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by ardy42 6y ago
> are driven by a sizable faction in Washington DC that feels entitled to rule the planet uncontested. They would like to unwind the past 75 years of Chinese economic development, and push most of the Chinese population back into poverty
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> Second, it's not clear that the teacher understood or believed it was a toy. And if it wasn't a toy, then their actions don't seem 100% unreasonable. From the OP: >> The Problem Solvers obtained the sheriff’s repor
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If money should follow competence then the bulk of our public schools should be seriously defunded, especially in inner cities. I believe the inner city schools already have been defunded (or more precisely have been underfunded from t
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> And this is why you should not allow video of your child. Just tape the camera over and tell the school you don't have one. I'm not a parent, but IIRC a lot of K-12 schools provide laptops (Chromebooks usually?) or tablets to
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> Obama once asked Steve Jobs why the iPhone can't be manufactured in the US, Jobs said the skills weren't there. Once upon a time, the skills weren't in China, either.
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> Isn't that an uber-wealthy city with the biggest concentration of billionaires? With so much wealth you 'd think they 'd have a say on what china wants to do with them. But maybe they just go along? Why would the CCP def
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That doesn't make sense. Trump is pro Russia and anti China. Chinese facing more heat now than in the past 50 years. Trump is schizophrenic on China. His "anti-China" attitudes right now seem more of a function of a ne
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> This is sort of like the Boltzmann brain idea but even worse because it applies to any set of relations. According to Egan’s argument all possible experiences that can be computed by any sufficiently complex set of relations are in
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> A vaccine and this.. what else needs to make it through before the elections? Terrifyingly, the census: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/census-bureau.html : > The count faces two crushing de
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>> Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks (nytimes.com) > I read this story just now and I found it incredibly frustrating -- it reads like a gossip column. Lots of details about who wants to d
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The feeling that it's just completely impossible to know what's going on in the world is really debilitating. Honestly, I think the standards you seem to be setting for yourself are too high. As far as I know, none of us are
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Sounds good. Those close to us are the most likely to have news that has actual significance to us. And are probably the most trustworthy. So third-hand information from my InfoWars-reading brother and workplace rumors (or even worse,
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> I think it's useful to just see the news for what it is: a timely first rough draft of history. First rough drafts are always going to have errors, but you'll be the last to know if you wait for those to be corrected befo
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> It's irrelevant what he's "trying to say". If he writes "covfefe", the accurate reporting is "he wrote covfefe", not "he appeared to have written covfefe". You're asking for a raw
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> Is there a name for the opposite effect? If not, I propose the "Sinclair Effect" after "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I think this is a f
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Moreover... "Appeared." If the author believes Trump was saying that, then say Trump said it. However, the author knows that's not true, so the author said he "appeared" / his words could be twisted. Utter
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That's for "retina" displays. I don't think there are any 8x displays right now, but probably they want to be future-proof for a while It's kinda unreasonable to put restrictions on the users in order to achiev
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> I don't think it would be unconstitutional ex-post-facto. Obergefell v. Hodges didn't define sex discrimination in marriage certificates unconstitutional after a certain date. It was always unconstitutional, and was recogniz
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>> because there's no higher authority to appeal to for enforcement > Technically, that higher authority is the people themselves. Bear in mind that the Constitution was written in a context where the governed people successfu
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> What KVMs instead contain is similar to the rescaler ASICs found in a monitor, they receive multiple streams of display data and mix/forward/scale one of these. But since they constantly receive all of the streams, switching
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> This point makes no sense. A properly passed amendment to the Constitution (presumably what is meant by update) can never be unconstitutional by definition. That's not what I was talking about. Look at the example I used. The Su
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>> If the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law..." and Congress still makes a law, what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? That's nonsense. > Actually, it's nonsense to think anything to the c
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> And while throwing Congress in jail seems unworkable, disqualifying members from reelection in egregious cases might be doable (though of course it would require a constitutional amendment). I don't think so. Do you really want t
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> We can and do love building prisons. Huh? What's that supposed to mean in this context?
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> I think it’s meant as a “check” on the judicial branch - if the head of the executive isn’t okay with the judicial branch’s dicision. It's also a check of the legislative branch. If someone's convicted under an unjust law, a
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> You know what I don't get? There is no penalty for violating the highest law of the land (the constitution). How is it anymore than a suggestion or a guidline if government officials are not punished for violating it? And that is
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> Russia’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and per capita it’s citizens are poorer than Poles. > Russia is not a world power and hasn’t been for a while. IIRC, they know that. That's why one of their main foreign policy objecti
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> Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated. And, IIRC, most recent terrorist attacks have been committed by isolated individuals who radicalized, an
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> 1. Russian leadership would not be able to order that if it will be shot dead. If the political leadership of a nation gets assassinated, I do not think it's reasonable to expect the military leadership to sit on their hands forev
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> NATO has enough commandos to take down Russian political leadership in a single evening. And Russia probably has enough commandos to do the same to NATO leadership as well. Neither side actually does that because it would be a suicide

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