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by adolph 2y ago
If the letter doesn't follow the spirit then fix the letter, don't add on more crust. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by adolph 2y ago
Police are [Union] employees . . .
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by adolph 2y ago
> Getting people engaged and limiting the powers of these organizations. My impression is that most people want more government; thus, getting more people engaged will lead to increasing the powers of these organizations.
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by adolph 2y ago
> The charger thing is misleading. The money hasn't been spent yet Not certain if that is any better. If an organization can't execute, it can't execute. It doesn't matter if it is some frankenstein of Boeing prime co
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by adolph 2y ago
Errol Morris had some great thoughts to share about the topic some years back: As I’ve said elsewhere: Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious. When someone says that something is obvious, it seems almost certain that it is anything but ob
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by adolph 2y ago
If you are positing that government infiltration of companies is hypothetical and not a real threat, here is an example of compromised corporate staff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter
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by adolph 2y ago
I think RealPage foot-gunned their corporate structure and marketing by being so blatant about it. If they had set up a separate structure that offered "benchmarking" like what is used in healthcare[0] and other industries, they c
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by adolph 2y ago
The advertiser's objections must be implemented with actual words since the semantic layer is not yet computable. Maybe an llm could associate "die" to "unalive" and treat them the same way for the purpose of advert
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by adolph 2y ago
It is difficult to get a man [ or person i.e. lawmaker] to understand something [as a problem] when his salary depends upon his not understanding it [as a problem]. [0] Otoh, laws are often referred to as "code" and like compute
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by adolph 2y ago
@dang [2016] I wonder what the author would think of the fresh cycle of euphemism derived from platform algorithms, like "unalive." You cant unalive an idea . . . . . . but you can euphemize it Many social media websites
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by adolph 2y ago
That is a nice explanation. However, it fails to answer the question posed to the assertion regarding gravity: >> The gravity of the Earth absolutely changes the speed of the probe. > Wait! Wouldn't Earth's gravity
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by adolph 2y ago
Thanks! The rules for definite articles are also odd. Only very specific categories of proper nouns are articled. USA gets one because "of" is in the name. I think the categories of articled proper nouns is probably missing sports
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by adolph 2y ago
> The gravity of the Earth absolutely changes the speed of the probe. Wait! Wouldn't Earth's gravity take away when departing just as much as given when arriving? However, the probe's direction could change based on how cl
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by adolph 2y ago
Prepositions in English are highly idiomatic. Although there are some rules for usage, much preposition usage is dictated by fixed expressions. [0] Prepositions are fascinating. Why is it that NASA and ESA don't get a "the"
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by adolph 2y ago
> I would much rather only get the toast if there is a failure to commit the change. I would much rather the sequence of commands issued through the ui be a declarative state change queued until committed without bugging me about an erro
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by adolph 2y ago
High and low are quantifiable risks. Starliner risk is a divide by zero error NaN instead of a value. . . . as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know
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by adolph 2y ago
The short version: most consumer and business solar panels are centrally managed by a handful of companies, mostly from countries outside of Europe. In the Netherlands alone, these solar panels generate an output equivalent to at least 25
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by adolph 2y ago
Maybe something like a solar powered game camera only for ant-sized game. Folks seem to go for the Haikubox[0] for bird sound recognition using BirdNet[1]. I'd love to see the little spiders or maybe silkworms that lay tiny lines in th
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by adolph 2y ago
> Our current system is entirely built on ridiculous levels of trust, mostly for convenience / cost saving reasons. Paging patio11: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
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by adolph 2y ago
So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
891.
by adolph 2y ago
While true, at issue in TFA is importing older vehicles. A motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old can be lawfully imported into the U.S. without regard to whether it complies with all applicable [Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
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by adolph 2y ago
Rocketdyne developed the F-1 and the E-1 to meet a 1955 U.S. Air Force requirement for a very large rocket engine. . . . The Air Force eventually halted development of the F-1 because of a lack of requirement for such a large engine. [0]
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by adolph 2y ago
Biomedical research is sometimes more of a cottage industry than "at scale in production" but some think that HE can reduce cross-institution collaboration. Here is a systematic review from 2022, the Background section will give y
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Giant Hawaii Mars Flying Boat Made Its Final Glorious Flight(twz.com)
2 points by adolph 2y ago|1 comments
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by adolph 2y ago
The author would have done well to read "The Beginning of Infinity" by Deutsch which has well rounded discussion of different methods of epistemology espoused over time. The development past authority need not result in anarchy. D
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by adolph 2y ago
This is an nuanced topic that might not be worth going into. The IRS automatically considers a church as tax exempt under 501(c)3. However, churches do not have to apply for that status (although some/many do), and do not have to follo
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by adolph 2y ago
The exact location of the border line between the upper arm / shoulder and the “torso” would vary depending on the development of the upper body of an individual athlete and would not therefore be totally consistent. Based on anatomy,
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by adolph 2y ago
now the drain was rusted and when I went to loosen the nut, the steel sink cracked and split, but it was an old sink so I couldn’t find a matching one to replace it with, so that meant the old vanity had to go too, but that left an odd foo
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by adolph 2y ago
Oftentimes a 501(c)3's receipt will include a "fair market" value of whatever benefit the donor got. When religion gets reclassified as 501(c)3, I wonder how they will do receipts. Officient salaries / (number of ser
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by adolph 2y ago
"Workload" needs disambiguation. This is about humans working long hours in banking, not bypassing security scans on containers. I can't remember the last time I heard the word "workload" to describe a human.

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