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How many of those aggressive drivers do you think would agree with your reasoning? The standard reasoning is something like, "I'm fine as long as I don't hit anything." If you have that attitude, you will feel that you a
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The theory "Canadians made this up to explain their own bad driving" requires an explanation of why there was also a large enough rise in accidents that car insurance rates needed to double. The theory "it happened like they
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Question, have you been an immigrant? Do you know any immigrants? When you immigrate into a country, all of a sudden all of your reflexes are wrong. Some are obviously wrong. Some are more subtle. It is overwhelming, and too much. While in
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They had multiple pathways. The top three destinations were Canada, the USA, and Australia. These locations offered a major benefit over the UK - they were on trade routes along which people from Hong Kong were already doing business. Canad
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There is knowing, and then there is knowing. For example suppose that someone likes to work in Markdown using VSCode. To get the kind of Word document that everyone else expects, you just copy and paste into Word. AI isn't involved, bu
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How would this have compared to using rsync?
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Oregon has a huge political tension. Portland is solidly blue. The rest of the state is solidly red. In the 1920s, Oregon was one of the centers of Klan activity. Today it is a stronghold for the Proud Boys. The Grand Ronde reservation is i
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I like semantically different words for unrelated things. So I'd stay away from import. I've called this kind of thing load, initialize, get_all, and so on. I may also call it something based on where the data is stored if that is
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No. But carrying it is unlikely to be against the law either.
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Given the First Amendment, the only thing that I can think of as banned is copyright violations. The Pentagon Papers case says that, once revealed, classified information can be published. How about dangerous information. Want to know how t
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True. If you win your case, the taxpayer no longer pays. Lots of places have those pay to stay laws. But if your case has not been officially lost, you can't be set to forced labor either. (Of course our BS system in many places still
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by btilly 10mo ago
It's called pay-to-stay. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_%28imprisonment%29 for more. This happened in Oregon to my kind of brother in law. (Married to half sister of my half siblings - what do you c
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All true, but on the flip side they get free room and board... Joking aside, read the 13th amendment https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/ and pay close attention to the bit that reads, exc
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This is exactly right. It affects movie stars, dictators, successful politicians, powerful CEOs, cult leaders, and so on. (Hello there, Donald Trump.) When you're surrounded by people who are willing to tell you whatever they think tha
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She's still serving her sentence. Just not in prison. As for why it is so short, that's her reward for helping them get SBF.
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Thank you. That's what I'm trying to be. However I'm also a work in progress. I spent a long time being significantly less than terrific...
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This idea comes for free if you're also using hot water in radiators as a way to heat your home at the same time. Which the Soviets did. And in the Soviet era, they also were generally heating that water at the district level, then cir
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Yes. Just as we can build an ACL on a capability system, we can build a capability system on an ACL. But this approach is more natural in a capability system. You have to write software differently for dealing with "I got permission th
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by btilly 10mo ago
The dental work that was needed, negotiated in advance, and paid for, happened. The dentist's exorbitant rate on nitrous oxide (which we were not informed of in advance) was successfully renegotiated. Unsurprisingly, my initial suggest
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As the OP whose situation was being described, I guarantee that my wife is very far from the worst case. If she was, we would not be married.
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It looks like you are passing judgement on the OP's situation. As the OP, I can confidently tell you that you are absolutely in the wrong. You do not have sufficient information to pass this judgment. I was emphatically not, "tryi
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How equivalent this is to ACLs depends on what "provenance" means here. One of the strategies with capabilities is that I do not hand you the capability that I own to X. Instead, I create a proxy Y that can make requests of X, and
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You mean handing over everything needs to drain your bank account, like a check, instead of handing over a number that can be used to deposit money in your account, like the giro system that was developed in Amsterdam. After seeing the giro
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I find this an interesting conversation, but don't want to continue it in public. If you want to take it offline, my email is in my profile.
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While the immediate interactivity of these old systems was technically limited, the way that people thought about them was more flexible than you might expect. Try reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive&#x
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Fibonacci works well, and I'm sure that they'll remember me a week later. So schedule a call for a week after the cruise. Then 2 weeks after that. Then 3 weeks after that. Then 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on. Each call will bring back fo
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Interpreted literally, my version is clearly false. But when combined with my explanation of how I think about it, I don't believe it is false. More importantly, to me, it engages me with the exact tradeoff that I have found myself cho
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I seek that kind of grade in separate prompts telling me to review for that issue. Those reviews are generally conversations with my wife. I'm happy to say that I've been passing with flying colors. (Mixed with some regrets that I
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Not sure why you think that my opinions about operating systems would predict my opinions about an RPC system.
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This is absolutely right. The teletype system was invented shortly after 1900. It was in widespread commercial use by the 1920s, for sending text over telegraph wires. The US government began using punch card machines to do the census in 18

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