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by jgeada 2y ago
How about the pentagon, or homeland security, or … Why are you picking on the fractional pennies in the budget and letting the millions go out the door? The system is corrupt precisely because people with influence are allowed to opt out &a
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by jgeada 2y ago
Have you ever wondered why lawyers themselves have nothing in their field remotely similar to patents?
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by jgeada 2y ago
Nobody forces you to put your kids in public schools. But just like other taxes you don’t get to opt out of paying and you don’t get to take your money back.
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by jgeada 2y ago
Private school vouchers are the worst idea ever. How's removing yet more funding for public schools supposed to be an answer to public schools don't have enough funding? As the funny paraphrasing goes ( https://x.com&#x2
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by jgeada 2y ago
This is the thing that frustrates me so much about this sort of discussion: Just because something is legal, it doesn't mean it is ethical. We keep dismissing ethics as any consideration from business conduct. It is legal to ignore any
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by jgeada 2y ago
This is interesting, but what isn't mentioned is how long these devices can hold coherence (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_qubit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
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by jgeada 2y ago
Yes, iron gall inks are acidic and best not used on regular paper. But they last pretty well on vellum (eg Book of Kells, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells , on which all the lettering is done with iron gall i
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by jgeada 2y ago
The law should have the same consequences for everyone. $1M fine for you is likely making you bankrupt, but is a rounding error for Elon. Is that the same consequence? If fines don't scale with wealth, they mean the activity is only il
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by jgeada 2y ago
You can build that with UDP, TCP isn't the only option on IP
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by jgeada 2y ago
fair enough
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by jgeada 2y ago
Yes but no. The problem is that many very important things in life are winner takes all. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate, you get no job. If your bid is 99.99% as good as the other one, you likely don't get the deal. If
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by jgeada 2y ago
The logo for "child labor was used in the manufacture of this chocolate" looks exactly like the Nestle logo
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by jgeada 2y ago
We put nets and high guard barriers on bridges for a reason
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by jgeada 2y ago
Funny how this empathy thing and "less damaging punishments" only works for people in the judge's social class and/or tribe. Everyone else gets the full force and letter of law applied. I'm so damn tired of the doub
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by jgeada 2y ago
Not being surprised does not imply that we don't want the people in charge of these decisions to, once again, get away with violating ethical boundaries, and both intent and rule of law. That is fundamentally what we're all tired
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by jgeada 2y ago
WTF? Isn't that exactly the one of the main jobs of the OS, to not crash regardless of what user-space software is doing?
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by jgeada 2y ago
Yeah, but only one of those legs controls the money. At least in the US, no money means no food, no shelter, no healthcare, etc, so it is not a viable choice for most. So rightfully most of the blame should be assigned to those that control
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by jgeada 2y ago
I've always found those distinctions in legal code to have the (possibly deliberate) side effect of encouraging deliberate ignorance. It is not wilful or knowing if they make no effort to know or understand what the implications of the
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by jgeada 2y ago
aka aristocracy and not meritocracy
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by jgeada 2y ago
Problem is always going to be sampling frequency. All accelerometers tell you is the direction of the acceleration vector (ie how speed is changing and in which direction). You still have to add the individual vectors to derive where you ac
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by jgeada 2y ago
People get caught up in this all the damn time, and blame the wrong system. There should always 3 steps in accessing a secure system (eg bank account): Identity, Authentication, Authorization. Just because there is a unique identifier tha
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by jgeada 2y ago
The data (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... ) shows otherwise: US road death rate: 12.9 per 100k inhabitants, 8.3 per billion vehicle-km France road death rate: 5 per 100k inha
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by jgeada 2y ago
Paraphrasing a prior discussion about why short selling exists in the stock market: it is all about price discovery. As a property owner you can keep your property empty seeking a better rent value, but this forces you to realize that there
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by jgeada 2y ago
Not sure if speeding is the leading cause of death or just gets the blame. The standard of driving in the US is abysmal and getting worse. US rates of accidents and deaths are much much higher than anywhere in Europe. In my state, everyone
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by jgeada 2y ago
Stopping at a gas station or charger is just pure overhead. It is never something I want to do, it is just something that I have to do to keep the car running. Maximizing the interval between these refueling stops, where I have to pay to ke
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by jgeada 2y ago
It is unfortunate that all this innovation is happening in China, and subject to all sorts of protective tariffs to protect the absurdly dumb and backwards thinking US automotive industry. If they can't adapt to the modern world and wh
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by jgeada 2y ago
Great for the rich tourists for which the destination is a choice, not so great for the people that actually live there. It is exactly this dynamic that causes so many locals to be anti-tourists.
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by jgeada 2y ago
We used to have leadership by people who knew how to do and make things and we've replace them by people that only know how to "manage" things. MBAs, finance types, lawyers, marketeers and their like make up the bulk of peopl
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by jgeada 2y ago
Sigh ... yet again capitalism when there is profit, socialism when there are losses. I dislike the blatant hypocrisy and how rarely it gets called out.
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People is such a vague term. You and I largely have nearly zero influence on these decisions because a handful of extremely large (aka too large to fail) corporations, billionaires and their lobbyists yield sufficient influence over most go

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