akramachamarei

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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> with full throated support across the political spectrum. Which is to say, from the authoritarian left to the authoritarian right, but not the other half of the compass.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
I see potential for selling driver distraction data (adjusted with forthcoming studies on real risk impacts thereof) to insurance companies. Ideally, meaningfully risky drivers (phone users, etc) get penalized with their premiums, and the s
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> Property tax breaks in my locale lead to empty lots and empty buildings, which is the least efficient use of land imaginable. Could you clarify what your locales property taxes are exactly? I'm trying to figure out whether you and
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> Regulator help is needed here. I don't like the impulse to regulate, especially as a formative measure. Regulating new technology before industry has time to experiment seems like a recipe for high prices, few choices, and low c
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Although there are things to criticize in the Linkedin post, the moralization ego defense mechanism is not the one it employed.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
UI has some surprises... correct letters in place are shown as white, transpositions in light grey. I expected green for correct placement, so clumsily transposed my correctly chosen letters. Then refreshed the page to retry but found my on
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Delta T(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akramachamarei 4mo ago|1 comments
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
or, why we have leap seconds
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Further reading, which actually goes into the majority opinion from Slaughter , and importantly contrasts it with Cook : https://reason.com/volokh/2026/06/29/supreme-court-ends-agen...
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
> If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing A queerly sticky ego defense mechanism.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
It literally is. "Verb "purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased) "To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.&quo
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
> plenty of people in my social circle who basically vote by reading the supposed purpose from the title In my experience, if there's anything that shouldn't be judged by what it's called, it's typically political thi
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
This was discussed previously on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295460 Isn't this just on Fenwick Island? And the state would have to approve the (possibly suspicious) creation of numerous shell com
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
How you define it, exactly?
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
> it’s essentially an addiction that many people have not even recognized A little patronizing, no? Maybe some people actually like it, even if you or I don't.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Kinda reminds me of Snowcrash in vibes
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Well, more Americans are declaring themselves politically independent, so we may be moving in a better direction, at least nominally: https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
I guess that depends on whether these cases are being appealed or if there is a "circuit split." Which is to say, those are the conditions I'm aware of under which a lower court decision does not constitute a decision decis
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Here are some cases (mined from Wikipedia sources): Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-03223 (N.D. Cal.) ( https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/3:2023cv... ) Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd., No.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
You shouldn't be getting downvoted. For those who don't know, I'd recommend the Freakonomics The Economics of Everyday Things episode on dental insurance. IIRC, dental "insurance" has little in common with insuran
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Despite title, this study did not investigate the question of sports advantage, at least not directly. It looked at physical fitness, concluding: > While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical f
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
> Imagine if current hospitals could object to opening new hospitals LMAO They can! It sucks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
I think that is literally what SKG is doing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that game companies often create games and sell them (i.e. sell licenses), and the terms of those licenses include some degree of revocability a
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
This is equivalent to the government making certain kinds of contracts unlawful. It's the same kind of situation as in prostitution and illicit drug markets. The government claims that certain kinds of agreements should simply not be a
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Power to say "that product you are selling is not okay with me! If the customer is willing to buy, it must be because you have deceived him. We cannot trust customers to buy games on their own, they need help from the state to do that!
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
How do you reckon? Boycotting has a concrete immediate effect, unlike for example, picketing, signing letters. Weak, maybe, weakest?
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
So much noise, so few principles. Whatever happened to don't buy if you don't like it? Read contracts before you agree to them? This whole discussion is kind of ridiculous. Gaming is not a matter of health or wellness. We don&#x27
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Why would the "inner self's gender" be unalterable? Almost everything about a person can change, even after reaching adulthood, height, weight, strength, personality, phobias, preferences, beliefs.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Which is not to say that it's interfering with fertility rates by making partners less potent/fertile, because, presumably, we would have heard about a significant increase in failures to conceive. Or is your implication that it h
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
This all makes sense to me, and I agree. And at the same time it's consistent with the thesis of the post: "Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system". So, I wouldn't say the post is too simpli

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