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by dctoedt 1y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know whether this is real or an imposter.
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America Party (AMEP) FEC Form 1(docquery.fec.gov)
5 points by dctoedt 1y ago|6 comments
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> cultural appropriation going on here Can you tell us more about what you mean by "cultural appropriation," and how you see it as differing from "imitating others' useful practices"?
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Its previous owner, a charter company called Blue Falcon Corp, .... I smiled at that one. It was like when, probably 1980 or so, the Austin American-Statesman newspaper ran a photo of a "robot" parading in front of the Whit
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Ah — point taken; I missed the "/s" at the end (it might not have been there when I read the comment).
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> Children in coal towns don't need to know Shakespeare and shouldn't have aspirations. That's a pretty astounding assertion.
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Marina von Neumann Whitman, economist, dies at 90(wsj.com)
8 points by dctoedt 1y ago|0 comments
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> What are the keywords for finding a lawyer who can advise on non-competes? If you're in California, try the following; they all know their stuff and aren't in supercostly BigLaw firms (although I think most are BigLaw alumni)
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> TOS are not binding contracts American courts have had no difficulty in holding that TOS are binding IF done correctly. It wouldn't be prudent to imagine that YouTube's lawyers don't know how to do that. Santa Clara La
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Writing with AI: The Power of the Smarmy First Draft(brevity.wordpress.com)
2 points by dctoedt 1y ago|0 comments
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Will Iran Be Next? (2004)(theatlantic.com)
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> NYtimes are testing their new AI's summarization capabilities? It's attributed to A.O. Scott, who's been around for awhile. https://www.nytimes.com/by/a-o-scott
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(20th Anniv.) How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever(wired.com)
2 points by dctoedt 1y ago|0 comments
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Mumble years ago I started using "Mom" and "Dad" as soon as we got married; my wife did the same with my folks — and my folks did the same with my grandparents.
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> The funds for the "United States Army 250th Anniversary Parade" were allocated before President Trump was elected, during the Biden debacle. Um: "The Army’s 250th birthday celebration has been in the works for two yea
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by dctoedt 1y ago
I posted the DOS version on CompuServe (!) probably 30 or 35 years ago. I don't think I ever posted the Word for Windows version. I switched to a MacBook a dozen years ago; I think I remapped some of its keys to emulate Emacs. (But in
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> He said the big hurdle was to learn to trust the instruments and ignore your body screaming at you that the instruments are lying. In about 1967, my dad (career USAF, fighter jock) was flying in clear, sunny weather. He started to ge
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software. Lawyer here: I loved WordPerfect (for DOS) because of Reveal Codes and its easy keystroke macros, which let me write an Emacs key
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> Our countries are too big. The only way for the public to police this stuff is with small polities like the Scandinavian countries, where there isn’t too much going on. In armed conflict, having a large polity can pay off — big time
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> Alaska would like a word. Worst mosquitoes (both in size and number) I’ve ever experienced .... In Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range above the Arctic Circle, on a Boy Scout "summer" backpacking trip in 2006, my son and hi
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by dctoedt 1y ago
According to his logic, his kids should thank their lucky stars that their mother is American by his definition, namely that she was raised here and her family has been here for many generations ....
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Since we're posting favorites, here's one about lawyers, which I show to my contract-drafting students every semester: https://web.archive.org/web/20230301101359/https://dilbert.c...
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Brings to mind the famous Joseph Heller quote: "At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller h
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> imminent domain destroying houses and running highways through poor neighborhoods Nit: eminent not imminent.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> the same guy whose name begins with C Nit: "Christ" is actually a title , not a name — it's the English version of the Greek Χριστός ( christos ), from the Hebrew mashiach (in English, messiah , anointed one). His
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> I'm also guessing that the range of types of "people" in your life experience might not have been all that broad. Edit: ... in your life experience in the U.S. ....
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> But the biases of [the?] people are legitimate, while the biases of the elites are illegitimate. I guess "elites" [sic] don't qualify as "people," then. And given your personal background, I'm also g
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His worldview is starting to seem increasingly blinkered and reductive. It's reminiscent of something that Binyamin Appelbaum said, in his book The Economists' Hour : That Milton Friedman celebrated drivers and took roads for gra
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> As an agnostic who spends a lot of time reading scriptures of several religions, trying to grasp the themes and motivations of others I share a world with -- those passages are particularly inscrutable. I think the author's inte
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> He riled many of his flock and hierarchy when he said that "even atheists can be redeemed". It's quite a bit above our pay grade to proclaim categorically who supposedly cannot be redeemed; it verges on blasphemy. Cf

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