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The word "government" appears twice in the posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

The word "capital" does not appear in the posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

The word "control" appears in 14 posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

Not one of the posts revealed by the above searches mentions anything about the purpose of bitcoin being to avoid government capital controls.

I've NEVER seen anything purporting to be from "Satoshi" that outlines the goals/motivation for the project - other than what's in the first few paragraphs of the seminal paper.

The word "government" appears twice in the posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

The word "capital" does not appear in the posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

The word "control" appears in 14 posts attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto on that site.

Not one of the posts revealed by the above searches mentions anything about the purpose of bitcoin being to avoid government capital controls.

I've NEVER seen anything purporting to be from "Satoshi" that outlines the goals/motivation for the project - other than what's in the first few paragraphs of the seminal paper.

private insurance was. Your premiums are going up because medical care isn't something that should be paid for by the private sector. It's too complex. You can't 'shop around' for a heart transplant like you can for a breakfast sandwich. Also, you can go without the breakfast sandwich. You can't go without the heart transplant.

The ACA was a bad law. But it was the best we could get with a Congress full of Republicans and Blue Dog Dems. We already know the solution, which is Single Payer. Bernie Sander's has a townhall meeting coming up to discuss it. Hopefully it gets some traction and we can join the rest of the civilized world (who pay 1/2 what we do for better results).

I suspect that the 99% figure is the complement of the Pearl score (i.e.: a pearl score of 1%).

i.e.: if 100 women use it (perfectly) after 1 year you'll witness 1 pregnancy.

Now imagine :
  - The users aren't applying the method perfectly (actual real-world pearl score is higher).
  - According to the Google Play Store page, there are WAY more than 100 women using it.

So you're bound to see quite a few pregnancies.

That's why, in the medical field, when you DEFINITELY want to see NO pregnancies (e.g.: because a female patient is on a medical treatment that happens to be horribly teratogenic), you always advise the patient to combine *TWO* different(*) contraception methods.

---

(*), No putting two condoms doesn't count. And is actually a pretty stupid idea (hint word: rubbing).

The Google Play Store pages mentions between 100'000 and 500'000 installs, and there are around 6'000 evaluation.

As it's a method with a non-zero failure rate, and given the significantly huge number of women using it, *pregnancy are bound to happen*.

Duh.

(Also note that the 99% is if the method is used always perfectly. Actual real-world result are going to be worse due to mis-use)

china is however pushing hard on EV's and removing coal.

It's obviously not effective:

China: https://www.google.com/search?...
United States: https://www.google.com/search?...

Talk is cheap, results are all that matters.

china is however pushing hard on EV's and removing coal.

It's obviously not effective:

China: https://www.google.com/search?...
United States: https://www.google.com/search?...

Talk is cheap, results are all that matters.

You're not giving your forth child a forth machine/a??

Also, how much of this focus on autonomy and electrification is for boosting stock price?

Every deeper investigation I've read suggests Level 4 or 5 autonomy is a long ways off.

Also the standard knock on electrification is that if your electricity is majority generated by coal or other dirty or dangerous means, you're actually using coal-fired or nuclear cars.

I most assuredly support clean tech and vehicle autonomy, but I have a suspicion there's a lot of hype here for non-obvious purposes.

Also, how much of this focus on autonomy and electrification is for boosting stock price?

Every deeper investigation I've read suggests Level 4 or 5 autonomy is a long ways off.

Also the standard knock on electrification is that if your electricity is majority generated by coal or other dirty or dangerous means, you're actually using coal-fired or nuclear cars.

I most assuredly support clean tech and vehicle autonomy, but I have a suspicion there's a lot of hype here for non-obvious purposes.

Unless the SWAT officer left the station "OH BOY I GET TO KILL SOMEONE TODAY!!!!" it's not premeditation.

Even leaving the station telling people that wouldn't be sufficient. Not for a cop. They can literally say, "I'm gonna kill this motherfucker" and still get acquitted, as long as the victim is black.

I think you're looking at it incorrectly to see negative campaigning as a free speech issue.

Well I'm certainly not alone.

An Ohio law against false campaign ads struck down on free speech grounds:
https://scholar.google.com/sch...

A position paper on the topic:
https://object.cato.org/pubs/p...

An explanation of the free speech issues surrounding negative campaigning:
https://www.factcheck.org/2004...

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Ember actually is losing popularity, as per Google Trends and a recent survey done. But, yes, React is the framework to learn right now; it's overcoming Angular.

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Some books on EBay

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Clientserver = Client ASKS QUESTION (nothing more) to GET BACK ANSWERS from server.

* Javascript's abused to deliver malware & tracking!

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Chris,

The discrepancy is obviously related to the way the sites handle operator precedence when you entered the data and you have to adjust for it.

Since you are renowned for having a problem with operator precedence and that you don't even know what an operator is, I would follow that other poster advice and hire an accountant,

Read what Chris Reimer (cdreimer) wrote here:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

You are such a perfect miracle imbecile Chris!

I can't believe that you are actually imbecile enough to post this thread here. It makes you look like an even more imbecile fucktard yet.

As some have stated on that thread "dot is NOT an operator", you fucktard! Apperently, you did not read the thread yourself or more likely, your ameba brain reading comprehension doesn't allow you to understand its content.

It's like asking: What is the dot operator precedence in Linux Slackware 1.2.3? You can't daisy chain dot operators in Windows versions (e.g. 3.1, 3.11, etc.)

What is the precedence in the 2.5 IQ that you possess?

And if you ever asked about real operators the word is "Precedence" you fucktard!

Dots are not operators in ANY OOP language you silly fuck!

See java:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase...

For python, you could have googled it but no, you needed to grab the attention on that google group and didn't care that it made you look like a total fool.
http://reeborg.ca/docs/oop_py_...

See example in above link:
Fido.head.mouth.teeth.canine.hurts();
Other example:
Criemer.head.brain.isHurting(); This is always false because your head is empty you dumb fuck!

But Criemer.head.isEmpty() always returns true...

I'm not convinced this is the case. Xue != Sharp and Liang != Eye.

It's more likely it's this XueLiang meaning 'bright as snow'

https://translate.google.com/?...

Then again that can mean 'sharp (of eye)' or discerning.

https://www.linguee.com/chines...

Interestingly the associations with snow and discerning sight in Mandarin are the opposite to the way they are in English.

Compare for example 'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath (or the System of a Down cover).

The Carrier plant Trump took credit for saving is moving jobs to Mexico and getting away with it after Trump gave them tax payer money to keep jobs here.

AT&T announced a bonus due to the corporate tax bill that raises middle class taxes, but then they announced mass layoffs.

Walmart also announced pay increases supposedly thanks to the middle class tax hike republicans pretend is a tax cut, but they also announced mass layoffs.

All of the companies that publicly honor Moscow Donald immediately kick off mass layoffs, so I'd be worried if I worked at Fiat / Chrysler right now.

Well, you didn't have to make those excuses for worker bonuses and raises for 8 fucking years as Obumbles did his best to "remake the US economy" more to "progressive" ideals.

Yep - "remake the US economy" is the "progressive" dog whistle to turn the US into an economic copy of Venezuela - because "equality" and "FWEEE STUFFZ!" are sooo important that we have to starve ourselves.

https://www.google.com/search?q=obama+%22remake+the+economy%22

Reading those stories from almost a decade ago now are hilarious. Some "recovery" we had under Obumbles.

You'd think Obumbles had never run anything in his entire life.

Oh, wait. He never even ran a two-person 7-11 shift.

No wonder his "remake the economy" - based on unicorns farting rainbows - never worked.

Yet within a year of Trump taking office, black unemployment is now lower than it has ever been. That's gotta HURT for you stupid progtards.

Hell, a few more years of Trump's "failures" and maybe Democrats won't be getting 99% of the black vote. Heaven forbid that inner-city blacks realize that a century of fealty to Democrats has gotten them nowhere (and yes, it's going a a full century that Democrats have ruled inner cities in the US....) Without that unthinking, captive voter base, Democrats are gonna pushed out of power like shit out of a goose on ExLax.

Damn, no wonder Democrats are so into allowing illegal immigration and "sanctuary", and against voter id even though positive voter id is a UN requirement for free and fair elections (yes, it actually is).

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All the AA regulations say/do is that a company has to keep records of it's hiring decisions. At no point in time did AA have quotas. That was a myth. This isn't to say individual institutions might not have done quotas, but it wasn't AA that made them do it. It was a private decision (and also one that, had anyone bothered, could be challenged and ruled illegal. Yes, being a White Male is a protected class).

You're fury is being directed towards Affirmative Action so you'll ignore the real reason why you're not getting ahead: That your productivity no longer keeps pace with your wages.

The point is to divide the working class into castes of some kind. America does it with race. India does it with a literal caste system. Japan used Buddhism to create an underclass deemed 'unclean' and the UK had classes. It's the same pattern over and over and over again. The aristocracy is few but they claim anywhere from 50%-80% of the wealth. You can't do that unless you divide and conquer. Don't fall for it.

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none of the ruling class liked him. Yeah, there's plenty of corporatist sellouts on both sides. And Hilary is, well, just awful. Vote in your primary. If you and everyone else had done that we'd be saying Mr President to Bernie instead of a guy that confuses Call of Duty with the real world .

Say your Google flagship Pixel phone is broken and you want walk-in repair. You can visit one of those locations. There are fewer of those than Apple stores, so good luck finding a location near you.

The problem with Android is the illusion of choice. You thought you had choice because there are so many phones to choose from when buying, but in reality the ecosystem is so fragmented such that there is no economy of scale to sustain the customer service infrastructure. Using the wrong part for repair is a worse risk for Android because there are too many models.

Furthermore, iFixit repairability score indicates that while scores for 2016 models are comparable between Android and iPhone, several Samsung phones got much worse in 2017.

Let me know what else you are wrong about so I can correct them for you.

Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):

Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.

George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis. Zucker @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.

What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/

Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDEN!

Maria Abramovic (satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen) A jew https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22Maria+Abramovic%22+and+%22jew%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ just like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky (rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer)

"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...

Harvey Weinstein the sexual predator tops it all off.

There are 4 types of people who call themselves Jews:

1. True Torah Jews = Descendants of Prophet Jacob-Israel (Jacobites or Israelites) (about 5%-10% of all Jews)

2. Sephardic Jews = Persian descent.

3. Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews: these are the descendants of a Turkic idol/phallic worshiping tribe who migrated to Russia in the 7th Century A.C. and whose nobility converted to Judaism in the 8th Century A.C. and now inhabit mostly Europe. (about 90%-95% of all Jews)

4. Zionist Jews: these are the ones from the 2 above who are pretending to be Jews for political reasons but whoâ(TM)re are actually Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.

They are led by the neo-Pharisees (occult-priest-banklords). They want to establish a Zionist Luciferian state from the Nile to the Euphrates from where they plan to rule the Earth. The new Israeli Supreme Court funded by the Rothschilds Banklords is full of Masonic Symbols, just like the B.I.S. Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is

You know oil companies pay 30-40% royalties on oil leases, on top of corporate taxes. 3 of the top 10 taxpayers are oil firms.

Even if they underpaid royalties (I doubt it), that doesn't help them without a robust demand for their product.

and/or major man-made boundaries (Major roads, highways

The problem with using a road as a boundary is that it means someone just a few easy steps away can be in a different voting district. You want to keep people within easy access of each other in the same district, and separate the districts along actual transportational barriers. That means not roads unless it's something difficult to cross like a freeway.

Using actual transportational barriers as a boundary also means these two houses with adjoining backyards might not be in the same district, which makes sense if you look at the 7 mile route between the two!

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I'm running to represent Maryland's 7th district. It looks like a dragon coming out of a volcano, so I'd quite like to not see it changed much at all, except maybe to include the Starbucks in Mt. Washington because it's readily-accessible by public transportation and highway.

The point is to represent these particular people in Congress. I've actually left campaign material on Elijah Cummings's door--I'm running for his seat and I used to live on his street, just a few blocks down. Andy Harris may lose his seat because Allison Galbraith is extremely popular in his own community--she lives right in the same neighborhood.

We have local elections for local legislative districts, putting Delegates and State Senators in place to change State law. Congress changes Federal law. My jurisdiction includes the Baltimore Inner Harbor, and my constituents want me to lobby for Federal money to help restore the Chesapeake Bay due to simple environmentalism and its incredible economic value (lots of fishing, tourism, and the like going on there). Representatives of other districts have less focus on the Bay.

You'll go to these restaurants because their prices will be lower. You'll need the lower prices because your wages aren't keeping pace with your productivity, meaning your labor is worth less every year. So to keep your head above water you'll shop at anti worker businesses because they'll treat their people like crap and pass a portion (a small one) onto you.

You're not destroying the working class and following your fellow men and women to a new gilded age like lambs to the slaughter, you're saving money, living better...

new boss.

Same as the old boss.

The company is still run by white dudes like Damore at all levels.

White dudes at all levels, huh?

More to the point, his suit alleges that Google systematically discriminated against white men (and especially conservative white men) at a bunch of levels. The brief is here - IF what is claimed is true, then it looks like he's right.

The time constant for earthquake building codes is several decades long. Most of the California earthquake building codes stem from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake (mag 6.4). Most schools back then were brick buildings. Brick walls have no lateral strength - any sideways motion makes them simply fall over. Most of the schools in the Los Angeles areas were severely damaged or destroyed by the quake. But fortunately it hit around 6pm well after school hours. The realization that thousands if not tens of thousands of schoolchildren could've been killed if it had struck earlier in the day is what got the state to start imposing strict earthquake building codes (and banning unreinforced brick buildings).

But older buildings were grandfathered in. Brick structures weren't required to be reinforced until after 1971 San Fernando earthquake. That's when they began requiring steel bars be drilled into brick structures with square retaining plates at the ends, to keep the bricks from falling over under lateral load. You can frequently see these square plates in brick buildings on TV shows and movies, since many of the scenes are shot around Los Angeles. Most of the newer "brick" buildings you see in California are actually wood or concrete structures with a fake brick facade.

But we're learning new things from each quake. The 1994 Northridge quake in particular was eye-opening because one nearby seismograph measured vertical accelerations in excess of 1g (others measured close to 1g indicating it wasn't a fluke or malfunction). Up until then, it was thought that the maximum vertical acceleration possible from an earthquake was about 0.1g. Northridge shattered that assumption, and revised building codes take the possibility of strong vertical accelerations into account.

Anyhow, because of grandfathering, the time constant for most buildings to comply with improved regulations is several decades (average time until an old building is torn down and rebuilt). The difference in dollar damage between Loma Prieta and Northridge is almost entirely attributable to location, not because lessons learned from Loma Prieta got applied within 5 years. The Loma Prieta quake was centered in a forest about 20 miles from downtown San Jose, nearly 60 miles from San Francisco and Oakland. The Northridge quake was centered directly underneath the San Fernando Valley suburbs, and about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Casualties would've been much higher had it struck during the middle of the day with the freeways jammed with traffic (a section of the I-10 overpass in LA collapsed). Fortunately it struck at 4:30 in the morning when most people were asleep in their relatively safe 1- and 2-story homes (the frequency of most earthquake shaking matches the resonance frequency of 3- and 4-story buildings, which are the majority of the ones which collapsed in both quakes).

By the time lessons from previous disasters get applied on a wide scale, increases in population and corresponding infrastructure pretty much offset any reduction in damage due to improved safety standards. A better statistic for comparing over time would be average cost of natural disasters per capita for the year (basically canceling out population growth). You could even make an argument for using the ratio of natural disaster cost to GDP (basically canceling out infrastructure growth). (And of course, normalizing for inflation is a given.)

The time constant for earthquake building codes is several decades long. Most of the California earthquake building codes stem from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake (mag 6.4). Most schools back then were brick buildings. Brick walls have no lateral strength - any sideways motion makes them simply fall over. Most of the schools in the Los Angeles areas were severely damaged or destroyed by the quake. But fortunately it hit around 6pm well after school hours. The realization that thousands if not tens of thousands of schoolchildren could've been killed if it had struck earlier in the day is what got the state to start imposing strict earthquake building codes (and banning unreinforced brick buildings).

But older buildings were grandfathered in. Brick structures weren't required to be reinforced until after 1971 San Fernando earthquake. That's when they began requiring steel bars be drilled into brick structures with square retaining plates at the ends, to keep the bricks from falling over under lateral load. You can frequently see these square plates in brick buildings on TV shows and movies, since many of the scenes are shot around Los Angeles. Most of the newer "brick" buildings you see in California are actually wood or concrete structures with a fake brick facade.

But we're learning new things from each quake. The 1994 Northridge quake in particular was eye-opening because one nearby seismograph measured vertical accelerations in excess of 1g (others measured close to 1g indicating it wasn't a fluke or malfunction). Up until then, it was thought that the maximum vertical acceleration possible from an earthquake was about 0.1g. Northridge shattered that assumption, and revised building codes take the possibility of strong vertical accelerations into account.

Anyhow, because of grandfathering, the time constant for most buildings to comply with improved regulations is several decades (average time until an old building is torn down and rebuilt). The difference in dollar damage between Loma Prieta and Northridge is almost entirely attributable to location, not because lessons learned from Loma Prieta got applied within 5 years. The Loma Prieta quake was centered in a forest about 20 miles from downtown San Jose, nearly 60 miles from San Francisco and Oakland. The Northridge quake was centered directly underneath the San Fernando Valley suburbs, and about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Casualties would've been much higher had it struck during the middle of the day with the freeways jammed with traffic (a section of the I-10 overpass in LA collapsed). Fortunately it struck at 4:30 in the morning when most people were asleep in their relatively safe 1- and 2-story homes (the frequency of most earthquake shaking matches the resonance frequency of 3- and 4-story buildings, which are the majority of the ones which collapsed in both quakes).

By the time lessons from previous disasters get applied on a wide scale, increases in population and corresponding infrastructure pretty much offset any reduction in damage due to improved safety standards. A better statistic for comparing over time would be average cost of natural disasters per capita for the year (basically canceling out population growth). You could even make an argument for using the ratio of natural disaster cost to GDP (basically canceling out infrastructure growth). (And of course, normalizing for inflation is a given.)

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"delivering premium devices with integrity" - thousands of customers would disagree...

https://issuetracker.google.co...

Patched Win7's FASTER! I noted it by 'feel' & saw I'm NOT ONLY ONE (formal tests on Win10 though) https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11574131&cid=55874785/ & everyone KNOWS 10 is slower!

I prepped for speed-hit (I'll take accuracy & security vs. speed) - but they did what I do in MY work!

(vs. security issue riddled "so-called 'solutions'" in remote DNS/Antivirus/routers making you slower OR 'souled-out' solutions in addons (adblock crippled to NOT do 1 job (far short of what hosts do for speed/security/reliability))):

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Ads/script/malware rob speed/security/privacy/bandwidth.

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster via local RAM!

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See subject & https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/delphi-object-pascal/ & does all majors https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/

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Deals in strings & made sense for performance advantage (Object Pascal's string function library = excellent).

* Delphi SMOKED MSVC++ (former personal fav by DOUBLE++ in math & strings which every program does) in 4/6 tests @ a competing trade journal (VB Programmer's Journal) in 1997 Sept/Oct issue "Inside the VB5 Compiler"

BASIC = 1st language in 82, COBOL 85, & C in 92 (buffer overflows in null-term'ed strings) so I did Delphi (stringlength = 'built-in').

APK

P.S.=> "Old classics" NEVER die - C gains now due to industrial automation & automotive work imo

Updated on Windows 7 & it's FASTER vs. before! I noted it by 'feel' & saw I'm NOT ONLY ONE https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11574131&cid=55874785/ !

Was prepped for a speed-hit (I'll take accuracy & security vs. speed) - but they do what I do in MY work (vs. security issue riddled "so-called 'solutions'" in remote DNS/Antivirus/routers making you slower OR 'souled-out' solutions in addons (adblock crippled to NOT do 1 job (far short of what hosts do for speed/security/reliability)):

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C is a miracle, it changed the World and it was and us super efficient to achieve engineering results.

For some, it did. For others, it set the field back by a decade or more (including efficiency).

It was developed by a most talented researchers, in an engineering environment.

Seriously? It was developed by adding random things onto something that was originally unusable crap cut down from another language until it was usable enough. If this is what "most talented researchers" are still doing, may Universe preserve us.

Figure out some way to fund the billions in development costs, legal/IP issues and marshal the necessary talent then maybe... Of course, there is no reason to believe the result would be any better: RISC-V memory model has severe problems due to underspecified memory ordering that were revealed by formal testing and are still being resolved. Perhaps this is an example of an open process working well, but just throwing out RISC-V doesn't guarantee a bug free design.

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Clientserver is ALL ABOUT THAT (making it better for you as the client the important consumer of info). Idea being a client ONLY ASKS A QUESTION (nothing more) to GET BACK ANSWERS from servers (web/db).

* Javascript's rampantly abused to deliver malware & tracking!

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See subject: Clientside script defeats client-server model logic (running script clientside raising your powerbill). CGIBin/WinCGI does same serverside (ISAPI/NSAPI libs/dlls too) NOT RAISING CLIENTSIDE POWERBILL (sucking up YOUR cpu cycles, RAM & other forms of I/O doing so).

Clientserver is ALL ABOUT THAT (making it better for you as the client the important consumer of info). Idea being a client ONLY ASKS A QUESTION (nothing more) to GET BACK ANSWERS from servers (web/db).

* Javascript's also rampantly abused to deliver malware & tracking!

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This reminds me a bit of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Conjured up as a joke, and now people think they seriously believe in him. Here in the Netherlands there was even a lunatic who wanted to do his Ph.D. defense in Delft with a colander on his head: https://translate.google.com/t...

See subject: Clientside script defeats client-server model logic (running script clientside raising your powerbill). CGIBin/WinCGI does same serverside (ISAPI/NSAPI libs/dlls too) NOT RAISING CLIENTSIDE POWERBILL (sucking up YOUR cpu cycles, RAM & other forms of I/O doing so).

Clientserver is ALL ABOUT THAT (making it better for you as the client the important consumer of info). Idea being a client ONLY ASKS A QUESTION (nothing more) to GET BACK ANSWERS from servers (web/db).

* Javascript's rampantly abused to deliver malware & tracking!

APK

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See subject: Clientside script defeats client-server model logic (running script clientside raising your powerbill). CGIBin/WinCGI does same serverside (ISAPI/NSAPI libs/dlls too) NOT RAISING CLIENTSIDE POWERBILL (sucking up YOUR cpu cycles, RAM & other forms of I/O doing so).

Clientserver is ALL ABOUT THAT (making it better for you as the client the important consumer of info). Idea being a client ONLY ASKS A QUESTION (nothing more) to GET BACK ANSWERS from servers (web/db).

* Javascript's rampantly abused to deliver malware & tracking!

APK

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"1. American immigration laws should be enforced."
Sure but some common sense compassion is just what's right here.

"2. There is no evidence that police in America apply different standards to white citizens and non-white citizens."
How about the first link I found on the subject that even sites its research. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
So basically, white folks do far less time than black for selling drugs on average. Sure, it's not police exclusive but it is most certainly tied to the same core problem.That's a single example on the issue.

"3. Islamic fundamentalism motivates the violent act committed by many extremists and must be combated and defended against using within the framework of foreign diplomacy, foreign aid, military policy, and immigration policy."
Sure but on the other end forbidding immigration to some of the most vulnerable peoples of the world is criminal (in a moral context). Just because a person is Muslim doesnt mean they should be treated differently when they seek aid from mass violence. Proper screening? Of course. Banning? These are fucking human beings suffering here.

"4. Government benefits should only be provided to the demonstrably infirm or aged citizens and not be made available to able-bodied persons of working age."
So children in poor families should go malnourished thus greatly diminishing their future competitiveness and thus increasing the likelihood they will be unproductive as adults? What a truly amazing idea that is.

There's nothing truly racist happening here but minority communities who are disproportionately poor will suffer far more with such a policy than others.

"5. Restrictions on the sale, ownership, or possession of firearms punish the law-abiding and do not make any dent in violent crime."
Please see gun violence and homicide rates for any first world country of comparable wealth. You're creating the purist of fictions on this claim. Our mass gun ownership is making us far less safe than in comparable countries.