ANewFormation

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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The Civil Rights Act and related topics are part of the US Code (laws) [1] and are completely unrelated to DEI. The legal redresses available for discrimination have not changed whatsoever. The Civil Rights Act is exclusively about equality
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FDR forced people to give up all their gold assets at a fixed rate, under threat of imprisonment for a decade. He then proceeded to nearly double the declared exhange rate up once the government had confiscated everybody's gold. All do
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Your stereotypes belie a lack of familiarity with researchers. Here [1] are the demographics of PhD researchers. White individuals are significantly under represented (and even more so in STEM) though it's not for any nefarious reason.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You can read about PIER plan requirements here. [1] Archive since the page is already dead. Things are moving ridiculously fast for government to the point I suspect there was alot of desire to get rid of all this stuff before, but people w
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You're definitely right and I also do not agree with that stuff either, but it was mostly done "appropriately" in that it was through avenues, like the State Department or CIA, who have propaganda as part of their mission. In
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If this were the case then they would be replacing the ideological conformity sections with different ideological conformity requirements. Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period. Whatever a scientist happens to b
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
This seems great. It's increasingly apparent that the government was spending countless billions of dollars to push ideology in plainly weird ways. Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to c
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
This'll do it - https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/focus_on_naep/student_grou... From 1998 to 2022 "English learners" (as its their term) tripled from 5% to 14%. They do offer accommodations, but are test
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Your example of men on the Moon is precisely what drives people to support more privately driven progress. Because that was an amazing achievement orchestrated almost entirely by government, but then once the geopolitical factors motivating
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Yip, pretty much exactly this. It's easy to get confused because they have all the makings of a person, but their minds are just still extremely underdeveloped. For a silly example in teaching chess - a typical issue is kids moving w
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
1 in 5000 seems very off. A quick search has it occurring in 1.7% of all games which sounds about right. [1] If he indeed said 1 in 5000, it might have been from a database with lots of quite low rated games. There are two reasons I think i
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Any sort of geopolitical expert is generally going to be labeled as such because he works in the domain at a reasonably high level. The problem with that is that when at such a level, political factors start to come into play. The net effec
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Consider my side of the bet eating crow with a side that, if you're right, then you'll have mastered arguably the single most important basic ending. I'd strongly recommend checking out an endgame manual or a youtube video on
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I'm also curious. When I first taught some younger kids I went in thinking they were like little people... that did not work well. When I instead started to treat them as glorified chimps, everything went better for them and for me. In
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
There isn't a GM that hasn't studied RBvB, and most have also played numerous games with it. But it's just very difficult to execute properly. Let a 2000 go study it for weeks - he'd still lose it against strong play. Pe
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Yeah I was considering all issues rather than just anchor. Another source [1] gives 100-200 incidents per year with 16% as anchorage, so 25 a year (from anchors alone) is probably a safe estimate. I think most of us thought these incidents
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It turns out that these incidents are actually incredibly common [1], about once every 3 days. But 'undersea line disrupted temporarily in mundane way' wasn't exactly international news until it could be tied into geopolitics
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It's not about forcing a draw but recognizing that the only reasonable move loses the queen immediately. Assessing the ending is irrelevant. All one needs to know is that having 1 piece is better than having 0 pieces. Not actually alwa
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It's just a norm and has been for centuries. For composed positions it should also generally be white to move. You're right that this isn't necessary (particularly when the board is labeled) but by doing something weird you&#
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The thing that makes the puzzle neat is that it's one that a reasonably clever person who literally just learned the rules of chess should be able to solve. There's no nuance to it whatsoever beyond needing to demonstrate knowledg
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It also creates this weird power imbalance. 'Advanced economies' are supposed to be just that, yet 'developing economies' cutting off their grain, steel and manufacturing is a far bigger threat than an advanced economy c
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The history of North Korea is quite interesting. The mass starvation was in the 90s and mostly caused by US sanctions. They were wholly dependent on foreign imported oil both as fuel and as a way to make fertilizer with the USSR as their pr
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It's not about military indoctrination but the popularity of the leader. Yoon is exceptionally unpopular. If he had 80% approval, instead, he would probably now be the dictator of The People's Democratic Republic of South Korea. W
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Haha, yeah I should have put quotes around "only" but you have to keep in mind that this ~900billion that remains is the entire government budget for everything besides stuff like medicare, social security, and so on. When people
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
We treated a pigeon back to health from a failed cat attack - healthy enough to eat and walk, but not fly. It took a while but she eventually fully regained her ability to fly. She had some rather distinct markings and would hang around the
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The interesting thing is predator and prey both die when they get too slow. Not sure which side has a worse ending there! Then there's disease or even a simple scratch getting infected. The world's a brutal place, probably all wor
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You need to take a break and actually think about what you've claimed to have read about exporting inflation. A few hours ago you had no clue what it was, and skimming a few articles has not yet meaningfully improved upon that. FWIW -
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Fishing is dangerous work and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. What matters are the data which nobody has dug up. Was there a significant reduction in fatalities following this committee's creation? Did it have a sign
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
A very small nitpick but the discretionary budget of the US is far smaller than most realize - in 2024 it was only 1.75 trillion. And notably, most military spending is discretionary, so the remaining funds for basically all the neat dynami
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
This looks rather extremely similar to something that Unreal already natively supports. Here is a demo video from them - https://youtube.com/watch?v=8tBNZhuWMac

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