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by scatters 5y ago
What assets are actually being sequestered? Isn't billionaires' wealth in paper? If that paper wealth was confiscated and spent, it would lead to a significant increase in demand, so central banks would have to implement sharply c
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by scatters 5y ago
The IDL isn't the only line of longitude where the date changes; there is another, the line of midnight. Either one plane crossed each, putting both on the next day, or one crossed both, with opposite sense.
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by scatters 5y ago
Elsewhere on the thread you pointed out that fair housing laws mean that you don't get to control who lives next to you even if you're renting out those properties. So your only option would be to leave them empty.
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by scatters 5y ago
That's the beauty of consumerism; capitalism constantly invents new desires to be satisfied.
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by scatters 5y ago
Geographic coordinates can change as well (earthquakes; office moves). But that's why the tzdb uses major/dominant city names.
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by scatters 5y ago
I'd argue they absolutely do have that right. A doctor is in a position of immense power and trust, and you need to know that your doctor will be honest if they make mistakes and not try to cover them up. This is a matter of character.
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by scatters 5y ago
Well, what profession are you in? If you're a lawyer, or a financial advisor, or, yes, a doctor, then your revealed character absolutely has a bearing over whether you're a fit and proper person to be in a position of trust.
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by scatters 5y ago
Is it? Don't his patients have a right to know that he's a fraud?
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by scatters 5y ago
Now more than ever, Wikipedia must be publicly verifiable. That means that any claim can be checked by anyone with an Internet connection and a library card. Imagine if contested articles contained controversial facts on the basis of secret
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by scatters 5y ago
Well, other than negative zero.
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by scatters 5y ago
You're confusing Snowden with Assange. (And probably forgetting the role of Manning.)
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by scatters 5y ago
Salis populi suprema lex. The duty on a government to protect public health overrides all else, and citizens who interfere with the discharge of that duty can well expect to be dealt with harshly.
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by scatters 5y ago
The polite thing is to fork the contributor's PR branch back into the project repo, make changes preserving history, and then merge or squash merge the result.
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by scatters 5y ago
It's a labyrinth, not a maze. There is a single path, but it's circuitous.
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by scatters 5y ago
It makes the logic simple in C (where the empty string is truthy); you can just write `if (getenv("FOO"))`.
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by scatters 5y ago
Hah, no it doesn't; anyone can mint what they claim is a season ticket right now. The buyer still has to verify that what they're purchasing is genuine. On the other hand, it's probably easier for Coachella to maintain a publ
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by scatters 5y ago
Right, and I think that explains why the Greeks didn't use it; the world accessible to their civilisation extended maybe 2000 km north to south, from the shores of the Black Sea to Nubia. Maybe the Romans could have managed it, but onl
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by scatters 5y ago
That ship sailed long before Unicode. Even ASCII has characters with multiple valid glyphs (lower case a can lose the ascender, and lower case g is similarly variable in the number of loops), not to mention multiple characters that are ofte
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by scatters 5y ago
And yet Apple sell tracking devices that can be used to spy on people who've never used an Apple product. Are they blind to the harm they're causing, or do they believe that only their own customers deserve to have privacy?
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by scatters 5y ago
Have you considered that your emotional intuition might be wrong? Does your "yikes radar" fire when you see people using mobility or sensory aids to overcome disabilities?
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by scatters 5y ago
It would certainly have an immediate impact in the short term, but in the longer term?
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by scatters 5y ago
You can guess WARMS, which will either give you the answer (to input on the next try) or eliminate 4 of the possibilities, leaving only 2 to guess. That's a best case of 2 additional guesses and worst case of 3 (expectation of 2 1&#x2F
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by scatters 5y ago
Round half to even is well known outside Python. It's sometimes called bankers' rounding.
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by scatters 5y ago
Aftershokz Aeropex. It's worth trying them out though; see if a running store near you will let you try them out on their treadmill.
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by scatters 5y ago
The Big Bang happened right here. (And everywhere else as well.) That's the difference.
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by scatters 5y ago
On the contrary, they do realize that loss of privacy makes life harder for "troublemakers", and they see that as a benefit. Don't make the mistake of assuming that everyone shares your moral code.
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by scatters 5y ago
How do you know that? Unless you've been taking PCR tests at least weekly, it's more likely that you've had at least one asymptomatic infection.
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by scatters 5y ago
Spotify is not treating Young and Rogan as peers; only one of them has received an exclusive multimillion contract and extensive promotion, and it isn't Young. Spotify have taken an active decision to promote Rogan, and it is entirely
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by scatters 5y ago
Spotify cares about music? Then why is it displaying front and center podcast shows that I have zero interest in above and ahead of the music that I go to Spotify for? It's fine that they've decided to pivot to being a podcast com
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by scatters 5y ago
If inflation is 5% and you get a 5% raise, you're level in real terms, right? No, because that 5% is taxed at your higher tax rate, which is (usually) higher than your average tax rate. This is called bracket creep.

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