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Never played the backyard games. For me, the ultimate nostalgia trip along these lines is the excellent Little League Baseball for NES.

The US has historically been quite opposed to the workers becoming shareholders.

So, are the landlords wealthy or not wealthy? I don't get it.

Who owns the capital for those future investments? Who will receive returns on those investments?

Question begging, basically. The contention is that they were railroaded and maliciously overprosecuted, it's hard for the answer to be "enough to convince a jury of their peers."

Imagine you are a restaurant reviewer. Your job is unquestionably to go to restaurants, order and eat food, and write a review. The restaurant's job is to provide you food to eat and review.

You go to a new restaurant, and order some dishes, and one of the plates your server brings out is a big ol pile of dog shit.

Who's being anti-social in this situation? The restaurant is doing its job and all they're asking is that you do yours. On the other hand, you have certain expectations about what you order from the restaurant and they're not being met. Who's anti-social?

If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.

Selling winners and buying losers sounds an awful lot like "buy low, sell high".

In the US it's illegal for someone who's not a postal worker to put things in your mailbox for exactly this kind of reason.

And when you find that your state senator's votes don't actually matter, will we start engaging in federal politics? I suspect, if it makes the right person a buck, that even once the federal legislature votes against it, you'll find a treaty or free trade agreement or something requires those votes to be overridden. And by the way, the data center was built and began operating 10 years ago.

I believe there are still some echoes of the concept. Even top engines will play certain grandmaster draw lines unless told more or less explicitly not to. So if you were playing a match against Stockfish you'd want to play the Berlin draw as White every time, for example.

Merging all the iota sounds into ι, and ω into ο destroys too much grammatically. I don't understand what the point of this is?

Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries in Europe?

Ireland, the country with 2 center right parties that differ with regards to patronage networks and political history from 1940, is one of the most left-wing leaning countries in Europe?

I think the big use case for Oracle products are for businesses that are not in the IT space. A lot of reasons for this, a big one is the breadth of Oracle's products is very solid and, similar to Microsoft, you can be sold on Oracle solving all your database needs across your business: HR, asset management, customer relationship stuff, your actual business, all with a single vendor. Non-IT management will be told that it all integrates seamlessly, you don't need to hire IT staff dealing with software from 10 different vendors, just the one.

For instance, I work in the utility industry. They offer specialized utility-specific software for managing data from our meters, our customer and billing system, asset management, HR, accounting, reporting from all these systems. Even more specialized stuff exists that we don'tbuy. No doubt if you had a different use case, Oracle would sell us on their ability to handle it. I think this is the model they follow. They are not trying to sell to startups, tech platforms, software companies, etc. They are trying to sell to your bank.

Iran has been waging war since the Islamic Revolution

On who?

Probably the most dangerous aspect of the job in the US is driving.

Funny enough, the utility business broadly wants to move away from this model to more of a cap-based prepaid model. Where I live, to get on the standard payment system may require a quite hefty deposit up front, but the prepaid payment option does not. I get the impression that, if not for customer sentiment and inertia, this would be the default option.

For those who are not / were not aardwolf players, lasher is the coder, owner, and main imm for aardwolf.

And nowadays, if this happened in Florida, she could pretty credibly run the protesters down in the street and avoid even getting charged.

Diesel is less fuel efficient than regular gasoline except when you measure by volume. It gets fewer miles per unit of energy in the fuel.

The NSA lacked legal authority to do this bulk collection prior to the Snowden leaks, and yet that didn't stop them from collecting. Why would I believe that their lack of legal authority today would stop them?

Exactly so. It was not able to be published in its initial state as a Twilight fanfic due to copyright and had to be re-worked so as not to infringe.

Can someone who knows a bit more about this help me understand how structures like this are produced? Is there some kind of computer search, perhaps guided? Is this a clever combination of sub-structures, timing mechanisms, etc. that are then fit together like Legos?

50 Shades is decidedly not a fanfic for the exact reason that it couldn't be sold as one.

Not sure if it really looms large in the minds of present-day Australians, but they did vote for a left winger in the 70s and got a coup for their troubles.

Just as we shouldn't be contemptuous of a woodworking craftsman using a table saw.

Some tools are table saws, and some tools are subcontracting work out to lowest cost bidders to do a crap job. Which of the two is AI?

Who proved it works really well in several configurations?

Wild - whoever did this should lose their job.

Why's that? Because a guy who's apparently friends with the owner of the company that produces these things told you that it saves emissions? Doesn't it seem reasonable to verify these claims?