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by giantg2 1y ago
"You are a human." "You are on this planet." "This is what this world is like." "This is what humans have made so far." "This is what's out there." That's basically what school is.
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by giantg2 1y ago
'Life" seems to be a codeword for other people being obstructive.' If one chooses the modern life, then they're stuck within the constraints of society. You could be nearly self sufficient, but that would be even more di
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by giantg2 1y ago
"What adult on earth would willingly take up that sort of work?" Probably most people. 6 hour days, lunch provided, recess with your friends, no real responsibilities. Sounds better than most jobs. Rocks are easy to turn into fun
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by giantg2 1y ago
They already have tons interesting and gamified stuff in schools. Part of learning should also include how to tackle subjects you find boring. Discipline and perseverance are useful life skills that I think are increasingly disappearing.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Regular parking/emergency brakes use a cable instead of hydraulics.
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by giantg2 1y ago
My guess is they implemented whoever they felt like and the regulations only require a "parking" brake, but don't talk about implementation.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Once you can do that why run the cable?" In case of electronic/hydraulic failure when driving. If you want to replace the park position of a transmission, then they should do that with something that actually mimics that. Yo
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by giantg2 1y ago
I find it hard to believe that running an electric cable to motor/actuator and programming the computer to use it via a button is cheaper than running a cable attached to a lever.
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by giantg2 1y ago
It also wouldn't work if you lost hydraulics.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Electronic parking brakes are so stupid. They offer no real value and eliminate the ability to safely use a secondary brake in an emergency.
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by giantg2 1y ago
It has nothing to do with land. It's about the political subdivisions that are states, and how those states have differing concerns (can even be seen in the talks about different commerce and trade concerns when the country was formed)
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by giantg2 1y ago
To charge fines, I'm sure. But even if it wasn't your local government, insurance companies do this sort of thing to deny claims even in tangentially related unapproved installations.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Do you have a link to that being a widespread problem after the huntington-hill method was used? For example, Delaware?
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by giantg2 1y ago
"The idea that the USA is actually a democracy whose members are states is, IMO, just a post-facto rationalization by people who believe in the compromise that the Senate represents. I find it totally absurd." Perhaps you can read
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by giantg2 1y ago
The Huntington-Hill method used since the 40s has supposedly reduced any discrepancies.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"If you conceive of democracy as a mechanism to allow individuals to have a role in choosing their leaders (and thus policy decisions), then any part of that mechanism that allows some individuals to have more of a role than others is
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by giantg2 1y ago
I don't have any specific ones that would be pertinent to this conversation without causing a flame war of some kind, but we can see the general difference based on county level urbanization as it correlates to party voting in the pres
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Of course the voters who have much more political power than is fair," Who determines what is fair? Why is it not fair for each state to have equal representation? "This point is always brought up as if it's inherentl
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Suggesting that every US citizen ought to have an equal voice is completely different from disenfranchisement and I'm not sure why you are trying to muddy the waters here." I'm pointing out the historical concern that i
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Yes, what's more fair is for the smaller states to overpower the larger ones." Not really. Each state has equal power in the senate. But the people in the larger states have more power in the House. It's not possible fo
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by giantg2 1y ago
But would they continue to take the deal is the real question.
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by giantg2 1y ago
DC?
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by giantg2 1y ago
"I think it is far outweighed by the harm it does" But do you think the people in the less populous states feel the same? If we do remove the senate or make it population based, do you think people in those areas will feel represe
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by giantg2 1y ago
If you are from a smaller state, you would think it would still make sense. Otherwise the rural concerns just get steamrolled by the urban concerns. The point still stands about trying to level out concerns between smaller and larger states
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Political power should absolutely be proportional to population represented though." That's your opinion. The opinion of people in Wyoming is likely different. What the facts would show if you look into the history of why th
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by giantg2 1y ago
"The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people" They are intended to represent the states. The whole point was so that smaller states aren't overpowered by the larger states. We simply moved
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by giantg2 1y ago
I would start writing the tests. I've never had an LLM write meaningful tests that pass.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"And that's not even thinking about the fact that in this alternate reality we are imagining, power plants would have been being continually built for decades" That would only be true if you could forecast the demand to justi
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by giantg2 1y ago
"No, the point of my comment is that, while that is true, that's not the "cause"." If we changed the policy overnight, we would still have the same problems because infrastructure takes years to plan, build, and mak
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by giantg2 1y ago
Why wouldn't the write off be useful? I think your formual needs to add "+ ($Y x .3)" for tax deduction if you frame as promotional or other tax write off strategies. It won't be the same as what they would have collecte

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