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>equal numbers of terms won by each party. Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy

The point of democracy is not to deliver an equal number of victories to each of the parties. It is to reflect the will of the people. A 10 percent lean in one direction is a 10 percent negative effect on democracy.


More than half a dozen Boost libraries have made their way to the standard.

Boost continues to exist because there is large overlap with the standards committee and they use it as a staging ground to try out new ideas before they are standardized.


Delayed ACK seems like the better default to me, whether it is telnet or web servers, network programming is almost always request response. Delaying the ACK so that part of that response is ready seems like the correct choice. In today's network programming how often is tinygram really an issue?

In this case I would consider the bug to be git lfs. Even if Nagle's was enabled I would still consider it a bug, because of the needless syscall overhead of doing 50 byte writes.


I thought it was common sense to not believe in a thing if there is no evidence of a thing. The only way I am going to believe it was a lab leak is if credible evidence shows up. Until then it is an unknown.


Content providers pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. End users pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. ISPs unable to figure out how to run a profitable business is no one's fault but their own.

If they can't provide the service they claim to provide at the prices they charge then they probably ought to look into a price increase.


If he actually did any research how could he get it that wrong? Nothing about being built in America, just that the owner and charterer must be Americans, the actual operating crew can be whoever. The coastwise endorsement further defines American ownership with if the owner is a corporation then "must be American" means incorporated in US's legal jurisdiction and voting majority of the board is US citizens.

The dredge act (as linked to by the author) is short enough I will quote it here[1]:

§55109. Dredging

(a) In General.-Except as provided in subsection (b), a vessel may engage in dredging in the navigable waters of the United States only if-

(1) the vessel is wholly owned by citizens of the United States for purposes of engaging in the coastwise trade;

(2) the charterer, if any, is a citizen of the United States for purposes of engaging in the coastwise trade; and

(3) the vessel has been issued a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement under chapter 121 of this title or is exempt from documentation but would otherwise be eligible for such a certificate and endorsement.

(b) Dredging of Gold in Alaska.-A documented vessel with a registry endorsement may engage in the dredging of gold in Alaska.

(c) Penalty.-If a vessel is operated in knowing violation of this section, the vessel and its equipment are liable to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States Government.

[1]:https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...


> Section 883 also requires that the vessel be built in and documented under the laws of the United States. Those latter two requirements are covered by subsection (a)(3). Note that the build requirement is a requirement for a coastwise endorsement.

Taken from the page you linked. Emphasis not in original but you’re still wrong.


>(I'm pretty sure they still made money on those who forgot to skip a month)

It used to be opt in, not opt out to skip a month. IGN is basically trying to figure out how much they can extract from the good will they purchased.


I work at an office that does 9 80. At first they tried the half one Friday, half the other, but switched to everyone in on the same Friday. Basically it annoyed and confused customers trying to reach people. It is just easier to say the joint is closed every other Friday than have the customer try to remember if they need to call Bill or John on Friday.


> It is just easier to say the joint is closed every other Friday than have the customer try to remember if they need to call Bill or John on Friday.

If your coverage plan relies on the customer knowing who to call when, your problem isn’t flex time.


Has Andrei been keeping up with C++? Most of the time I hear about him recently is in context of him being a core D member.


According to the national debt's Wikipedia page 5.7 trillion is owned by the government. That ends up being about a forth of it.


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