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by anamax 2y ago
> In absolute numbers, the US is the #1, but immigrants as percentage of population has the US as #65 (Canada #41). The relevant denominator would seem to be "population outside the target," not "population in the target.&
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by anamax 2y ago
> A good two lane street can have similar or better average speed than a bad four lane stroad. Average speed isn't the goal. Bandwidth is. And, in case you're thinking about talking about "induced demand", that'
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by anamax 2y ago
There's also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2022/07/25/should-we-... Note that California passed (and then repealed) a law along these lines - https://www.beckershospitalrev
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by anamax 2y ago
> They took no legal action against these people. There was legal action taken against some doctors. In addition. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/health/fda-ivermectin-lawsuit... And, it's pretty
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by anamax 2y ago
WWhat is misinformation? What does "solve" mean? (Is that the same as "what should be done about misinformation?")
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by anamax 2y ago
> Companies do not have freedom of speech. Do I have freedom of speech? How about Joe Smith? Assuming that the answer is yes, why do Joe and I acting together/cooperating not have freedom of speech? I ask because a company is peopl
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by anamax 2y ago
There seems to be at least one commercially available PDP-10 clone - https://xkl.com/about/
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by anamax 2y ago
> It's completely unavoidable for land owners, renters pay nothing at all, In this world, renters pay all of the expenses incurred by land owners via a payment we call "rent". Note that LVT discourages diverse development.
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by anamax 2y ago
It is reasonably well established that the government can't ask others to do what it can't legally do. The First Amendment says that the government can't tell the NYT not to publish stories about the price of tea in China. Ho
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by anamax 2y ago
I spend far more time reading code than typing it, so the time to type () is in the noise compared to the time to remember precedence rules while reading. If there were only a couple of operators, maybe precedence would be manageable, but t
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by anamax 2y ago
"Induced demand" is a fallacy that planners love because it lets them do what they want. Demand isn't created. It becomes visible when it looks like it might be satisfied, but that's a very different thing.
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by anamax 2y ago
> From my point of view, a regulated Tiktok would have been preferable. A regulated TikTok is a controlled media, but there can easily be controls that aren't part of the visible regulatory structure.
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by anamax 2y ago
Has MS made it so WSL doesn't grab at least 256GB of ssd/disk space? I want to run WSL in 8-16GB. Argh - they've made it WORSE - 1TB seems to be the minimum now. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&
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by anamax 2y ago
Is it a surprise that US schools do what they are rewarded for doing, that they don't do what they are not rewarded for doing?
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by anamax 2y ago
I didn't say anything about doing less or that your concerns were invalid. My point is that there's more "bang for the buck" wrt saving innocents from being dying due to wrongful "not death penalty" convictions
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by anamax 2y ago
Several innocent people die from being imprisoned every day. No one cares, because they die in the prison infirmary, but they're just as dead and they were killed because of their conviction, just like they were executed. (No, I'
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by anamax 2y ago
It's not that ironic. Ethicists are notorious for their horrible behavior. In practice, ethics usually means "how an organization justifies its monstrous behavior, especially to outsiders." Ethicists are the people who do s
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by anamax 2y ago
That comparison ignored the part where MIT (the University) screwed the deal. Things are changing, but startup in MA are playing hard-mode and don't get any extra points for doing so.
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by anamax 2y ago
Pure oxygen will kill you at >2 atmospheres of pressure. (That's roughly 30 feet underwater.)
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by anamax 2y ago
> Personally I don’t think the platforms being private matters - at their scale the big social media platforms are public squares, and should be regulated like that. Malls and shopping centers in California are treated as public squares
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by anamax 2y ago
Windows 11 won't run on my current desktop. Also, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS that supports many "not subscription" services. (Desktop Quicken 2016/2017 does everything I need, so why should I pay for a subscripti
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by anamax 2y ago
In Python, the "." in "target . method" is an infix operator. Note that the "(" in (a, b) is also an operator. (There is some special parsing because otherwise you could do things like args = (1, 2, b=3); targ
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by anamax 2y ago
> Warren Buffet supports this idea for retail investors. Everything that Buffet says falls into one of two categories: [1] He has no relevant knowledge. [2] He/Berkshire makes money from it. [2] Is the most common. (His railways tr
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by anamax 2y ago
> A thought I've had regularly is that any financial product so widely required ought to be provided at cost (base rate of interest) through central banks. Why bother with middlemen? In the US at least, govt has problems running &qu
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by anamax 2y ago
> The human race is not going to go hungry because a farmer gave 50 sheep to the cats. How about you give sheep to the cats? > create a seperate fenced off area for unwanted farm stock. All farm stock is wanted/used at some level
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by anamax 2y ago
Need doesn't imply possible.
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by anamax 2y ago
You're right - I thought that you'd made one fatal error (sender registries) when you'd actually made a different one (introducers). > spam is generally understood to be unsolicited email Not so fast. If spam is universal
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by anamax 2y ago
Attendee? What year is it in your world? (Also, time-limited is stupid for this case.) This isn't an edge case - people pass out addresses expecting to be contacted by randoms all the time. And, most contacts are second-order or furt
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by anamax 2y ago
Will SpaceX sell/rent first stages? How about first stage engines? I ask because Stoke is reinventing 80% (the first stage) to reinvent 20% (the second).
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by anamax 2y ago
When the shit hits the fan, you'll either be saved or doomed by one of those "dumb guys".

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