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by likpok 7y ago
There's a bunch of "words" in the english legal system that are like that: a pair of words (with one frequently sourced from french). There's a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet
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by likpok 7y ago
The big difference is ease of use. You can basically round the number of people using email encryption to zero. Additionally, email encryption is fraught with operational issues making it easy to screw up. On the other hand, a billion peopl
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by likpok 7y ago
I switched to mercurial a couple years back, and generally found it a much smoother and nicer experience. It can't do anything that git can't do, but the basic operations felt much better. A summary of the stuff I liked: histedit
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by likpok 7y ago
The state law is particularly nasty to PGE: utilities are liable for damages even if they aren't negligent.
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by likpok 7y ago
> So we are incarcerating a lot more people for the same crimes somehow? John Pfaff, a professor who studies incarceration, found that despite a falling crime rate, the number of charged felonies has been holding steady. He suggests that
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by likpok 7y ago
A much larger proportion of people are in federal prison for drugs than state prisons. (Gut check: there are few federal crimes that people regularly go to prison for, trafficking is one of them). John Pfaff has done a lot of research into
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by likpok 7y ago
Drying is only part of staling. You can seal bread airtight and it will still go stale faster in the fridge.
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by likpok 7y ago
A big part of staling is the recrystallization of starch, which happens faster at cold-but-not-freezing temperatures. https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/06/does-refrigeration-reall...
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by likpok 7y ago
The focusing effect will help, because you're focusing the infrared radiation from the object away. If you have an insulated box with tall sides, radiation from the object will reflect from the sides of the box back to it, keeping it
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by likpok 7y ago
Huh? The top answer links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dPRFoKteIU&feature=youtu.be... , which explains exactly what they do: try a number of different errors client-side.
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by likpok 7y ago
Ford was shipping cars with asbestos brakes in 1993. Asbestos brakes are still readily available on the aftermarket. Brake pads since 2015 sold in California and Washington must have less than 0.1% asbestos by weight (it's unclear to m
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by likpok 7y ago
The case law references records kept “in the ordinary course of business”. Such records are admissible, other records are not (being hearsay). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_records_exception
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by likpok 7y ago
> I'd inverse the usual advice about not anthropomorphizing and ask "why not anthropomorphize"? Most creatures, especially the more advanced ones, are pretty close to us. Some, we literally descended from not very long ago
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by likpok 7y ago
Real estate is a data play: figuring out which locations are going to be valuable. McDonalds famously does tons of research on locations, so much so that "be mcdonalds-adjacent" is an acceptable strategy. I'm not entirely s
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by likpok 7y ago
The counterexamples: Facebook and Microsoft exist, yet Slack is worth over a billion dollars. Facebook, Microsoft and Cisco exist, and Zoom is over a billion. I can't find a valuation for Bluejeans is doing, but they're no slouch
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by likpok 7y ago
Because the US government is a) strong and b) doesn't think there's one. Neither of those is true of Afghanistan. The Taliban is quite capable of at least holding on, and the non-Taliban Afghani government isn't opposed to US
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by likpok 7y ago
I've seen some industry insiders talk about how box-office takings effectively "snapshot" later earnings. So the TV syndication rights or streaming rights will pay out based on the box office (and possibly even just the openi
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by likpok 7y ago
If he loses the lawsuit, no (the money goes to a trust for the USG). It's possible that Macmillan paid him an advance and so he already has the money. I don't know if the feds can do much in that case.
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by likpok 7y ago
He released a lot more than the spying on US citizens. This lawsuit also appears to be about a different thing: the publication of his book. From the complaint (which is the government's side), he was supposed to get pre-authorization
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by likpok 7y ago
Commutes are generally longer in Europe than the US, in part because people take public transit over driving. (I like mass transit, and commute with it every day. It'd be shorter for me to drive though, sometimes by half). https:&#x2F
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by likpok 7y ago
If Facebook has so much influence, why does nobody seem to like it very much? Both Google and Facebook combined should have even more influence. Both spend a lot of money on healthcare (for their employees). Why wouldn't they use their
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by likpok 7y ago
Travel status/miles are sort of similar. It’s a basic racket: the airline rewards you for steering your company’s money to them. It seems to be broadly acceptable but I agree looks pretty sketchy when you boil it down to the basics.
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by likpok 7y ago
People have absolutely gone bankrupt from income tax. Let's say you receive a large amount of income in the form of an asset which is suddenly devalued before you sell it. You owe income tax on the original value you received. But the
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by likpok 7y ago
One key business insight is realizing that some customers cost more than they bring in. That may or may not apply to those restaurants, but a restaurant can't be everything to everybody. They might do better by not trying. Consider thi
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by likpok 7y ago
It is a big supermarket thing moreso than a city thing. It’s a big part of the Whole Foods strategy, and an increasing part of Safeway/Ralph’s/etc. They have an increasing amount of hot food that you can take away. Walmart in the
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by likpok 7y ago
With a straight shot, latency from one coast to the other is at least 50 ms [0]. A more typical route is on the order of 80 ms. That's definitely noticeable for latency-sensitive actions. I recently switched a server from Oregon to New
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by likpok 7y ago
The housing crisis isn't because nobody wants to build housing, but because housing is difficult to build legally. The big tech companies face exactly the same problem that everyone else faces (actually: even more so since a "comp
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by likpok 7y ago
It's pretty irritating to install a new app and go through a new-user onboarding. I know that I've walked past scooters for a competing app in favor of one I'm using. If I start seeing them around enough I might go to the tro
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by likpok 7y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041315/how-much-rev... This appears to be global (but lacks a citation), and claims that business passengers are 12% of passengers.
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Here's the announcement, even: https://code.fb.com/ios/under-the-hood-building-accessibilit...

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