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You're not completely wrong, but you are an asshole.

I agree that there were weaknesses with the details of the Roe decision, but a right to privacy isn't exactly "out of thin air". Our rights are not limited those explicitly stated in the Constitution. Now, the idea that doctors become slaves if healthcare is a right... that is pulled out of somewhere.

Feel free to respond to this, but I'm not here to discuss this beyond what I've said here and don't plan to respond.

Anyone who was paying attention knew it was coming, but I think a lot of people, even leading Republicans, were surprised by how quickly it happened. Honestly, I think a few of them were looking forward to another election cycle using that as their rallying cry.

State have, and should only have, rights that don't override the individual's civil rights. The ability of two consenting adults to marry should be considered a civil right and therefore not something that can overridden by any government.

I understand that there may not be a mechanism by which the federal government can explicitly state that civil right without a constitutional amendment, but don't pretend that it's "shredding states' rights". Individual civil rights are far more important than the rights of states and the federal government. It's an unfortunate side effect of democracy that the things we do to protect ourselves (like the division of power between state and federal governments) sometimes hurts people.

I've been whistling the Robin Hood theme for 30+ years. Actually, that whole movie had a lot of catchy AF tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUib8lh168

For those like me that somehow missed that Cake covered the song.

Dude, spoilers! I purposefully haven't read the news in 35 years and now it's spoiled.

I'm not understanding why we really need it or what is the use of it.

Read the links that others have posted (the top answer in the eli5 sort of says this), but it's important to start with the knowledge that you don't need it. There is no program that requires the use of OOP to write. Any program could be written using a functional paradigm or using a traditional procedural paradigm.

OOP is one popular option and it has been popular for a while now. Due to that, there are a lot of popular patterns that are well worn in and lots of examples.

Hahaha, no there is not. All posts about Mother Russia is real American!

Happened to me in Boston (not downtown, but in the city proper). I don't know how long they would have stared because I made some excuse to leave.

The bar is no longer there.

Honestly, his legacy is probably overblown. It was his bank account that was destroyed.

Did you just compare a bunch of stoners sitting in a field to Steve Reich? It's totally cool if you don't like it, but that's like saying you don't like French patisserie because you don't like Laffy Taffy. It absolutely could be true, but one does not imply the other in any way.

Bach only had himself.

We have lost tons of music from that time. Considering Bach regularly copied his own music into other music, I'd be willing to bet he copied a lot of other people too and we just don't know it.

I'm not going to argue better or worse because that's purely opinion, but Bach wasn't floating out in space. Almost all music is communal and shared in some way.

I couldn't find a great recording on Youtube, but you should look for Steve Reich's "Clapping Music". Obviously, opinions vary and you may not like it, but I think it's the best example that purely rhythm can be quite interesting.

Of course, that doesn't mean the music that focuses on rhythm is necessarily interesting.

All of the versions I found on Youtube had only a few people clapping. The song really doesn't work without a larger ensemble IMO.

Arguably, melody and rhythm can't be completely dissociated, but rhythm generally describes the placement in time and melody describes the note use (maybe placement in a scale).

If you take "Mary Had A Little Lamb", the melody, using solfege that you may know from Sound of Music, is:

me re do re | me me me | re re re | me sol sol |

They rhythm of that melody is:

short short short short | short short long | short short long | short short long |

Often rhythm will refer to drums (and sometimes bass and instruments that play chords) since drum kits (generally) don't play specific notes. Modern pop music often focuses on drums and interesting rhythms with less emphasis on developing the melodic part. That's arguably a trend that started in contemporary classical music over that past century, but I don't know how much one has influenced the other.

Of course, the "melody" has a rhythm and you can argue that the rhythm instruments still have a melody even if they aren't playing a traditional scale, so the reality of any song is always far more complex than just splitting it up into simple categories like melody and rhythm.

Ah, the Lazarus technique. That approach hadn't occurred to me.

Does SQL count?

I had to do a direct to DB fix few years ago in a system that we were improving, but was the poster child for unpaid technical debt. Some data had been misnamed or labelled and I needed to swap the string labels based off off of that same string label (so something like "Value A" and "Value B" but "Value A" should have been "Value B" and the other way). I had to do this in multiple tables and in the last one I forgot to use an interim value (A -> C, B -> A, C -> B).

Luckily though, I made two mistakes and typed the value wrong! I panicked and literally started to sweat for a few moments before realizing that sometimes two wrongs do make a right!

Other than the fact that it's apparently undefined behavior, it is unnecessarily difficult to read.

The only reason something would be written like this is to purposefully confuse people (the case here) or because file size is a problem. The latter pretty much doesn't happen anymore.

"fired" is too strong, but I'd definitely leave a comment on an PR.

Your quiz is fired.

Did you open a directory? Not sure how you could do that in pycharm. Maybe a zip?

No, it won't take decades. If it's correct it will literally take forever. Forever as in even past the heat death of the universe.

The exoneration is meaningless, but IIRC there was actually very little reason to believe Brown's hands were up. I think one person said they were up and another said they were out in front of him and nobody else remembered.

Of course, that's one of those things where you have thousands of examples of a problem and then one that is questionable and people try to use that one that is questionable to invalidate the whole argument that many police departments (and many other organizations) systematically hurt black people.

Anyone making the argument this image is making is a fool, but the killing of Michael Brown is much less clear cut than many other examples.

"Great source" may have been too strong, sure. I'd say it's probably the best internet source though (although I'd be excited if I'm wrong and there's something better!).

As a side note, what is the issue you see in that paragraph?

Yeah, let us know when you're done.

If the conjecture is correct we may have to wait for a while :)

Sure, but guy in the picture died at 35. He was just unlucky. It happens sometimes.

Boston laughs in a winding one-way CF of pot-holed roads.

(but restricted use roads/lanes is likely the best medium term option)