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by lurquer 4y ago
Identity politics is used in lieu of class conflict. For various reasons, the US does not perceive itself as having classes… difficult to foment a Revolution if the ‘proletariat’ all think they can grow up to be President someday (or at lea
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by lurquer 4y ago
I could have sworn it was Berenstain v. US… Weird.
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by lurquer 4y ago
> If anything, there is a lack of jury trials - the majority of cases end in pleas. People take pleas because the jury system is broken and if convicted you’ll get far more time. As far as alternative? Jury’s are fine. The problem is the
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by lurquer 4y ago
You have it backwards. You are only acquitted if it is 12 to 0. Anything less than that is a mistrial, and the state can try you again (and you sit in jail until they do.) Didn’t used to be that way originally. It is now in nearly all juris
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by lurquer 4y ago
I use it for puzzle books. Things like suduko, cryptograms, criss-cross, etc. I have various custom C++ programs to generate the puzzles. But, getting the results to a formatted PDF was nearly impossible. I use LaTeX as I can have my C++ pr
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by lurquer 4y ago
Great song… The unspoken happy secret behind that point of view is that the ugly girl who loves you will become, in your eyes, the most beautiful woman in the world.
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by lurquer 4y ago
> It's probably the other way around: they already knew about other clusters of cases before they re-approved the vaccine, it just didn't make it in the news. Source? Over 100 cases on several continents within days? The ‘k’ in
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by lurquer 4y ago
Good thing the cluster of cases (from a virus that has been known for over 50 years) waited until after the vaccine was approved.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Vaccine approved in 2019. What a coincidence. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
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by lurquer 4y ago
You can grow plants in a can of steel bb’s, ground up gummy bears, sand, shredded beer cans, etc…. The matrix isn’t important to most plants. Just the nutrients it gets. Any hydroponic pot grower knows this.
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by lurquer 4y ago
> You are talking about a completely unrelated process of updating priors about bias of independent events. I hear you. I understand the point you are making. But, the two issues are not entirely unrelated… You are assuming - a priori -
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by lurquer 4y ago
> Yes or no? This is a very simple binary question It’s triggering to a lot of people to use the term ‘binary’ in that manner. You need to check your Hetero-privilege. It’s hateful and hurtful to non-binary posters.
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by lurquer 4y ago
It isn’t a continuum, though. There are distinct discontinuities. Chromosome count is one such example. Polar bears and grizzlies have 74 chromosomes. A panda has 42. You can’t gradually go from one to the other. Absent some mechanism we d
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by lurquer 4y ago
It seems the article is merely about the ‘wonder’ and ‘Eureka’ moment of realizing one’s definition of species is over or under inclusive. To summarize the article (using a more familiar animal): Polar Bears and Grizzly Bears are different
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by lurquer 4y ago
He’s a clown. You are going to hurt your brain contorting it to give him the benefit of the doubt. He claims marijuana doesn’t make you paranoid, meth doesn’t make you violent, and the ‘typical’ heroin junkies is a perfectly functional prof
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by lurquer 4y ago
Seeing it on an old iPhone. Very vivid. The reason is the blue/red wavelength thing discussed herein. Pretty standard optical illusion. But the RGB values and shapes are configured to create a better demonstration of this than I have e
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by lurquer 4y ago
Words don’t redefine themselves. Describing low-paying jobs as “slavery” is a metaphor. Saying “certain aspects of X are like Y” does not mean Y ‘is’ X. But, of course, that is often why rhetoricians use metaphors and similes… to dupe and c
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by lurquer 4y ago
I would expect a large number will be duds. There has been no testing for years, the nature of the device requires constant maintenance, the delivery systems (rockets) require even more maintenance… And, then you have the issue of fraud… th
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by lurquer 4y ago
Quite right. My comment was too flippant. Yours provided the detail I left out. Without question, it is a worthwhile study and very interesting. But, losing a lobe in infancy and then having the brain compensate is much different, I would t
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by lurquer 4y ago
Why would they not mention that more prominently? Talk about burying the lede…
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by lurquer 4y ago
> This is straight up false because you know a priori that the chance is 50-50. It’s gamblers fallacy if you know the events are independent. Oh. You know a priori. How? How do you test a coin to determine if it’s unbiased? How do you te
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by lurquer 4y ago
Perhaps you are simply getting older. You’ve already read the “fifty or so jokes.” And, you’ve already had your fill of big-budget special effects. It now seems tiresome and dull… In short, perhaps you are just becoming a grumpy old man. ;)
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by lurquer 4y ago
No pets in 1920? Dog breeds specifically tailored for pets have been around for centuries. Go to an art gallery… you’ll find countless portraits of people from centuries past with their ‘lap dogs’, pet squirrels, pet cats, etc.
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by lurquer 5y ago
Insanity isn’t necessary. Just sloppiness.
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by lurquer 5y ago
if a killer virus (or other pathogen) can be designed and made, it will be designed and made. It’s how life on the planet will end. In computer terms, once the user is able to corrupt the operating system, it’s lights out. We have tens of t
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by lurquer 5y ago
I agree. I was just pointing out that the thread keeps referring to ‘infinitely large’ universe. Perhaps it’s just shorthand for ‘infinite number of stars’. No big deal. Obviously, if you had 10 stars in an infinitely large universe, there
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by lurquer 5y ago
'Infinitely large' isn't a prerequisite to the paradox. Rather, it's an infinite number of stars. Or, more precisely, an infinite number of stars spread out rather uniformly.
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by lurquer 5y ago
It’s not a better joke, because he screwed it up… with C, E, and A the punchline should be “We can’t serve a minor here!” Of course, that joke sucks too. But, at least it’s not defective.
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by lurquer 5y ago
> No, I'm not simply dreading waking up before sunrise. My body can't function until sunrise regardless of the number of hours I sleep. It's built like that. Are you a plant?
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by lurquer 5y ago
Your W-2 does not come from the IRS, though. It is created by your employer. The form is simply informing you what it reported to the IRS. The W-2 your employer created and sent could be wrong. It’s a screwed up system.

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