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by djur 3y ago
I was taught about Roman numerals in school (mid-90s) but it was a brief thing, maybe a few homework assignments in a larger unit about Roman history. Certainly not hours of drilling. I can read a clock fine, and I can read a date if I spen
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by djur 3y ago
Making sure your children will be cared for after you are dead is also impossible, but at least there are well-established legal processes to make an attempt. I think it's actually pretty easy to establish that line.
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by djur 3y ago
Those are actions you can take with expected outcomes, not impossible desires. The equivalent in this case would be destroying your work when you're alive, or asking your executor to destroy it with the understanding that your desires
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by djur 3y ago
This scam was being done years before AI voice cloning was possible (it's called a "grandparent scam") and so far I have not seen evidence that such technology is being used. The victims claim it was exactly like their relati
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by djur 3y ago
To me it felt like he was hurrying to kind of tie a bow on Discworld and settle at least some of the longer-term plot threads he'd been playing with, similar to The Shepherd's Crown (which is better). The train theme of the book f
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by djur 3y ago
Nobody suffers, but it might be indicative that somebody is a shitty _person_ who might maliciously or carelessly cause harm in other ways. (Obviously intent matters here, because would we ever consider it "shitty" to unknowingly
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by djur 3y ago
I think the most rational course of action would be to accept that this is impossible and to try not to worry about future events that you, by definition, will not be present to have feelings about.
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by djur 3y ago
I think your cousin might agree with me that their profession is "military officer", not "leader". I agree that leadership is a valuable skill for many professions.
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by djur 3y ago
It's not about the environment, it's about spending 4 hours listening to executives talk. If there's that much important material to cover, it should be written down.
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by djur 3y ago
> I suspect that the author would be fine with the company meeting if... I can assure you that there is no leadership team competent enough that I would be "fine" with a mandatory four-hour all hands on Monday morning. Not even
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by djur 3y ago
No, being a leader is not a profession any more than being a thinker or a talker or a worker is.
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by djur 3y ago
That was during Covid, but it is 2024 now. The Fed started quantitative tightening in June 2022 and has sold over $1.3 trillion in assets; it also raised interest rates to the highest level in two decades. These are traditionally considered
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by djur 3y ago
Which money printing are you referring to?
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by djur 3y ago
The posts you see on Bluesky by default are the posts made by people you follow. There are other options to select whichever feeds you prefer. If you're seeing a lot of that content, it's because you're following people who p
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by djur 3y ago
Twitter has a lot of very right-wing posters and a lot of very left-wing posters. Which of these you're likely to see as a huge problem and which you're likely to dismiss as a few insignificant goofballs is probably going to be ba
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by djur 3y ago
You can't imagine someone saying "look at this system, it's totally basic, programming 101, clown shoes, baby's first web service, probably made by a PHP coder, not enterprise-class at all, we need to put on our big-boy
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by djur 3y ago
If a tax benefit relies on destroying an asset, to claim the benefit it should be necessary to demonstrate that you've made a good faith effort to sell it for fair market value. Courts supervise this kind of thing in bankruptcies all t
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by djur 3y ago
"Vader" = "father" is equally made up, considering that the character was not originally anyone's father. It's a fun coincidence, nothing more.
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by djur 3y ago
No.
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by djur 3y ago
Individuals certainly aren't taxed on their net profit, so I don't see how that could be "fundamental to the whole premise". If the tax code has effects that are noxious to the public, it's a public matter to revise
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by djur 3y ago
Not with that pronunciation. The prequels (with "Darth Sidious") make the "invader" source clear.
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by djur 3y ago
And he's "named" Darth Vader; "Darth" being a title also didn't come until later. Obi-Wan calls him "Darth" like it's his given name.
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by djur 3y ago
It's a lot more common for people to watch a 10, 20, 30 year old film than to play a video game of the same age, especially in a way that results in revenue flowing to the original creators. A perpetual license for the in-game music is
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by djur 3y ago
I think they'd just patch the original music back in.
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by djur 3y ago
Did you try baking with it?
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by djur 3y ago
I genuinely don't know what "leveraged" is meant to mean here: > Tech-first companies are going to become leaner and more leveraged. To me, a company being "leveraged" means they're in debt. I'm pretty
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by djur 3y ago
Then the process repeats -- someone sues over the FCC's interpretation of the new rule. What next?
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by djur 3y ago
Looks like the FCC is working on that right now too: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/29/2023-13...
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by djur 3y ago
This legislation is enforced through civil action, not criminal, so the burden of proof is preponderance of the evidence, not beyond reasonable doubt.
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by djur 3y ago
A real call center would have a record of which employee made which calls when. The court subpoenas those records and the phone company's records. If they don't match, there are problems. Unless the company wants to commit perjury

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