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841.
by gohrt 11y ago
Especially because we have a rubber-stamp process for registering and supervising investigatory projects like this.
842.
by gohrt 11y ago
It's not binary. The rule of law has quite often failed to protect the legal rights of Black Americans, for example. (even laying aside the historical problems when rule of law didn't even provide legal rights.)
843.
by gohrt 11y ago
Study finds that the older children in a classroom are more successful. Policy Proposal: make everyone the older children in the classroom. Hmm....
844.
by gohrt 11y ago
IOW: Step on toes and throw elbows, but don't smash kneecaps. Know the line.
845.
by gohrt 11y ago
Can we get a more reliable source than the NYPost? The NYPost sensationalizes and mischaracterizes stories.
846.
by gohrt 11y ago
At my company, you can't date your manager, and you can't ask someone out on a date after they say no once.
847.
by gohrt 11y ago
The actual games are not NP-hard problem generators. The rules of games can be generalized to create NP-hard problems.
848.
by gohrt 11y ago
Not quite. Before amnesty, we have a case where coming forward may meed confessing to being complicit in misbehavior, which could be rightfully punished. Amnesty says that that won't exercise that right.
849.
by gohrt 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRm1yqSmsGY Weed Card by Garfunkel and Oates (Official Video) Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome and Kate "Oates" Micucci sing about the perils of obtaining medical marijuana in Ca
850.
by gohrt 11y ago
Govt could sieze your insurance payout.
851.
by gohrt 11y ago
how does lawyers becoming public defenders help anything? We don't have a shortage of PD lawyers, we have a shortage of funding to pay them to serve clients.
852.
by gohrt 11y ago
Why don't poor people deserve to be a counterweight to government?
853.
by gohrt 11y ago
Why, what would you expect? I think Moxie is saying that the choice is whether you work in support of centralized authority ("power"), or decentralized "people".
854.
by gohrt 11y ago
what does "just" mean? What are your company's official languages used for?
855.
by gohrt 11y ago
Capitalism and Personal Branding at its finest.
856.
by gohrt 11y ago
Are you claiming that chat logs won't contribute at all? Or are you claiming that progress is irrelevant unless someone launches a 100% solution all at once?
857.
by gohrt 11y ago
HN hosted an article recently about someone's project that cancel's Comcast for you.
858.
by gohrt 11y ago
The headline is gimmicky wordplay, like most headlines. "trivial" is mathematical. The headline makes "trivial" sound non-mathematical . Profundity is nowhere to be be found; the article is about triviality.
859.
by gohrt 11y ago
abolishing private land ownership has problems -- who decides how the land gets used? Ownership enables execution. Property taxes are a way to recover some rent from the property owner, while still enabling the independent decision making t
860.
by gohrt 11y ago
because ninja launched years before blaze, and the team didn't want to switch again?
861.
by gohrt 11y ago
SSC writing is so rambling and confusing. Someone could have a great career in condensing SSC blog posts into concise, readable essays, not steeped in LW arcana.
862.
by gohrt 11y ago
Wait, MMM Global is the same company that perpetrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history?
863.
by gohrt 11y ago
There's a qualitative difference between "I own stock that might become worthless" and "I own a security that someone could just take from me because they notice my deed just sitting somewhere unprotected." If some
864.
by gohrt 11y ago
The 70mph is horizontal velocity, gravity is vertical acceleration from 0. Total velocity is sqrt(sum of squares). It's unclear how much horizontal velocity the train would lose due to air resistance and due to the unclean launch from
865.
by gohrt 11y ago
Are you saying that 30% of the social welfare budget is trivial? Or that paying people to build tools of destruction+pollution is better that paying people to do nothing?
866.
by gohrt 11y ago
Your windshield is safety glass, so consideration must be given for the need to dissipate energy when a human head collides with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield#Safety Trivia: A famous lawsuit about the sa
867.
by gohrt 11y ago
you are describing the 1040EZ which approximately already works as you described, for low-income wage-earners. People who have stocks and mortgages and etc -- non-wage income and deductions, have to go through a more complicated process.
868.
by gohrt 11y ago
They need to share it for your W-2 or similar at tax time, not necessarliy at any other time.
869.
by gohrt 11y ago
> buyer's agent should (in theory) make sure the buyer pays the lowest possible price. this is not true, even in theory. A buyer's agent (properly clled a "Selling agent" in some jurisdictions, reflecting the role) ha
870.
by gohrt 11y ago
"hotel" is defined, by law in most jurisdictions, to have certain properties, regardless of quality or level. AirBnB listings have very few of these properties as part of the definition.

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