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Still relevant . . . https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...

Sounds like just a layman's way of describing the enhanced Fourth Amendment restrictions case law has placed on live wiretaps.

Both of these are different failure modes of adults to parent and/or mentor children. Just because A and B are both bad does not mean C is not a potentially better place to be. Just because lazy teachers and staffers tell kids "you have to learn to fight your own battles" does not make social media A-OK.

Orders of magnitude more Japanese people would have died, but I guess you can just handwave that away as "fabricated evidence" because it supports your priors.

I didn't drive my car into a brick wall yesterday, but just because it didn't happen doesn't make it "fabricated evidence" that it was a much better choice for me not to drive my car into a brick wall.

There are all sorts of reasons why Hokkaido or all of Japan ending up in the Soviet orbit would have been a Very Bad Thing.

The invasion likely would have been stalled, and the alternate plan was blockade of the islands to interdict food supplies, and Hirohito is on the record after the war as saying he feared a Lord of the Flies-style mass breakdown of society after famine.

Literally the exact quote of the historian in the article you're linking:

"Any myths about this history you want to debunk or set the record straight on?"

"The big one was that the Japanese were ready to surrender and would have surrendered even if we had not dropped those bombs. I think that is a myth. Oppenheimer seems to have believed that the weapon was used against a country that was about to surrender—as he puts it, essentially defeated. The Japanese were essentially defeated—that’s true. Their fleet had been sunk and their cities had been burned. But they were not ready to surrender."

"Did the bombs lead to the Japanese surrender on Sep. 2?"

"Two atomic bombs forced them to. The dominant reason [the U.S.] used the bomb was to end the war. [The U.S.] thought the only way to end the war was to use these two terrible weapons."

Ask the orders of magnitude more of Americans and Japanese people who weren't slaughtered in a ground invasion. Or starved to death in the mass famines a blockade would have caused. And all their descendants. Sometimes wars require the least shitty of a menu of shitty choices.

As a home brewer, just because one person tried to salvage crap by dumping hops into the boil does not automatically make all hoppy styles crap. Perhaps more forgiving for less-experienced brewers, but doing them well still takes skill.

You seem to be in violent agreement with my point, because what I was getting at is that you drink coffee for the taste, and I drink IPAs for the taste.

Even though there's a popular strain of edgy internet bro logic that "no one actually likes X, they only drink/eat/wear/consume it because Y."

And this is precisely why desktop Linux has not knocked off Windows or MacOS.

> A more complicated hypothesis off the top of my head: the location of human speech in frequency/envelope is a tradeoff between (1) occupying an unfilled niche in sound space; (2) optimal information density taking brain processing speed into account; and (3) evolutionary constraints on physiology of sound production and hearing.

Well from an evolutionary perspective, this would be unsurprising, considering any other forms of language would have been ill-fitted for purpose and died out. This is really just a flavor of the anthropic principle.

I have one problem with uv as of now, and it's more of an annoyance. It doesn't seem to understand the concept of >= when it's trying to resolve a local wheel I built and use. If I have 6.4.1 published on GitLab and the pyproject says $WHEEL_NAME>=6.2.0, it still goes to look for 6.2.0 (which I deleted) and errors out.

Some really unfortunate acronyms flying around the Microsoft ecosystem . . .

I'll take "things that happen in movies a lot more than in real life" for $600 please.

Bad fuel isn't impossible. I'd just expect it to affect more than two aircraft. But if I also had two unrelated malfunctions in a fighter and a helicopter, I'm not jumping to conclude there's a systemic cause either. Sometimes lightning just strikes twice.

Now if two F/A-18s crashed, that's more suspicious and could indicate a systemic issue in F/A-18 maintenance or operations. But there's a large difference between a helo and a fighter. Different parts, different maintenance procedures.

I'd make a separate case that learned helplessness is a reversible thing, and more highly motivated and self directed devs can be grown.

But leadership has to incentivize not just being a ticket monkey, and needs to mindfully empower people. You can't just flip a switch in a feature factory and say "fly my pretties, be free!"

I think that's a sign of senility more than anything else. There's been articles which show clips of his speech in the 1980s and 1990s. His vocabulary was much more extensive, and he used more complex sentences than the word salad he spews out these days.

Yeah, this is not true. This is the type of argument that people make when they insist that "no one actually likes IPAs and they just want to get drunk quicker."

SAFe is not "advanced" Agile. It's training wheels Agile for managers and execs who can't give up control and devs who want to be told what to do.

Having lived the majority of my adult life in greater Puget Sound, the ferries are great for tourists and a pain for actual day-to-day travel.

Yes, because bad fuel would likely have affected a lot more of the air wing than just two aircraft. I'm sure they'll look into it, and it's a possibility. But it is also possible that those two aircraft just picked that time to break for unrelated reasons.

Jacobin is hardly a credible source.

And here we go with everyone losing their minds about what is almost certainly two unrelated incidents that happened to happen in quick succession. Just because something is improbable does not make it impossible.

The crew rest requirements in NATOPS have not changed in recent memory. I highly doubt this.

The idea that either of them are at risk of being whacked is utter tinfoil-hattery. The worst Snowden has to fear is being convicted and jailed, and it says a lot about him that he fled to Russia of all places instead of manning up and facing trial.

. . . and how many people do you assume own $3M homes? Good grief.

If hypothetical uber-classified goons actually existed, the Trump administration would not be inventing bullshit reasons to misuse ICE under the pretext of immigration enforcement. They'd just disappear people even more secretly.

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, and at least to this point, the Executive Branch cannot get away with "classified" actions within the United States that can't be defended in court under the color of unclassified black-letter law. Even FISA is, in fact, a Federal court. And all the ooga-booga supposed uber-secret SOF units that allegedly exist are military units (to the extent they actually exist), which can't be used domestically under Posse Comitatus. Domestic law enforcement is the FBI's job. No ooga-booga secret CIA unit would have any remit to operate in the US against Americans, especially given the well-known FBI/CIA rivalry.

There are no "Men in Black." It's a fun movie premise, that's all.

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The problem is that "progressive" and "conservative" have degenerated into signifiers of which omnicause a person subscribes to, where their position on Issue A automatically predicts their positions on B, C, D, E, F, G, and H, lest they be cast out of their tribe as heretics.