Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
> a population left to fight an outbreak through natural immunity will be stronger in the end. Most people get the flu multiple times during their lives already. When is this natural immunity supposed to kick in and stop the elderly an
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by Aloisius 2y ago
M. E. Rothwell, if you're reading, the photo for "Two little girls from the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico (c. 1886 — 1911)" is in there twice.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
So it facilitates exchange between people who would not otherwise trade. Thus things would be different absent money and given the long complex supply chains required to make most things today, like say plows, it is hard to argue things wou
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The US doesn't have a trade agreement with NZ.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> I can’t mention that SF Opera required both ID and proof of vaccination to attend a show—while you can vote without an ID. What's the complaint? That private businesses can put more restrictions on visitors than the government c
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Exactly the same way? If you make plows and want milk from a dairy farmer with a limited supply of milk who does not need or want any more plows, how do you get milk the same way as today without the concept of money?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I haven't been able to reproduce this. It correctly transcribes racist as racist.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Eh. We've accepted adverse possession of real estate since the Code of Hammurabi. Continuous possession in good faith eventually conveys ownership. If you steal my car, kill me, forge the title transfer, give it to your kid who believe
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Now it says: > However, a heavy ketamine “user” often consumes multiple grams per week, which is a lot more than therapeutic use (0.5mg/kg about once per week to every other week).
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I imagine if you choose to ignore the warning that iCloud syncing will cease to work unless you disable ADP, then at some point, the warning turns into an error and iCloud syncing will cease to work. I can't imagine they'll cancel
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Why wouldn't you be? Sure it's more common that contractors offer pricing, but there are industries where the reverse. For instance, magazines typically have set offered rates they'll pay for articles by freelancers.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
They will lock UK users out of iCloud until they manually disable ADP. When a user turns off ADP in settings, their device uploads the encryption keys to Apple servers.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I imagine they want the ability to look at someone's iCloud backups without notifying the owner that they are doing so or they want to do it when the owner is unwilling or unable to provide keys. For the latter, there are a lot of cas
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by Aloisius 2y ago
This was a reckless plan. If you want people to get onboard with spending cuts, you should raise taxes high enough to actually pay for all the spending so taxpayers feel the consequences of it. Reducing revenues and letting people run up
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by Aloisius 2y ago
DOGE did claim $8B in savings on their own system on Monday . That's the whole article is about. There's even a screenshot. The $8B -> $8M change was made in Federal Procurement System on January 22nd . So if DOGE is who fo
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I haven't found predictive code completion to be good anywhere for Swift, especially anything to do with Apple frameworks. I've attributed it to the general lack of open source projects to train off.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
So they reported they saved $8 billion after discovering it was really $8 million? I'm not sure that's better.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
This is an attack on the message and its author, not the messenger.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Again, I ask, where has this two-party to multiparty switch happened with single member elections? Because I can't find an example in any country, yet it is appears to be taken as an article of faith that it will happen by proponents o
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The national emergency declared in 1979, against Iran, was done under the IEEPA which grants the President the power to block transactions and freeze assets against foreign threats. It doesn't grant the power to make laws.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Where has the adoption of ranked choice with single member districts resulted in a switch from a two-party system to a multiparty one? It hasn't happened anywhere in the US as far as I know, despite being adopted by various local gover
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by Aloisius 2y ago
167g. Lighter than the 16, but still far too heavy.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
That's not what is happening. What's happening is that a business gets refunded by the government for any VAT they pay. Alice charges Bob VAT. Alice remits the money to the tax authorities who then refunds Bob the money they p
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I didn't realize IBM called their own cards Hollerith cards. They changed the format to 80x10 with rectangular punches in 1928, naming it the IBM Computer Card. They modified it to 80x12 in 1930. IBM themselves distinguish between Holl
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's mentioned on IBM's site: https://www.ibm.com/history/social-security-act https://www.ibm.com/history/punched-card#The+Social+Security... And the SSA site mentions using IBM machines
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by Aloisius 2y ago
After much searching, I found documentation on SSA's Master Beneficiary Records format from after the Y2K update. Date of Birth in some of these records is stored as days since January 1, 1800. There's no reference to 1875 anywher
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by Aloisius 2y ago
They used IBM cards, not Hollerith cards (they used IBM 077 collators and 405 accounting machines). They were coded with 6 digits: 2 for month, 2 day and 2 year according to the SSA. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa&#x2F
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by Aloisius 2y ago
They didn't use computers in 1940 for it though. All this was stored on paper where using days since 1875 wouldn't have made much sense. That would lead to most of the beneficiaries having a negative number. They didn't get t
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The COBOL days since 1601 epoch makes sense. Now that I think about it, if those functions don't work with negative numbers, then I imagine even the YYYY strings couldn't have years before 1601. > Do you know which ones specif
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The SSA's master records, the Numerical Identification (NUMIDENT) files, store dates in text as either CCYYMMDD or MMDDCCYY strings according to their archived versions. https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project&

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