Matticus_Rex

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by Matticus_Rex 8mo ago
Apparently you get dinged for using AWS even if you're using an EU datacenter. I'm sure you can define "EU sovereignty" in a way that's consistent with that, but that's not very useful.
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by Matticus_Rex 9mo ago
My wife uses this stand with her Kindle (there are more flexible/adjustable ones available): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXPJWMNY?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_... and a page-turner for the Kindle: https://www
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by Matticus_Rex 9mo ago
There are fireflies in every state except Hawaii. There are more east of the Mississippi and in the south generally, but anywhere with water has some (including river valleys in arid states).
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
Expensive lawyers have better relationships with opposing parties, have more and better legal research both already on hand and available to be done, with more and smarter people doing research, with more and more experienced people availab
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
> Allow me to explain a contrarian position. Judges favor individuals that use an expensive lawyer for representation, even if there isn't much of a legal argument to be made. Judges give such individuals a far better deal. The reas
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
Not comparing it to heroin (or crack) is not saying it isn't an issue.
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
I think you're missing what I'm saying.The overall point is that the existence of a spectrum does not in any way imply that everything exists somewhere on that spectrum. In the example of the color spectrum, I don't mean that
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
The idea that the word "spectrum" doesn't automatically imply "color" is hardly specialist knowledge, though. "There's a spectrum between..." is not an uncommon way to describe something where there&#
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
But virtually everyone in the field does believe there are many different mechanisms behind autism, some of which have little-to-no overlap either in the mechanisms themselves or necessarily even in the presentation. Many scientists belie
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
This is a misconception I see pop up frequently online. In terms of the color spectrum, there are plenty of things—even things that have qualities in common with color—that aren't on the color spectrum. And while there are colors outsi
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by Matticus_Rex 10mo ago
I thought that, too, but I'm seeing lots of companies in tech implement this almost by default because it's built-in to tools that are adding a lot of tangible value.
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
Looking back at the assholes of my youth, they run the gamut. Some seem like lovely adults, and are very successful. Some are just like they were and are very successful. Some others crashed out completely. The more brash, upfront assholes
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
> That's every landlord. Higher income tenants tend to bring less problems overall. Even moreso in states with expansive eviction protections. High-income tenants rarely squat. But at least for bigger landlords squatting isn't
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
They can't all be bangers, and [plane-with-bullet-holes.jpg]
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
Tenant rights didn't end SROs, but they made them much more expensive to operate in cities that make evictions difficult. Most cities were already discouraging them with zoning and building codes, and tenant rights expansions in some o
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
For what definition of "visualize?" I have partial aphantasia but am great at understanding the inner workings of complex systems/processes. I used to think of it as visualization until aphantasia discourse, and then I realiz
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by Matticus_Rex 11mo ago
According to my wife (a 1), yes. Seems wild to me as a ~4. If I concentrate really, really hard on trying to imagine visual detail I can get something to a ~3 at low detail or hold individual small details at a 2 until I stop concentrating
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
It should apply there, though the first Trump admin argued a very narrow interpretation that mostly exempts the president in the first term, at the end of which the case was declared moot (leaving us in suspense about what SCOTUS would have
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
No, this is pretty squarely outside the scope, and only specific amounts received from in-scope parties (i.e. governments) would be subject. And there's a standing issue. Basically the emoluments clause doesn't have real teeth for
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
If they thought they would make more money on net with the employees than without them, they wouldn't have laid them off?
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
If you're making a great product and you choose to make sure you don't get traction by taking this route (assuming you're not in one of the few niches where it might be somewhat viable), you're just making sure you don&#
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Creating an environment hospitable to parasitism is actively hostile to would-be hosts.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
What do you do with the other two wishes from the genie?
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Huh? I think it's hard to make a case that the left is meaningfully more violent, even weighing in stuff like riots/arson/looting (and it's not actually fair to pin all that on the left, when we know so much is opportuni
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
You're getting downvoted, but you're correct. It's death by a thousand cuts, because ALARA forces radiation exposure-reduction expenditures to scale upward forever, despite the fact that radiation exposure from plants long ag
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
No one is saying there shouldn't be regulations on nuclear. But our regulations on nuclear are utterly insane -- every time I get someone to read into the reasons nuclear here has been so much more expensive than safe nuclear in other
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Conservatives have generally been at least somewhat pro-market. American Republicans haven't been fiscally responsible, but until Trump they were meaningfully more pro-market than the alternative. Trump's economic views have at le
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
There are a bunch of different patterns (not all of which reduce quality), but usually when a company is sold to PE and quality goes down it's because the company was in trouble, either because they weren't profitable (or were, bu
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Thanks!

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