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No, type punning via unions is a gcc extension. The standard only allows reading a value as the type it was written with or as char, and an access as char is only good for copying.…

Assuming brain changes only, more like: looks like a chimpanzee, can't really talk due to throat limitations, can't walk very well, but likes to read and write

The only real solution to gerrymandering is to use a minimally-complicated algorithm. The algorithm need not actually determine the districts. It can instead simply rate proposals,…

I found the comment to be insightful. I'm trying to find his violation, and I can't really. There are a few things that are close, maybe, but not really. "political or ideological …

Ah, but why were there children and old people being murdered en masse? It's because humans naturally resist what was being imposed upon them. The smart and able-bodied are going t…

IDA Pro is far more usable, particularly for heavy-duty long-term users. There is a bit of a learning curve, but IDA Pro has a really efficient interface. You get the beauty and re…

The politician pays the union. The union pays the politician. So both are getting paid, out of money taken by force from the population. Neither has an interest in making this stop…

You also have two parties, the "government" and the "opposition". They are created after the election. At that point, the voters no longer get any say. The voters don't even know w…

Ultrasound does damage brain tissue. It has been studied in China, where evidently it was considered ethical to do so. Search terms: China ultrasound study What this does to the po…

Numerous states had already sued the Obama administration in the other direction. (DACA being unlawful in the first place) Due to those still-ongoing lawsuits, DACA was probably ab…

The direct flight requirement is odd. Adding flights is trivial, and it will happen if Amazon is buying the tickets. Airlines like to make money.

Salt should come from mines. The sea salt craze has always seemed odd to me. Have most people in the USA never been to a beach? Do people really think that the sea is a good source…

How much job capacity do you personally need? Isn't it enough to have just one job? Many cities have that and more, and it only takes one job to support a family. I hope you don't …

This is a good Chinese restaurant, but you hint at a way to improve the menu. The menu should be a grid, properly displaying the matrix.

Hurricanes reach to 60,000 feet.

This is exactly what you'd do in a Concorde, U-2, SR-71, F-15, or F-22. All of these can get to the required FL600, at 60000 feet. The F-15 and F-22 have an extra bonus. They can c…

Regular cars need this. Leave a car for months, and you'll get back to a dead battery. Keyless entry won't work. You can't roll down the windows. Settings may be forgotten. There i…

He comes from a country called South Africa. He's literally an African-American. There would be a birth certificate issue. I suppose he could be president of South Africa.

You say that Zig has no macros, just like FORTRAN, but that isn't a language property at all. Technically, C has no macros, but most people use the C preprocessor. I've seen people…

That is way too dismissive, wrongly comparing total cyclone energy with what we can generate. A more reasonable objection would be that we don't desire a radioactive cyclone. This …

They left out the recent DARPA idea of helicopter-style blades that retract into a disk-like wing. They left out designs that transition rapidly and automatically, without sustaine…

If your non-action could be construed as sheltering/encouraging/aiding the illegal alien with employed in the USA, you're committing a felony. Other coworkers could of course repor…

No, the situation is "take it or leave it". Give all the permissions, or don't get to use the app. There are now even web sites (facebook, google maps, yahoo email) that seem to re…

It doesn't look Marxist to me, and I don't see how you get long-term sustained competition in an unregulated market. Maybe it worked before the invention of the corporation. You'd …

That is just California being California. Other states are cheaper. If you really wanted to be cheap, you could outsource to a foreign country. You could fly people to the other si…