Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
I'm not sure how a date in the format YYYYMMDD can have an epoch of 1601. Epochs are used when storing the offset in some unit like seconds or days to a reference date. The epoch for a year YYYY is 1* BCE (since there is no year 0). It
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Bill Nye isn't a scientist. Einstein moved to the US well after he became a famous scientist. The University of Zurich, where he got his degree, has been open to women since the mid 19th century. The Ivy League first started admitting
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Midgley’s observation that ‘none of [the greatest] philosophers … had any experience of living with women or children’ Is this... right? A cursory scan shows a fair number of major philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Berkeley, Spi
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Em. Those aren't inflation adjusted. - UK - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDGBR - FR - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDFRA - IT - https://fred.stlouisfe
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The MA in MDMA is methamphetamine. That said, it's also an empathogen that promotes prosocial behavior, which isn't the word I'd use to describe the behavior happening.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
According to the IEA, US fossil fuel consumption peaked in 2007. Our GHG emissions, as of the last 2022 inventory, are below 1990s levels.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The 1875 thing seems... unlikely. While it is possible that the SSA decided to create an epoch of 1875, I don't believe COBOL itself has such an epoch. Moreover, the SSA's actual Numerical Identification (NUMIDENT) files, the mast
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It nets out to everyone but the final consumer. Imagine 30% VAT rate: Alice digs up some copper and tin and sells it to Bob for 10€ + 3€ VAT = 13€. Alice remits the 3€ to the authorities on Bob's behalf. Bob casts bronze bars and sells
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Corporatism allows for control. With corporatism, a dictator only needs to control the relatively small number of guilds (sector wide corporazioni in case of Italy) to control the economy. This is a huge step up, in terms of control, from c
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Linked how? Run your own double blind experiment on a large population to show a high enough correlation to suggest causation for similar symptoms? Peeked into parallel universe where you weren't vaccinated?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Yeah. Between that, the circled numbers, poor spacing, actual use of ±, odd choices of language and the brand new account, I think you're right that it's a bot.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
iOS and MacOS started adding the stupid "smart" apostrophes by default for text input fields all over, including browsers, in some recent update.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Why is it a surprise? Corporatism (not to be confused with corporatocracy) was one of the main tenants of Fascism (capital F) which various fascist movements of the era emulated in some way or another. Germany's corporatism though was
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The map is a bit misleading since dots are drawn over each other. Several of those "green" states have had detections over the last month (Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Main, Nevada).
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by Aloisius 2y ago
We were well aware of the adverse effects of tetraethyl lead before lead gasoline was first sold. The man who invented it got lead poisoning during its development, multiple people died of lead poisoning in a pilot plant manufacturing it an
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Em. In 1492, most of the European population were still subsistence farming peasants. Those generally weren't the people who became explorers. Given disease still would have wiped out the bulk of the Americas had people started to arri
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The paper gives a relative population loss between 1150 and 1500 CE of ~30%, with caveats.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The former is an issue, at least in California. https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/lawguides/annotations/460-0198.pdf It can be done, but it appears a retailer has to either indicate that they are undercollecting sales tax
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Don't we need a law that permits rounding of prices though? If stores round down, they can potentially collect too little sales tax. If they round up, they're charging above the advertised price which, afaik, is fraud.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
OED says it was remodeled with the diminutive: > Alteration of pumpion, variant of pompion n., with remodelling of the ending after words in ‑kin suffix.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Musk didn't found Tesla. Presumably the two impressive companies are SpaceX and OpenAI? Or maybe the Boring Company?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Is that the only question that an active military ATC would very likely get points for? I don't think you can take questions in isolation. Active military ATC would likely pick up full or close to full points on several other questio
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Yes. You get 0 points for that one question. There are 27 other questions which you can get points from. https://imgur.com/a/Zh8uS88
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Is it absurd? The choices for both were Science, Math, English, History/Social Sciences and Physical Education, plus did not attend college for the second. Math is highly predictive of ATC performance. English is a key requirement due
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by Aloisius 2y ago
You don't have to do that to pass the test. The max score possible is 179. One can pass the test without answering either of the worst subject questions "correctly." Also answering answer A to 23 (>20 hours/week paid
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's the first question that provides points, not the only one.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Is the contract referenced the one between the FAA and RVA or the contract between RVA and the existing controllers? Is this just RVA trying to lowball controllers? I can't imagine their contract with the FAA specify the maximum amount
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Cartels are usually voluntary.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I'm confused. Why would the FAA be involved in locality pay or staffing a Contract Tower? I thought the whole point of Contract Towers was a private company staffed and paid them and the FAA merely dispersed the contractual amount to t
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I love how that page is from the AMA, the organization that is largely responsible for pushing Congress to institute the residency caps in the first place because they feared too many physicians would drive down existing physician's in

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