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Engineers having poor legal analysis seems to stem from a common assumption that lawyers are the programmers, the law is the code, and the judge is the interpreter/compiler who just sort of runs the arguments the lawyers provide and ou
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Again, I encourage you to read the ruling. It addresses this claim quite thoroughly: > Traditionally, the First Amendment imposes limitations only on “state action, not action by private parties.” Lloyd Corp., Ltd. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 55
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The judgement itself is worth reading; it is not nearly as polemical as it being made out to be. It goes into detail on the question of how the states of Missouri and Louisiana have standing here; the “letter of the law” answer is that ther
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The “fire in a crowded theater” metaphor, in addition to being more a legal myth than a legal principle, is not quite the right perspective to understand this ruling. That said, if we try to use that metaphor to understand this ruling, it i
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“ The physical infrastructure projects enumerated above occurred before 1970 to a disproportionate degree. Why? ” If you Google image search “growth of environmental regulation”, there is a huge increase in the slope of those graphs right a
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“The technology of that time severely limited the number of available channels (broadcast channels being six megahertz wide due to severe interference etc)” is actually very comparable to “the market forces of our time severely limits the
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If you analyze news as a product, it’s entirely reasonable for Facebook to refuse a price they don’t think is worth it. If you analyze news as something more like “a right to information” - “integral to the function of democracy”, as it was
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Relatively high energy cost since you’re undoing an endothermic reaction, you need to do a lot of it since we use water in large quantities… but most of all, the planet naturally does a lot of desalination for us already through various geo
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Big fan of these “sarcastically named” functions, there are a lot of good reasons to use them (mainly, every time you go to use it you’ll think about whether it’s really needed) and not many reasons to not use it (naming it “fastConvert” do
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This is underselling how un-buggy Factorio is. Just read the bugfix section of the previous releases: https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/1.1.0 “ Fixed a crash when downgrading ghost of assembling machine when ta
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(It’s not a great article - it is surely quite motivated in a certain direction - but I do not think it should be flagged. Not sure if it’s possible to register a vote against flagging.) “Energy-source politics” often reminds me of the Cond
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Almost all of the painful stuff in that post is due to migrating from tool to tool. (“Both main and browser fields are present”, “This has something to do with the migration from requires to imports”, “Subcommands calling npm even through y
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It’s always interesting reading stats like these as an Australian. Our most recent heatwave was something like a maximum of 100F during the day and a minimum of 85F during the night at 60-80% humidity. So there was this period of probably &
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by fwlr 3y ago
Sure, I mis-spoke in saying it was console.log spam, that’s not specifically what’s happening. But let’s be real, if you’re getting a 429 response that is at most a cached hash table lookup per request, for a site has probably top 50 in t
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Oh come on. This is console.log spam. This isn’t a “self-DDoS”.
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Given that so many people are leaving to Amazon, yes, I would bet she is!
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The article notes that many believe a large contributing factor is the unpopularity of new head of the FTC, Lina Khan. I don’t know how much credence to give these claims directly, but when terms like “abusive” get thrown around to describe
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The Australian legislation was touted as a link tax originally, but by the time it passed it had been reworked to compel Meta and Google to form commercial arrangements with journalism companies. We don’t know what is in those commercial ar
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Some years ago, a psychologist named Bem approached the field of parapsychology (the study of psi, psychic phenomenon) and performed several studies that demonstrated statistically significant effects. Much was made of just how thoroughly r
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I did mean bicycles, yeah. Really I just think I have a very different way of understanding and conceptualising things. Like to me, sky-diving is “jumping out of a plane”, that’s the activity, and whether you have zero, one, or two parachut
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So far as I know there is nothing in physics that would prevent such a thing - I think the issue is whatever tensioning device you use (unsure if piezo is the way to go or something else), each unit would be responsible for a relatively sma
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Definitely at the limits of my understanding here, but I don’t believe so. I believe the very high pressures simply force materials into more compact arrangements of bonds.
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If downgrading from power generation to power storage is an acceptable outcome, it would be more efficient to decommission the turbines along with the coal boiler, and just plug a large battery into the remaining transmission infrastructure
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Theoretically, I guess it could - iron selenide superconducts when its electrons are all forced the outer ring, and physically stretching the material can cause force electrons to the outer ring. But the precision required to apply enough t
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Yes, the typical nuclear power plant’s reactor tops out at 350C, which is well below the desired temperature of 550C in a coal plant. But you wouldn’t want to use an existing LWR anyway, they are massive (1GW+) relative to a coal plant whic
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Apparently one of the things that happens when a material transitions into a superconducting state is it stretches (by an infinitesimal amount) in the conducting direction. This stretching is not like usual stretching where there’s a change
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Nobody is going to be able to stop motivated, well-resourced, professional scrapers. IP blocks are effective for stopping most trivial scraping.
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Not backed by research, but the number isn’t random. I based it on the time I was building a site for a company. There was a discussion about relative vs absolute timestamps, so for about a week I was asking people (friends, family, friends
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Giving nuclear power access to the same clean energy subsidies as solar/wind seems like common sense policy that all sides can agree on, at the very least. Safety regulations are extraordinarily robust one-way ratchets so the price of
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I’ll admit, “Last commit X days ago” is super useful for quickly evaluating GitHub repos.

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