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by hypersoar 5y ago
The super strong libel immunity only kicks in for public figures. These random managers probably aren't. So negligence is the bar for liability, not the Actual Malice of NYT v. Sullivan.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
You can find a natural number that is bigger than any one natural number, but you can't write one down that's bigger than every natural number in the ZFC sense.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
If it's like a conventional sailboat, the mast will go all the way down to the keel.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
School vouchers aren't really about aligning incentives. They're a backdoor to having the public fund the religious schools comprising a large majority of private schools.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
This is a racist screed. The only information available about that author is that they write for the linked site, a well-known white supremacist publication.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
The skepticism about climate change is due much less to issues with the scientific community that than it is to decades of propoganda funded by people who fear losing money to efforts to fight it.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
An issue that comes to mind is, ironically, authority. Who decides when a paper has been discredited? I can see all sorts of incentive problems with such a system. On the other hand, Westlaw is only cataloging what has already been decided.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
For those who are unaware, there's a good reason to put this in Santa Barbara: it's already the home of Microsoft Station Q, a quantum computing research facility on the campus of UCSB. When I left the math department there in 201
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by hypersoar 5y ago
> In any case, the point I am trying to make is that in every state, in every business or organization there's a certain horizontal line separating political appointees on the top from the technocrats on the bottom. > ... > On
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by hypersoar 5y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Eos, which the OP says inspired Bezos's yacht, carries a crew of 21 including 9 deck crew. It has room for 16 guests.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
The link doesn't refute the J-shaped curve, but rather that small to moderate amount of alcohol has health benefits . "Therefore, although there is a strong body of evidence that shows a J-shaped association between alcohol intak
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by hypersoar 6y ago
In 2011-2012, the average pay for a full-time public school teacher was $56,410. For a private school teacher, it was $40,200. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_211.10.a...
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by hypersoar 6y ago
It would be a lot more expensive than it is for Walmart to close a store. This is a large distribution center. Besides, this vote has gotten so much attention that closing it after they unionize would surely attract the attention of the NLR
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by hypersoar 6y ago
I'm in the middle of a course of ECT's newer, kinder, gentler cousin: trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The idea is similar. The brain is stimulated by magnetic pulses in place of electrodes, and there are no seizures. Eve
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by hypersoar 6y ago
Outrage absolutely played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. There's a reason Emmett Till stands out in American history; the outrage it stoked among white Americans helped bring treatment of black people to the fore. Your take
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by hypersoar 6y ago
What a maddeningly lukewarm and privileged take. Your anger is being nurtured and harvested financial gain? Politicians are stoking outrage and fear to distract you from graft and corruption? You should disengage from it all and just, like,
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by hypersoar 6y ago
It would be much shorter in these circumstances. Your link is talking about 400,000 ton tanker ships. Container ships like the Ever Given are closer to 200,000 tons. And the cruising speed of a container ship is around 24kts, though I think
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by hypersoar 6y ago
I have very little visual imagination and have experienced the audiobook/running thing a lot, but only in one direction. Running by the same place will often make me think of something I heard there, but thinking about something I hear
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by hypersoar 6y ago
I've been using it for a few months on wsl and it's been great. I'm using the Nix package and have run into only a couple of minor issues.
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by hypersoar 6y ago
First of all, you couldn't. The "fastest" multiplication algorithms for Matrix multiplication, which are roughly O(n^2.3), aren't used in practice. They're "galactic algorithms" (a term I just now learned)
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by hypersoar 6y ago
A book, "Failure to Disrupt Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education", recently came out about exactly this. In an interview, the author, Justin Reich, explained that schools perform so many different functions in so many di
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by hypersoar 6y ago
We shouldn't expect corporations to be so recklessly amoral. I'm all in favor of higher costs for doing shit like this, but the humans making the decisions bear moral responsibility for them. When they bury critical safety issues,
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by hypersoar 6y ago
You can actually test that regulators are doing exactly this. There are a few digital currencies which (attempt to) protect the anonymity of all transactions. Monero is the most popular such coin. Go try and exchange some directly with fiat
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by hypersoar 6y ago
I don't use evil mode, but I don't see how it could kill any of the upside of Emacs, which has very little to do with keybindings.
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by hypersoar 6y ago
Jon Stewart had a similar story. They had to change the way they did hiring to diversify the writer's room because the existing pipeline was just going to keep sending them college-educated ironic white guys. https://youtu.b
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by hypersoar 6y ago
I didn't go in the past because I'd heard their shows had a rave-like atmosphere. I have no idea if that's true, but it put me off. But maybe I won't have to worry about that so much when I'm one of a bunch of middl
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by hypersoar 6y ago
Section 230 reform feels to me like gnawing around the edges of the problem. I've started thinking that we should consider going nuclear on online platforms with some version of "social networking platforms funded substantially by
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by hypersoar 6y ago
The triumph of Jones Beach is probably still fresh in your mind. But don't worry, you'll find plenty to dislike about him by the end. This a reason we try not to give people that much power. I'm curious: how annoyed are you
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by hypersoar 6y ago
The New York Times had an article last month about his donation of his archives archives to the New York Historical Society: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/nyregion/robert-caro-arch... It was very im
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I'm all for that, but I think more radical action is needed in the case of social networks. Should social networking sites funded by advertising be allowed to exist? The business model rewards maximizing "user engagement". Ho

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