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by dguest 3y ago
No one likes "rules are rules" as justification. But, (again, not a lawyer) you also get some equally absurd situations with the "precedent is precedent (as long as you can afford a lawyer to establish it)" situation in
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by dguest 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer (would love to hear a more professional take) but I think this is vaguely related to the Common Law vs Roman Law divide. The main difference is how they handle ambiguity in the law: Common (US, UK) : research past cas
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by dguest 3y ago
I agree. We should be able to acknowledge that we do harmful things without turning it into judgement on our overall character. It's not hypocrisy to admit that you do bad things sometimes.
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by dguest 3y ago
> What's wrong with that? I'm not really sure what is wrong with that, but the US Supreme Court seemed a bit troubled by it. There's a reasonably well cited summary on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by dguest 4y ago
Which claim? The full transcript of the Feynman story is available online [1], you can search for "martian" to get right to the story. It's presented in the context of explaining CP symmetry, which says that physics is conser
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by dguest 4y ago
It turns out you can define it from looking at radioactive decay (or any other interaction governed by the weak force). Feynman famously had a short description that ended with the punch line > Suppose, after lots of communication you fi
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by dguest 4y ago
You are right that it could be a lot faster with a bigger rocket. There will be quite a few "slingshot" or gravity assist maneuvers along the way, it's not like they are blasting straight out to Jupiter orbit. https:/&#
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by dguest 4y ago
Depends on how recently you mean. Since their inception they have revolutionized modern biology, and by extension medicine [1]. Also they gave us the seismic monitoring network we currently use to understand the earth. Of course it wasn&#x2
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by dguest 4y ago
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740
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by dguest 4y ago
Good point! But it's also an unstable system: the -1 will get attracted to one of the +2 charges and (from a distance) look like a +1, and the other charge will fly off to infinity. I guess we could design a bunch of picometer-scale sc
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by dguest 4y ago
My experience with TurboTax was that in two subsequent runs on the same tax year the refund I got would vary by 20-50% (I had to start over at one point). I didn't dig in: and the reason I was using TurboTax is that I didn't care.
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by dguest 4y ago
It depends on the extent to which "validation" is recomputing exactly the same information. If you have a game that runs every single computation server-side it's not a sanity check, it's just a game running on a server.
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by dguest 4y ago
Them being scared out of their minds is the problem: that's why they are paying millions on lobbying to spread the fear. I would prefer that they quietly recognize that their time is up and die with whatever dignity they might have lef
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by dguest 4y ago
Yes, it's basically a written exam. The grading is done as a free service by the government, or a handout if you will.
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by dguest 4y ago
Yeah that was badly phrased. I meant the amount you owe, but you answered my question. I guess it's worth doing the math to figure out when your guesstimate becomes more expensive than a tax prep service.
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by dguest 4y ago
Everyone is falling for tax-prep propaganda by even implying that this is a new service. The IRS already prepares your taxes for you. There is simply no way around this: they have to prepare them to check the numbers they get from persona
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by dguest 4y ago
Have you heard of people paying fines for getting their taxes slightly wrong? I know people who spend 5 minutes filling out the form with rough adjusted guesses based on the previous year, send it in, and thus trigger the IRS sending the co
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by dguest 4y ago
That's funny, my friend just fills out his taxes as soon as they are eligible to be submitted with rough guesses. The IRS sends the forms back to him corrected (they already had the correct form) and then he mails them back again. The
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by dguest 4y ago
Direct link to the source: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29681/contributions/122474/att...
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by dguest 4y ago
There's also no reason to keep everyone in the same capsule once you're in space: you could have multiple independent reentry vehicles. Fire off a rocket somewhere West of Chicago, send a dozen people to Stockholm, a dozen to Lond
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by dguest 4y ago
Geneva, CH, recommends that you arrive less than 2 hours before your flight departs. If you are flying within Europe, without checking a bag, and have the QR code from your boarding pass, it always takes less than 30 minutes to get to the
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by dguest 4y ago
They are also awkward for a 14 year old to buy.
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by dguest 4y ago
How much does a vending machine cost? Would you even make your money back? Also it's a pain to install, and would likely be placed somewhere central where everyone sees you using it.
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by dguest 4y ago
Purely anecdotally, I think the problem is less about the financial burden and more about high-school students being socially awkward and afraid to admit they might have sex, especially to adults at the cash register. Of course we could als
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by dguest 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of a few government sponsored ones: - A great simple one is YR: https://www.yr.no/en - if you happen to be in Switzerland: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.admin
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by dguest 4y ago
Windy is awesome, although a bit overkill if you just want to know if it's going to rain in your town later today.
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by dguest 4y ago
> In any case, do not act guilty. Act like what you're doing is perfectly normal and legal. Solid advice for all aspects of life.
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by dguest 4y ago
They create most of the heavier stuff when they blow up. But that's a pretty small fraction of their lifetime, even for stars with a relatively short lifetime (a supernova takes minutes, these things live for millions of years).
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by dguest 4y ago
Good on the author for acknowledging (twice) that not everyone shares their sense of aesthetics. Personally I think there's a beautiful chaotic honesty in the monster building. The Vegas hotels look phony, even more so now that I know
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by dguest 4y ago
The best part is that the penalty for not paying is just a bigger bill from the same garage.

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