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How the Yugoslav army dealt with liabilities

Ossification and Hawaii: Impressions of a C++ working group

Love and function

"Good, traditional" traits

Attractiveness is not shallow

VS 2015 projects: "One or more errors occurred"

Algorithm for selective archival or aggregation of records

Exceptions in destructors and Visual Studio 2015

The main asset of the US is its value system

Whistleblowing policy proposal

SFTP and OpenSSH's "do as we please"

Aggregated exceptions: Proposal summary

Errors in destructors: C++ and the case for aggregate exceptions

Code as concise expression of thought

Your production code should assert

Why I use "SomeObj const&", not "const SomeObj&"

Reporting errors in destructors

C++ should support temporary objects as lvalues

INS insurance in Costa Rica: Evidence is not enough

BusyBeaver and the state of near-native code in browsers

Against the hating of cheaters

Visual C++ ternary operator considered harmful

The reasons for the wars

You get what you pay for: Infographic

Acetaminophen may cause autism, ADHD in vulnerable children

You get what you pay for.

BusyBeaver key derivation function

Honey badger ought to give a fuck

Atheism's holy cow

The water-efficiency of dinosaur foods!

Lack of fictional distance and American insanity

Non-24-hour living

Fair and unfair agreements

People cheat in lose/lose situations

Self-confidence and crazy men

Rest in peace, victims at Charlie Hebdo

Study: Sweeteners cause diabetes through changes in gut flora

Vitamin D-3 test results

On moral relativism

Vitamin D-3 and depression

Reading list for afterlife studies

Bill Gates in favor of progressive tax on consumption

Politically Correct Asshole

It's not a vitamin, it's a hormone - and we lack it

Terrible Weakness

In favor of economic incentives for healthily-proportioned mixed-race neighborhoods

Aaron's adventures #5

The only thing missing is a Sporebat

Tech breakthrough needed to fix obesity

Dress provocatively to avoid rape

American individualism

Hershey chocolate actually does taste like vomit!

Extraordinary knowing

Alienware sucks worse than MSI

On the relative value of money

/r/polyamory and me

It's just a hunch...

Adderall vs. street meth

The incompatible trinity of relationship features

Breaking Bad is awesome after all

Suggested WoW ability: Living Nightmare / Dying Nightmare

Strong love is not codependency

The perceived threats of non-monogamy to children

The three kinds of sexual risk tradeoffs

The doghouse: Costa Rican employment bureaucracy

The doghouse: Vibrator import, part 2

The conscience of bigots

The doghouse: Costa Rican customs

If man obeyed...

Asperger's and gender: who adapts?

My Aspergian traits, and my mom's suspected autism

Shortcomings of the words empathy, sympathy, and compassion

Wealth creation, and the rich vs. the poor

Teenage boys and "statutory rape"

Passing judgment

The US, Ukraine, and Russia

Indian communication

Why teachers should be paid more

Aaron's family #4

Internet trolls are psychopathic and sadistic

The "economic activity" fallacy, and the effect of unspent money

People's characters do cluster in groups

Women in software

Police should be recording video while on duty

Lose 40 lbs in 3 months eating at McDonald's

Canada destroys invaluable archives

Private roads and your cable service

Why World of Warcraft?

World War Z vs. The Last of Us... and other games

Insulin, diabetes, exercise, and frequent urination

Unnecessary engineering

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