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by perl4ever 5y ago
Why do you think "precedent" is solely a legal concept? Would you say "work" is solely a physics concept?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't know if it applies to modern microwaves, but years and years ago, I learned a secret to keeping a microwave running long after its normal lifetime, and without paying a professional repair person. It would start arcing eventual
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Are there really "special screws" that are difficult to deal with these days? Any hardware store carries sets of what used to be obscure security bits. Torx (innie or outie) and hex don't even count as "special". I
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>optimal levels Ah, yes, calibrated. Let's say you are having it filled where the weather never gets below freezing, and driving to somewhere it does...
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Things not being illegal is the literal definition of them begin legal I thought I read somewhere that's specific to common-law type jurisdictions.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Especially no problems with electrical components As long as you carried some spare wiring harness smoke. http://www.whereisbobl.com/tiger/smoke.html "Q: Can I use this device to replace the smoke in my Alfa S
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>there are 35% on the brink of financial disaster. This seems like a caricature of the opinion of someone who grew up in the Great Depression and never accepted credit cards as legitimate tools. Saving money from your first good job unti
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I know of a system that uses "1/1/2099" everywhere an "infinity" date is needed. The problem with fixing it, is nobody thinks it will be their problem.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I can't vouch for whatever the state of True Car is right now, but several years ago (more than once) I went there for information on the average selling price of new cars. They had a nice histogram, showing the range and most common p
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
There's a lot of interesting stuff out there about the Ariane 5 failure, whose guidance system apparently was in Ada.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I thought this article might be about (and think it should've been about) games like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game) https://en.w
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by perl4ever 5y ago
It was bugging me why I knew it was a famous novel when I hadn't read it in or out of school. When I woke up, I remembered - in my freshman psychology class many years ago, we were given a choice of literature to do a presentation on,
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Solving cancer is a fundamentally new thing that nobody knows how to do yet and probably can't be done by one person. Taking an ugly language that evolved in parts and synthesizing it into something elegant is something that not every
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Maybe they meant the novel rather than the band? (I haven't read it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel) P.S. it seems there are multiple bands inspired by Hesse, not just Steppenwolf. https:/&
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by perl4ever 5y ago
It doesn't seem plausible to me that an organization that refuses to create reliable components will create reliable systems out of the components.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
If it's so tedious, maybe someone can come up with a more unified language that accomplishes the same thing?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Well, I mean, it’s the legal system, so definitions are literally a foundational piece. Definitions are necessary to understand what a law is saying, I think we both agree. Not being a lawyer, I certainly have noticed that when I look u
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't see why using a combination of risk of fleeing and risk of reoffending to decide on release would be out of line. I don't think much of appealing to definitions, which it sounds like you are doing - this is what bail is, s
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by perl4ever 5y ago
People seem to be really mad about bail reform, especially in NY, but I don't understand why. There are always more people than the jail capacity, right? So no matter who is released from jail and makes a news story by doing something
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by perl4ever 5y ago
The idea that climate change should increase the variability of weather, the intensity of extreme events, and so on, seems intuitive to me in broad strokes. Smart people say that adding energy to a system increases its volatility, sure, ok,
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I thought this was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
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by perl4ever 5y ago
If you drive at the 49th percentile of speed, you would expect financially burdensome fines on a regular basis? This may be naive, but I've assumed that it is practically impossible to enforce laws that a majority of the population hab
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by perl4ever 5y ago
There's an implicit message from new cars having lane-keeping features that we as a society (whichever society) are going to compensate for distractions rather than cracking down.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>10kmph faster in town could be the difference between killing someone or not hitting them at all. I think of the difference between hitting someone and not hitting them as measured in distance, not speed.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I actually have had the speedometer break on my car. There's no idiot light to tell you it's broken, let alone that it's going to break. I never had to use it as an excuse.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>If your eyes aren't on the road, you aren't driving. >I have zero sympathy for any of the edge cases people tend to bring up except checking your speed. You're saying the speedometer is the only instrument that needs t
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't know if you're a Californian or not, but what do you think of the car culture there? Particularly as it exists along with all of the regulations that are distinct to the state? What do you think of the people to whom autom
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by perl4ever 5y ago
The comment that managing actual bitcoin is too risky makes sense to me, even if it's unclear that's the SEC's rationale. People say, oh oh oh, GBTC and other substitutes don't track bitcoin. Well, yeah, maybe that'
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>And options that have a 15% spread and rip the face off retail investors are ok? You say that like there was somebody malign doing that . >Total nontransparent markets such as the pink sheets? Or that. Absence of people to trade wit

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