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USA, USA, USA... no but seriously wtf?

The solution to balance it is batteries or any other energy storage solution.

Plastic found in water contained in a plastic bottle. Not really shocked.

In my experience. The brain mostly follow the money and that inflates the salary for everyone in that area. The very talented individuals who stay "home" get pretty much the same p…

Is there a line between where light neither escape or get swallowed. Simply just stands still in perfect balance between being pulled and escaping?

Makes sense, just like for cern and probably several other previously free riders that's being removed. MS is going for a personal subscription based lisencing solution in the near…

Well AMD has a "death grip" in the console market. That's kind of their equivalent. If they gain access and spit the Intel monopoly in the laptop market then AMD can become Intel f…

Anorexia heard of it. That's what happens if you choose not to eat. Yes you die but it is a choice (ish, a desease? yes, but stil a choice(of madness)). Being a parent is time forc…

Are you forced to have a job, groom, eat or sleep?

Not a forced activity? Not a parent I suppose. It is as forced as work. You don't have to work just as you don't have to have a child.

Well my guess is that they are planning for a time where they cannot use US tech. They planning on being self sufficient as a country.

Depend on where you live. About 20-30% of the global pop cannot.

An error occurred with this part of the page, sorry for the inconvenience. Atleast that's an improvement :P

The only way for the society to learn is by doing. We need people who are gifted and have no grit and people who are not gifted but has. Also don't tell every child they can become…

Point being. Grit is what gets you places.

Plenty of countries manage to conspript pretty much everyone at a certain age. Train them and let them home without having a special problem with them. Now what is the US army doin…

Sorry to say, but I stand my ground. I believe it is the left % that is the root issue. As said without further explanation in my initial comment. (it's the same issue on almost ev…

Assuming it only loops once in the query yes, that's 5 seconds. But (and I'm guessing here) having it in the where directly leads to something like a n+1 issue for full tablescan/n…

I think the root of your issue is the %text% leftsided % is horribly slow.