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by kolpa 8y ago
It appears that since there are no "winners and losers" -- either everyone wins or every one loses an equivalent amount, these giveaways are not in scope for sweepstakes/contest laws.
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by kolpa 8y ago
For $1m, the Bulls could avoid to pay it, and should, since they violated the terms of their insurance contract, and they are a huge profitable professional business, not a rube.
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by kolpa 8y ago
"quitting your job" is not "retiring", and $1M in 1993 generates a decent enough amount of long term interest for a low cost of living area.
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by kolpa 8y ago
... the US taxpayer
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by kolpa 8y ago
The article sort of implies but is unclear. Berkshire's General Re does reinsurance, not re-"reinsurance". Is there a recursive step -- Could General Re face a claim that it needs to leans on the rest of Berkshire to pay? Th
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by kolpa 8y ago
Has anything displaced Nixie tubes as a Pareto improvement? Nixie tubes offer an implementation of custom single-size "vector" fonts. 7-segment displays offer badly limited fonts. Raster displays are only partly competitive with
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by kolpa 8y ago
Is there proof that anesthetics and sleep cause loss of consciousness, or only that they cause amnesia (retroactive discontinuity of conscioussnes), which we perhaps mis-name "loss of consciousness"
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by kolpa 8y ago
Almost nothing is necessary. Frogs are not necessary. Calculus is not necessary. Yet these things exist, so we can ask what and how they are. You sense that your own consciousness exists. so you can ask, what is this thing you sense? And w
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by kolpa 8y ago
#1 certainly not. Chaotic systems (such as the game of life) are easy to build from scratch, but very hard to understand. Reduction is not understanding.
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by kolpa 8y ago
"Information processing" doesn't create the internal feelings I feel, just as information processing can never create and apple for me to eat, even if it can perfectly simulate an apple and eating.
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by kolpa 8y ago
What is "you"? That's the question of consciousness. Sure, maybe you entire internal and sensory existence is a play that your mind is watching. It's well known that a robot can be built to measure your decisions before
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by kolpa 8y ago
Right, Schrödinger’s point was that "wave-function collapse" is an absurd idea, not that macroscopic reality allows apparently-absurd situation.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Einstein's theory of relativity is in large part a simple statement that the Universe has a speed limit (the speed of light), and all the complex and amazing facts that entails. If they Universe doesn't have a speed limit after al
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by kolpa 8y ago
Microsoft Office was years ahead of the Open Web / JavaScript in providing all the convenience and security of remote code execution at the request of arbitrary untrusted third-party systems.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If that was the flaw, then why did he try so hard to remain anonymous?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Johnny Cash figured how to steal them from the factory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cW_yHo3PY
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by kolpa 8y ago
Generally, defendants don't need to defend against bombastic statements in the media. In fact, such statements can help the defendant, as they can prejudice and disqualify jurors, leading to mistrial.
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by kolpa 8y ago
At some point, if the attacks got too frequent or severe, insurance rates would climb to the point where attacks would be better defended or retaliated against.
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by kolpa 8y ago
True but not particularly relevant. In reality, we almost never expect 100% perfection, we assign a cost/benefit ratio and multiply by failure rate.
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by kolpa 8y ago
SOL is a timer from time of crime to time of indictment, and indictment doesn't necessarily require knowing the precise identity of the defendant or capturing the defendant. In GA, fleeing stops the clock, and in WA, "John Doe&qu
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by kolpa 8y ago
That does leave a paper trail for the postal inspector looking for a collar.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Does Valium count as as a pain-killer? I suppose its' more of an anxiety / mental pain drug than a physical pain drug. It was commonly seen in homes in the 1980s, successor to meprobamate of the 1960s. https://en.wikipe
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by kolpa 8y ago
(2016)
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by kolpa 8y ago
"analyse him fair" is criticism (true for anyone, not just Erdoğan). But as I hear, Erdoğan doesn't tolerate fair analysis.
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by kolpa 8y ago
This appears to be the source for the above claim: https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1009010581549060097 > Google sent a contract to Blender Foundation in which we have to accept monetizing our Youtube c
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by kolpa 8y ago
How do you survive for 40 days with 0 food, and 7 days with 0 water?
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by kolpa 8y ago
I may have conflated "fighting words" with "imminent lawless action". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
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by kolpa 8y ago
Rejecting a valid password doesn't matter. If a user has a personal attachment to their choice of password, it's a bad password.
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by kolpa 8y ago
What you are missing is that the cost of a false negative is over 1000x the cost of a false positive. The number of false positives don't matter, and getting a false positive matters nearly not at all. 1 in 1000 good passwords are reje
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by kolpa 8y ago
In the USA it is historically and modernly generally considered a good idea. The legal term is "Fighting words" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words

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