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by eesmith 2y ago
Brian Josephson has been pushing this idea for a long time. That contrarian view, combined with his views on the water memory and the paranormal, makes him a contender for having the so-called "Nobel disease" - https://
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by eesmith 2y ago
It's not a librarian.
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If corruption is widespread, selective prosecution is the classic way to get what you want. Suppose there are 10 anti-competitive companies, where 7 of them overtly support the administration's actions and 3 remain politically neutral.
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by eesmith 2y ago
And the Post Office is also undemocratic? "where the president constitutionally has power" What a vacuous statement, trivially true. This thread concerns civil servants, some of which are in important positions.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Is the current civil service system democratic? If so, why? The US Postmaster General is not appointed by the president. Is it a political office? Is it an important office? What about the Chair of the Federal Reserve? We have independent a
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by eesmith 2y ago
The US switched from the spoils system to the civil service system because the voters did not want a system where rulers could always put people who align with them politically into non-political offices. The Pendleton Civil Service Reform
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by eesmith 2y ago
Since Svartsö is "one of the few islands in the archipelago where accommodation remains open in winter", doesn't that mean that few Swedes actually do this?
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by eesmith 2y ago
That may be your mantra so you can get to sleep, but even if true, Becket's murder reminds us that underlings may consider them orders.
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by eesmith 2y ago
The US and Denmark are both signatory to a similar convention to the Copenhagen Convention of 1857, says the latter's Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t... says the US isn
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by eesmith 2y ago
Sure. And also long recognized by the 'tried-and-true single-payer health care system's I referred to. The US system has worse overall health outcomes, so it's like we aren't really trying.
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by eesmith 2y ago
The Copenhagen Convention of 1857 does not include warships. The Danish Royal Ordinance of 27 Feb 1976, amended in 1999 by the Ordinance Governing the Admission of Foreign Warships and Military Aircraft to Danish Territory in Time of Peace,
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by eesmith 2y ago
I don't think there's a real meaning beyond the premise to a joke.
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by eesmith 2y ago
So, renege on the Copenhagen Convention of 1857 and make the Danish straits no longer international waters?
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by eesmith 2y ago
Not equally dependent. Like, with the US privatized medical system and its parasitical medical insurance system, we can see how medical costs are higher and overall health outcomes lower than in countries with single-payer/national hea
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by eesmith 2y ago
Setting aside that 'too few young people' is by definition when there's a problem, thus making it a tautology, there's a lot we can do by changing our views of what retirement means. Retirement should not mean a life of
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by eesmith 2y ago
I hate that ever since I was a teen in the 80's I've been encouraged by government policy to put my retirement into pension funds which invest in the stock market, thus justifying all manner of immoral and unethical business pract
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by eesmith 2y ago
"he hoped it would change the way people think about human life - and where people can settle, even permanently." As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember watching Jacques Cousteau on TV, and has work with the Conshelf habitats
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by eesmith 2y ago
Google's cost is not simply distribution but also what's needed to support its advertising; the surveillance of keeping track of who you are, what you want, and when, and the bidding system so it can sell advertising. If content c
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by eesmith 2y ago
> Working one-on-one with an expert personal tutor is generally regarded as the most efficient form of education [14] > [14] B. S. Bloom, "The 2 sigma problem: The search for methods of group instruction as effective as one-to-on
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by eesmith 2y ago
Also from Mill: > We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. We are not bound, for example, to seek his society; we ha
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by eesmith 2y ago
To your tl;dr I would add "... at conception, when there is only one cell." Also, it classifies people with ovotestes as both male and female, while those with gonadal dysgenesis are "neither male nor female if these nonsensi
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by eesmith 2y ago
Because as the linked-to article says 'Exemptions carved into the SDA allow for discrimination in certain cases', and in its previous reporting at https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024&#
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by eesmith 2y ago
I think you should read "If you want to restrict access, you need to make it private. - this is sensible and not weird." as "If you want to restrict access [based on legally protected characteristics], you need to make it pri
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by eesmith 2y ago
In the US you cannot exclude people from a public event based on sex, race, national origin, and a few other characteristics. (The full list depends on the location.) On the other hand, if you want a white-only private club, that's wel
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by eesmith 2y ago
You are, I think, too focused on the transwoman part of it, and leaving how how the group also wants to exclude bisexual women (including non-transwomen) from public events. Why should an anti-discrimination law allow a lesbian group to exc
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by eesmith 2y ago
The original is: "A Victorian lesbian group cannot exclude transgender and bisexual women from its public events". The HN title here has been re-written to change "transwomen" to "males" and to remove the quali
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by eesmith 2y ago
Upon review, I realized the parallel construction in "No, my shelf contains no book by Hemingway, but it does contain one by Hemmingway" would help smooth things out. More to the point, https://archive.org/details&
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by eesmith 2y ago
That's "Hemingway" ;) I think the original sentence was already pretty weird, since I wouldn't say "My shelf contains no books." making it hard for me to judge what is not weird. However, "Does your shelf
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You missed the 120 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7409611 because it links to https://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/structurelessness.htm . There are about 11 other non-jofreeman.com comments
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The AI adds no copyright. It either adds no copyright or there is unattributed copyright remaining from whatever training set was used. The rest is under your copyright as it is the result of your creative work. 1) Yes, you can release it a

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