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by gbacon 6mo ago
Flight instructors say something similar, that we’re just here to keep you from breaking the airplane while you teach yourself to fly.
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Your suitcase is black and therefore not seafoam green. A democracy, a republic, and a federal republic are all different forms of government. > A meme because the eye-rolling implication is that if our country is a republic and not a d
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by gbacon 6mo ago
You’re almost certainly correct. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson would argue this consequentualist line. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch could be persuaded by textualist or originalist arguments and are the most likely overturn votes. Kavanaugh wa
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by gbacon 6mo ago
I wish detractors would follow the Article V process rather than amendment by usurpation, as George Washington condemned it.
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by gbacon 6mo ago
For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? Nothing is more natural nor common than first to use a general phrase, and then to e
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Been samplin’ a little bit of Grandpa’s attribution clause, have we?
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by gbacon 6mo ago
John Roberts will find a way to screw it up.
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by gbacon 6mo ago
You have identified a root perversion. Roscoe Filburn’s wheat did not leave Ohio or even his farm. He didn’t offer it for sale; the wheat was for his own use. It was deemed to “affect interstate commerce” and thus within the scope of the in
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Sitting down for the first time to QBASIC after years of Apple ][ BASIC, my first thought was a gleeful ‘No line numbers!’
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by gbacon 6mo ago
This claim is ahistoric. The ancient Athenians, the inventors of democracy, would reject it because they used popular elections in only a limited number of cases. Their suspicion was that popular elections were tools of oligarchy. Instead t
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Case law agrees with your reading only in part, namely that the pardon power may be exercised at any time after its commission , that is, not preemptive as in being granted before the act being pardoned has taken place. However, the broade
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by gbacon 6mo ago
We are discussing the pardon power, an explicitly anti-democratic measure that is unilateral and unreviewable. The constitution defines a federal republic, not a democracy.
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by gbacon 6mo ago
The pardon power is one of many explicitly anti-democratic measures in the U.S. constitution, which makes sense because the government that it defines is a federal republic and not a democracy.
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Is it conservatism or just the Blub paradox? As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they&#x27
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by gbacon 6mo ago
Is there a causal relationship? If so, in which direction does it flow?
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by gbacon 7mo ago
For a bit about the language, read `3bcw` as move `b`ackward by `3` words and `c`hange the `w`ord under the cursor. The general form of `b` is `[count]b` where [count] An optional number that may precede the command to multiply
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by gbacon 7mo ago
The difference is the formality of the setting, not necessarily the recipient. Sending a quick note via email or text is one, and a pitch deck is another.
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by gbacon 7mo ago
Nackadish!
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by gbacon 7mo ago
> Luck (primarily) This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence? Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck!
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by gbacon 7mo ago
> Someone making a million will barely feel it. Easy for you to say. > Objectively, anyone making $50 million should feel it a lot and be taxed heavily. How is that objectively true? Why should they?
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by gbacon 7mo ago
Finally, a perspective that looks beyond the buggy whips! As for your last comment, it depends on what you mean by the primary drivers. Figurative crank turners, maybe not. Creativity and insight, don’t count us out just yet.
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by gbacon 7mo ago
The labor theory of value is bunk economics anyway.
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But why do we change the clocks at 2am?(rd.com)
1 points by gbacon 7mo ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 7mo ago
That’s really slick! I’m glad someone paid attention in automata theory.
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by gbacon 7mo ago
I’d expect an LLM to use correct grammatical number in the first sentence that you quoted. As written, the demonstrative ‘this’ has singular number but ‘criteria’ plural.
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by gbacon 7mo ago
That’s beautiful work. Check out other examples in the interactive web app: https://ieviev.github.io/resharp-webapp/ Back in the Usenet days, questions came up all the time about matching substrings that do not conta
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by gbacon 7mo ago
Ah, but then there are the unusual cases. See “The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace.” https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html
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by gbacon 8mo ago
This sort of high time-preference rabid consumptionist hucksterism is a symptom of the opposite of capitalism. A capitalist must favor saving because an economy grows through capital formation, which happens only following thrift and saving
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by gbacon 8mo ago
Related/Nostalgia: https://github.com/talkersource
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Language models imply world models(blog.plover.com)
2 points by gbacon 8mo ago|1 comments

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