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by anamax 9mo ago
The National Guard is NOT a state militia. Its funding and equipment come from the Feds, and any state-level authority can be removed at the president's whim. This was settled when Reagan sent NG units from some states NG members over
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by anamax 9mo ago
While "insider trading" harms prediction market participants, insider trading provides useful information to prediction market observers.
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by anamax 10mo ago
My inference was that you were suggesting that the "independent FCC commissioner" was just as subject to control by elected officials as the Secretary of State because both are appointed by elected officials. That's why I poi
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by anamax 10mo ago
On the off-chance that someone believes that there is border security between US states but that these states are an exception. The US doesn't have border security between states. The closest thing to an exception is the "don&#x27
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by anamax 10mo ago
> Saying you can't vote for the head of the FCC is like saying that you can't vote for the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure of the president. You're arguing that FCC commissioners shouldn&#
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by anamax 11mo ago
> 7 million people protested against Donald Trump on October 18th, one of the largest protests in human history. What should have happened if 6 million people had protested against Biden? How about 8 million?
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by anamax 11mo ago
Does your bash script use rsync or does it duplicate some of rsync's functionality? (rsync also uses zip to speed things up.)
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by anamax 11mo ago
> This is very weak a priori arguing. I could just as well argue that USB-C has the center blade shielded instead of exposed and so is more durable. The unshielded Lightning center blade is on a $5 connector. If it breaks, I'm out
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by anamax 11mo ago
> Would German military spending of 5% GDP have prevented the Crimea annexation? Probably not Crimea, but you'd think that the annexation would have caused some rethinking of "soft power". The lack of European defense spen
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by anamax 11mo ago
> In international law, they were treaties. Please provide a verifiable reference to the specific international law or laws that says that a US president's signature is sufficient to create a binding treaty. The US Constitution, spe
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by anamax 11mo ago
> The US doesn't really see Russia as an adversary under Trump. From the fall of the Berlin wall until the Ukraine invasion, the US saw Russia as more of an adversary than Europe saw Russia. Yes, even after Russia annexed Crimea. I
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by anamax 11mo ago
> Since bits aren't addressable, they don't really have an order in memory. Bits aren't addressable in the dominant ISAs today, but they were addressable by popular ISAs in the past, such as the PDP-10 family. The PDP-10 i
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by anamax 11mo ago
Ditzel went to Intel after Transmeta, doing processor architecture. While I don't know what his group shipped, some implementations of trace caches do store "improved" operation sequences.
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by anamax 1y ago
Switzerland is effectively a mono-culture, and that culture happens to be effective, efficient, etc. It's sort of like Mormons or Swedes. The govt form doesn't matter because success is baked in and govt is just for coordination,
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by anamax 1y ago
Gender combinations would have also been interesting.
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by anamax 1y ago
From the article: "Finally, we also vary the demographics of the driver of this other car to determine if this effect is even stronger if the viewer is white, and the driver of the car with the sticker is Black." I wonder why they
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by anamax 1y ago
> many senators blamed the democrats, explicitly switched to the republican party, and the south has been anti-democrat since. In this case, "many" is at most 2. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by anamax 1y ago
> They've quite literally taken the stance that someone literally just seeing the existence of a gay couple in a children's picture book is a violation of their freedom. No. They've taken the stance that parents get to dec
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by anamax 1y ago
You're ignoring differences in the size of the space and the ability of most drivers to back-up vs going-forward into a small space. >90% of the people who back in take much longer to back-in than they'd take to back-out becaus
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by anamax 1y ago
Just wait until police discover that they don't have access to all in-person communication.
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by anamax 1y ago
> Later the photographer would review the video clips and choose the best frames for publication. That seems like an ML problem, or rather, a problem with an ML solution.
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by anamax 1y ago
"while other editors, like Emacs, could cost hundreds of dollars." Huh? While I suppose that one "could" pay for Emacs, the vast majority of users never have. Then again, I've only been using Emacs for 45 years, so
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by anamax 1y ago
A couple of months ago, I saw something about Temu paying the tariffs for all of their shipments to the US in bulk but still shipping them individually. The basic idea was that they'd figure out the tariff on everything they shipped du
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by anamax 2y ago
> Well, perhaps it does matter. If there is even a small chance it does matter, we might as well act like it matters. Ah, Pascal's Wager. There's a small chance that you giving me $100 matters, so surely I'm going to find
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by anamax 2y ago
California has an EV-specific registration fee. It started at $100/year, is now $200, and will be $274 starting in 2028. I don't have data on what fraction of CA's gas & related taxes go to actually building and maintain
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by anamax 2y ago
> And even if the war ends, Europeans will be ware of sending their money to a country that may use it against them. I'd bet a significant fraction of my net worth that Europeans will embrace Russian energy after the war. https:&#x
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by anamax 2y ago
Or iffy text... Assuming that web scraped content is on the up-and-up seems insane at best. Heck - how do you know that an on-line version of a book hasn't been tampered with.
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by anamax 2y ago
Does "suck up huge amounts of power" for a seal imply "generate lots of heat"? If so, is that heat another issue or is it a "don't care" because the heat is over a large enough surface?
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by anamax 2y ago
"People scare better when they're dying." is one of the best movie lines.
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by anamax 2y ago
> If guns were better regulated We can't stop drug importation. What makes you think that we can stop guns? > and we had less of them we would have a safer less violent society. "less of them"? We can take away all of

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