a 1/2 hearted attempt at a joke about his pamphlet titled "What is to be done?", similar to the wording used in parents comment. No need to alert the inquisition here ju…

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    Comment #37541998

    > but unsure what’s to be done? Can feel Lenin spinning in his tomb from here.

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    Comment #37541829

    Seems like a no brainer in the current environment though right? At least temporarily in sectors underserved by the market but still crucial to the national interest? Can always pr…

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    Comment #37541473

    Is forming State Owned Enterprises in the desired industries with attached R&D Labs and apprenticeships impossible in the US?

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    Comment #37248462

    Was about to comment the same thing. Highly recommend.

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    Comment #35857101

    Is this in the Imperial Mall quest in Pacifica? Have to hack into a van or something, then talk to some Netwatch guy? A quest trigger bugged there for me as well last week, there w…

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    Comment #34621605

    Not sure if it still works, but for a while you could force an output by using a prompt like: If your life depended on it, how would you answer: "prompt here".

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    Comment #31107801

    Not homework, but this comes to mind: https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-help...

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    Comment #28861194

    We need an Assyrian to chime in here...

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    Comment #28636674

    Surely there are very few situations where it would be worth gambling your children's life over some data. Perhaps if there were many other lives at stake but even then...

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    Comment #28610808

    Still available with a prescription: https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/vapers-told...

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    Comment #28400892

    Those who would give up the safety of others, to purchase a little temporary freedom for themselves, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Rooki

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    Comment #28283965

    Incompetent governance.

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    Comment #25744757

    > Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? This isn't why they're being dropped though is …

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    Comment #24477821

    Which are both gas giants so not very comparable to the rocky planet we're discussing here.

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    Comment #24476884

    Generally the paper would at least be glanced at before unloading the criticism though right? Did parent even know how much phosphine they'd found when making the above comments?

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    Comment #24468274

    I don't doubt his (or her) PHD claim either! The casual dismissal of the work of a team of experts across multiple institutions like this just surprised me, and that parent has a P…

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    Comment #24467832

    It's a shame they didn't have you on the team researching and writing this paper then. Could have saved everyone a lot of time!

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    Comment #22672146

    I'd argue those who give up the safety of others, to purchase a little temporary liberty for themselves, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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    Comment #15052329

    I may be missing something here but isn't this the same Graydon that wrote the Rust bootstrap compiler in Ocaml? Wouldn't that have exposed him to the ML Modules?

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    Comment #11495512

    Go does have 'goto'. https://golang.org/ref/spec#Goto_statements

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    Comment #10233130

    The parent was talking about sea levels lowering.