hudibras

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by hudibras 8y ago
Is a law prohibiting me from secretly giving an elected official a briefcase full of one million dollars constitutional? If so, why is it not the same if there's a law that says I can't secretly provide $1,000,000 in services to t
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by hudibras 8y ago
I don't know what to tell you, other than that the Public Disclosure Commission and the Fair Campaign Practices Act have been Washington state law since the early 1970s.
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by hudibras 8y ago
No one is stopping that person from buying anything; they just have to register first.
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by hudibras 8y ago
Because the buyers are all registered political entities: candidates' campaigns, political action committees, etc. It's illegal for a "regular person" to go buy political ads and not register with the state.
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by hudibras 8y ago
The leangains subreddit has good summaries of the leangains site, without the Jordan Peterson stuff that the guy has added lately. https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains/
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by hudibras 8y ago
My window is 12:30 to 8:30, so I eat lunch, maybe some snacks in the afternoon, and then dinner. I usually try to get one more snack in right at 8:30, too. No other dietary changes, like high protein or low fat or anything; the lunch, dinne
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by hudibras 8y ago
You're exactly right. Just skip breakfast and don't eat snacks after dinner and you'll be at 16 hours easy. Try it for a week and see how you feel. I've been IF'ing for 15 months now and it's great. Lost 20 pou
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by hudibras 8y ago
It's tongue-in-cheek.
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by hudibras 8y ago
Oh wait, I thought you were talking about this guy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/11/07/the-cas...
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by hudibras 8y ago
>One that typically brings minimal profits and can sometimes bring enormous losses because now they are taking the action themselves. Sportsbooks are not typically profit centers for casinos but loss-leaders to bring in people to buy dri
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by hudibras 8y ago
Maybe, but only if the states legalize online sports gambling, which, in my opinion, is unlikely anytime soon. The state lottery agencies are far better positioned to start offering sports gambling, in-person, and will probably do so very q
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by hudibras 8y ago
Traditional fantasy sports, where you draft a team and manage them in a set league over a season or multiple seasons, is very different and will still exist because, as you say, it can be fun. What DraftKings and FanDuel provide is basicall
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by hudibras 8y ago
It's super bad for them. The vast majority of people who play the daily fantasy sports would much rather just bet on the games themselves.
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by hudibras 8y ago
>- Gave a late turn order, but then immediately countermanded it, keeping the ship on collision course. This is the part that everybody shakes their heads over. In that situation, with that geometry between the ships, it's ingrained
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by hudibras 8y ago
>Whoever is the officer of the deck at the time is responsible. That's what the position means, if it means anything at all. The OOD is the very definition of a "You Had ONE Job!" job, and that one job is "Don't
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by hudibras 8y ago
This definitely falls into the category of "Useless Information that I Happen to Know," but any Navy officer who is punished at court martial or Captain's Mast is also required to face a Board of Inquiry to show cause for ret
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by hudibras 8y ago
The Japanese navy operates the US-2 for search and rescue. Its wingspan is smaller and its maximum range is less than the Pan Am Clippers, but can carry more weight and is much faster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin
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by hudibras 8y ago
We do now, thanks to Harvey.
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by hudibras 8y ago
>But, although he notes that fertility declines are a mark of industrialized nations, he fails to adequately compare the U.S. phenomenon to other countries, to compare and contrast those relationships with the relationship between the U.
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by hudibras 8y ago
>Is this a reprint? I swear I've read this article before. There was an article in Cigar Aficionado in 2003 that told the same story, but focusing on Alan Woods. https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/the-hun
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by hudibras 8y ago
I had a similar thought when they were talking about reading the "galley proofs" and finding errors which were then corrected before the final edition: "Aha! 'Proofreading!'"
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by hudibras 8y ago
That's about right.
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by hudibras 8y ago
In Japan, mortgage rates are less than 1% right now for a 35-year loan.
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Florida Police Crash Funeral Home to Unlock Phone with Slain Man's Fingerprints(gizmodo.com)
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by hudibras 9y ago
See also: Ranges and Range Lights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_lights
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by hudibras 9y ago
I think you may have misheard him: farmers used to use corn cobs to wipe. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-did-people-use-before-to...
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by hudibras 9y ago
A later Radiolab episode on the same topic that he contributed to was found to have errors, and WNYC issued two corrections. https://www.wnyc.org/people/jonah-lehrer/
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by hudibras 9y ago
By Jonah Lehrer, later fired for plagiarism and fabricating quotes. A Wired.com review of articles that he wrote for them said "Lehrer has a cavalier attitude about truth and falsehood. This shows not only in his attitude toward quotat
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by hudibras 9y ago
Ah, I didn't know that. UW used Ada until the mid-90s, and I hadn't heard of any other colleges that did until now.
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by hudibras 9y ago
>Ada was my first true language that I learned in college. Me too. It wasn't at the University of Washington by any chance?

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