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terryf

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    Comment #49188894

    There is no "should" there are only "is" or "is not" The universe has no need to be fair.

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    Comment #47364220

    Yes! This is exactly the point - machinistic enforcement makes no sense in case of speed limits. All laws about driving explicitly say that at the end of the day it's the driver's …

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    Comment #47357713

    I meant a 911 but thank you for answering a completely different point than what I was making.

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    Comment #47357063

    The speed limit example is a great one. Consider a road that has a 35mph limit. Now - which of the following scenarios is SAFER: a) I'm driving on the road in a brand new 4x4 porsc…

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    Comment #45489061

    Rakes exist you know - we use those for our yard. It's not that hard really.

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    Comment #45406924

    Yes, this has been done for a while now, speculative execution + register renaming is how this happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming

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    Comment #41431661

    > and you're unlikely to keep hitting "this is green" several times in a row I did. Because it was green!

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    Comment #41354752

    Would you have remembered to write this comment if the fields had never been added back? In the case you describe, there are three possible outcomes, in broad categories: 1) The fi…

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    Comment #41317911

    Fair. It's just interesting to me that lower in the thread with less votes there are actually insightful comments that have real content and the most upvoted comment is the one tha…

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    Comment #41317778

    How does this comment contribute to the discussion? The guy is happy about his watch and goes into great detail explaining how it works and how it's made and why. Why comment in su…

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    Comment #41288580

    Thank you!

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    Comment #41288551

    Good article content, but wow the article looks great! Really incredible! If by any chance someone knows the tools that were used to make the big-font subtitles (or the whole page?…

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    Comment #41190299

    Thank you for this explanation. This is really interesting. I'm not deaf, so this is very difficult for me to understand, but that doesn't mean it's not important. I'm trying to fi…

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    Comment #41189962

    This is certainly true, but I don't understand what you are trying to say in the context of this thread?

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    Comment #41189649

    I'm certainly not part of the elite even in the current deathful world :) And yes, of course there will be issues, difficult ones. But life is, was and will always be filled with d…

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    Comment #41189584

    Yes, it is a bit selfish. But it is also okay to be a bit selfish from time to time. After all, it is your life. Of course, this needs to be carefully balanced. But doing things ev…

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    Comment #41189261

    Wow these comments are depressing here. Of course I want to live as long as possible! Because life is awesome! I want more of it! The fear of death is of course real, but that's no…

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    Comment #40725665

    The starving, and heavily repressed citizens do not have access to the internet in NK. This attack did not affect any of them to any extent. Whom it did affect a bit, hopefully, we…