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by bdhess 10y ago
> This is what happens when you take "everyone is equal" to a delusional extent. I'm not really arguing one way or the other, just pointing out a number of cases that would likely lead to public outcry and therefore attent
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You're implying that minimum following distance <= stopping distance. A brief Google search yields a stopping distance of 315 feet for travel speed of 70 mph.[0] We don't train drivers to leave a football field of space in be
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The 26% statistic is misleading in this case-- just because the death didn't involve truck driver "error" doesn't mean a different movement pattern for the truck wouldn't have made a difference. For example, in the
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...or cane, or wheelchair, or guide dog. Glad you have this all figured out in your libertarian utopia; in the real world there is still a debate.
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Yeah, in vi: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...
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But that gets back to my original point about cell phones and airplanes. If the modern age, if there were an item that Senate leadership deemed sufficiently important, they could call the Senate back from non-recess recess and get their quo
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It's hard to reconcile your logic with Hamilton's from Federalist #67: The ordinary power of appointment is confined to the President and Senate JOINTLY, and can therefore only be exercised during the session of the Senate; but as
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The idea of recess appointments is an anachronism in an age with instant digital communications and airplanes.
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> Safari on mobile is pretty up to date as mobile technologies come. Google Chrome is hardly any better: http://mobilehtml5.org/ Safari on iOS is missing ten checkboxes in your link; Chrome on Android is missing two.
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I don't even understand how you can claim that. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487045541045754362...
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> They have leaked information that mass media would otherwise not have been anywhere close to exposing. Is there a specific case you're thinking of? For instance, with the DNC leaks, or with Chelsea Manning's leaks, I believe
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Your examples of chairlifts and helicopters are strained because obviously they would fundamentally alter the experience and cause extreme financial burdens, which make for allowable exceptions under the ADA. This is not parallel to the Ber
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> Sure, that seems justifiable for commercial businesses but many find the ADA to be an ugly legal weapon for attacking free donations. The spiritual intentions of "free" should be exempted. I dispute labeling this program as a
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As someone who's been involved with university recruiting, it's clear to me that even great schools run moneymaker degree mill programs. There are degree mill programs in Top 5 CS schools because people from overseas are willing t
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Costs ten keystrokes by my count. But it's not the keystrokes that trouble me, it's the idea that one of my co-collaborators might use this feature to "safely" rewrite history in a branch I'm also using. "Safel
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I also can't think of a situation where you'd want to force push to a branch that others might be committing to.
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I dunno, I found video of Usain Bolt's 2016 100m in less than a minute of looking around on nbcolympics.com. Though I'd have to imagine that that content is geofiltered, since AFAIK NBC only has streaming rights within the US. NBC
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by bdhess 10y ago
> The main objection to juries is that judges spend decades developing expertise in the law, but we reduce them to the role of referee and let 12 non-experts make very important and difficult legal decisions. In the jury system, juries a
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Not necessarily, if the contract can later be found to be unconscionable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
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In fairness, there are 40 million people in her 'district', so your chances of an individualized reply and/or influencing her opinion on any controversial matter would have to be quite low.