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by dctoedt 3y ago
> the framing that a bank giving a loan to someone they thought was you is _your problem_ Brings to mind the tale that jaywalking laws were the creation of early-days automobile manufacturers and dealers who wanted to clear the streets
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> If any one of the errors had gone right, nothing bad would have happened. IIRC, a cascade of human errors is also what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I'm enjoying this book about the product -management (as opposed to the project -management) challenges of implementing government policy. A favorite nugget: Too much policy is "vomited" into difficult-to-use online paperwo
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Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka(recodingamerica.us)
2 points by dctoedt 3y ago|2 comments
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Wikipedia: "[Dick] Garwin received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi at the age of 21." ht
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Peter Tail Friendly amendment: You mean Peter Thiel , presumably?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Breaking orbit and sailing off on a tangent: I miss the Palm Pilot's Graffiti text-input system — I'd much rather have that than any of the various keyboards and swiping systems on the iPhone / iPad.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> With all due respect to Eisenhower, this is an example of incredible political myopia. I'm curious what you know about Eisenhower and his career — it's hard to imagine anyone in the past century whose background and exper
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I did this and my palate changed completely. Mind if I ask: How so?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> and simply excretes more and absorbs less material My B-I-L once said that Americans have more vitamins in their urine than many people do in their bloodstreams in emerging economies.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> It doesn't really work that well. 15% just isn't enough of a motivator when considering the other factors at play on the inside I'm curious about the basis for your opinion; do you have first-hand personal experience?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
The article says that federal prisoners' "good time" sentence reductions are automatically provided up front but you can lose good time and thus extend your sentence. That's smart thinking, to take advantage of loss av
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You have a really dystopian view of NYC — have you spent much time there?
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Eric Schmidt: The Future of War Has Come in Ukraine: Drone Swarms(wsj.com)
6 points by dctoedt 3y ago|7 comments
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Singapore gets rid of its trash (video) (6:09)(wsj.com)
2 points by dctoedt 3y ago|0 comments
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by dctoedt 3y ago
How about for scanned PDFs of personal papers — car registration receipts, tax returns, etc.? (I know, the sensible thing would be to just scan documents to individual PDF files with descriptive titles, but I've been using Evernote for
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Beto won Harris county by less than 10 points. Beto was (and is) damaged goods politically; I voted for him but figuratively held my nose doing so.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
IP lawyer here (NOT your lawyer). A polite, friendly cease-and-desist letter might well do the trick — if it really is the First National Bank of Pittsburgh PA that's using the name. And a funny C&D letter can help get your app
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Not only you are wrong, you are wrong and arrogant. Facing facts ≠ arrogance. > Notice even California had a Republican governor until 2011. And? California has long been a leading indicator of societal trends. (And 2011 was a d
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember how, back in the day, the GOP had a decidedly-liberal wing; no longer.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> California was deep red when Silicon Valley was being built The GOP was much, much different when Silicon Valley was being built.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Texans don't read, or worse, choose not to believe those news articles. There's "blue Texas," i.e., the big cities, generally voting Democratic but outvoted in the state legislature (thanks in part to aggressive g
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Maybe my line of work has altered my frame of reference ....
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You really ought to do some standup comedy, Thomas (do you?); I regularly LOL at some of your comments — even the subtle put-downs, like the parent — and yet you're invariably courteous and non-snarky.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Winston Churchill on his return to the Tory Party after having spent 20 years as a Liberal: " Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. " https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quot
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by dctoedt 3y ago
During (what we Americans call) the Vietnam War, American prisoners of war, often held in solitary confinement in adjacent cells in the Hanoi Hilton, would use the tap code extensively to talk to each other, sometimes carrying on long conve
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Tangentially, from a U.S. Navy incident: "An intake on the A-6 Intruder isn't very big. As Bridges was sucked in, he was able to stretch out his arm and wedge himself on the bullet of the blades and the wall of the intake, holding
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by dctoedt 3y ago
In court, good lawyers think of themselves as "officers of the court" — to use a sometimes-forgotten phrase — who are working not just for their clients but also for the judge, to help the judge (and the judge's law clerks)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> many lawyers already don't do their own research, they use paralegals to do it for them. If you mean that some lawyers use paralegals to do word searches for potentially-relevant case law (i.e., published judicial opinions as pr
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by dctoedt 3y ago
https://www.quora.com/How-do-humans-die-when-a-submarine-imp...

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