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by nokcha 6y ago
> actual malice or negligence, meaning Dominion must show that Giuliani either intended to destroy Dominion's reputation by spreading facts he knew to be false, or that he was at least negligent, acting with reckless disregard for t
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Google Chrome now blocks insecure downloads from secure websites. Many court...(reason.com)
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>I would say the intent is much narrower than the actual text Justice Scalia rejected the notion of giving much importance to the intent of drafters. His objective was to interpret the text according to its original public meaning. As S
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>How is it "originalist" to take the 2nd Amendment, which refers to "well regulated Militia," and using it to say there's a Constitutional right to owning a handgun for personal protection...? The relation betwee
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>Elections are in the public interest and therefore should be publicly funded -- exclusively. That doesn't really follow. Why should something be exclusively publicly funded just because it is in the public interest? >All othe
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An important property of our voting system is that it is impossible for a voter to prove (to a third party) how he/she voted. This property is important because it guards against bribing/coercing/pressuring voters to vote fo
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by nokcha 6y ago
How about a knowledge/skills test instead of a wealth test? Something like the bar exam, but for investing instead of law. That would keep out people who have no idea what they're doing, without unfairly keeping out knowledgeabl
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Yes, calling for a company to fire someone is generally protected under the First Amendment. (There might be some edge cases, like if a state has a criminal anti-discrimination law and someone is inciting the company (to unlawfully fire a
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Of course people should be free to vehemently argue against Steven Pinker's ideas. The problem is that people are instead descending to personal attacks on him, including circulating a petition (with forged signatures, to boot) to g
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>So if I want to sell stock with a registration statement which says, "this is a Ponzi scheme and investors who buy in too late will lose all their money," that should be permissible? If you make sure that investors are actuall
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The problem isn't qualified immunity per se ; the problem is the ‘clearly established law’ doctrine and how it is interpreted exceedingly generously to cops who use excessive force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q
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> (besides banning the cancer that is advertising) Not all advertising (especially in the broad sense of the word) is bad. There is one ad in particular in the last year that I'm very glad I saw, because it alerted me to the existe
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>I thought any human trial needs at least a full one-year follow-up to make sure ... Depends what you mean by "need". If you're talking about a risk/benefit calculation for getting a vaccination, I expect it will pla
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Delivery and curbside pickup require more employees than the traditional method of customers picking their groceries from the shelves. The grocery stores simply don't have enough employees to serve all their customers if they only do
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by nokcha 6y ago
It's 16 bytes, not 16 bits.
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>There's some evidence that home made cloth masks are worse than nothing. >MacIntyre 2015 That paper is studying whether wearing a mask protects the user of the mask. But the purpose of universal wearing of cloth masks is mainly
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by nokcha 7y ago
> On the other hand, as in technical hiring, it is probably better to miss 10 good tenants rather than rent to one bad one. Right? Sure, if there is a shortage of housing and surplus of potential tenants. But in areas where there is a s
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by nokcha 7y ago
Preprint is here: https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf... The study seems to be based entirely on computational modeling. As far as I know, there is no direct "wet lab" experimental
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by nokcha 7y ago
Talking and singing produce respiratory droplets and aerosols. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jnq2A7A7ytgttQ5Ek/covid-tran... and the references cited therein.
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And furthermore, even if the virus can't directly infect you via your eyes, the virus particles can move from the eye area to the nose/mouth after removing a mask, e.g., by touching one's face (even with washed hands) or when
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>you are more likely to aquire SARS-CoV-2 through your eyes than through your mouth What is the evidence supporting that claim?
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>And why are people so resistant to wearing masks? In the US, there is a severe shortage of masks. Even hospitals are struggling to get enough masks for health-care workers.
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Contaminated hands are much more dangerous than contaminated elbows because people frequently touch their face with their hands.
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>I intend to break any sort of mandatory lockdown/curfew, without putting myself or anyone else at risk (e.x. going for a walk in a non-crowded outdoor area) Going for a walk in a non-crowded area is permitted under the order. See
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by nokcha 7y ago
>In reality the office has 0 infections. How would you know this? Many infected people are asymptomatic for over a week, and the US generally isn't testing asymptomatic people unless they were in close contact with a known infected
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I have a feeling that many of the working poor with mild symptoms would resist getting tested even if the test is free, due to the economic costs of quarantine if they test positive. Strengthening the public social safety net (and using go
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It is that possible that it can be bankrupted in the sense that stockholders get wiped out even if the US government bails it out in the sense of keeping it alive operationally.
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Of potential relevance: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of a statute restricting the advertising of the prices of prescription drugs in Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council , 425 U.S. 74
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Because elections have strict secrecy requirements that bank transactions don't. Once you cast your ballot, it can longer be associated with you. So if someone hacks the election equipment to alter the ballots, there is no way for yo
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The reason that pocket knives were banned is that the 9/11 hijackers used box-cutters to forcibly open the flimsy cockpit doors. Nowadays, the cockpit doors of all US airplanes have been reinforced and are no longer vulnerable to this

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