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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Real-world training for the newbies, exercise for the journeymen, and teaching moments for the experts. That alone is worth my tax dollars for keeping a robust search and rescue force. This. When the shit hits the fan, and lives coul
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Kyle Mitchell who wrote that MIT license deprecation article is also the one who developed Blue Oak license. OK, well, if that's not good enough for you: The other two Blue Oak board members listed at that site — Heather Meeker
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Any decent alternatives to Pocket? I've been reasonably happy so far with Readwise. https://readwise.io/
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You're more generous that I: We could uncharitably describe some of the trad-caths' absolutist views (such as those on validity) as sheer fantasy, a house of cards lacking even a pretense of intellectual rigor and based on, how sh
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Thanks for the link, which is helpful. 1. Unfalsifiable, ipse dixit proclamations by church "overseers," i.e., bishops (Greek: ἐπίσκοπος, episkopos , whence English's episcopal ) aren't persuasive. Long ago I read tr
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Well, I'm sure such a general reply won't satisfy you .... On that much, we agree. > the context for understanding Matthew, Acts, et al. is the teachings of the Councils, Fathers, and Doctors of the Church .... You mig
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> From the first century A.D. to the present the Church has cared about holding true to the Apostolic tradition Oh. So then I guess either Matthew or Acts got it wrong about whose name should be invoked in baptizing: If Jesus really sa
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Please see my comment below [1], which I won't repost here. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36374781
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Y'shua of Nazareth seemed not to have cared much, if at all, for formalities or strict definitions — see his answer, in Luke 10:25-37 [0], to the lawyer's question, what must I do to inherit eternal life? (TL;DR: Love God, love
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> If you're no longer Catholic why would you care one way or the other? Another former Catholic here. We should all care because a controversy such as this: - diverts attention from Jesus' "Prime Directive" — which
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> the TMI plant was producing about 6% of its output power when it was put into shutdown, which is about 50MW - i.e. the full power of a much smaller Navy reactor. Are you taking heat density into account? An analogy comes to mind fr
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> a 50MW navy reactor has basically no decay heat Not necessarily: It depends on the power level the reactor was run at, and for what period of time. [0] > they just didn't internalize how much heat was actually still being pr
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> If there's a true competitive free market .... That brings to mind the Assume a Can Opener fallacy [0] and its companion, the Spherical Cow [1] — not to mention the South Park underpants gnomes. [0] https://en.wikip
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> If you thought Bhopal and Exxon Valdez were bad, wait until some CEO decides to juice The Atomic Corporation's Q4 earnings by skipping a few safety inspections Perhaps things are different now, but when I was going through the N
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Ed Fredkin has reportedly died(twitter.com)
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> Hitler didn’t invade/occupy Russia but the Soviet Union You seem to be really straining to split hairs here. Russia was part of the USSR as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic [0]. In any case, people in the West co
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Have you heard of this thing called Git? Hmm. Git ... Git ... Let me see: As in, git along, little dogie ? Or you stupid git ? Or the village in Iran? (Yes, I'm familiar with Git; its commit records could help corroborate deve
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For litigation use, even semi-regularly keeping a daily log can help to show independent development. That can help defeat claims of misappropriation of another party's trade secrets and/or infringing copying of another party&#x27
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> At that time there were still Navy Captains who had interviewed with Rickover. After nearly 50 years I can still recite my interview (both sides of the conversation) pretty much verbatim from memory — it was, let's just say, unf
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by dctoedt 3y ago
So you're turning 100 too? Wow, congratulations! </smile> (I drill my law students in spotting and correcting phrasing that can be interpreted in two different ways, i.e., ambiguities.)
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Question: How many people actually refer to their past Evernote notes? I ask because I hardly ever do, even though I've been an Evernote paid subscriber for many years. I've used the Evernote Web clipper but then essentially never
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> Wait, no more. Commas matter -- e.g., "No more tequila" vs. "No, more tequila."
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> I started ironically saying "on accident", and now I can (non-ironically) not stop saying it. Boo! Hiss! "On accident" is an abomination! </rant>
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> I think the average American doesn't / can't distinguish Michael Caine's Cockney accent and David Attenborough's RP. You really think so? Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine how anyone could mis
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> lose everything your family worked for You're assuming your family is entitled to keep forever everything that it happens to have received in its economic activities. Elizabeth Warren famously said in her first Senate campaign,
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> How much of the Beatles do they recognize? Generally speaking, many of my students appear to know (vaguely) who the Beatles were, but that seems to be about it.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
In class, when I mention Seinfeld , or for that matter, Friends , to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture ref
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> short paragraphs stringed together is a wall of text. "White space is your friend" is another rule I preach to my students. Some 40 years of dealing with contracts has persuaded me that short paragraphs with white space in
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This has gone into my "SPP" file (Shit People Pull).
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I sometimes wonder whether some lawyers intentionally draft wall-of-words text in the hope that the other side's contract reviewer will miss something because of the MEGO Effect (Mine Eyes Glaze Over).

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