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by amalcon 2y ago
The thing economists generally say to do, is to take the revenue from Pigovian taxes and use it to somehow offset either the original negative externality (e.g. using tobacco taxes to fund public health measures) or anticipated damage cause
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by amalcon 2y ago
This is also where I am. I think trade barriers are a tool we've abandoned unnecessarily, but in order to be reasonable there need to be specific requirements for their use: 1) The barrier needs to be imposed and removed under specifi
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by amalcon 2y ago
We'll likely never know for sure, since they will just claim that the goal is to save money. There's even a grain of truth to it: AWS and GCP are the most expensive offerings in that class. Of course, if the goal was actually t
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by amalcon 2y ago
This is a thing, yes. Statistical cheat-detection methods are more or less required for online chess, for example, because anyone can run Stockfish. A lot of that came out of academia, so you can just find papers like this: https:/&
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by amalcon 2y ago
Anecdotally, the two times in my career I have had a project like that, apple was the customer.
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by amalcon 2y ago
The most likely scenario is that it didn't. Selzer, a successful 68-year-old, was likely about to retire anyway.
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by amalcon 2y ago
The U.S. did have a brief flirtation with what other countries call "failure to form a governing coalition" in 2023. It was a bit less embarrassing than elsewhere because (for somewhat related reasons) our legislature is historic
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by amalcon 2y ago
Those numbers are for the wrong line items, and the WH press secretary was wrong about the source of those funds. Both of those were out of the state department budget, which (putting aside the present murky status) did not oversee USAID a
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by amalcon 2y ago
Oil is notably necessary to keep the united states military operational (in addition to the uses in other comments).
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by amalcon 2y ago
You have just made me realize that I did the same thing a couple weeks ago, and didn't even notice that the AI integration was missing. (I find it moderately useful at work, but apparently not enough to realize it's missing unprom
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by amalcon 2y ago
Only applies to Trump, and Grover Cleveland's ghost.
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by amalcon 2y ago
Government and charity can be corrupted (and usually are, to at least a small degree). Private industry is corrupt bt default: to the extent possible, it will intentionally serve owners at the expense of other stakeholders. This is not a
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by amalcon 2y ago
> "Thou shalt not kill" The word "kill" here is famously a translation issue. The original Hebrew word means something closer to (but not precisely) "commit murder". Don't assume that the King James tr
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by amalcon 2y ago
This is just a statement of the unitary executive theory. Unitary executive theory is controversial, and the controversy there did not (until, oh about last month) align with party lines.
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by amalcon 2y ago
Your random family lawyer, if they are any good, will refer you to a specialist they know for something like this. That's a decent way to find one.
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by amalcon 2y ago
The idea of using a smaller version of the same (or a similar) model as a check is interesting. Overfitting is super basic, and tends to be less prominent in systems with fewer parameters. When this works, you may be finding examples of t
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by amalcon 2y ago
For those curious: This was most likely posted because it is gone. I don't think USAID's disappearance is a particularly good HN topic, but it's liable to just confuse people like this. If this is a discussion we want to
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by amalcon 2y ago
The driver can usually see the countdown on the pedestrian signal anyway. It's not obvious that this would be worse.
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by amalcon 2y ago
In the U.S. (relevant because it is home to the Wikimedia Foundation), you can sue anyone for any reason at any time. You might get immediately dismissed, sued back ("abuse of process" or similar), or something along those lin
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by amalcon 2y ago
Parent obviously meant "center" to be the political center of the U.S. given the previous sentence. I'm not sure they're correct in either statement (not having investigated in any way), or that this is a reasonable t
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by amalcon 2y ago
A joule, notably, is a newton-meter. Torque is also measured in newton-meters, but the meters are perpendicular to the newtons. Adding energy to torque is rarely going to be intentional.
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by amalcon 2y ago
So, by analogy that most english speakers will understand: Use "thou" where one would use "I" if discussing onesself. Use "thee" where one would use "me".
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by amalcon 2y ago
One of my old managers has a story about how he was tasked with documenting an unspecified something for the US government. Because he was not a US citizen (though he was a citizen of a very close US ally), he was then no longer permitted
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by amalcon 2y ago
One of these things is in the power of the school district, as long as they can convince local parents that it's a good idea (not easy, but studies help). The other is in the power of... who? Possibly nobody. Possibly the American f
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by amalcon 2y ago
I once was hours late for a doctor appointment, because I entered it into my calendar app while on vacation. That taught this particular lesson pretty effectively.
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by amalcon 2y ago
I am just some guy who doesn't actually know much about this. This being the internet, though: If I understand, it's pretty routine in real estate foreclosures for a creditor to win the auction simply by bidding the outstanding v
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by amalcon 2y ago
I think this is right. There's the political aspect -- it's hard to convince people of something's merits if it is too complicated. There's also the democratic aspect -- people must, to the greatest extent possible, un
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by amalcon 2y ago
The subtle difference is not that one is neutral. It's that "bush league lawyer" is a bad lawyer, but "bush lawyer" can be either that or someone attempting to act as a lawyer without actually being one.
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by amalcon 2y ago
TIL, this was my first time seeing the term. I just assumed that the poster had left out the second word of "bush league". That would mean something similar but subtly different, though (a lawyer not up to professional standards
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by amalcon 2y ago
Briefly, but frankly: copying small SQLite files around works so well in almost all cases that I don't feel the need for a new abstraction.

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