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by kevinpet 3y ago
A dictionary reflects current usage. It does not reflect correct usage. Police in the US are not governed by the UCMJ and have no affirmative obligations in the way military do. They are also civilians under the Geneva convention. A profess
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by kevinpet 3y ago
I thought Scott Alexander's take was interesting https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-match-school-and-s... and the phrase "laundering privilege" stuck with me. It's like a crypto mixer but for
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by kevinpet 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to me why pawns attack on a file (adjoining hexagons) rather than diagonal (hexagon pointed to but separated by the side between two others).
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by kevinpet 3y ago
Simple, you teach a very low level spreadsheets course but label is "Data Science". Voila!
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by kevinpet 3y ago
This is incorrect. It's easy to find the actual statement required: https://eforms.com/images/2017/06/Federal-Odometer-Disclosur... > I, ______________________ (SELLER’S NAME, PRINT) state that the od
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by kevinpet 3y ago
You can have safety, or you can have a submarine tourism startup. You can't have a submarine tourism startup staffed by cautious risk averse people.
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by kevinpet 3y ago
Ah yes, since we all have an intuitive grasp of what millions of gallons, and can visualize what that means over however many 40 acre farms.
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by kevinpet 3y ago
It's not clear he deliberately lied. He plausibly misunderstood a new tool he had recently been introduced to.
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by kevinpet 3y ago
I find a software parallel here. When building new systems in poorly understood domains, you can't proceed as if you already know the paradigm. Instead you have to poke around and try things until you find a working paradigm.
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by kevinpet 3y ago
I tried Blinkist which seems relevant to the strategy proposed. I listened to summaries of a couple of books I had in fact read and found the summaries superficial and probably focused as much on what people said the book said as what it ac
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by kevinpet 3y ago
It's not about the investor who makes $10B. It's about the economy that you are able to get when you have incentives for people to take these kinds of risks. The investor making $10B along the way is incidental. I mean, not from h
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by kevinpet 3y ago
Forgive me if I decline to take writing advice from someone who tells me "I go house" is meaningful English. It isn't. It's violates the rules of grammar, rules which are a description of the normal English as used by me
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by kevinpet 4y ago
You don't need to blindly defer to a regulator when they say their authority extends to cover something. For example, the CDC claimed to have authority over evictions https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/08/court-l
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by kevinpet 4y ago
this is incorrect: "FDIC has implied that insured funds (up to $250K per account) will be released within 7 days." Specifically, the FDIC has explicitly stated (rather than implied) that insured funds will be released on Monday (r
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by kevinpet 4y ago
All men are mortal. My cat is mortal. Therefore my cat is a man. Not all mortgage backed securities are subprime CDO squareds.
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I had thought that iron would be the material of choice, especially early enough that elemental iron in the form of meteorites is readily available. All it requires is heat, meaning electricity.
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by kevinpet 4y ago
If you are not a native English speaker, you may want to know that you are pretty drastically misreading parents comment. He is not saying "I know this specific virus is present" but "the lab studied SARS related coronaviruse
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by kevinpet 4y ago
The irony is this type of business writing is going to be among the first replaced by AI (it already is in local sports), because this sort of vacuous "mention some things that relate to each other" approximation to correctness is
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I think you're failing to consider the selection bias in those who have had the chance to ask the question of. By definition your clients are people who are able to hire lawyers. They aren't the target market for robot lawyers, no
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I've been on the other side of it, and your approach can come across as childish, like arguing with your math teacher that billy couldn't have eaten 4/6 or 2/3 of the pizza because he'd get sick. It's a _hypoth
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I rarely eat junk food, and I'm fat. Your attitude is the same as a religious person telling depressed people they need jesus rather than prozac.
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by kevinpet 4y ago
That is not in fact how science works. Science only welcomes new ideas when they offer a possible solution to a problem with the existing paradigms. For this type of theory, if you had data showing the earliest known societies were unusuall
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I think your arguments would be more effective if you removed the tribalism from your politics. Leftists are not consistent friends to nuclear power and in fact nuclear power generation does not seem to have any relation to a states partisa
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by kevinpet 4y ago
But not from a total lifecycle perspective. 100000 miles at 25 mpg at $5/gal is $20,000, and that's spread out over the ten years you drive those 100,000 miles. Add in another few thousand in extra maintenance costs for gasoline,
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by kevinpet 4y ago
This comment undermines the whole story and shows that bettermarkets isn't interested in reality, only pushing their agenda.
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I encourage the author to take an economics class. There's a common trend of smart people trying to fumble through what amount to the first semester of economics. Even a brief exposure gives you enough knowledge to know the name of wha
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by kevinpet 4y ago
> duplicate detection in Photos What? Finally!
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by kevinpet 4y ago
Failure at the bottom of a steep hill is a different type of failure caused by brake fade due to the brake drum swelling with heat as the truck goes down the hill.
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by kevinpet 4y ago
It might actually have been easier. Our current time system is regular enough that you can get away with skipping many irregularities (leap year is pretty much the one that matters). If you were forced to regularly deal with time conversion
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by kevinpet 4y ago
I don't have an electric car, but I can't imagine this is a challenging problem at all. All you need is a target charge level. If you're going on a trip tomorrow, set it to 100%. If your normal commute is 20 minutes, no reaso

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