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by eindiran 5y ago
Regarding your first claim; you don't even need to report gifts up to 15k/person/year. You do have to report gambling prizes, but that's because the casino wrote it off so the IRS wants to make sure somebody is paying ta
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by eindiran 5y ago
None of these seem to be things an average person would do with any regularity though. Also, some of them seem pretty reasonable: https://nitter.net/CrimeADay/status/1444874259357130753 https://nitter.n
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by eindiran 5y ago
This gives you a rough idea, but it has increased a lot since 2012: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/11/how-big-is-a-petab... A lot of companies are producing many petabytes a day of logs and data.
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by eindiran 5y ago
A felony per day? That cannot possibly be true; maybe the average person commits 1+ "crimes" per day, but not felonies. The only felonies I can think of that an "average person" can plausibly have committed in their enti
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by eindiran 5y ago
There are a lot of deeply awful things in the world, but I don't really understand how this is one. Don't know what pieces you have/want to get an idea of where to start? Use the app, but then don't follow the generated
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by eindiran 5y ago
I'm not arguing with you; I'm just pointing out that running passed 6 castles on the way to a particularly defensible one was a tactical mistake (assuming your goal is to hold on to as much of the bailey as possible, rather than j
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by eindiran 5y ago
Given the enormous amount of territory you ceded in your retreat to the motte, OP is disincentivized from bothering to attempt gaining any additional ground.
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by eindiran 5y ago
Once you have decided that the UAPs are technological objects, sure, it starts to seem more plausible that aliens are involved. But nothing in the report [0] indicates to me that there is any degree of confidence that the weird, unexplainab
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by eindiran 5y ago
The problem with everyone having moved from forums over to subreddits is that in order to interact with the community/ask qiuestions/whatever, you need to have a Reddit account and deal with Reddit's dark patterns, data colle
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by eindiran 5y ago
I want to hit that sweet spot where my bad behavior is unconstrained by the rules but everyone else's bad behavior is.
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by eindiran 5y ago
This infographic from the article itself is quite interesting: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/scitransmed/early/2021/06... Also, this stuck out to me from the nih.gov summary: “The estimate of COVID-
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by eindiran 5y ago
See: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law vs * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system) "The civil law system is often contrasted with the common law system, which origina
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by eindiran 5y ago
What is the suggested alternative for hosting serious video content? Vimeo? PeerTube? BitChute? Some other video hosting platform that is either entirely a ghost town or hosting manifestly questionable content?
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by eindiran 5y ago
The difference is that what people think of as LA includes a huge number of suburbs that push out quite far east into the desert. So if you are in Santa Monica or Malibu, the climate is very comparable to coastal San Diego. If you drive out
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by eindiran 5y ago
San Diego (the city) barely escapes the semi-arid/arid designation, placing it slightly within the CSa / Mediterranean climate[0] designation. But it is surrounded by BSh areas (the Sonoran desert and California chaparral) - by ar
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by eindiran 5y ago
I mean, you can drop in 5.56 or even magnum rimfire rounds like 17HMR (anything that is supersonic past eg 200m) and that issue is mitigated. The swarms could hypothetically still detect muzzle flashes, so that could allow them to respond.
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by eindiran 5y ago
There have been many variants that emerged in the US[0][1], but none of them have been significantly more infectious than the original Wuhan variant (until the Epsilon variants emerged very recently). Most of the ones that are more infectio
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by eindiran 5y ago
Linus is the guy replying.
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by eindiran 5y ago
If you told me that the Mediterranean dried up "recently", with no other context, and you were referring to Messinian salinity crisis from 5 MYBP it would significantly limit my belief in your adherence to good-faith conversationa
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by eindiran 5y ago
See: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/neu.10160 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
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by eindiran 5y ago
IMO an important ingredient of the TTIC formula is physical proximity to the university. Your researchers can give talks on campus/meet up with Uchicago researchers/visit academic libraries by just crossing the Midway, a short and
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by eindiran 5y ago
Yes, but "hack" is so overloaded and has so many definitions that using it as a definition itself is supremely unhelpful.
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by eindiran 5y ago
From the wiki article it sounds like it just refers to extremely improvised engineering, something akin to "bubble gum and baling wire" or "MacGyvering" something. Something like a kludge, but a bit less pejorative.
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by eindiran 5y ago
I will say I was very pleasantly surprised to see only a single domain in NoScript's list of domains. That is extraordinarily rare, even when on sites that are ostensibly pro-privacy. So thank you for not stuffing your site with tracki
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by eindiran 5y ago
With gravity assists you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
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by eindiran 5y ago
To be clear, I am absolutely not defending capital punishment as a practice. My point is just that, if you have already decided that you are going to do it, like SC has, it is much better for it to be by firing squad than for it to be by el
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by eindiran 5y ago
Death by firing squad is relatively humane (especially in comparison to electrocution), so if you really need to have capital punishment and your options are electrocution and firing squad, the choice is pretty clear. I think the reason exe
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by eindiran 5y ago
That's very helpful, thank you.
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by eindiran 5y ago
I am kind of confused by those graphs: how did M1 rise so much but M2 stay approximately the same over the last year? M2 rose by 3T, and M1 rose by 13T(!).
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by eindiran 5y ago
I think the claim about "winner take all" games is about things which follow power law distributions. If a large fraction of all possible rewards go to a small fraction of participants, its not too out there to imagine a small num

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