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You seem strongly in favor science that you understand, and opposed to research that you don't take an interest in or have read. I don't think you'd accept news media accounts of space science. But you're accepting their
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I take advice from rich people with a grain of salt. It's easier to praise the value of money over integrity when you have both. They don't ask starving artists to give graduation speeches. Watterson appears to have genuine integr
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The First Amendment covers government censorship. There's nothing about this that would violate the first amendment. "Looking within oneself" might make you a better person, but you don't get to be a billionaire by wanti
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If they don't have it out for you to start with, answering their questions can get you out of it. If they pull you over and you just answer their questions, the odds are that they will just send you on your way, eventually. But if you
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Convicting you of a crime is not possible. But there are many, many ways in which you can be screwed, from forcing you to spend a weekend in jail to having a prosecutor offer you a plea deal that you can't risk refusing. The police hav
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Horse and cart, no. But some cities have banned cars and replaced them with various alternatives, and it works. There are alternatives to the car culture we have. It would require significantly rebuilding how we build infrastructure, but th
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It told the government how to go about building its own data centers. Which meant things like deciding what to build, where, what environmental impacts to consider, etc.
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Only?
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Yeah, yeah.
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In the long term solutions will be found, but in the short term they can gain an enormous bargaining chip. If food prices double because we've burnt the last drop from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the administration will give them
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As described in the article, this is not a fair mechanism and it is entirely based on influence. This is a bad person doing a bad thing.
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They are indeed getting older. It's difficult to get a good survey sample of people going backwards in time.
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The "it's not just me" part is because he's citing a survey. He has been irritated for a long time because everybody (or at least a statistically significant sample) is irritated.
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He can't spend this trillion. It's not real. It's the notional value of multiplying the last sale price times the number of shares he has. He can't spend the money until he sells the shares, and there's no reason to
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TFA says that this will save"$54.2 million to $77 million annually", which does not sound like a lot in the tens-of-billions that these companies make. TFA also says that a different rule means that they still have to "execut
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A guy wrote a book about that, about a century and a half ago. He said that it was inevitable for the venture capitalists to buy democracy. They're always the first investors, and so they always get all of the profits. They have the mo
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I try to be skeptical about quotes, especially when they affirm my preconceptions. So here's the surrounding material: “You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know I ca
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That doesn't strike me as a problem. It models what consumers actually do. The consumers are still being fed and they're suffering only a minor loss in their preference. They don't keep any kind of hedonic measure, which migh
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That's a clever approach, using tensioned pulleys (a bit like a bicycle wheel, which also uses tension to resist a crushing force). The specs call for a 20 meter "balloon", which can lift 41,000 kg. The structure itself (made
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Get his name out of your mouth. They are about as opposite as they can be. One was a decent and intelligent man taking over under difficult circumstances, and not making them as much better as people hoped. The other is vicious and stupid,
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Fuck them. I apologize for the swearing, but it only begins to hint at just how angry I am. They knew exactly what they were getting when they voted for him. Maybe they could pretend innocence in 2016. They knew that they were electing a co
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The first word of the article is "Jalil", the name of the person involved. That is the answer to your question.
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"Reasonable" does not have a legal meaning. Or rather, it has hundreds of thousands of pages of legal meaning. Which means it means nothing.
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I have bad news about Prosecutorial Immunity. It is damn near impossible to punish a prosecutor for anything done in the line of work.
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I think that this says even more about the law than about lawyers. The law seems to require a lot of documents that nobody actually wishes to read -- exactly the kind of thing that we like to turn over to AI. The lawyers don't read the
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HN sees an awful lot of low-effort "research", which merit only low-effort takes. This comes from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a well-respected organization. Even if you read only the title, the presence of "nber
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If you have daughters, nieces, or sisters, you might also want to pay attention. Because that's what other people's nephews, sons, and brothers are listening to, and he's telling them to target young women. And in that case y
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The idea that the Romans had a compass does not seem absurd. The connection to the dodecahedron seems arbitrary. The rotation of the earth means that any alignments last only for an instrument. You'd need a specific kind of mount to ma
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This isn't less. This is the same amount, but much worse. Meantime, government spending has gone from $6.8 trillion in 2024 to $7.4 trillion in 2026. We've gotten considerably more government.
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There's a play called The Audience, which is a series of meetings between Queen Elizabeth and her prime ministers. It's a fascinating lens through which to view British history. It runs up through Tony Blair. I'd love to see

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