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by nkurz 4y ago
I'd agree with your characterization. But after downloading the PDF from your WeTransfer link, I was able to find a link on Google by searching for the quoted opening sentence of the deposition. Oddly, the resulting Google page has a
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by nkurz 4y ago
Homes in Illinois cost considerably less than the median for the US. I don't know quite how the "family of four" modifier affects things, but the Federal Reserve Banks says the US median home price is $429k, while Illinois
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by nkurz 4y ago
It's an artifact of the way the second chance pool is implemented. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060948 .
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by nkurz 4y ago
Quick: Since we can't downvote your post directly, if you want to save yourself, you need to post a really bad comment that we can vote down to offset the malefactors who ignored your clear instructions and upvoted your post!
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by nkurz 4y ago
Directionally correct, but maybe not the best example: Pentagon report: China amassing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons (2020) https://spacenews.com/pentagon-report-china-amassing-arsenal... (this is not actually intended
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by nkurz 4y ago
https://archive.ph/9fduJ With so much attention on the U.S.’s urban-rural divide, you might soon hear that the rural population in 2020 was much larger than in 2010. That isn’t because people moved en masse to the countr
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The Deq Tattooist: Preserving the ink of a disappearing culture(aljazeera.com)
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by nkurz 4y ago
I thought this was an interesting portrait in time of Kansas City (and by extension, other midsize midwestern cities). I'm only only passingly familiar with Kansas City, though. I spent some holidays there 15-20 years ago with a form
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by nkurz 4y ago
The formatting is a little off, but a fully text PDF is here: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/3975708/mod_resou...
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by nkurz 4y ago
You've actually done this recently, so probably you are right, but I'm still doubtful. Are there two separate unidirectional meters involved? And the solar panels aren't hooked into your electrical panel or in house electri
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by nkurz 4y ago
> One other data-point: daily output averaged to 29.8 kWh, from this 7.56kWh array. This is useful information that is surprisingly hard to find: if I install panels with a nameplate rating of x kW, how many kWh will I generate per day?
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by nkurz 4y ago
Expanding on your excellent answer, the real difference between studded and unstudded winter tires isn't just how the perform on ice, but on ice as the temperature approaches freezing. At very cold temps, the unstudded actually have a
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by nkurz 4y ago
> Did you miss the detail where the judge that set his bail conditions had her husband advise for FTX? I don't think this is correct. That was the judge (Abrams) who decided to recuse herself. The judge who had already set the bai
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by nkurz 4y ago
Not part of the Twitter Files, but Glenn Greenwald's article from yesterday is a nice addition to the story about government involvement in social media. He had a video about Ukraine's Zelensky that was taken down from TikTok (a
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by nkurz 4y ago
Yes. I say surprising, because traditionally web servers redirect from the bare name of a directory to the equivalent with a slash at the end. This then either redirects to the index.html or just serves it directly. In Apache, these are
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by nkurz 4y ago
Surprisingly, the link requires a final '/'. Usually this is optional, but not this time: https://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/slave.labor/
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by nkurz 4y ago
Wow, Khanna comes off really good here as a rational patriotic centrist. It makes me wonder about his future political ambitions. People should read the interview if unfamiliar with him.
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by nkurz 4y ago
If you can start with a hot fire and sufficient kindling, you don't always need to do it as a separate step, but otherwise you can burn crumpled newspaper, use a hairdryer or heat gun, or sometimes even a large candle. If the room tem
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by nkurz 4y ago
I agree that the way the laptop was claimed to be found sounds incredibly suspicious, but I don't know of any current evidence that the laptop's "discovery was probably influenced by Russian state assets". When you say
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by nkurz 4y ago
You've probably thought about this more than I have, but your "take down" of NNT doesn't work for me. Let's use your example. We treat 500 people and observe another 500. 5 of the untreated die, and 2.5 of the tr
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by nkurz 4y ago
> regardless what people say votes ARE being bot manipulated if you criticize the right power-posters My guess would be that downvotes like this happen occasionally, but there is no formal list, and no automated system involved. I also
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by nkurz 4y ago
For obscure reasons it's not made obvious, but Dan Gackle (dang) is the moderator of the site. He posts like a normal user, but you are often expected to understand that he is speaking as moderator. Mostly this system works, although
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by nkurz 4y ago
I don't think it's normal or common for comments to disappear completely unless the posting user deletes them before there is a response. Sometimes they are marked [dead], and you can see them if you set "showdead: yes"
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by nkurz 4y ago
Thanks for the link, and for your patience. Unpacking that, (xii) says that "such surety shall have a net worth which shall have sufficient unencumbered value to pay the amount of the bail bond", while (xiv) says that they can ins
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by nkurz 4y ago
Where are you getting that "10% is the most common requirement"? I think you may be confusing the common _non-refundable_ amount charged by private bail bondsmen for much smaller bails with an actual court requirement for collate
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by nkurz 4y ago
> This is wrong, a signed surety bond is not collateral, its a binding commitment to liability. Security/collateral for that liability is a separate thing, abd the only security provided is the house. Thanks for the detail. I wasn&
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by nkurz 4y ago
> What a weird argument you're making What argument do you think I'm making? The argument I'm trying to make is that an article serving as an explainer of a complex legal topic should be factually correct, even if it comp
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by nkurz 4y ago
I think this article is "directionally correct", but wrong (or at least misleading) about some key details. > Instead, Bankman-Fried’s parents promised to pledge their Palo Alto, California, home as collateral. The Palo Alto ho
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ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias(davidrozado.substack.com)
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by nkurz 4y ago
Noel is often spelled Noël (with diaeresis over the e). I wonder if this is causing some odd effects. It would autocomplete from 'No', but not match if you then add a plain e.

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