It’s probably relevant that Germany has made a concerted effort to right the wrongs of the Nazis, while Japan has pretty much never made a good-faith effort to even begin to make amends. If anything, the current Japanese government has only doubled down on refusing to make amends. Japan and Korea’s history of animus…

I’ve lived in multiple states that take student IDs, including the one I currently live in. Where student IDs are taken at polls, so long as the student receives their mail on campus, they can vote there using their university ID. I’m not even sure what you’re saying “nope” to, since your school’s ID policy doesn’t…

States that allow student IDs expect students to vote in their school’s election district—their address is the college or university’s mail room, which, nine times out of ten, is an actual federally-recognized post office. Since voting is handled by the state, most state IDs don’t indicate nationality, either, so I’m…

I would add, though, that tying core logic systems to the rendering frames has gone against best practice for a long time, now. Better to run two main loops that should operate independently—one to control all the in-world calculations at a locked, constant speed, and one to draw stuff to the screen, preferably at a…

That’s kind of you, thanks!

The human genome project mapped the order of proteins that make up the human genome, but we don’t actually know what all those genes do or even where some end and others begin. It’s going to take decades, at best, to get a more complete grasp on how those different parts of our DNA actually affect us.

The idea behind more housing lowering costs is pretty much just basic supply/demand stuff. Sooner or later, if you build enough housing, the best way to fill apartments is to lower prices since there would theoretically be more apartments than people looking to fill them at a given moment. As must as supply/demand…

Suburbs are also super expensive to live in, that’s kind of half the problem. People chose to rent because owning a house in the ‘burbs is cost-prohibitive for anyone whose job doesn’t pay excessively well and/or doesn’t have at least a generation of savings backing them up, which is like 80% of Americans right now.

Yeah, I get the feeling that’s pretty common for migraines in general. If I’m out of any proper medication, I’ll take a bunch of ibuprofen, but it’s mostly ineffective. Whatever they are, migraines aren’t normal pain that can be dulled with normal painkillers, that’s for sure.

The popular vote might not actually decide who wins an election, but it’s still a useful gauge for the overall feelings of American voters as a whole, both in who wins and in overall voter turnout. Rules of the game aside, that there was such a large disconnect between the national popular vote and electoral college…

Yeah, even if you only put 2 people on it, it’s already less than $20/person/year. I’m getting a family plan and sharing it with my fiancee and brother and maybe a couple friends if they’re interested.

Rosewill makes good PSUs, too. I usually recommend them, EVGA, or Seasonic myself.

Primary Investigators—the professors who both teach and run research labs for a university—make very good money, especially if they have a steady grant stream or an industry connection willing to fund their projects. Most probably don’t go into the field out of greed, since it’s nonstop hard work until tenure, but…

People in the US tend to forget that the US postal service is far and away one of the most reliable pieces of national infrastructure in the world. Even among developed countries, the idea that you can bring a box or envelope with a stamp on it to a box on the side of the road and expect with almost 100% certainty it…

Like most chat filtering, it’ll likely get smarter as time goes on. I image Ubisoft wanted to start off painting with wide brush to be sure to catch more early on. There’s almost certainly some algorithmic system behind the banned words, and it’ll be easier to add exceptions than it is to write a more nuance-sensitive…

I wasn’t aware firearms background checks were all that unique. Good to know.

His background check wouldn’t have come up clean, though. It would have listed all of the threat of violence charges and restraining orders that should be on his record. I think the point being made is that despite all of black marks this guy had, there still isn’t a mechanism in place to so much as discourage the…

On the contrary, many of us have been saying the DHS and its mostly unchecked enforcement arms are problematic since the appeared in the Bush administration. We’ve been saying for years that this kind of thing was bound to happen. During Obama many of us spoke up about it when ICE started to be used as a mass…

The correlation that’s most helpful in understanding it is that poor communities are less likely to carry ID, because in most States an ID costs money and, like voting places, are difficult to get to and are only available during standard business hours when people are working. And poor populations heavily overlap…

Previously, the policing part was done by plain old state and local police, and perhaps more relevant, up until a few years ago unsanctioned border crossing was mostly only handled as civil cases, not criminal ones. It’s also only a misdemeanor with a maximum first-time fine of $250 and the possibility of brief jail…