jfengel

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by jfengel 10mo ago
That is the joke, yes. It's a thin allegory about MAGA support for things that they were supposedly against, now that their candidate is doing them. Interestingly, I think that article came out before the attack on Venezuela, which wou
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Why should they be embarrassed? They got the law that they wanted passed. Not a single one will lose an election over this. Even if a challenger brings it up, they have a very grateful industry behind them (and now with even more money to t
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by jfengel 10mo ago
No shame in that. I keep struggling to figure out the point of view of the CSS designers. They don't think like graphic designers, or like programmers. It's not easy for beginners. It's not aimed at ease of implementation. It
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I don't get it either. It's all still there. There's just also a lot more. It always sounds to me like "life was great when it was just me and a few dozen people exactly like me". Now it's got stuff for other p
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The US provides plenty of anti-socialist fervor even without astroturfing. We also get a bit of paid-for goading, just to keep it lively. But we do just fine without it.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Production of child pornography is illegal even without obscenity laws That doesn't criminalize possession, and arguably there's a compelling interest to do that. But I hate the dance that lawyers do, pretending to legal rigor whi
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Because companies have only existed for a few hundred years and we still haven't caught up with the idea of making things they do illegal. We tend to pass responsibility to the people who make up the company, rather than the corporatio
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by jfengel 10mo ago
If you don't fear the gulag, you're not paying attention. He routinely attempts to put his political enemies in jail.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Not necessarily. According to the Supreme Court, "implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance". That seems asinine to me, and it's just one in a
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I don't think India had a democracy before the Brits, either. Not that it gives anyone else the right to come in and declare themselves Raj. But Vicky wasn't the first to come to India and declare themselves in charge.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Unfortunately Manhattan doesn't seem like a great place for bikes. The weather is just too variable. Some daredevils will be out in any weather but for most people it's just not feasible about half of the days of the year. Not tha
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The Normans still rule the roost. The dynasty name changes every so often but King Chuck 3 can trace his line straight back to William the Bastard.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
True, but only a minuscule fraction of it is used for that purpose. If that were the sole source of its value, it would be worth pennies per once.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Fiat money has a difference: an army. It is issued by a government which has the legitimate right to demand taxes, paid in their currency, and deprive you of life and liberty if you don't. Ultimately the populace could repudiate the wh
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by jfengel 10mo ago
They pled guilty, so we'll probably never know how the case was to be structured.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I do find it faintly ironic that Sort Of Greek Or Roman Or Something architecture was the villain in Ayn Rand's novel. Living here in DC I don't especially mind Federalist Architecture, even though it does look like somebody saw s
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Beyond a certain point it becomes self-reinforcing. You will distort everything else about your world view to support that lie. You will surround yourself with other people who believe it and live in a completely internally consistent reali
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Honestly, given how terrible humans are at it, I'm down for giving it a try. Of course it will be every bit as bad as the people who implement it. But that just kinda highlights the core problem.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Follow-up studies cost money, and you don't get any of that if you don't publish.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
I have found that, often, there is only so much information to convey. They keep talking because that is their job, but you've already been told all there is to know. The rest is speculation, rumor, and prattle. That's especially
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The user may not think of the letters as connected. Suppose the user wanted to write "stuffing" and bold the letters "ing". The user may well not realize that the font thinks of "ffi" as anything other than thr
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Ok. That's fine with me. If I'm wrong, then I take responsibility for that.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
Isn't there a limit to human perception, well below 120 fps? Perhaps 120fps might result in a better approximation of motion blur.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
That's it. That is the goal. You found it.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
"Source" can mean any source of information. The term "open source intelligence", referring to public records, goes back to the 60s.
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by jfengel 10mo ago
That is odd. A too-low reading would result in less insulin and a high blood glucose, which can be extremely uncomfortable but is not immediately deadly. If it had read too high, it could result in an insulin overdose, which can indeed brin
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by jfengel 10mo ago
The problem is that I don't believe that the court is arguing in good faith any more. In which case silly interpretations don't seem beyond the realm of possibility. I'm assured by lawyers of both parties that this is not the
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by jfengel 10mo ago
To me, it suggests that analogies aren't as useful as we'd like them to be. Either the analogy is perfect, in which case nothing is any simpler, or it's imperfect, in which case you're now distracted by the differences.
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by jfengel 11mo ago
Why is the second amendment excepted? Nothing in the text says anything different from the others with regards to age. And don't say "because it's insane for kids to buy deadly weapons" because that doesn't seem to
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by jfengel 11mo ago
So now in addition to snuggling fentanyl they'll also be smuggling the drones. Twofer.

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