GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 5y ago
(The method is named after Erlangen, the city in Germany.)
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
There you go, dig into the specific policy choices of specific leaders. The world isn't as simple as which team you're on.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
This or that state government's mandate or lack thereof really can't stand in for actual behaviors . For one thing, regardless of state mandates, you can bet your buttons that a huge number of residential/nursing facilities
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
That's because you imagine fairness can be adjusted on its own. I wouldn't say I want the game to be less fair as a primary value . But imagine I say I want the game to be more X, Y, or Z, and you respond that those changes would
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I agree. The idea that there is always a right answer has been a fiction for the entire history of the game. Take away the box on the screen and there are still some obviously bad calls, but there are many more calls that no one but the
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Proportionally more people buy lottery tickets when the jackpot is bigger, so in terms of driving vaccine adoption there's a good argument for concentrating the reward as much as possible.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It had 9 points at 26 minutes when you posted this and has 26 points now, at 34 minutes. [Edit: 124 at 1:10!] A whole community can't instantly evaluate the article. Give things a chance!
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Who is subsidizing the $7.25/hr driver? That amount isn't enough to include health coverage, and is barely enough to cover necessities. Edit: just realized what a crazy world I live in when I unthinkingly categorize health coverag
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Do you call certain tall woody growths something else, then? The birds bit is an analogy. It's not about looking identical, it's about looks (tall woody thing) and shared name (tree) not corresponding to phylogenetics.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Her mother was Marina vos Savant.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I watched the whole video. He acknowledged that Racket has excellent documentation, a wide-ranging toolset, etc. All the good stuff you've heard elsewhere. He criticizes the language-oriented model (in comparison to languages that peop
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Racket's documentation isn't something I've ever heard criticized. It's extensive, well-written, and even has various formats for users at different levels of familiarity. I don't think I've run into another
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
The whole point is that you can't just stick with a knee-jerk reaction like "OoH, a PoLiTiCiAn!" Use your actual brain . This particular politician was the prime minister of Denmark until 2015, and in 2015, Denmark was ranke
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
The parent was alleging the opposite: that we are infantilizing ourselves by choosing child-oriented food shapes.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It's not about anyone getting the benefit of the doubt. It's about whether there's substantive discussion here or just cynical riffs and dismissals.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Ok but they've got the former Prime Minister of Denmark next to the Vice President of the CATO Institute. Get a handle on the knee-jerk skepticism and cynicism and look into it yourself and make a principled argument for whether it&#x2
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Yeah, but the commenter had asked "Since when is encouraging reckless driving a crime?"
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
This is strictly a ruling that the company can be sued. They had moved for dismissal, claiming that the facts as alleged couldn't possibly support a finding of liability, and the appeals court here is only saying that the plaintiffs
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
For the record, encouraging reckless driving is likely a crime wherever reckless driving itself is a crime. I am not a lawyer but encouragement is typically a basis for liability as an accomplice. Here's Texas, for example: Sec. 7.02.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Exactly, which gets back to the actual underlying dynamic: the accusation of gatekeeping only makes sense on a societal level, not an individual one, and can only be turned into an equality issue if one (silently) shifts back to the persp
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I don't think I've ever asked a woman older than her mid-twenties about her experiences without hearing about an instance of assault. Some serious, some not, but universal .
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
The proof is that men aren't described as gatekeepers, even though just like women, they choose to have sex with certain people, and not with others. The "gate" you're talking about uncontroversially belongs to each in
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
There are absolutely places where the social scale is relevant: places where one is entitled to equal treatment. Incels mistakenly think that the bedroom is one of these places, and that they are entitled to an equal amount of sexual attent
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
> the gatekeepers of the bedroom There is no way this can be true. Sex takes two consenting people; there is no "gate" to be unequally "kept" because both parties have autonomy. Trying to shift to "social scales&
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Why on earth should adults care what shape their food is? The childish thing is judging adults by completely substanceless distinctions like this.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Such an improvement over fishbricks: > Birdseye developed a novel freezing technique...but when used on fish, the method created large blocks of intermingled fillets that, when pried apart, tore into “mangled, unappetizing chunks” ....
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I think we live in a pretty skeptical and critical age. There are plenty of decently-educated people ready to jump into any discussion and either a) share their contrary opinion, regardless of the basis for it, or b) point out weaknesses&#x
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
All that means is that Congress has the authority to legislate in the area. Interstate commerce isn't a basis for federal court jurisdiction. The Supreme Court still reviews state supreme court decisions, but Amazon would have to alleg
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
In this case it was not fulfilled by Amazon.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Yes, you can of course sue the manufacturer directly. But the key issue Amazon is fighting is whether they're liable.

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