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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
I'm aware of who he is, and the context of "liberal" when referring to him and his views. I'm offering an explanation as to why someone might describe him as "liberal", because if anyone outside the US listened
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
"Liberal" in the US used to mean (and still does outside the US) someone with a "live and let live" mentality, where things/actions are generally allowed unless there is a very good reason for restricting them. &quo
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
The normal force of the tank wall to the floor will shear across the acrylic if it's not perfectly flat. Pressure outwards is normal to the tank wall relative to the water, but if this force goes diagonally through the floor, that&#x27
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Idk about you, but the worst managers I've had were _not_ engineers. They had no idea what the actual day-to-day of the projects looked like, would blindly promise deadlines, etc. I'm not saying that the best engineers make the be
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
I don't mean that improving other means of transit shouldn't negatively affect car travel, just that we shouldn't go out of our way to make car travel more painful. e.g. maybe we don't need to remove a car lane from ever
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> The solution is to make non-car transportation more available, more useful, cheaper, etc, and slowly make car use itself more painful. I disagree with the last part on a philosophical level. Society should push forward, and that doesn&
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Stop gaslighting me. /s
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Well, if you're disagreeing with someone who cannot conceive that they _might_ be wrong, then to them you _are_ gaslighting them. Even though they're just wrong and refusing to engage.
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Found the fascist. ... /s
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Have you seen the sorry excuses for “historical precedent” that NYS dug up for Antonyuk v Hochul? https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/new-york-gun-law-temp... This was filed by the State. Search the word “negro
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
I think we’re in agreement. I knew the exact (non)answer I’d get from the other poster based on their other comments.
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
How do you feel about showing ID to buy guns? Or pay for a firearms license/ mandatory training? (Also a constitutional right)
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> It should be obvious that freely knowing salaries will improve the employee's ability to negotiate the wage they deserve. I would argue that for high performers, it could become an excuse not to pay more. "Sorry, we know you
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Probably start a company with the money they've (hopefully) saved, and make more than slaving away for half their old salary (if half is the only option, which it probably isn't).
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> Especially the tax code and measures against people succeeding too much like in America. This is a big one. Why would someone earning €60k as a regular engineer take all of the responsibility of leading a team for only €10k/year m
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> but if the borrow checker is really the slowest part, maybe making rust skip it is a valid approach for end users. Relevant username?...
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
It's not a reasonable set of policies though, they're intentionally made to be burdensome and hard to comply with. Background check: yes, fine. However, these need to be processed quickly to have any effect. If someone is flagged,
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Even worse: the lab certification that the testing facility needs to have? There are _no_ labs in NYS that comply. You need to go out of state within 14 days of receiving a permit application, to have the sample collected and processed, and
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> The weather is awful for all but 1-2 weeks in the spring and 1-2 weeks in the fall (hot and humid in the summer, extremely cold and windy in the winter). I did. It's less about how far north, and a lot to do with the lake effect s
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
NYS is overall absolutely terrible for gun stuff. Hunting rifles and shotguns are easy, but the current process for purchasing anything semi-automatic and/or a handgun in very onerous. Over a year wait in most counties, years long resi
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
It's cheap because it's an awful place to live. You can work in insurance, or hospitality, or for terrible wages in "tech", aka making CRUD apps or doing IT for the aforementioned industries. State taxes are super high a
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
It doesn’t really matter because most of those psych grads aren’t and would never be capable of administering mental healthcare beyond what any of us can already find on Google.
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> Are we really going to rehash the same, tired argument that only STEM majors are useful to society? It seems so, since it's hard for people to admit that an average STEM graduate is much more useful than an average humanities grad
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
Most bikes with vertical dropouts have some kind of retention cutouts, so that if the QR was properly installed (i.e. holds the wheel on when closed), the QR is retained even when fully opened. You need to open it fully, then unscrew the ca
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> It's easier to read for you. It would be easier for me to read if everyone wrote their code in French. Is that a good enough reason to make the whole company switch? There's subjectivity, and then there is "I'm not
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> Putting the return type in the funcfions docstring should be a requirement during linting, and ensuring the correct type is used should be part of PR review. You're suggesting pushing the types from the function signature + docstr
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> Hitting a type annotation when reading Python forces my brain into little backtracking loops which hugely diminishes my ability to form a mental model of the code from a quick read. This makes me think you've never dealt with unty
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> eugenics were accepted as science This is exactly my point. By your definition, the “progressive” view is the one that doesn’t try to keep society the same. At some point, eugenics came around, and the world now thought this was a good
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> If you're worried about society changing, there is no definition of the word "progressive" you fulfill unless it's your tax bracket. If you saw the "progressive" movement take a turn toward something you c
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by a4a4a4a4 4y ago
> sparse population > low population These are not the same thing. Switzerland has a pretty dense population. The section with low population is the Alps, where you're not going to put trains anyway. https://www.atlas.

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