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by defen 8y ago
> This is why you should avoid waiving your right to a speedy trial when you have a public defender. That makes sense, but there's a coordination problem. If everyone invoked their right to a speedy trial, the system would indeed c
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by defen 8y ago
> 'Important to whom?' seems to be the crucial question... One example: It was important to Melville - we actually have his copy of Milton's poetical works (including Paradise Lost ) with his notes, underlines, etc that w
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by defen 8y ago
We have that, but if the name given by the worker matches the social security number given by the worker, "nothing more can be done" and everyone looks the other way. Example: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/stor
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by defen 8y ago
> the borders would have to gradually transition to fully open, sure, but after that transition the borders could be fully open. Why is a transition period needed? If you believe that, then fundamentally we agree, we just differ on the r
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by defen 8y ago
What are your thoughts on the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror?
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by defen 8y ago
> I do support an open border. Why wouldn't you? How certain are you that open borders won't result in tremendous downsides? Let's say it doesn't work out and society actually gets much worse as a result - how do you
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by defen 8y ago
Are there any other examples from relatively recent history of new technology that people would spontaneously attempt to attack/destroy in an uncoordinated fashion like this?
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by defen 8y ago
Princeton has an extremely strong mathematics department (possibly the best in the world) plus the IAS is nearby. Perhaps they are looking for close collaboration with pure mathematicians? My understanding is that there are not very strong
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by defen 8y ago
Specifically, section 560.540 of the ITR authorizes the exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Intemet, such as
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by defen 8y ago
You should never buy any kind of food (for humans or animals) on Amazon...
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by defen 8y ago
It was published almost 40 years ago. I think to get the best experience of it, you have to have read it back then, or read it as a precocious 14 year old. If you read it with a graduate or even undergraduate understanding of computer scien
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by defen 8y ago
> "No, because even if rents dip 20% I can make the mortgage payments and repairs and wait for the market to recover." 20% is the guaranteed max price he would pay on capital gains tax assuming he's held the property for m
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by defen 8y ago
> Seriously, AVOID PRIVATE INVESTMENTS. Good advice. My understanding is that private investments are the #1 way professional athletes with even more money than OP go broke (excludig straight-up fraud by their investment managers).
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by defen 8y ago
> The scale of technical achievement is by far more impressive than anything that came before. Metal Gear Solid 5 might be the closest thing in terms of open world technology, but RDR2 is far superior to it. Yep. MGSV has better graphics
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by defen 8y ago
Good comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18497717 from the previous discussion about why this vehicle exists, however it sounds like it's being abused / exploited by these lending firms. They'r
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by defen 8y ago
> There are plenty of well educated, hard working, intelligent people outside of major metropolitan areas. And there are plenty of lazy idiots in cities. I never said there weren't; the question is which what is the net internal mig
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by defen 8y ago
> different humans have different potential intelligence Different individual humans do have different potential intelligence. Cities everywhere attract intelligent people of all races and genders, this has nothing to do with the racial
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by defen 8y ago
> When talking about working in the bay area with technology people from the bay area I really get the impression that nobody there ever has children and everybody is sterilized. This is the great slow-motion tragedy of cities, especial
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by defen 8y ago
Normally critics will visit a restaurant three times before writing a review. Obviously tough to do in this situation, though.
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by defen 8y ago
> their promotion process shamelessly promotes peer cannibalization. What does "peer cannibalization" mean?
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by defen 8y ago
You can take the logarithm of a rotor in order to do interpolation. If you want a transformation represented by a rotor R to happen in N steps, you can apply R ^ (1/N) N times. The Nth root of R is exp(log(R)/N)
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by defen 8y ago
> That thing everyone except the intolerant seem to understand remarkably well I'm not sure I agree with that, since the definition of intolerance is obviously rooted in societal norms. In 1950 the statement "two men should not
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by defen 8y ago
> I suspect I'm getting downvoted because some people are passionately anti-circumcision. And that's fine! Nobody is going to make you get circumcised. Yeah, the problem is that this "science" is inevitably used to ju
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by defen 8y ago
A true Scotsman would carry a claymore.
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by defen 8y ago
The New York Times article about him today said: > Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a mo
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by defen 8y ago
> it also appears as though they are fully conscious of the prospect of social censure: >>We are working with you to make sure your careers are not affected by this. I'll tell you how Google is going to spin it (maybe it'
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by defen 8y ago
"Wow, you're really bad at this!"
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by defen 8y ago
How exactly would this be enforced? If a man doesn't disclose that his partner is pregnant, is he going to be fired? I don't see how it could be legal to do so. How is a partner's / spouse's medical condition any bu
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by defen 8y ago
That could work too; without seeing the numbers it's hard to say. For example you might have a higher chance of losing your money due to theta decay depending on how far out you're buying. And the premium on the puts is going to b
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by defen 8y ago
Sell short and buy a corresponding (shares short / 100) number of call options at $420 strike (which, in theory, if Musk were telling the truth, should essentially be worthless but in practice will come with some amount of premium). Th

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