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by dctoedt 2y ago
> he was talking about targeting waste and fraud, not benefits "Waste, fraud, and abuse" — how many times have we heard that before?
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by dctoedt 2y ago
> Trump was the one who killed GOP efforts to privatize Social Security and cut benefits. Oh? From March 2024: "(CNN) - Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested he was open to making cuts to Social Security and Medicare a
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Coincidentally, the author, Dr. Barbara Tversky [0], was married to Amos Tversky, of Kahneman and Tversky fame — their decades-long collaboration was the subject of one of Michael Lewis's books [1]. After Amos Tversky's early deat
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by dctoedt 2y ago
> And that is why my roof is held up by people I hire to hold it up. Bricks would complain less and would be more reliable, but they are more expensive than people because bricks are made by people. I should have downvoted you for this
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FTA: "“I’ve become a big proponent of not trying to outsmart the customers,” he says. “They tell us what their pain points are and what they want to see in the product. Don’t overengineer it. Always check with the end users that what y
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by dctoedt 2y ago
> "things that are reasonable to a lawyer" and "things that are reasonable to a normal human being" are essentially disjoint sets. In litigation, any question whether X was "reasonable" is typically determ
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> US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939 In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War , an admiral, aboard an aircraft carrier near Pearl Harbor in 1940 or -41, groused to his officers tha
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And "England" - land of the Angles (whence is derived the Anglo- part of Anglo-Saxon).
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Misleading headline — are they really MIT "students"? The accused brothers are 24 and 28 years old respectively; the DOJ press release says they "studied" at "one of the most prestigious universities in the world&qu
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> I visited Florida once and was "mistaken" for a local ... people there immediately assumed I would understand... Spanish That used to happen to me in Germany, even though my German is limited to "noch ein Bier, bitte.&
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by dctoedt 2y ago
In the first day or two of Navy nuclear power school in 1974, all of us junior officers in the new class (93 of us IIRC) were assembled in an auditorium for a don't-do-drugs lecture by a chief petty officer who was a "fleet sailor
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> I configure my Emacs to avoid splitting the frame into multiple windows Is that to address a particular problem? I use multi-window frames a fair amount. (Latest Mac OS, latest Emacs.) I've noticed that sometimes a multi-window
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Reminiscent of the scene in one of the later episodes of Band of Brothers : In the last weeks of the European war, Major Dick Winters is ordered to send a patrol to cross the Rhine, in rubber boats, during the night — for the second night
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by dctoedt 2y ago
I agree with Thomas (see his response to your comment, "below"). Are you making a category mistake here?
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> As a non-white immigrant, I’m deeply suspicious of the notion that a team with me on it is in any way different than a team without me on it based on my skin color or ethnicity. I think that line of thinking doesn’t go anywhere good,
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Today's Pearls Before Swine comic is relevant concerning "translation": One of the characters has a "magic translation box" to translate "politicianish" into "the truth." I did something simila
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by dctoedt 2y ago
"Laziest" — you misspelled concise , right? Or I guess you meant succinct .
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> Anyone know how to bypass WSJ’s paywall? Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/ynthetic-coffe...
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by dctoedt 2y ago
It's a translation of the word as used in context. I suppose I could have added "Here," to be more clear that it's not a definition.
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"Objection, your honor, non-responsive."
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> it's probably also just generally not a great idea to drive vultures into extinction. On that we definitely agree! My comment is about people making it all about them.
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Valuing intangible things ≠ whinging when those intangibles are no longer adaptive to circumstances.
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by dctoedt 2y ago
"Our culture" really means "the ways in which we've become accustomed to doing things (because reasons), and which we believe everyone else should recognize as an entitlement for us." Likewise, "our culture is
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. They're not mutually-exclusive sets. In professional schools (law, medicine, perhaps others), some of the best-regarded instructors are successful practitioners who teach on the si
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> Ordinary Americans would be better off if NYC wasn’t the global capital of finance and technology. You seem to assume that the things you like about America would have come into being, and remained in existence, in the absence of the
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> And I also don't agree that the change we have had in America from prior generations of immigrants is a good thing. New York City, for example, would probably be much better run and more orderly if it was still mainly people from
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> your country will become more like the subcontinent You really do seem to view life through a very-narrow lens; you appear to be generalizing your own family's recent, one-generation experience as though immigrant culture someho
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Where in Article I Section 8 does the Constitution grant that power? The Commerce Clause, when interpreted expansively — as federal courts have largely done. (We'll see what happens with the 6-3 conservative majority of this SCO
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> I don’t care if people have abstract notions about people from Muslim countries if they’re able to treat me as an individual. And quite ironically, white conservatives are much better at that than white liberals. I'm really cu
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I absolutely condemn anyone that would treat an individual differently based on race. And that’s why I think white liberals are wrong and must be defeated. The implication of your "absolute condemn[ation]" is that (supposed

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