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by dctoedt 9mo ago
Robert A. Heinlein's "Future History" anticipated an amazing number of present-day phenomena, e.g., the rise of Christian theocrats. I sometimes idly wonder whether he was his time-traveling character Lazarus Long. https:&
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
> It’s almost never the case that small farms is going to be more efficient—not only cost wise, but for the environment—than large scale farming. I can relate: Our SIL gave my wife a countertop gadget that holds six little cups into wh
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
For me, org-mode's big advantage over Markdown is org-mode's macro capability. For years I've been using emacs and org-mode to develop my online course book; each semester I export the then-current draft in HTML to post on th
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
> Texas State Bar is still a thing. This means that it has split from the American Bar Association, but the legal system of Texas is still part of the US Legal system. Lawyer here, member of Texas and California bars. There seems to be
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
I admire your patience with @stinkbeetle — especially given that he's done little or nothing to earn it.
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> Ask any industrial engineer about MBAs (in Law 7) In the Navy-nuke world there was a saying, purportedly by Admiral Rickover, about non-technical "managers": There but for the grace of God goes God.
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> Nuclear is this big scary monster because its invisible death machine. Yup: It really is big, it really is scary.
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
At first I was both amused and mildly annoyed at mine. Then I looked at the ones for some of the other HNers whom I follow and realized I got off easy. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dctoedt https://hn-wrapped.kado
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> Further, in your "formal philosophy" studies, how much of logic and proofs did you study? Logic and proof only get you so far — IIRC, lots of math-based cosmological conjectures don't survive confrontation with observa
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> [GIF has a hard G] Glad I preserved a tweet that commented on a subheadline at The Verge from when the creator of the GIF died: Subheadline from The Verge: "It's pronounced 'jif'" Tweet: "I guess he's
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
FTA: "The flight attendant explained to Gomez that many able-bodied passengers request wheelchairs for “the VIP experience”—an escort down the jetway that lets them skip the lines and gives them first crack at overhead space. Once they
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They Get Wheeled on Flights and Walk Off. Praise 'Jetway Jesus.'(wsj.com)
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A Reddit tipster cracked the Brown University and MIT shooting cases(nbcnews.com)
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> manual checklists [can be] unnecessarily inefficent and/or unreliable Shoutout to Dr. Atul Gawande's excellent book The Checklist Manifesto , an expansion of his New Yorker article [0]. One of his main points is that eve
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> (probably the most difficult one to do on an app) speaking / conversation practice. Conversation practice with humans [0] is key: As a child I had complete, native-level fluency in French, because my first few years of school we
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
It's part of the Trump administration's support of crypto. </sarcasm>
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MIT [nuclear science] professor shot and killed in his Brookline home(boston.com)
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Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society(economist.com)
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
Could you please say more about your day-to-day with OneNote? How is your notebook organized, how do you add to it, how do you review it, etc.?
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> Your response is childish and you should be embarrassed. I’m mortified that I don’t measure up to the example you set for the rest of us. I shall strive earnestly to do better in my future endeavors.
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
"The Constitution means whatever the current majority of Supreme Court decides it means, ...." FTFY
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> a visible wearable on the arm Or pinned to the coat lapel. (Grr ....)
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> even a broken clock can be right every now and then But a broken clock isn't a reliable indicator of time: You don't know when it's right unless you have another, known-good indicator — in which case just use that ot
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
I’m a subscriber.
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I don't disagree that the existence of billionnaires is problematic (especially given the Supreme Court's abominable decision in Citizens United ). But it's beyond rational dispute that Joe Jamail was one of the most success
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
It wasn't praise — just an observation about how grades and class standing aren't always a good predictor of success. (I never met Joe Jamail, but by reputation there was a lot about him that I didn't especially admire.)
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> some of these students may need the accommodation specifically because of the pressure of the final exam. Success as a lawyer often requires the ability to handle a certain amount of pressure. Timed exams are one way of screening for
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
> Almost nothing I do in my day to day job comes close to being as time-boxed or arbitrarily restrictive as exams were in college. An unpleasant fact of law-school faculty life is that, at least at my school, I'm required to grade
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by dctoedt 10mo ago
I'm mostly a law professor these days. When final-exam time rolls around (as in, this week), I raise my eyebrows when I'm sent the list of students who get 50% extra time. I wouldn't presume to judge the propriety of any give
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Gift article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/math-ken-ono-carina-hong-axiom-s...

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