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by Digory 4y ago
I thought you were commenting on the unavailability of version control for plain text, not the psychological inertia of the users. It would take decades of therapy to wean some lawyers off WordPerfect, let alone Word. But that's more b
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by Digory 4y ago
Yes, there's required typography, and there's what you might call "learned" typography. You read Butterick to look more polished, and to show judges you're educated. You fight over fonts because one font might be m
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by Digory 4y ago
Git.
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by Digory 4y ago
It isn’t padding. It’s judges. If your lawyer can lose a case over formatting (and they can), your lawyer can get sued for malpractice for screwing up formatting. Why do judges insist on arcane, high level published documents? Judges benefi
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by Digory 4y ago
Rich doctors. And relatively wealthy seniors who spent their social security going to rich doctors.
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by Digory 4y ago
The app has been terrible in iOS for the past few days. Constant crashing.
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by Digory 4y ago
Do people understand this isn’t just speech synth? The script itself is AI? The introductory bit is AMAZING. Coyly teasing out the introduction of the guest is something Rogan does. I also assume the laughter bits are overused because of
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by Digory 4y ago
The start of the Russian week was Sunday until the Soviets tried to stamp out Sunday. The current date order is still from 1940, when the state was opposed to Christianity. https://www.rbth.com/history/335241-week-in-ru
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by Digory 4y ago
Kahneman hedges just a bit in his talk: " To a good first approximation, people simply don't change their minds about anything that matters." Trying to explain the small number of people who do change their minds, David McRan
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by Digory 4y ago
All of Christianity puts Sunday as the first day, as does the calendar of Judaism. Saturday as the Jewish Sabbath, Sunday as the ‘the Lord’s day” in Christianity. Matthew 28:1 The Resurrection [1] Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of t
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by Digory 4y ago
Usually the latest edition is the one you need. They try to resolve some of the ambiguities of the earlier editions, if problems arise 'in the wild.' The spinoffs are either an attempt to dumb it down or a cash grab by Robert&#x2
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by Digory 4y ago
The model assumes the voters are Bayesian. So, kind of like the efficient markets hypothesis, you have to ask "under what conditions will deliberative debate lead to better decisions?" Because sometimes the group makes the wrong d
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by Digory 4y ago
Fun! What kind of microphone are they using on these installations? In most of the US, I presume you could get a 6-12W solar panel to run a Raspberry Pi Zero basically uninterrupted in your yard.
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by Digory 4y ago
Right. Almost no way Arizona could convince them to sell tea as a loss leader (if that's even legal).
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by Digory 4y ago
I echo /u/Babypuncher’s call for human idealism. Legally, the Board can consider stakeholder goals and morality. I think if Musk announced a profitable-but-legal foray into genocide, you could urge shareholders to reject it, and
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by Digory 4y ago
The gas stations that sell this stuff need margin. Gas is closer to a loss-leader/break even for most.
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by Digory 5y ago
You bear the risk that you’ll have to pay your pro-rata share of any cargo sacrificed to save the ship. You can (and probably should) have your own insurance that will pay you in case this happens. The insurer can pay cash to the cargo owne
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by Digory 5y ago
The activitypub standard isn’t limited to tweets. There are Reddit-like and YouTube-like implementations.[0] The privacy would depend on the server rules. You could have a long/medium form blog that is federated using activitypub. Bu
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by Digory 5y ago
From a 1922 translation: A father advised a pedant who had a child born to him of a slave woman to do away with the child. He replied "First bury your own children before you advise me to do away with mine." You could probabaly ma
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by Digory 5y ago
Too clever by half, I think. Why would rich and powerful executives lobby to make sure there is an 'exception' that keeps them bound by these contracts? One answer: It helps them. If you're in demand, you can extract more m
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by Digory 5y ago
Is this just a way to collect on insurance? American factories are closed because of “chip shortages.” It seems way too early to say it was a cyber attack, much less for it to already impact production.
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by Digory 5y ago
IME, you can register. And then between a day and a week later, you'll get a demand to verify by phone.
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by Digory 5y ago
Twitter won't verify phone numbers that are assigned to voip providers, even if they receive SMS. I'm not sure how you get a number from Ma Bell anymore, and I'm not going to do it for Twitter. FAANG isn't quite as bad a
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by Digory 5y ago
Clever, but the guesses aren't useful, because "the middle" is rarely the most efficient place to get goods off trucks and rail. I know the TJs in Kansas are stocked from a Kansas Aldi distribution center, near rail and high
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by Digory 5y ago
Familiar complaints in Dan Neil's WSJ review of the VW Golf R this weekend: > After a week of fun and wild-eyed frustration with the 2022 Volkswagen Golf R ... I was ready to scold VW’s product planners. Never has so good a car been
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Ask HN: Websites for Professional Advisors in '22?
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by Digory 5y ago
Activist judges didn’t make this spreadsheet. The company is responding to social pressure. It’s people trying to atone for the immorality of their social caste. The courts have been clear that this kind of discrimination is illegal. “Our
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by Digory 5y ago
Amazon’s Sidewalk network is backing Tile. All those Echoes, by default, are hardware trackers, too. Which is why Tile is much better in dense areas than it used to be.
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by Digory 5y ago
With this variant, the tests seem mainly about "how much longer should I quarantine?" It's test two or that finally shows positive, after you're pretty sure it's COVID.
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by Digory 5y ago
I’ve been running hackintoshes as daily drivers for a decade. Glad to see there won’t be a hard stop, though this is beginning to sound more like emulation.

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