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The sinking of your habitat can do that to you, otherwise it has a good evolutionary niche.
Also, the flying ancestors are still around, so if anything happens they can come back in another 20 000 years.

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Menus should be PDFs so they are searchable.

Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered "compelled speech"

I'm European so I don't quite understand.
Say person A paid person B to say X and had a valid contract. If B didn't say X can person A sue person B to compel performance of contract or just money back/damages?

At least for new games wouldn't it just be an implied part of the purchasing contract, meaning money back at least.

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It's the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren't part of the solution.

How?

Good question. I said should, not could... it would take a constitutional change, [...]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn't allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

Short answer:
It gave us compiler explorer, now that it has served its purpose we should stop doing it.

Long answer:

Why does hft even exist?

Hft can exist because most stock markets react to requests as fast as possible and have no noticable fees for certain use cases. This means algorithms that do simple trades like if goggle goes up, buy other tech companies or buy any stock that goes up in europe on the NY market can make small profits if they are faster than everyone else.

Does it have any value?

There is one exchange that imposes a delay on every request, effectively inhibiting hft, and its opening actually improved market conditions on all exchanges. This implies it has negative value.
They also spend millions on hardware, tools and developers to skim small sums of many transaction on the stock market. They are effectively a (very inefficient) tax on the stock market that goes to improving C++ compilers and funding hardware startups.

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren't? If yes how would that change?

The can't find the difference meme would fit better.

It was hit during takeoff.
Maybe the drone arrived shortly before takeoff and the operator thought:

If I wait for it to take of I could ~~get an air to air kill~~ do more damage.

Reminds me of the time a F-15 bombed a helicopter mid air.

Having many guys with pointy sticks (muskets with bayonets in this case) was still the best way to defend against cavalry.
Having one big blob of people with pointy sticks also enabled charges to rout the enemy and stoped them from doing it to you.

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I don't know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

The outlawing of the testicular torsion spell by the great council was not taken well by those who practiced it.

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