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Here is my hot take. His belief that he was failing, helped him succeed.

I don't mean this in a trite way. The character portrayed is supposed to be awkward and anxious. Feeling awkward and anxious in real life, left him in the right frame of mind when he walked on set. He looked awkward and anxious, because he actually was.

Actually feeling what the character is supposed to be feeling, is the heart of method acting. The upside of method acting is that it creates very powerful performances. The downside of method acting is that you have to experience all of the feelings of the depicted drama.

I contend that shitty moderation was why it flatlined.

I enjoyed answering algorithm questions. Unfortunately, every so often, people who weren't into algorithms would show up. And somehow summoned each other. To close good questions.

It was clear that they didn't understand the topic. They couldn't recognize what a good question, or a good answer, was. I wound up going away, coming back every few years, go until my next bad experience, and leave again.

Each time, the population answering those questions was smaller.

I believe that a lot of good people left like I did. Then just didn't come back.

That's not what they did.

What they did is tried to prove that the conventional fuzzer won't find crashes. Where they found counterexamples, they fixed the bug and tried again.

In essence, a fuzzer takes random samples out of a space of possible inputs that could crash. They proved that nothing in the space of possible inputs could crash.

This is a strictly more powerful result than a fuzzer could give you.

Oh really? A direct threat?

Opposition to that act was, "We're not going to create new states with slavery." It wasn't, "We're getting rid of slavery in places that already have it." Which meant that it was not a direct threat to existing slave states. (Though there was a prospect that maybe, some day...)

Lincoln didn't like slavery. But he wasn't trying to ban it. It wasn't until the war had been going on for nearly two years that he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Which basically said, "If you're still in rebellion a couple of months ago, we're going to free your slaves." It didn't eliminate slavery for any slave state that was part of the Union. It was an incentive to surrender. It was 2 years after that until the 13th amendment was passed.

It is very unlikely that slavery would have been banned during Lincoln's time in office, if the Civil War hadn't happened.

Was there a long-term prospect of a threat? Obviously. But there was no immediate threat. And so the fight wound up with protecting slavery on the one side, and asserting the indivisibility of the nation on the other side.

This is exactly parallel to the Mexico-Texan issue. Slavery was not being banned in the rebelling states.

This is no different than what happened in the Civil War.

Each side had a list of grievances. A big one on one side, was the preservation of slavery in perpetuity. The other side wanted to preserve the unity of the nation as a whole.

You are right that Mexico was not fighting to ban slavery. But it was clear that eliminating slaver was still in their roadmap. Texas had only gotten an extension.

Similarly the election of Lincoln wasn't an immediate threat to slavery in the Confederacy. But the Confederacy still was motivated to head off the long-term threat to their economic system.

So the fact that Mexico wasn't fighting to end slavery, doesn't contradict the fact that Texans were fighting to preserve it.

The connection is that shells, such as the hard part of corals, are made from calcium carbonate. When you put calcium carbonate in acid, it dissolves. This takes some of the acid out of the water.

In the long run, there are huge deposits of calcium carbonate on the ocean floor. Even if we burn all of the fossil fuels, the ocean eventually comes back to a neutral ph.

The problem is the short run. We're turning CO2 into carbonic acid at a rate that far exceeds what surface waters can handle. This is creating conditions where shellfish of all kinds are working overtime form proper shells. If they can at all. It even affects many kinds of plankton. This stress is causing large dieoffs. When we wipe out things at the base of the food chain, it has ripple effects through the rest of the ecosystem.

A number of the people who paid those downpayments, were invited to the recent Roadster demo. Where they got to see a similar car demonstrated, complete with flying. And with no sense of whether it will actually be built, or will be street legal.

Ever heard of "voting the graveyard"?

A paper trail is not a guarantee of electoral integrity. There is always a rough spot when your ideal election system meets the messy real world.

It lasts for a year by default. You can pay for up to three years. But I see no reason you couldn't then do it again.

I just moved. Moving a business address was hard. For an individual, the only requirement ai saw was that I pay a small fee with a credit card registered to one of the addresses.