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Britain's move to representative democracy from a monarchy is somewhat of an example, although one could argue that power is still concentrated.

No, there's no evidence in science of reincarnation or an afterlife.

It's impressive to see the difference between the dagger as it was discovered and as it's been restored, but I'm really curious to see what it would look like in "like-new" condition.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if a city is composed of city blocks and by induction then a whole city is surrounded by roads.

This is a strong claim, without any evidence to back it up. There may be some truth here, but against most metrics, UCs are among the top research institutions in the world with amazing contributions to science, medicine, etc. etc.

Could you explain where you're coming from?

I think part of it could be the 9% guarantee[1] which mandates that the top 9% of California high school students be offered a place at at least one UC.

[1]: https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

If you're sick of Roku's ads and constant conflicts like this, consider a device such as https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/ which runs Android.

The terminal in JetBrains apps is smart enough to know when ctrl-c means copy and when it means abort. It's definitely a solvable problem.

I watched a well-made documentary recently that talks about fire management and controlled burns in California. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in forest ecology, fire, etc. https://www.amazon.com/Not-If-But-When-Solutions/dp/B08FFDGJ...

If the reason they do these things is for money (which I think is fair to assume) then money is clearly an effective incentive. The fines just have to make it unprofitable.

Google assistant does this. You can hum a song, or sing and it will recognize it with decent accuracy. Though humming camp town races lead me to this gem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFykQIrPCk

Thanks, this is inspiring to read. Booking my ticket now... ;)

I appreciate you taking the time to write something so thoughtful and sincere, and I really hope OP takes it to heart.

Love and empathy is the only way to healing in my book.

I guess I was imagining a conflict as the result of a race condition. Two concurrent changes are made where if they were ordered, there would be no conflict.

So like a branch that automatically rebases on another branch? I think the issue with this is the inevitable conflicts and race-conditions. While nice in theory, often you need manual control to sort things out.

I'm dying to know if this post is satire.

Hopefully this isn't what you meant, but behavior like that isn't acceptable regardless of how common it is.

Am I being naive? I think it would be pretty absurd to lie about this.

I don't think anybody want this to be career ruining. It is really hard to check assholes with authority. The least we can do is take this person's complaint seriously.

In case OP shows up, we believe you and support you! Speaking out like this is hard but it's the best way to help the community you love.

I always wondered if this happened in the middle east, with essentially the same cause. It seems hard for me to imagine that the "cradle" of civilization began in such an arid place, though it would be quite fitting if civilization transformed it.

Grain bins and silos aren't the same thing https://ilfbpartners.com/farm/the-difference-between-grain-b...

My team does something similar to this. We write our Terraform configuration as Python literals with list comprehensions, conditional expressions, etc., then use a script to dump it to JSON which the Terraform command line can parse.

Here's an example: https://github.com/DataBiosphere/azul/blob/develop/terraform...

I'm confused, do you not believe there is "political organizing" outside of the guise of astroturfing? And even when political organizing is just astroturfing, isn't the motivator just the same as Google's profit interest?

Whether you believe it or not, you have a lot more power to influence government (locally at least) than you do to affect what Google does. That was my only point.

At least with government we have the powers of oversight and political organizing. It seems like a better bet then a corporation who's accountable to a bottom line, or owners.

> because water used to be much harder to sanitize

They actually addressed this in the article, but sanitizing water is as simple as boiling it which is much less involved than the process of making beer.

This sounds really interesting and would love to learn more about this. Do you know of any resources, articles, books, etc. that talk about this?

True. I only mentioned then because they're virtually omnipresent and are transmitted from skin to skin contact where a condom offers only partial protection at best.

Many other STDs need some sort of fluid transmission which is at least easier to avoid.

Also, the vaccine only protects from a few of the hundreds(?) of strains of HPV. It protects from those varieties that are most likely to cause cervical cancer, but generally not those that cause genital warts.

It's common in western Europe and parts of Africa.

It looks like you might be being downvoted, but this is super valid. Herpes and HPV are extremely common among those who are sexually active. It's virtually impossible to avoid either and have lots of sex with multiple partners.

But obviously one can have lots of sex with a single monogamous partner though without any new risk of STDs.

Look, I agree with you. I don't think we should mess with anyone's genitals without their consent. I'm just pointing out that there's data to support the health concerns.

Obviously there's some trade off here, and I don't think it's worth it to circumcise anyone without their consent or medical necessity.