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by jfengel 4mo ago
I find that standing makes judges philosopher-kings in collusion with the rest of the government. If they don't like the plaintiff, they reject them for not having "standing". If they do like the plaintiff, they'll find
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I was a little surprised when they abandoned the last attempt just as AI was starting to get really good at this kind of thing. I'm guessing that it had started with some older tech, and that it was easier to scrap it and start over. I
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Well, that's a missed opportunity. If you really want to send a message, you go, then walk out. Sounds to me like they just want to skip out on a bogus meeting. Which, fair.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
A lot of people like a sour flavor to contrast with sweet or savory, especially with fermented notes. It's why people like sourdough, cultured butter, yogurt, etc. Personally I don't love a lot of those things; they taste spoiled
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Note that this is Professor David HD Warren. As opposed to Professor David S Warren, who led the XSB Prolog team. Which is built around the Warren Abstract Machine.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Headline is weird. It's not a copyright thing, as I had assumed. It was because it was an editorial criticizing how the administration is running the NIH.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Well, on the right side of the border. Everybody within the actual borders can vote, regardless of race, religion, etc. In a lot of ways it's a more democratic system than the US has, with multiple functioning parties. The "aparth
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by jfengel 4mo ago
They are routinely thrilled when it's law passed by the courts in their favor. The court has made a bewildering set of rulings on gerrymandering whose only commonality is they they always favor Republicans.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Fortunately, the administration's party believes that control belongs to the states and not in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
"How often do you get to touch something that's 1,200 years old?" said Bill Quackenbush Uh... all the time, if you live in Europe. (And probably elsewhere; I just know Europe best.) That's not just an American thing. A
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Brick and mortar stores still find it helpful to have their customers purchase first and ask for refunds later. They don't put up much of a fight on refunds until their customers start really abusing it. Which they do, of course. Custo
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by jfengel 5mo ago
If it's adults choosing to win a Darwin award, I'm all for it. But if they're killing off actual children, rather than potential children, I'd rather have that power taken away from them. Kids should not have to suffer j
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by jfengel 5mo ago
I have never heard the NYT called "non-smug". The kinds of people who would use the word "smug" almost universally consider the New York Times to be "smug".
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by jfengel 5mo ago
It used to be true. It changed about a decade ago.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
The assertion used to be true, but is out of date. The beer industry negotiated with the FDA and now they can include nutrition labels. The wine industry is still working on it.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
The rule for fresh bread varies from state to state because it's not considered interstate commerce, so it doesn't have to follow the federal labeling law. (There's a ton of hypocrisy about the use of the interstate commerce
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Because capitalism: Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere. Health care is what the market demands, so that's where the jobs get created. If
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by jfengel 5mo ago
From the first sentence: taxation past the Laffer curve’s point of peak growth, The Laffer curve doesn't have fixed parameters. You can only tell the peak by experiment. The Laffer curve only tells you that the optimal taxation point
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Quanta usually has fairly good articles, but the headlines are often very bad.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
It sounds as if it's in the same vein that gave us "strange" and "charm" and "color" (in the strong force sense). There was a whimsical time in particle naming. I'd say it ended when they rejected &qu
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by jfengel 5mo ago
I've heard that story and it doesn't ring true to me. It's not that aggravating to find. Try measuring a neutrino mass, which is still an open problem and looks as if it will remain so for a very long time.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
"Vote is largely symbolic" Having 4 Republicans actually cross Trump on this is marginally significant, but they know full well that it changes nothing.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Much of the policy of this administration is implemented as an emergency. We gave the President significant emergency powers, which create an obvious threat. The Congress and Supreme Court are supposed to serve as a check on that threat, bu
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by jfengel 5mo ago
I second that recommendation. It's my favorite part of the Louvre. It's a very castle-looking castle; it feels like it's straight out of a movie. To my mind, all of the best stuff in the Louvre is in the basement: the Codex H
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by jfengel 5mo ago
It's no more illogical, but it's also not much less illogical. Either is an unforgeable, limited token of arbitrary value. Being digital, Bitcoin has some nice properties that precious metals don't, but we stopped using preci
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by jfengel 5mo ago
They were widely considered on topic when the price was going monotonically upwards. Aside from the technical aspects of blockchain, there is a second reason to talk about the direction of the price. There's reason to think that it&#x2
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by jfengel 5mo ago
It makes France's position stronger in the same way that the former alliances made the US stronger. The US is throwing that away, and I'm inferring that you think that this is also a good thing. If that's the case, I'm n
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by jfengel 5mo ago
There was already a museum of a Roman era settlement out in the plaza. It's somewhat confusingly named the Archeological Crypt, but it's not the crypt of the Notre Dame Cathedral. (The Cathedral doesn't have a crypt; I think
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Not necessarily. They imagine a kind of shutter that could close in the middle of a photon's wave. That's not quite as ridiculous as it sounds: a microwave photon could be centimeters long, and a lower-wavelength photon could be m
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by jfengel 5mo ago
No, that infinite swarm is in a superposition, so each photon contributes only an infinitesimal amount of energy. The net effect from a distance acts exactly like the original photon. Assuming it could be done at all, which it can't. T

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