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enave

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    Comment #13475020

    I don't doubt that Bataan is the original, original context, but as far as software engineering goes, the term comes from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Y…

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    Comment #13063928

    Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate

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    Comment #12820904

    Is there a reason why the company spells their name with an "e" instead of an "o"

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    Comment #12416839

    I'm surprised the government hasn't just sent a banal request to everyone along the lines of, "you are required to disclose every known space alien who uses your service and you ar…

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    Comment #12413980

    You have a common misconception. Antibacterial soaps don't cause bacterial resistance. Antibiotics do, but that's because antibiotics must selectively kill bacteria while inside th…

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    Comment #12203314

    Maybe, but it's a much better name than mysql. I feel like a little kid every time I say "my" anything.

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    Comment #12184398

    > the MRM seems to be not limited to trying to make things better for men but also endless attacking women ?? Are you implying that feminism is limited to just helping women? Surel…

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    Comment #12184338

    > Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism. But the evidence of sexism is the existence of the imbalance. This whole thing is circular.

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    Comment #12184296

    Yes but there's no alternative to living, so it's not a factor to consider.

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    Comment #10841142

    > if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. …

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    Comment #10841141

    > if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. …

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    Comment #10841140

    > if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. …

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    Comment #10824257

    This is true. The reason there's a scene in the movie, 2001, in which HAL plays chess is that at the time it was thought that playing chess well required real human intelligence. B…

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    Comment #10792131

    After the show peaked girls who had grown up watching it entered puberty. They remembered the lessons

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    Comment #10781122

    >Cultural absolutism: us good, them evil. >Cultural relativism: under these social circumstances, those moral preferences are likely to emerge. This strikes me as the fallacy of th…