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AeroHorn

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  1. The difference in the game is the two QBs. That int was expected.
  2. two drives starting inside their 5 yard line
  3. That QB is throwing nice rainbows.
  4. SECSECSEC anti-bodies kicking in?
  5. Another nice catch through traffic
  6. that's a top 10 of the year type of catch
  7. that looks incomplete
  8. I think this is the unfortunate side effect of narrowly defining our roles, which very conveniently absolves us from taking a moral stance, even on actions that directly have a high degree of good/evil outcome. An ICE agent, a torturer, an occupying soldier all get to suspend personal moral responsibility under the guise of "carrying out their duty". Take the CEOs and other business leaders you mention; they will take a position only when the public opinion is already decided and the benefit is overwhelming. A good example is corporations standing for LGBTQ rights, so much so that it has become a marketing ploy. Otherwise, they are going to play very safely and would rather bear the known cost of worst case scenario than face the unknown cost of being a thought leader. Another example is what is happening in India. The ruling BJP government has openly declared war on Muslims and other lower castes (but mostly Muslims), with daily lynchings by mobs where the police and judiciary openly support the murderers, not to mention the political leaders themselves. NPR likens the situation to the post-Civil War situation in US where blacks were killed, which the majority tacitly approved. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751541321/this-is-it-im-going-to-die-indias-minorities-are-targeted-in-lynchings India has lots of business leaders, educated intellectuals, very famous entertainers and sportspersons, etc. but everyone is either silent or supportive of the extremely toxic Hindutva regime, because they don't want to take the burden of standing for what is right.
  9. He needs VY's length to do that
  10. yard short!
  11. Can the announcers be any more captain obvious saying one more 1st down ices the game?
  12. such a thin crowd is having so much effect?
  13. Miami O has abandoned what worked for them in the first drive.
  14. I thought they will that TO for FG attempt
  15. Diaz adding time management skills to his tackling expertise resume?
  16. I am not following this thread, but just want to comment on academia and politics. Would you consider someone like Chomsky political? He has clearly defined opinions that fit his academic work but fall under government policy. I personally am a supporter of people who have well thought out and principled opinions and are open about them, even though they may be controversial and wrong in certain situations. What makes us human is taking a moral stance on an issue, rather than being a disinterested expert which is amoral, or be caprice-driven and a liar like Trump, which is very immoral. I love that Chomsky, Sanders, and apparently from reading this page, Warren, have advocated for their principles-based beliefs. As long as they are sincere and well thought out, they have every right to evolve.
  17. Bernie was trying to say that there is lack of diversity in terms of who benefits economically, but he didn't make it clear.
  18. Democrats need to learn to focus. If you, as a head of R&D, present a new roadmap/product line every six months, you will be out in 12 months. Republicans know how to take one item (abortion or "law and order") and generate party consensus. I would be very happy if Democrats work on delivering just Medicare for all over 2020-2024 timeframe. One line item MBO. Go for it. But every candidate has to take on everything imaginable right away, which I see as having no chance of getting through because that's not how you get an agenda through. You do one thing, you prove it works and more importantly that you can be trusted to make things work, and then you get a chance to do another thing. Coming to college cost, this is a multi-faceted problem, just like Medicare for all. Just like Medicare for all is not about government taking on everyone's premiums, but actually pushing the drug companies and insurance companies to manage costs, the college problem should also be not just be about forgiving this or reparation that. In the same way that we can think of many layered solutions, including high tech ones, to "border wall", there exist many layered solutions, including high tech ones, for higher education. Harping on trillion here and trillion there makes Democrats sound just like Trump and his wall.
  19. 🙂 Total = lim (x-> 0) [ Bernie ] [ the rest ] where [ Bernie ] = 5 / x [ The rest ] = sin (x) = Warren - Tulsi + Beto - Biden + Kamala - ... (Taylor's series expansion)
  20. Doesn't this method blunt your preferences rather than accentuating them? Wouldn't this make it harder to separate the candidates? This is giving square root values, whereas you should be giving square values to separate candidates. Typically what I do when ranking things across a bunch of parameters is to multiply the values rather than add them. For example, you have 10 candidates. Have people value them by giving a value of 1 to 3 (meh, good, googly-eyes) or 1 to 5. If you just add up scores from all the people, the candidates will not stand out. But if you multiply the values each candidate gets, then you will get a very nice separation. Since this is multiplication, the range should start from 1 rather than 0. If you want to get more fancy, you multiply each value by a weight factor for that parameter based on what you think their importance is (5 for corruption, 3 for foreign policy, etc.). This will yield a fancy table with weighted scores that will show what people collectively think each candidate is good at, etc.
  21. I think that just missed Gasol
  22. Toronto is playing team ball, what GS is known for. Even Kawhi is not one-man-showing there.
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