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by afthonos 5y ago
Copernicus was an expert. Those who have spent years laboring to understand a subject do occasionally ignore the bright upstart who has mastered the field and then proves them wrong. But that doesn’t oblige them to credit ignorance as ser
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by afthonos 5y ago
I’m going to be a bit snobbish here: I can’t take the article seriously when it misquotes “Double, double toil and trouble” as “Bubble, bubble toil and trouble”. Not so much because the mistake is egregious (it could make sense if you’re
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All the Right Words on Climate Have Already Been Said(therealsarahmiller.substack.com)
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by afthonos 5y ago
As always, it’s an issue of reach. AirBnB is the place to book non-hotel accommodations. Anyone who wants to can put their room or flat on there, and everyone who wants to find one knows where to look.
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by afthonos 5y ago
The first comment on this thread was lamenting that the issue became partisan. The rest explained why. The partisanship is precisely what makes discussing the fairness of the charges and laws difficult. In other words, he isn’t on trial for
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by afthonos 5y ago
The author says they are not congruent in the specific case of the US.
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by afthonos 5y ago
The author argues (towards the end) that by misunderstanding the US as a nation, we are going to try to do things that make sense for a nation, but not for a citizenship-based polity. And we are also likely to be upset when those things don
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by afthonos 5y ago
The concept is mentioned. The author doesn’t call it that, but the last part of the article discusses it.
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by afthonos 5y ago
A short summary, because most of the comments are disagreeing based on what they feel a nation is, rather than the academic definition the OP discusses. - A nation is a group of people that agree they have a common ancestral origin (note
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by afthonos 5y ago
While I appreciate a lot of the sentiment, this is precisely what the author opens discussion with: the fact that “nation” is often a metonym, or even, as in the parent’s comment, a metaphor.
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by afthonos 5y ago
There is precious little evidence that it worked better without scale…
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by afthonos 6y ago
Whenever there’s a pot of money that people of a special group inexplicably fail to pick up, it’s worth wondering if teaching them to pick it up is the solution. I am no expert in gender discrimination, for instance, but even I have come ac
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by afthonos 6y ago
I, uh, also had the reaction as GP…
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by afthonos 6y ago
Apologies, I thought you were stating general facts about DNA evidence in general, not about this specific case.
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by afthonos 6y ago
You should read up on the rates of plea bargaining, as well as the methods prosecutors use to push defendants to do so, which include: - Not revealing all information they are required to. - Parallel construction (see above) - Overcharging,
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by afthonos 6y ago
> While I haven't ventured through time, I have grown up in the lands of those of what the author calls the first system of war, but have been trained in and participated in modern war, I see the type of person as being very much si
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by afthonos 6y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, you're assuming one of two things: 1) 1-on-1 tutoring happens online. I would like evidence that this is effective, given the challenges this pandemic has put in evidence. Particularly, note that this is suppo
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by afthonos 6y ago
You are casually suggesting restructuring the entire economy while minimizing a relatively small problem involved in that, which is deciding who has access to education and how.
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by afthonos 6y ago
You are not making a counterargument. The operating word is “masses”. 1-on-1 doesn’t scale. The political reality may be that support for schooling would crater if the report were widely known, but the alternative isn’t realistically “moder
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by afthonos 6y ago
Software engineer. Source: at Google for 4.5 years. Rarely if ever had to stay late.
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by afthonos 6y ago
That’s not the GP’s point. The point is that there are two usable battery duration points: needs charge once a day, and doesn’t need charge for a long time (GP says one week, I believe it would be longer). If there are Android Wear watches
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by afthonos 6y ago
Two kids is still below replacement, which hovers, IIRC, around 2.1. Does the math still hold for 3 kids?
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by afthonos 6y ago
I don’t buy that. That would imply the company as a whole provides no value except that brought by the employees.
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by afthonos 6y ago
This is somewhat misleading, especially the "30% of your wealth bit". What the expatriation tax does is tax you as if you had sold all your property for cash on the day you renounce your citizenship, though it does apply a $600k+
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by afthonos 6y ago
I think I did not understand GGP the way you did, leading to me not making sense of your response. And of course it makes perfect sense not to rule on laws that have been repealed. :-)
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by afthonos 6y ago
> where if a law is unconstitutional it's struck down immediately What? Cases take years or decades to make their way through the court system. You might be thinking of the fact that some laws get an injunction on their enforcemen
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by afthonos 6y ago
My guess is that it's because it was a per curiam decision, meaning the majority felt that it didn't need a lot of elaboration. The reason for that is probably that given McGirt v. Oklahoma , Sharp v. Muphy was an obvious
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by afthonos 6y ago
Common sense dictates that the base belief should be “something that prevents my breath from going as far should be effective at reducing spread of an airborne illness.” The null hypothesis should be that masks help ; alternatively, the pr
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by afthonos 6y ago
That image was captured over 503 days of exposure, with a detector the size of a swimming pool. I won’t claim it’s impossible , but I’ll give you fantastic odds against it in the next, say, twenty years.
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by afthonos 6y ago
Thanks! Australia is far for me, but I’ll file it away. :-)

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