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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by dv_dt on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:16PM (#12916330)
Not that Trump's gov't doesn't need watching, but I'd note that Clinton's pick for her transition team was a lobbyist for the oil industry. The root failure wasn't in the general election it was during the primaries.
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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by scottmmjackson on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:50PM (#12916592)
"One algorithm crashes on load but the other is a little slow. They're exactly the same, right?"
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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by dv_dt on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:54PM (#12916628)
One crashes on load and the other slowly corrupts data...
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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by sanjeetsuhag on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:49PM (#12917827)
As far as this metaphor goes, the data is already corrupting. Climate change needs to be acknowledged, and the President shoving his head up his ass about this issue isn't going to help.
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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by dv_dt on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:07PM (#12922126)
One candidate was telling you that they were going to do nothing, the other was telling you they were going to do something, but planning to do little to nothing.

I guess my point is that if you want significant action on climate change (I do too!), you were always going to have to fight for it with your representatives (R or D) vs the industry donors.

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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by reitanqild on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:32AM (#12917993)
At least he hasn't started a war yet and it doesn't seems like he is planning to either.

Between

* extra energy consumption based on war efforts on both sides and rebuilding countries afterwards,

* as well as oil fields being literally set on fire,

that is a few tons of CO2 as well.

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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by jamespo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:58AM (#12919093)
"hasn't started a war yet" - he was elected yesterday!
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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by reitanqild on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:18AM (#12919468)
Yep. That is the "funny" part about it.

I don't like him but unless certain folks I respect that Americans disliked him less than the alternative.

This is known as "respect for the Democracy".

That said it seems he is less likely to start a war than the other candidate.

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Re:Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of Nort... by trdrake on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:16AM (#12921016)
People say that, but Trump also promised to "end ISIS very, very quickly", and, during security briefings, was questioning why he couldn't use nukes
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