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Math Is the Answer to More Than One Question [Nonpaywalled](nytimes.com)
3 points by dctoedt 3y ago|0 comments
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> That would be reasonable if the United States (note plural) were one entity. It isn't. The 1830s are calling and want you back; South Carolina's John C. Calhoun wants to enlist you in his nullification campaign.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I believe all practicing attorneys carry malpractice insurance as well as E&O (errors and omissions) insurance. Nit: Malpractice insurance is (a species of) E&O insurance.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Sal Khan, who started Khan Academy in 2006, was a relative latecomer: "Flipping the classroom" was pioneered in part in the 1990s by Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur — and Dr. Mazur has said that it's a variation of law
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> It’s not worth $1.50 of my time to shlep a bag to the grocery store. We keep a few reusable bags in the way-back of the (cross-over) vehicle; it's now a habit to grab the bags as we're getting out of the car in the grocery-
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Israel can be disbanded just like South Africa was disbanded. South Africa wasn't disbanded, not even close. Apartheid ended more-or-less peacefully; non-whites were given the vote; and more-or-less democratic elections have bee
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Pretty easy to win against a military which bogus morality won't let it harm you, its enemy. Have you ever served in uniform yourself? Or do you just confidently proclaim barstool opinions based on what you've read here and
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Under promise, over deliver… that’s the smart engineering way. That brought to mind the glass-half-full / half-empty (false) dichotomy: The engineer thinks the glass is twice as big as it needs to be (or maybe 30-40% bigger to
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Texas and Georgia both have massive immigration from other states. People vote with their feet. The technical term for this is "race to the bottom," abetted by short-term thinking on the part of "customers." It&#x
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Ah yes, the Daffy Duck fortune-cookie joke! https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-help-im-being-he...
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Every trip for me was 45 mins of non-stop vomit, regardless of the weather. March 1976, I did the Calais-Dover hovercraft crossing on a night of bad weather in the Channel. I was fine and actually enjoyed the motion — until the hover
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> God help you if you have a hick accent or something like that. I think they’re much more likely to trust non-white people from the right social class. That sounds right. Accent is often a (weak) signal of educational level.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Einstein for example had public resistance to his theory of relativity in the beginning. More recently, it took years for the medical community to get over its opposition to the evidence that common peptic ulcers are caused by bact
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> MMT forgets that people won’t lend to the govt if the government is going around telling everyone the way they intend on paying the borrowers back is by making the currency they borrowed in worthless. ... The moment the government mak
555.
by dctoedt 3y ago
Obligatory XKCD reference: Little Bobby Tables — https://xkcd.com/327/
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> MMT is a fringe theory. MMT makes intuitive sense as long as you keep in mind its predicate assumptions: 1) The government borrows in the currency that it issues (dollars, pounds, yen), thus the goverment can inject more money into
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Netflix's 'Rebel Moon' is one of the worst movies ever made [funny](sfgate.com)
5 points by dctoedt 3y ago|0 comments
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Settlers founding new places are different from immigrants. The US was created by British settlers. ... Immigrants aren’t founding new greenfield communities, they are moving into (and changing) existing ones. Various Native America
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Where have you gone, Sam Cooke ("Don't know much about, hiss-toh-ree-ee ...")
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> the concept is not far removed from that of due process, which applies even outside of criminal law Spot on. How much process is "due" is largely a function of the potential downside consequences of a mistake by the authori
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> the one thing it doesn't do is optimize for the interests of America. Short-term: Perhaps. Long-term: A more-stable LATAM (and world) economy is in America's interest.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I'm objecting to classifying them together with real scientists. Do you regard meteorology as a science? As a group, meteorologists aspire to make the best predictions they can with the available tools AND to develop better tool
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> has indeed stood for being a rebel with none of the modern racist associations attaced [sic] to it I grew up partly in the South of the civil rights era and went to one de-facto segregated school. (Dad was military, stationed in va
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by dctoedt 3y ago
That's how it works on U.S. Navy ships: • Conning officer: "Right standard rudder, steady on course 090." • Helm: "Right standard rudder, steady on course 090, aye, [sir|ma'am]." This is especially important in
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The same people complaining about the impending demise of democracy are cheering Assange’s imprisonment. Apples and oranges.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Because the debt is now due? The so-called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) credibly posits that because the U.S. borrows in its own currency (dollars), it can simply "print money" as needed — as long as the U.S. economy ha
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Tolkien estate wins court order to destroy fan's 'Lord of the Rings' sequel(nytimes.com)
46 points by dctoedt 3y ago|84 comments
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> And you don't see yourself doing the same [i.e., painting with a broad brush] to the "other" side? No — I'm making specific accusations about Donald Trump and some of his followers in and out of government.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
At least one of us is delusional, and/or paranoid.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree about that, because obviously each of us thinks the other has his (her?) head firmly jammed up a warm dark place.

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