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To elaborate: Suppose I said, "Your [loved one] is a rando." That clearly is a negative statement implying that their behavior is irrational (i.e. random). Urban Dictionary has an entry starting "an unpredictable, awkward and
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> They are on the verge of confirming the 5th circuit declaration of the federal regulatory system to be unconstitutional; that will tear the country apart. How will preventing two layers of unelected officials from dictating the law tea
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Seriously, if the problem with the electoral college is disparate per capita representation and you're saying that needs to be fixed then it follows that the Senate is also a problem and we shouldn't have an upper and a lower legi
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It is pejorative.
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Sorry, I flipped 'country' and 'smaller state' in my response. Voting is statistical mechanics not a guarantee that you individually matter.
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Yes. And any city dweller can move to the county or vice versa. The rules of the game are well-known, hence fair.
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I am from Pennsylvania but I have lived many places. I assure you that the randos are everywhere.
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I think there are positives over a direct vote. I like that presidential candidates have to consider the desires of smaller states instead of simply playing to large cities. I think that it produces better outcomes for the country than a di
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Stop giving the panhandlers money and they will go away.
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Definitely nounAdjective. Alphabetically {a, b, c} × {Min, Max} is soo much nicer than the converse. Especially in lists dozens of items long.
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4y ago
Could one get away with regular AWK using these combined with a streaming to/from CSV converter?
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Suppose that it wasn't coordinated but rather emergent. Then less government would be the obvious answer. Notice less government is therefore the answer regardless of why we keep getting these outcomes.
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> But again, you're conflating "add any value" to "worry about adding the most value to society" Good point. "The most" implies that there's some objective total ordering. Subjectively, I think peo
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Contemplate letting your house rot, fester, and fall then tell us that such deterioration is immaterial to the value of your holding relative to other, well-maintained properties.
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> Finance, ad-tech, real-estate flippers, and numerous others may not even add any value. Know anyone who got an advertised rate on a mortgage to buy a freshly renovated home? The fun fact about valuable things is that people often pay f
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I periodically hum a verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" when today feels crazy. That song is effective for me because those are events one learns about independently but, absent the song, I would never have thought of them u
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4y ago
For whom is the Funhouse fun? With apologies to Barth. Damn, early post-modern fiction was spot on.
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5y ago
Sorry, added.
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Sorry, added.
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What's with the Bash replacements?
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I have a completed outline for an Applied Research Management book following the old Scott Meyers format. Of course, I am slowly working on the writing phase. Hit me up by email if you would like to pick over the outline.
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5y ago
You want keyword arguments given these constraints. The type checker will confirm anything you like about those.
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If you have a dictionary with heterogenous, optional keys then I believe you have a struct-like class. If you have any constraints on the keys beyond a homogeneous domain and a homogeneous range then you have a struct-like class.
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Mosek is great, especially combined with Cvxpy.
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> states aren't that different... Source on the all-inclusive assessment? I am familiar with Texas and California and New York. One of these things is not like the others.
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Here's $1000. Get some wheat.
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> a can of pop I love this colloquialism. (Grew up in Western PA. Sounds like home.)
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> Economically speaking insider trading represents a net positive for the market as it brings information onto the market sooner... However, insider trading erodes confidence in the market and therefore reduces the number of people contr
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Is this the same mechanism/geometry of the BattleTech Marauder? https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Marauder
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Zero is a valuable concept. It's a diploma for no degree from nowhere or a banknote worth no value. You can spot a lot of mistakes by asking code to compute with a 0-by-0 matrix or to write zero rows of data. For example, the matrix ca
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