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by ianferrel 1y ago
People being held back a grade aren't being excluded from education, though. They're being educated. Sending kids who haven't learned to read on to higher grades and having no standards for success is not a more "inclusi
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I absolutely agree with your point that automated surveillance of all public spaces is different than bespoke surveillance of individuals. But does that have anything to do with this article? It appears to cover surveillance of individuals
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by ianferrel 1y ago
Surveillance in a public space is not a 4th Amendment search violation. The police are allowed to follow people around in public and note what they do without any kind of warrant. I'm fairly sure anyone is allowed to do this.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I'm a little confused by this article. It is facially opposed to extrajudicial blacklists, which, sure, I'm 100% on board with. Those are civil rights violations. But it seems to spend most of its time and evidence on what seem to
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by ianferrel 1y ago
California has a homeowner-occupied tax exemption, and it is listed on the county assessor's website whether a given property is taking it (at least it is for a relative's property in CA I just checked). So I expect they're u
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by ianferrel 1y ago
"gamers who want porn games" is how it will be phrased by their political opponents, and I expect they'll be more persuasive. This is probably not a winning political issue. Censorship has lots of popular support most places.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
That's basically what linux `mv` does too. It both moves files to new directories and renames files. mkdir some_dir mv file.txt some_dir # Put file.txt into the directory mv other_file.txt new_name.txt # rename other_file.txt to new_na
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by ianferrel 1y ago
The chart says "H-1B Population Estimate". The chart is not at all misleading. The first line of the tweet might be misleading. Although I also disagree that it is, because it's accompanied by a well-labeled chart, so you d
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by ianferrel 1y ago
...less the people who no longer have an H1B visa. Just like a population chart is a rolling cumulative chart of prior years' births, less deaths.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I don't think it's misleading. It's clearly a population chart, not a count of newly issued visas.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
Tone's hard to read in text, but I read the tone as "eagerly excited to learn more". I am also interested and appreciate your comment here.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
Makes sense.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
Making the bottom case a heatsink and then putting a plastic insulator around it seems to defeat the purpose of the whole attempt?
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by ianferrel 1y ago
Homeownership rates in the US fluctuate, but are basically flat over the past ~45 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I'm in my 40s, and I don't know anyone personally who's dealt with any kind of significant issue due to identity theft or fraud. Like, occasionally my credit card company will call me up about some fraudulent transactions and
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I like this article. I think it's a little unrealistic in many ways, but it's good to consider that a life does not require extravagance. However: >often enough, the “boomers” are the scapegoat; the ones who lived their America
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by ianferrel 1y ago
They didn't, though. No one has lost access to the legal system. They just said they had to resubmit without the watermark on every page.
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I'm saying that "You don't need to hit a huge number of service providers because the USA market is highly concentrated" is not a good argument because the act of taxing the concentrated incumbents will cause changes. Al
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by ianferrel 1y ago
This strikes me as the sort of first-order thinking that often plagues ideas about macroeconomics. The US market is highly concentrated... right now because there are no tax benefits to being diverse. Apply significant tariffs to services a
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by ianferrel 1y ago
I think partly the historical legacy, but also the ease of enforcement and the fact that lower tariffs and services have trended together. Collecting taxes on goods flowing through a limited number of physical locations is much much easier
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Thanks for the all the specifics! I admit that my $20k number was a very rough "I'm sure it must be less than this" estimate because I wanted to make sure I erred on the high side for the point I was making.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Probably, but EV batteries are large enough that there might be an industrial recycling process for them, while old laptop batteries are basically free because it's too much labor to extract useful value from them.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
>the solution came with rearranging and adjusting the cells to ensure the packs worked more efficiently. >Glubux even began disassembling entire laptop batteries, removing individual cells and organizing them into custom racks. This t
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by ianferrel 2y ago
> So where is that 'force' expected to come from...? On the margin, it probably does annoy some people enough to do something about it. And even though Apple's policy on this isn't enough to move me, if you combine
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Expected Value is Expected Value, though. Even if you can't buy every ticket, there is well-established math about how to optimize profit from a venture with known risk and reward, and the math does not require you to exhaust the stati
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Are you sure it's true that the pandemic increased economic inequality? The humans worst hit were by far the elderly, and the elderly tend to have more assets than the young in industrialized countries. Among working-age people, lowe
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Seems only fair, given how often I have to check a box to prove I'm not one.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
I mean... maybe? It says "A playtest card is most commonly a basic land with the name of a different card written on it with a marker. Playtest cards aren't trying to be reproductions of real Magic cards; they don't have offi
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Wizards of the Coast is relatively litigious. I'd expect a Cease and Desist if you get any traction with this.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Exactly. Supplying some context to support this: The level of crime is pretty hard to measure. You can measure reported crime, but crimes are reported at different rates in response to complicated incentives. How much the earth is warming d

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