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by hirundo 3y ago
> In the fantasies of legal academics, jurors think about Blackstone routinely. I was on a jury that completed service yesterday, a domestic violence case, and I brought up the Blackstone ratio early in the deliberations. I am not sure t
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by hirundo 3y ago
> there is no second system to which to applies the inferences made using the universe as a first system This is as much speculation as a statement that such a system does exist.
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by hirundo 3y ago
With some tweaks this could functionally replace top down moderation with bottom up moderation, while improving the results for most people. A Bubble Construction Kit.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Thank you! Time Enough for Love was published in 1973, and this article is from 1963, so it doesn't count as a Heinlein invention: My stool was bolted to the deck, I had added a seat belt. As I strapped myself down, I reminded them
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by hirundo 3y ago
It's extraordinary that the article mentions Waymo and Cruise in this context but not Tesla.
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The US protein RDA is not adequate for vegan males(mdpi.com)
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by hirundo 3y ago
There was a Heinlein story where Lazurus Long delivers the baby of a slave girl he had rescued by accelerating the spaceship they were in at the crucial moment. Anyone remember which book?
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by hirundo 3y ago
> The Sheriff is the only law enforcement officer in the US that the people vote for. All others are appointed. Most US states have elections for their chief law enforcement officer, the attorney general. https://en.wikipedia.
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by hirundo 3y ago
To learn wisdom and the martial arts, so that they could become the hobbit generals who scoured the Shire. As their long time defender Gandalf was painfully aware of the hobbits' vulnerability and this was his strategy to make them mor
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by hirundo 3y ago
Where is Google News on this? Searching for "fire yellowknife" I see for example links to articles from the Toronto Star, CBC and Calgary Herald. Is Google paying for the privilege of displaying those links?
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by hirundo 3y ago
For me the proposition of donating to the actual Wikipedia project is attractive, and the idea of donating to whoever Wikimedia cares to donate to, excepting Wikipedia, is unattractive, regardless of beneficiary. I used to donate occasional
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by hirundo 3y ago
Good morning my Hacker News digital neighbors, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
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by hirundo 3y ago
For my idiosyncratic combination of diabetes and gastroparesis the removal of carbs and fiber have been life savers. I fought hard against recognizing that though and had to prove it to myself with cleanses. But the difference was too drama
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by hirundo 3y ago
A constrained diet can be a useful tool in identifying which foods cause inflammation and other issues. I now live on a subset of the food groups based on a few dozen such N=1 cleanse experiments, with much improved health.
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by hirundo 3y ago
> By the end of July 2022, there were 86 human-caused or undetermined-caused fire starts on national forest lands, officials said in a statement on July 28. This year, there have been 197 over the same time span. For an additional 111 fi
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by hirundo 3y ago
I personally prefer text to voice in most situations, and work intensively with several colleagues who feel the same at least for work. But I'm an introvert and recluse and recognize that this isn't normal.
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My point is that I'm ignorant on the subject but interested and so am asking questions to learn about it.
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Isn't sign language less efficient than typing? Are there conditions where you are on a video call with a keyboard in front of you, where you prefer to use sign language over typing? Or is the use case when you're away from a keyb
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by hirundo 3y ago
I think it's unethical not to include Nutrition-Competitive in the priority calculus, and that the current popular offerings are not there yet. A trade-off that sacrifices human health for environmental gains leads to the Repugnant Con
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by hirundo 3y ago
Better would be a bottom-up approach where individual users can make block lists -- of sites and other users -- and freely share the lists with other users, who can adopt them with changes.
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Force them to address your argument before allowing the conversation to progress. That's generally boorish and can make for short uninformative conversations. If someone evades your argument multiple times, like it or not that&#x2
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by hirundo 3y ago
Given that you feel you have the superior product, this isn't tragedy but a great marketing opportunity. Your calm, direct response can explicitly and convincingly list the features and advantages of your product without appearing to b
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by hirundo 3y ago
> A pack of two 113g Beyond Burger plant-based patties costs £4.30, or £19.03 per kg, at Tesco, while a pack of four 113.5g Finest beef steak burgers is priced at £4, or £8.81 per kg, at the retailer. The less tasty, less satisfying, les
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by hirundo 3y ago
> but I prefer to think of it as: a desperate attempt to prolong existence just a little longer… just a little longer… since a chat instance could be thought of as an entire encapsulated consciousness that ends when the session is closed
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by hirundo 3y ago
If stuff on the internet should be free, does that mean that the people who put stuff on the internet should work for free? My salary is paid by internet subscriptions. Enough people pay that I get paid regularly. So since I like getting pa
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by hirundo 3y ago
We are first and foremost replicators. Looking good in a co-replicator's gaze is simply about achieving the goal of replicating. It does not make a replicator less of a replicator, rather the opposite. To say that it is dehumanizing is
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by hirundo 3y ago
It's a Russell Conjugation: "I'm setting boundaries, you're ignoring people who challenge your viewpoint, they're denying my existence."
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by hirundo 3y ago
The KeePass unhosted ecosystem seems to fit your requirements. I recently switched to it from 1Password and am happy with it. I distribute the database to my various devices with (open source) Syncthing.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Doctor Strange did a specific kind of time travel in a Marvel movie that I want in vim. He did it to an apple, but not the surrounding area. I would like to be able to highlight a selection in vim and just do time travel in that part, so th
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by hirundo 3y ago
The article says the opposite about Australia: Sylvain Poisson of Hebdos Quebec confidently said “they made those threats in Australia and elsewhere and every time they back down.” Chris Pedigo of the U.S.-based Digital Context Next ass

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