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by eesmith 2y ago
You know we have all sorts of laws which are iffy-squishy, right? Like, why is the voting age 18 and not 17.5? Why is the drinking age 21 and not 20? Why not allow 2 year olds to vote and drink hard liquor? The tax brackets, and tax levels
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by eesmith 2y ago
So are nurses.
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What did Washington do in Little Rock when Arkansas tried to defy integration laws?
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If living there can give you Norwegian citizenship then yes, it's really part of Norway. The Svalbard treaty says outright "The High Contracting Parties undertake to recognise, subject to the stipulations of the present Treaty, th
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by eesmith 2y ago
Okay, but the thesis is: "Just because someone wants to immigrate to the US doesn't mean they should be allowed. This is the underlying truth that is indisputable." There is part of Norway where anyone is allowed to immigrate
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by eesmith 2y ago
It now seems that you do agree that Federal judges actually have the ability to order the Executive branch on matters which are not at the President's discretion, yes? Your thesis is that only the Supreme Court gets to decide what is a
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by eesmith 2y ago
And your point is ... what? That it's not possible for the US to come up with something like that on its own?
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There are alternatives. The US existed very prosperously without the current system of asylum requests, immigration judges, Green Cards or Visas, while also enforcing its borders and protecting its citizens from an uncontrolled influx of
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by eesmith 2y ago
Earlier you wrote "The average age of boys being exposed to porn is about 13". Now you say "infinite stream of whatever sounds interesting at the moment". Those are two quite different things. To start with, just because
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It's very odd to read a piece which only talks about Jobs in the post-1990 sense ("Jobs was considered a visionary who revolutionized product design in the 1990s and 00s"), with little awareness of what Jobs did in the 1970s
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes, a lot of those unions were racist and xenophobic. You are, I believe, referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909_Georgia_Railroad_strike ? I don't see anything about a minimum wage. I do see 'the ar
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by eesmith 2y ago
"Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweatshops which had developed in the wake of industrialization.[17] Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying the
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by eesmith 2y ago
You are right that it does not "need to be a %" - it could be a la carte, for example. Our physics group had access to the shared LN2 tank. It was no fee, so if you needed a few liters you could just grab it. That could be replace
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I was at a Python conference once and met someone whose email ended '@boehringer-ingelheim.com'. That's 25 letters right there. https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/media-stories/press-rel... has a camil
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by eesmith 2y ago
The local college here in town just had a job fair so, yes. My point was to give a couple of examples of how the applicant queue is not completely out of a company's control. Surely you can think of other ones. > The thing is that h
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by eesmith 2y ago
> There's an applicant queue not under their control Not 100%, sure, but that's far different from 0%. Which job fairs do your company reps attend? Is there a built-in bias causing you to miss out on good candidates? Can employ
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by eesmith 2y ago
I still think you should try a book which has been much less studied than the ones you mentioned. The LLM is almost certainly trained on Wikipedia, which has a lot of this information, plus a lot of essays for high school level assignments.
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I'm trying to understand how to judge the quality of the result, that is, to better quantify what "relatively accurate character identification and relationship mapping" means. For example, with the "The Adventures of To
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Has the Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine ever farmed? Has the Minister for Education and Youth been an educator? Has the Minister of State at the Department of Transport ever helped build a road? Has the Minister for
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by eesmith 2y ago
Your conservative friends sound as xenophobic as the Americans a century ago who derided wine as being non-American, as part of their hatred of (Catholic) southern European immigrants. What, pray tell, is American food? Hawaiian Poi? New Me
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by eesmith 2y ago
This article: > Amazon's innovative "Just-Walk-Out" technology has also removed the need for consumers to bring a physical credit or debit card all together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashierless_s
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Which also gives the explanation, for those like me who find it faster to read than watch a video: > [It is] a stronger, simpler, and more sustainable bicycle that addresses the critical mobility needs of communities where transportation
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.. and in COBOL.
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https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,00
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by eesmith 2y ago
Can't read due to paywall. Remember though that the Manhattan Project was only somewhat a secret. Quoting from https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/03/29/narratives-of-man... "The truth is, even wit
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by eesmith 2y ago
The voters do have a say. The voters can influence who is the head of it. This control is indirect. The Postmaster General is selected and appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. The members of the Board of Governors is a
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When it was a refugee camp during the Haitian refugee crisis starting in 1991, it held 12,500 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_refugee_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Cuban_r
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Don't forget to factor in unemployment benefits, which typically don't apply if you quit.
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If I have, would you change your opinion? Because this feels like you are making an appeal to authority in order to reject any criticism, when what I'm cautioning that there's a long history here. Have you carefully examined the l
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I'm pretty sure main is supposed to be declared with an int return type, but the compiler may specify something else. My reading of https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf sa

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