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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
> Aviation rules are written by blood, you either follow them or you add a few more lines with your own blood. Please, what fool subjects their own blood to the absence of regulation? If you've got blood on your hands, much better f
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
Even where it is explicitly regulated, it's probably being done unthinkingly.
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
Given the prevalence of slavery within the first 1800 years of Christianity's existence, I don't think we can credit it with a value system that has sympathy for the fundamental humanity of the enslaved. More credit goes to the E
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
While I agree that the question of "are we jailing this person for their political opinions" gets into skeevy areas, if we refuse to enforce laws just because elections and politics are involved we might as well not have any laws
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
On the other hand, lots of people buying audio gear new DO take the second-hand market into account, and will spend more on the initial purchase if they think the product will retain its value.
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
To be clear: I'm not trying to outlaw anything, just demonstrate to the parent how they could be subject to the lobbying/regulation/consumption feedback loop without being susceptible to advertising. I'm sorry if that o
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
It doesn't have to be advertising; if policies were enacted to either restrict supply (by making it more difficult to produce in favor of some perceived public good) or to raise the price by reducing (currently significant) subsidies o
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
Because the current administration has an overriding focus on self-aggrandizement and the struggle against persecution by hidden forces. All communications and outputs of the administration must pay lip service to said focus, no matter how
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
I find there area few things the budgets and spreadsheets help with from a personal finance perspective: - Values vs reality: A $3000 candle budget is fine, but if you're spending $10/work-day on candles it might be easier to see
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
Lots of explanations with power here: - There's a hard edge to the distribution that isn't far from 24 (I'd expect relatively few sub-18-year-old YC founders, but more 31+-year-olds) - Older founders (with more experience, la
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
"Politics as a zero-sum game" is a self-fulfilling prophecy that's only true if you see it as "competing over who gets all the power". In a more sympathetic perspective, politics is just how communities self-organiz
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
Luckily you get the "extremely confident, even when wrong" attribute for free.
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
This was great for the 10 mins it took to get through the whole playlist, then really jarring when it repeated.
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
If you were born in 1970, you (and presumably the people you grew up with) are ~55. The sample set in this particular study are 71-88 years old (plus 7 years after), so 16+ years older than you (years that also coincide with increased prev
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
Driver-controlled aero has the potential to be way more interesting than the strictly-limited current DRS implementation. The most interesting DRS era was in 2011-2012 when drivers could operate it (almost) anywhere they wanted in practice
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by InitialLastName 10mo ago
Alternately: Self-made wealth is so frequently derived from evil that those who are born rich and come good owe penance for the sins of their forebears.
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
> Is there a little computer doing DAW work inside the earpiece? Yes, and likely always running all filters at high fidelity rather than power-saving whenever there isn't something to amplify.
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
If you don't want it, I'll take that name for my stoic-forward dating service.
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
For a variety of reasons I've set a personal best for time in large hospitals in the last year. They can be very difficult to navigate in the best of times, much less in the less-than-ideal mental state that often accompanies time in
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
For a salmon-sized taste, Bartleby the Scrivener. Great annotated version here: https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/herma...
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
Yes, heavily disputed, to the point that there are widespread campaigns on the internet to normalize the various sovereignty claims under the guise of day-to-day conversation about those locales (e.g. conspicuously referring to them as bein
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by InitialLastName 11mo ago
Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
3 in the last year, none in a school. I'm not sure what your point is.
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
They've been trained by a decade of referring to advanced cruise control as "full self-driving".
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
Off-topic, but reading that will is a fascinating study in 19th-century international economics: In the initial outlays, I count 5 different currencies (crowns, francs, florins, dollars, marks). I don't think anyone now would bequest
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
All of these apps are 100% using your scroll speed/how long you spend engaging with the content as a data point. After all, "time spent engaging with the content" is the revenue driver.
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
All of the above, plus implement the control interface expected by the driver and maybe control loops to keep the voltages in range at the point of load. You probably could do it with a breakout board, but good luck getting the right voltag
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
"Moves" are counted for both players. Half a move means White moved but Black hasn't yet.
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
To be fair, it's nice to have the typography rearranged to work upside down.
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by InitialLastName 1y ago
Writing top-to-bottom has advantages for all writers whose eyes are above their hands. The bit of the writing surface that's blocked by your hand hasn't been written on yet.

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