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by s_q_b 11y ago
Who cares whether a judge issued the judgement? The fact is that most of the poor cannot take time off to travel to a courthouse at an appointed date and time, thus those judgements are entered without any defense. It shouldn't come as
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Yes, your additional option is to be extorted into paying a 25% fee. Let's do a root cause analysis of the problem, since it goes much deeper than mere small fines. First, the leveraging of state fines, backed by government force, disp
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Suboxone for heroin addicts is like benzodiazepines for alcohol withdrawal. It should only be used in the initial withdrawal period for a short period of time. The proper protocol is to substitute the short-acting heroin for the longer half
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Here's my personal favorite mission patch: Which states, "Omnis Vestri Substructio Es Servus Ad Nobis", or in translation "All your base are belong to us."[0] These logos are a bit tongue-in-cheek. [0] http:/&#
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Not very likely in American courts given the public figure libel standard.[0] Essentially, in order to accuse a public figure (e.g. politicians), you have to prove that the defendant acted with actual malice. Actual malice in this case is
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I would estimate (guess) that half the money ended up in contractors' pockets, and the other half never existed outside the accounting of the USG.
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None of these factors would matter to a high-functioning sociopath, or for that matter a sufficiently desperate individual. But the game is not really to make theft impossible. It's to make theft so difficult that all the people intell
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by s_q_b 11y ago
(1) Nope, you're correct. "Perfect storm" refers to a confluence of events combining at the same time to create an extreme outcome. Home run generally refers to a singular event of great benefit, an analogy that derives from
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I refer you back to my previous comment about the other regimes, and their propensity to use atomic weapons, had they developed them first. Hell, Stalin told Truman to use it on Imperial Japan as soon as possible.
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Ha, even the flame wars here are brilliant.
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If everyone had to win the Putnam to understand the basics of wastewater treatment, we'd be in deep... well, shit.
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Self-driving cars will shift that equilibrium. We outlaw types of insurance all the time.
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The concentrations of most of the medications (anti-depressants, contraceptives, antibiotics, etc.) are large in relation to drinking water, but small in relation to the ecosystem into which they're discharged. Any animal that eats the
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I agree, until "Affluenza" type teens start causing fatal accidents with manually operated cars, at which point the legislature will outlaw them entirely.
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My family owns a civil engineering company that deals with wastewater management. A lot of it is treated with bacterial vats, chemicals, and UV, and then run back into local tributaries, because while it's safe for the environment, it
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by s_q_b 11y ago
A nit I'd like to pick is also that China has a vastly smaller PPP adjusted total GDP. So even four times the number of people, even a guaranteed loan program the size of TARP would be a larger intervention. To digress a little bit, I
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by s_q_b 11y ago
We just have a mismatch in the term "scientific programming" based on our perspectives. You seem like you're in the harder sciences in academia, while I'm in data science in industry. I'll certainly cede the point t
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Read the history of Stalin's reaction to being told of the bomb at Yalta. He encouraged its immediate use against the Japanese Empire.
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The Chinese stock market is so far divorced from the real Chinese economy as to be a joke. The government intervention is direct and strong, far stronger than anything we saw in 2008. These companies' listed values might have well have
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Yeah, for legacy or speed, you might need to drop down to lower libraries. But R makes that pretty easy.
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R is the only real game in town for free software for scientific computing these days. From a political perspective R was in the right place at the right time. It was a decent high level language that could handle matrix processing graceful
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by s_q_b 11y ago
You underestimate the ability of international events to quickly spiral out of control. This is an n-body problem, and one of those particles is a borderline insane government.
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Do you truly believe that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, or Imperial Japan would have hesitated for a second to use nuclear weapons if they had developed them first? I, for one, do not. --- Sidenote: The most remarkable aspe
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Me. I'll say it. Any regime which systemstically implements slave labor, mass starvation, and utter lack of human rights should not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. We do not want mutually assured destruction, especially with a nat
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Personally I believe that open code, raw data, and cleaned datasets should be requirements for publication in any peer-reviewed journal in which a paper claims that computational mechanisms were involved. Failure to distribute the data and
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Well considering I lived well below the median level for several years, I'd like to think I have at least some idea of what it is like. I knew I could never afford a family or house at that level, much less retirement and college funds
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by s_q_b 11y ago
It's really absurd that we've outsourced the Fourth Amendment to dogs.
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The biggest problem is that 250k a year is is barely middle class in a large city. If you have three children, and 250k income, that will provide you a decent living, maaaybe allow you to purchase a home, and just barely afford college fu
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by s_q_b 11y ago
This is terrifying. Eric Posner, quoted in the article, isn't some far right nutjob. He's a well respected law professor, son of the famous Judge Richard Posner (7th Cir.), and one of the most cited legal scholars in the country.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Dashing this off from the Christmas table, so as expected most immediate Google results are the government pages. Here's the replacement description. You'll notice that they're still actively replacing mains (at an extraordin

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