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by ethbr0 4y ago
I think latchkey just means that kids were often home when a parent wasn't, or was sleeping. So latchkey kids could also roam the streets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Once I figured out that cooking is mostly optimizing water while hitting the desired through-doneness and char points, my food markedly improved. Everything about low and slow makes a lot more sense then!
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by ethbr0 4y ago
That would be a misdemeanor, not a felony.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Civil wars start because an absence of the rule of law. I.e. politicians being able to avoid charges simply by virtual of their office. And why does it matter if the prosecutor has a political ax to grind with Trump? The distastefulness of
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The Economist article someone mirrored farther down has the clearest trace of the payments I can find: https://archive.is/0rJIh Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels. The Trump organization reimbursed Michael Cohen. The candida
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by ethbr0 4y ago
This isn't an accounting crime. He's entitled to account for it in a variety of legal ways. It's a campaign finance disclosure crime. Either he properly classified and disclosed a campaign related expense, or he didn't.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> but if Trump paid directly himself, it wouldn't violate campaign finance laws? Correct. My understanding is that if Trump had paid Stormy Daniels directly and classified it as a campaign expense, it would have been legal and the
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Why would you have a lawyer pay hush money? The concealment of the payment (having Cohen pay from his company, then reimbursing him as part of a larger payment) is the crime, not the payment. And yes, I think all politicians should be gone
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by ethbr0 4y ago
They're required to prove absence of a given intent in the sense of "to the jury's satisfaction." If the prosecution says "Here are all the things that indicate intent" and the defense says "I'm not g
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by ethbr0 4y ago
This isn't about campaign contribution limits, it's about declaring campaign expenses . As far as I've read, it was money his campaign legally had, spent on something he could legally spend it on... that he attempted to conc
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by ethbr0 4y ago
As far as I can tell, here's how the justification that it's a crime worth charging goes: 1. Would Stormy Daniels announcing weeks before the election that she and Donald Trump had an affair have impacted the election? Yes. 2. Was
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> Perhaps if he goes to jail, he can't run for office? There is no restriction on a candidate for the US presidency vis-a-vis current or former incarceration. Anyone could constitutionally run a presidential campaign or even serve
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Or Google can just materialize the expected page into existence at search time. ... it's uncanny how it always finds what you thought you were looking for!
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by ethbr0 4y ago
That's still my favorite line from the entire series. :)
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I think parent's (and OP's) point was that YC was more valuable for investing and strategy, but less valuable for finding customers. And since customers are the most difficult part now (because 10-15 players), it adjusts the relat
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Sears.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Italian cultural resources >> natural resources Seems fair as a country to say "How can we maximally utilize our cultural resources?" If the UN provides a vehicle with which to do that, they use the vehicle. Gripe about the
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I've known at least a few insurers who have automated running test claims through their systems, because it's the quickest way to find out what will actually happen. It's not rocket science! But it is decades of code on top o
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's a good point and ties in to the broader issue of opaqueness of reporting, especially now that we've empowered self-serve report generation. We can democratize data systems... but documenting them is a whole different level of
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I loved Garak, I just wish DS9 had devoted more time to him! Or Bashir! It's been a minute since I've done a watch-through of DS9, but from memory they have great episodes, but also get lost in the background for large chunks of s
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I made it to Episode 4 of Season 2 and then literally couldn't watch more. The dialog was so disconnected from the characters. Season 3 feels like a return to characters speaking with internal consistency.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The problem with DS9 is that the writers were still given enough rope to write one-off episodes that ignored central themes or plots. Which, granted, B5 still has as well, but far fewer. It's indicative that later seasons of DS9 (93-
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by ethbr0 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwF5BBL26I
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> "Well you want to live as much as I, hmm?" > laughing "Ohh yes, but I would much rather see you dead."
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> the main characters consider the host and its nation a treat and decide to do something about it They realize they're being used for propaganda explicitly counter to the beliefs they lived (and in some cases sacrificed) their li
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by ethbr0 4y ago
+1 on Lower Decks. Also, Picard Season 1 and 3 have been decent. (Seriously, skip season 2)
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The other unique thing about B5 is the richness of character arcs. The central plot moves everything forward, but each character has their own multi-season arc inside it. I mean, Garibaldi? G'Kar? Londo? These are not "Oh, that&#x
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Not going to argue. In their defense, I'd say insurers are more innovative (especially on the operations side and post-ACA) than the federal government. IMHO, best of both worlds would be the federal government taking over and centrali
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> but it's definitely eye opening just how malicious they made it As someone familiar with insurer, provider, and facility IT systems, I'd offer an alternate explanation -- the data is bad because healthcare IT is understaffe
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by ethbr0 4y ago
On the other hand, we balance health hazards to the public against economic activity. "Minimal risk while still permitting economic growth / treating disease" vs "no risk" It's fair to apply the same standards

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