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by nickff 2y ago
This is palpably false, as Schumpeter described: “Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend to them. It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and ra
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by nickff 2y ago
COP was invented in the 1930s, and first used on automobiles in the 1970s: https://gtc.ca/blog/the-different-types-of-ignition-systems/...
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by nickff 2y ago
It's considered unwise to leave uncontrolled vehicles in orbit, as they may hit other uncontrolled vehicles (or natural objects) and create debris.
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by nickff 2y ago
The idea that appearance of impropriety is bad is a moral one. There are often problems when one attempts to legislate morality.
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by nickff 2y ago
It seems like they had some sort of software/oversight issue, in addition to inadequate filer service. Why do you believe that giving them more money will cause them to improve? This seems like some sort of Stockholm syndrome.
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by nickff 2y ago
Should they have to un-bundle Windows Explorer, Notepad, Photo Viewer, Control Panel, and all the other utilities as well, under the same logic? If not, why?
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by nickff 2y ago
Have you ever been to a housing project focused on “giving people housing”? The outcomes aren’t quite as good as you seem to imply. Rampant drug dealing, abuse, overdoses, and violent crime including (but not limited to) sexual assault and
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by nickff 2y ago
Lots of 'Tea Party' organizations got "investigated" by the IRS, while their 'Occupy Movement' counterparts were given more leeway.
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by nickff 2y ago
I disagree that there is a 'shared understanding'; for instance, the latest Freakonomics podcast episode featured an interview where the subject stated that live theatre was a social good that was critical to a functioning society
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by nickff 2y ago
Probably because you're bringing LLMs into a conversation when there's no clear link, and adding nothing else to the conversation.
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by nickff 2y ago
The problem is that there are no truly 'public' interests, there are only clusters of private interests. Going down this route would eliminate all non-profits (which I'm not entirely against).
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by nickff 2y ago
Nobody would hire the ‘assertive’ engineers or firms, so it’d be a very rarely used power.
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by nickff 2y ago
It is my understanding that the keyword is "official", which indicates a state visit. The two I mentioned were official, working visits.
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by nickff 2y ago
Not OP, but there was an official state visit by Egypt in 2019 and Kenya in 2018: https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits/2019 https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits&#x2
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by nickff 2y ago
If you taped a paper on the wall to notify employees of each disclosure required, you'd probably run out of viable wall space before you ran out of notices.
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by nickff 2y ago
Lawyers don't know all the (state or federal) laws, they do not pretend to be able to assess all your legal risks, just some of the most likely ones.
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by nickff 2y ago
All this back-and-forth about promos and cancellations is just the latest form of haggling; there's nothing new under the sun.
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by nickff 2y ago
Many graphic artists operate as independent contractors/consultants.
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by nickff 2y ago
What law would this policy violate? What’s the basis for the suit? That you think it might be anti-competitive because it reduces labor mobility?
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by nickff 2y ago
Someone might sue because (they think) a letter wasn’t effusive enough to get them a job they wanted, or because someone else got a letter and they didn’t.
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by nickff 2y ago
It's difficult to enforce any international contract, particularly in a country like the People's Republic of China. That said, I don't think signing a contract with a different name gets you anywhere; if your counter-party c
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by nickff 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, Ti alloys are commercially available, and used in aviation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_alloys
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by nickff 2y ago
It's also possible that they're using an alloy which is not easily detected, or that the titanium is in a part which was painted or otherwise coated before receipt by Spirit
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by nickff 2y ago
According to most reporting, Spirit removed, then failed to re-install the door. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-loose-bolts-alaska-airli...
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by nickff 2y ago
Nobody is entitled to some “level of content” of other people’s work. Some creators choose to distribute their content (and often monetize it) via YouTube, and those of us who wish to consume the content can choose whether or not to partici
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by nickff 2y ago
The companies doing the mapping and algorithm develop do face significant legal and technical risk, and they’re unlikely to be bailed out. Perhaps the public is facing some safety risk, but this isn’t what was usually meant by your idiom of
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by nickff 2y ago
It’s a term of art; as such, it’s probably here to stay.
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by nickff 2y ago
Mothers who are covered by Medicaid may have alternative arrangements (such as employer sponsored healthcare) which they prefer.
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by nickff 2y ago
This may have been part of Boeing’s acquisition strategy; sue the company to put them in financial distress, and buy them at a discount (this is a fairly common strategy).
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by nickff 2y ago
I'm very curious about what you folks do! How much effort is expended on this optimization? Perhaps in terms of FTE developers per terminal.

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