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by complaintdept 2y ago
The funny thing they were supposed to provide more equitible and fair decisions in issuing loans, but the exact opposite happened.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Also networks, Bucky Fullerism, Eastern philosophy, mind maps, UNIX and chaos theory gaining momentum, etc. They seem somewhat dated now, but in a way they've diffused through our culture so extensively that they're just part of t
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Several also comitted suicide, and quite a few were divorced. Also, British law apparently has no mechanism for holding anyone responsible. I'm not even sure how you'd begin to make restitutions for this tbh.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Oh god the shame.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
There's data that suggests that the increases in vehicle/pedestrian collision is mostly due to the in car displays that require you to take your eyes off of the road to do anything. Most excess collisions since around 2010 collis
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by complaintdept 2y ago
And probably none of them were hindered because students had their phones.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Offtopic, but does anyone know of a decent mini pc with ECC?
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by complaintdept 2y ago
The only thing I'm unsure about is when to short nvidia.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Clarified.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
It's practically considered child abuse these days to not give them a smartphone. I'm only slightly exaggerating. I think kids would be better off without them altogether.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Actually, you'd want to get rid of those in car displays that require you to take your eyes off the road to do almost anything now, and will also spoil your night vision. There was an episode of Radiolab that was talking about this, an
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by complaintdept 2y ago
For cyclists in my area you aren't considered a pedestrian if you're riding a bike, and they have tons of signs telling you to walk it across the crosswalk. Presumably it's because bikes can move a lot faster than someone on
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by complaintdept 2y ago
This is tangental, but I believe Persi Diaconis recommended like 13 riffle shuffles* if national security is at stake. Who knows, maybe one day nuclear launch codes will depend on the Solitaire cipher. * Depending on how chunky your shuffle
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by complaintdept 2y ago
> It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media And it was prolonged coverage too.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media blowing up about it when the east coast got a little smoke. The pics honestly didnt even look so bad compared to what I've been through the past 7 or so years. It seemed l
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by complaintdept 2y ago
IIRC the attorney arguing against Chatterley seemed grossly out of touch by mentioning servants reading it and it didn't help his case. LCL was a bit of an attack on the impotence of the upper class and the lawyer was oblivious to
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by complaintdept 2y ago
>Although iron ore is plentiful, it is expensive to refine and smelt Might explain why the land around the Lonely Mountain was unforested*. This is what happened in ancient Greece -- deforestation largely due to charcoal production for s
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Yeah I heard that about letters like 20 years ago from a staffer so maybe I'm a bit out of touch, lol.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
00.0 must be the output of /dev/random
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be wha
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by complaintdept 2y ago
25 a day.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
A lot of shenanigans happen at sea. Cruise ships are registered in countries favorable to them so passengers have zero chance in court when someone gets hurt or a family member disappears (its happened). If you're an American for insta
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Tangental, but I still haven't found a better personal task management system than Knuth's: make a list of everything you need to do, the task items you want to do least are almost always the ones you need to do first. Works good.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
PE bought up the local chain of doctor's offices a few years ago in my area, and it was an instant drop in quality. They started dropping patients for missed appointments a decade prior when they were a minor (one was being treated for
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Why are people so desperate to cling to labels? As I get older the notion of identity just seems increasingly absurd. Identities and labels have just become their own end. People seem like they don't exist anymore except on the terms a
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by complaintdept 2y ago
What violent act?
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I'd just like to throw out a recommendation here for the book Longitude by Dava Sobel. It's about the invention of the marine chronometer by a self-taught carpenter. Fascinating read, and a real page turner too.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Cool it down, as in, lower real estate prices.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
If it cools the market down it benefits just about everyone except the speculators.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Paywalled, so I can't read the article, but a funny problem of Boomers owning expensive properties today is that a lot of them can't afford to sell because of capital gains on homes they may have bought 40-50 years ago for <$10

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