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by bzbarsky 5y ago
That's not how mortgages work, at least in the US. There's a limit to how often the rate changes, etc. Just looking at one now, and it's set up as follows: 1. Rate is allowed to change only on the 1st day of every 6th month
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Yes, the definition of "fact" in "findings of fact" is "there is a factual answer, but we do not know what it is, so we have to guess". Yes, it might be better if jurors were all acquainted with Bayesian reason
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
One principled solution would be to apply the rule to everyone you interact with. In practice that's likely quite difficult.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Why was the jury required to understand the law? That's not a reasonable expectation for random people off the street. In the US, juries typically decide questions of _fact_ that are not already agreed upon by both parties (i.e. are i
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
If the XHR is same-origin then you control that text anyway, so know what it is (and there is no OPTIONS anything going on), and if it's cross-origin then the text results are not exposed by default (unless the server jumps through the
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
No, that sentence looks correct: if you treat bitcoin transaction fees as revenue, then you compare to Visa's revenue, which was $24.1B.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I've heard that as a story about Westminster, which makes me suspect the whole thing is an urban legend...
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The thing XHR added was: 1) POST. 2) Of arbitrary content. 3) With an arbitrary Content-Type header. You don't get an OPTIONS for the sort of XHR request that you could do with an <img> tag (always GET). You don't get an OP
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Position-dependent code can be copied in _physical_ memory as long as the _virtual_ addresses (which is what you observe) don't change. So yes, the mechanism you posit exists, and its the virtual memory manager.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The FDA has approved 13 test kits for at-home use with a self-collected sample, according to https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and... Germany has approved a much larger number of test kits for us
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
In a lot of social circles, the word "diverse" has undergone significant semantic narrowing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/language-race-sem... is a decent discussion of the pheno
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> The us doesn't have centralized land registries. Like any statement about the US, "it's complicated". For example, in Massachusetts there are two types of real estate: recorded and registered. See https:/&#x2
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The very fact-check you link to says: > industry experts said that some owner-operators sought work elsewhere. Some fleets, too, chose to stop doing business with owner-operators in California. where "stop doing business" is a
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "those people", but the actual cutoff where you start having problems with people being extremely bored comes well before you hit one in a million; it's closer to one in a thousand, in my ex
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
How do you feel about calling William Jefferson Clinton "Bill Clinton"? That is, was "Johnny" something his friends called him, or what he called himself in general when introducing himself to people? I'm getting t
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
A lot of public schools in MA did just that. Our school district had two cohorts, one of which was in school Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri one week, the other the next week, alternating. Fully remote Wednesdays, ostensibly to do cleaning/sanit
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Context: have been doing remote software work for 13-18 years (depending on whether you want to count part-time work). Had kids in fully remote school spring 2020, hybrid for most of 2020-2021 school year, fully back to school since spring
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
"Centering yourself at the expense of the many others who contributed to the production and distribution of the book. Many of whom are PoC, you racist pig." Seriously, intelligent people who want to find fault with something can
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> and that you should be doing only stuff you enjoy This seems like quite the assumption. My baseline assumption for a functional relationship would be that the partner that has the least time to help with housework would try to pick up
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
On the one hand, yes of course the economy is all about specialization and then exchanging the fruits of specialized production between people. This last can happen via money, or barter, or a dictator (benevolent or not) confiscating every
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat... sort on third column. A bunch of places in the US have city/county taxes that bring the sales tax above 10% even though the state tax is not. Just f
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
That conflates VAT rates and sales tax rates. The two tax structures are very different, and a comparable VAT has a higher nominal rate than a sales tax, because the taxable amount is typically smaller.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I looked up this law, fwiw: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pennst01.asp . The actual provision is that non-residents of Pennsylvania could not keep slaves in the state for longer than 6 months. Unless those
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I really wouldn't assume those are mutually exclusive, based on my experience with survesy, but I agree that 20% is likely smaller than the actual number here. And 14% is an absolute lower bound which assumes that no one checked both
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Well, they might still be people in a position to significantly affect the quality of the slave' lives. Which should not be conflated with "slave owner".
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
So to be clear, there were two separate sets of slaves involved: 1) The ones owned by George Washington himself. He did not free these while alive; he did have a will that said that once Martha died they were free. That is, he did not fre
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> they would probably start by freeing their own slaves. Depends on the meaning of "own". Quoting from https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/martha... > After George and Martha Was
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The legal structures for RSUs are pretty clear, and they are counted as ordinary income when they vest. The particular shares involved _could_ have used a different legal structure, but that's not my understanding based on the articles
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> 47% of Americans cannot meet a $400 emergency expense. As I pointed out above, this does not seem to be a correct interpretation of the actual survey data involved. > You deny their poverty? Yes, given that the claim is based on a m
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
That "47% can't sustain an unexpected $400 expense" conclusion does not follow from the actual survey data involved, as far as I can tell. See https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4

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