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by baryphonic 3y ago
It's possible they don't know yet. The blowback might be intense if they categorically denied having the undocumented parts on an operating aircraft and then had to walk that back, especially in an industry like air travel which i
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by baryphonic 3y ago
I've had to make this point far too many times. There is a cultural norm of free speech and then a legal protection embodying that norm. Ever since the (IMO ludicrous) XKCD comic[0], too many have gotten the wires crossed and think fre
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> It is not censorship to revoke Fox's TV licenses for failure to live up to the public interest requirements the FCC expects of broadcasters. This is nearly the textbook definition of censorship: sanctions for failing to uphold the
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Judging only by the anecdata of my wife and her female friends' behavior, I doubt it. Doesn't mean there isn't abhorrent harassment toward many women on social media, just that it isn't common for most women and will not
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by baryphonic 3y ago
What is there to "sink in?" That natural selection seems to disfavor "belief in evolution?" I see this sort of statement sometimes, and I really haven't figured out what it means. I can point to exactly zero consequ
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Most states and countries punish criminals with fines, jail or death depending on the crime
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Let's use a less contentious topic: FOSS vs proprietary software. There is a common sentiment I've seen on HN that FOSS is superior to proprietary software, and all else being equal, I agree with that sentiment. However, in realit
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by baryphonic 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree, but it would be worth studying empirically. The film Strange World , for instance, bombed, but has a 72% on RT and is certainly politically correct. It was quite poorly marketed.[0] While studios aren't in t
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Gerrymandering probably doesn't affect outcomes much.[0] I know gerrymandering seems wrong, but every shape for an equal-population electoral district is more or less arbitrary, and some will inevitably be biased in favor of one party
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I trained my little ones to decode fiber optic signals with the naked eye.
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Lyin' ChatGPT being a replacement for Google is about as credible as a BRICS reserve currency. The analogy checks out.
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I homeschool my two kids. I was worried about the time commitment at first, but it's honestly quite small. At most, I spend two hours in the morning for both kids. Typical mornings are an hour to an hour and a half. Some subjects like
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To the guillotine? Talk about mark-and-sweep garbage collection.
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I had no idea classes were allowed in a Jacobin system
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Some personal anecdata: I have a genetic auto-immune condition, and my current treatment requires an injection every eight weeks. If untreated, the symptoms include inflammation of my body, especially sinuses, hands & fingers, feet &amp
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by baryphonic 3y ago
A couple years ago, I tried to edit a page about the economist Deidre McCloskey to add some information about a campaign McCloskey had helped organize in the early aughts to attack & discredit the sex researcher Michael Bailey. McCloske
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by baryphonic 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd count fighting back against pirates or even skirmishing with natives as saber-rattling. The serious Indian Wars happened after the Civil War if for no other reason than the US had a large army with nothing to do.
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The US had two fraudulent wars, separated by several decades, before the MID became a thing after WWII. The first was the Mexican-American War, where President Polk ordered US troops into disputed territory between Texas and Mexico. When th
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> Trying to identify your priors about what you expect as a baseline level of competence from a big org just based on them existing at all and having an authoritative name might help you learn something. To your latter point, the US beca
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> Hollywood’s CEOs are suffering. Not primarily from labor disputes or industry disruption or public-relations issues, but from vincible ignorance, which seems to be endemic in C-suites of all industries. Under pressure to deliver to Wal
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> Seriously, over the years I've wracked my brain wondering why conservatism has moved so far to the radical fringe to the point where they simply seem to stand in opposition to even the most uncontroversial stances on things like g
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The headline is a half-truth, since "anti-abortion states" is clearly irrelevant to the sheriff's behavior. This would be a bit like a headline including the phrase "serial killer trained at Harvard" to refer to Ted
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Brown and Obergefell each overruled prior Supreme Court precedent. Brown overruled several decisions, including Plessy (itself one of the most asinine decisions in history).
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I disagree. Risk isn't binary. Part of being an engineer is trying to quantify the risks of a given design so that anyone subjected to the platform is aware of them. If a submersible with a cylindrical carbon fiber hull fails after fiv
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If it were anyone else in Hollywood, I'd agree. However, James Cameron is kind of a unique individual. I know someone who worked with him for several years on Avatar, and the stories I've heard are intriguing. Cameron has extreme
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I use Hammerspoon with the ShiftIt plugin ("spoon") Works quite well, and is configured w/ Lua
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> I can't believe they pick such a clickbaity title for a serious publication and let quanta magazine publish an even more clickbaity article about it. Well, I guess they need more funding. My take from reading the article (not a ph
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> One popular example is the expression "sacrificed on the altar of progress", and the works of philosophers such as Adorno and Horckheimer on the topic, who argued that human sacrifice just takes a different form in modern civ
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Why not just kill them on the Campus Martius, then? Or in the middle of the Forum? Or even on the steps of the Senate house, to symbolize the supremacy of Roman state institutions? It's not the killings of prisoners themselves - those
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The Romans claimed this about themselves, but I'm not sure they're completely credible, at least about human sacrifice. The Roman Triumphal parade, for instance, included marching captured prisoners of war (often numbering in thou

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