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> a totally different government structure that so far has been very effective and competent.

Authoritarian regimes can look appealing (from the outside, anyway) until circumstances change. Then they falls apart spectacularly because the commercial and governmental institutions are either absent, very weak, or are unable to adapt to the change. For example, the Soviet Union.

Being fully documented means anything can work in any way.

HomeBridge can control HomeKit accessories just fine.

That is not true. The HomeKit protocol is documented. There are at least a few open source projects that implement it both as accessories and hubs. Home Bridge being the best known one.

If all the accessory vendors were to go under and Apple were to stop supporting HomeKit tomorrow, HomeKit accessories and hubs would still operate just fine and alternatives could be created. Even using Alexa or Google Nest for voice control.

I have no idea why you are injecting the founding of the United States into this.

Nobody can possibly weigh every Wehrmacht member’s actions. Those that acted with distinction have been documented. They are the exceptions that prove the rule. If they were not, the outcome of the Wehrmacht’s actions would have been very different.

Your criteria is impossible to satisfy, by design. An attempt to rewrite history.

As the paper clearly illustrates, there were so few documented cases of refusal that they are negligible when weighing the war crimes of the Wehrmact and its members.

Less than one hundred out of millions.

Viewing them all as “fungible villains” is a very accurate approximation with a ridiculously low error.

Is a poll necessary?

Simple timer to count to 10. Go over all open sockets, drain incoming, pump junk. Handle accept. Repeat.

I am pointing out that you can’t discount this group’s plain spoken intent. They say what they mean. Give them a chance and they will act on it.

> I disagree with their beliefs, but to me, committing genocide is a few steps above teaching that homosexuality is immoral.

Don’t mistake lack of opportunity for lack of will. Nutty ideologies are ‘harmless’ till they have an opportunity to act on their nuttiness.

That sure is using a lot of recent modern, low power tech to “question the belief in technological progress”.

Zenni has rimless glasses for years.

Over engineered much?

> On a previous project we needed to show markers on a map to indicate there was a property, but for privacy reasons we wanted to show the marker on the map close to the property but not at the exact location of the property. So we needed to generate random points within a fixed distance of the original point location.

At those distances, you can treat the surface as a plane and calculate points on a circle. Sure, it won’t be accurate for large distances but that is not a requirement. Nor is accuracy for that matter since the whole point is to obfuscate the original point.

I like to think of sugar, fructose in particular, as a meta food. It directly affects how the body eats other foods. In particular quantities of other foods. Quite simply, it makes people eat more than they otherwise would. Coupled with its high reward factor, its addictiveness and a food industry that has pumped it, in large quantities, in practically every food you eat, it’s no wonder that it is a plague.

Its mean-spirited and somewhat ignorant to blame your fat friends who, along with you, have been deliberately lied to about the ill effects of the massive amounts of sugar you consume on a daily basis for the last half century.

First, they can’t fight what they don’t know is killing them because they’ve been lied to that it’s lack of exercise, it’s the steak and fat. That it’s a problem with them. How can they win when the ‘health food’ shoved in their faces is packed with more sugar?

Second, once they realize how to get out of the mess, they find out how nearly impossible it is to eat anything of what they are used to eating. Sugar is so prevalent in everything in the supermarket, from the obvious ice cream, ketchup, sriracha sauce to mayo, crackers, smoked fish, practically all frozen or canned items, pizza, bread and on and on.

The system is rigged against them.

In answer to your metacomment. The financial crisis is a strong indication that, yes financial firms can be terrible at math. Luckily, they have friends who can bail them out with taxpayer money when they fail at math.