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by clucas 3y ago
If you haven't yet, you should play Pentiment. It's set in the early 1500s as the printing press is spreading across Europe, and each character's dialog text reflects how they would write (or print, for the people who operate
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by clucas 3y ago
>With two orders of magnitude of lobbying dollars difference on either side, I'm surprised this is going anywhere. I think everyone should use this to update their priors on the impact of lobbying. Government action is not contingen
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by clucas 3y ago
In your world, wouldn't every tax cheat just conceal money by routing it through their law firm? Then the government can never find out how much money you have because it would be illegal to subpoena the firm, right?
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by clucas 3y ago
The issue was the temperature it was served at, not the temperature it was brewed at...
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by clucas 4y ago
Here's a little tidbit of wisdom in this vein: http://web.archive.org/web/20221230074845/http://the-witness... EDIT to add: Also https://www.youtube.com/@MartinDonald has some good
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by clucas 4y ago
For those interested in the "automatic exposure" mechanism mentioned in the article, Technology Connections did a great video on it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwm_Dya0PFQ
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by clucas 4y ago
Is this sort of interview common in the industry? This is the first time I've seen someone describe a technical interview I know I could pass with flying colors.
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by clucas 4y ago
I was about to recommend this series as well, really glad to see a fellow-traveller got there first! Free, high-quality history content, can't recommend highly enough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNew
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by clucas 4y ago
> Well, they made its own category for it and asked Sama to collect images of several other categories, but somehow it was lost in communication that for one of theses categories, no images should be collected. Be careful here. Read the
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by clucas 4y ago
If we're going to expand the term "slavery" to include at-will employment for pay, we should probably repeal the 13th Amendment and replace it with something a little more precise.
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by clucas 4y ago
I'm totally against mandated backdoors, and I am pro-privacy. But we should acknowledge that the communication environment we live in now is materially different than it has been in the past. The past ~15 years is the first time in hum
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by clucas 4y ago
Sorry man, I don't know that. Can you offer any evidence - an email or something - that shows that the intelligence community knew it wasn't Russian disinformation at the time Twitter was deliberating over what to do with the NY
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by clucas 4y ago
The NY Post was banned for violating the hacked materials policy, and they were unbanned after Twitter changed the policy. It wasn't 12 hours, but it was pretty quick. Meanwhile plenty of other media outlets published embarassing detai
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by clucas 4y ago
Plenty of white nationalists were banned from Twitter due to TOS violations. I seem to recall the free speech "absolutists" still being upset about those bans. Why is TOS violation suddenly a good reason to ban?
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by clucas 4y ago
I'm one of those people. I think Elon can ban whomever he wants, for any reason he wants. I didn't see anyone arguing otherwise though, so I didn't have much to say. Edited to add: I am a little curious why the free speech ab
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by clucas 4y ago
Then it sounds like its motives aren't compatible with widespread adoption in the same way (e.g.) Twitter is.
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by clucas 4y ago
Stephen Fry has talked about trying to rewrite scenes from The Great Gatsby from memory, and the renewed appreciation he got for Fitzgerald's prose after that attempt. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdLfPas8dw around a
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by clucas 4y ago
Maybe you're right, but I think it's more likely that Pfizer, as a business, is more willing to accept risk in the pursuit of its core business aims than in its accounting, and that's all we're seeing. https:/&#x2F
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by clucas 4y ago
Reading that link, it appears they are saying the IRS is concentrates its efforts on small businesses because they have the best chance of recovery. You called it a fairy tale, do you believe that big corporations are actually bigger tax ch
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by clucas 4y ago
Interesting, who makes that argument?
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by clucas 4y ago
I said the perceived corruption is bigger than the actual corruption. I didn't say "Citizens United is a good ruling." Not sure why you leaped to that. But, since you brought it up, can you point out any laws passed since CU
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by clucas 4y ago
Fair enough, thanks for responding. For the record, my belief is that you don't need to be so pessimistic - democracy is always messy, and I think the perception of corruption in the U.S. way exceeds the reality, and most reps are re
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by clucas 4y ago
> in today's world, I hold people in contempt that hold congress in respect Is that because you don't believe that most congressional representatives act according to the will of their constituents? Or because you don't be
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by clucas 4y ago
They are talking about how Tucson is dealing with the worst drought in 1200 years, aren't they? What am I missing? EDIT: someone updated the title, it used to read "The worst drought in 1200 years" - so this whole tangent abo
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by clucas 4y ago
I guess we just disagree on the definition of clickbait. I understand your definition and I see the logic, but with your definition I would say you can't claim clickbait is inherently "bad". If you use my definition, I think
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by clucas 4y ago
I don't think it's clickbait... when I think of clickbait I typically think of something that is either (1) exaggerated or misleading in order to induce a click (e.g. "Tucson dying of thirst!"), or (2) uses tricky, withh
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by clucas 4y ago
I haven't been brave enough to try it, but: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/i-stopped...
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by clucas 4y ago
Something about your post reminded me of this poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?conte... I hope he's OK too.
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by clucas 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWmulnsVQw I found this channel last week at a friend's recommendation, here's his video on nougat. Really interesting to see someone show the reasons behind industrial food produc
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by clucas 4y ago
Cleave to the traditional uses of words! Don't cleave their meanings!

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