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by sclarisse 3y ago
Staten Island is south of Brooklyn, as others have noted, and a good distance away — so even if we had a rail link via bridge or tunnel to Brooklyn, you’d need more work to bring it to Manhattan. You might think of using existing lines, but
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Maybe we could at least consider the lobster. http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf (David Foster Wallace)
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I recall a billboard in New York asking us to ban cars and “reforest” all the roads, which would likewise seem to present hazards to local cycling
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by sclarisse 3y ago
While Maryland has been happy to use eminent domain to seize things for far more dubious reasons, like during the Baltimore Colts saga, those things typically have at least been in Maryland
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… Now, that’s the one where they remix his narration on the show with his standup routines. It’s still mind blowing that they actually gave him the part to begin with. Same for Ringo.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> I've been amused by the WH40k videos narrated by David Attenborough. Have you seen the Thomas the Tank Engine videos narrated by Ringo Starr and George Carlin? …
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Also consider Operation Choke Point, where the government pressured banks not to do business with firearms dealers, tobacco dealers, and a variety of other firms they didn’t like. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It’s not strictly about the words in those exceptions. In the case of fraud, it’s not the speech itself, it’s the part where someone gives you money (or other consideration) under some agreement or understanding, and doesn’t actually get wh
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The Modern Family Cookbook by Meta Given. Copyright 1942-1953. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction. Meal planning (45pa). Food shopping (12pa). Cooking (530pa): measurements, beverages, breads, cake, candy, cereals, cheese, co
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If your problem is with land use, especially UK land use in cities, it’s much more the zoning and planning permission that’s to blame: if anything there’s too little landowner control and too much social control (at least, social control
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The problem is they launched it in a miserable no-good borderline unplayable state without any budget challenges at all, and only spiffed it up later.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
First: “Orbiting the center” implies movement in circles and ellipses, and thus implies angular momentum. Angular momentum is a conserved quantity. If the collapsing star didn’t have it, the black hole’s contents won’t spontaneously develop
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by sclarisse 3y ago
“Monday. 9:43 AM. The economy had gotten so bad in New York that people couldn’t afford to eat in restaurants anymore; instead they brown bagged it at their desks. They didn’t eat food at their desks, just brown bags.”
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> TIL 3-2-1 Contact lied to me. Unthinkable! Why, next thing I suppose you’ll impugn Mathnet for fibbing.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
You anodize it to get more because the raw material is so reactive that it forms a thin layer of oxide more or less instantly. That keeps more oxygen out, but it’s too thin and can be easily scratched.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
But then how would they pay off the prison officials?
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by sclarisse 3y ago
That’s fine there’s more. Were we talking Buzzfeed? “How Facebook Failed To Prevent Stop The Steal” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/craigsilverman/facebook... “I have blood on my hands” https://www
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by sclarisse 3y ago
What do you mean no one talks about it? The media itself (and occasionally even the United States government) were taking about it a lot as they lamented the rise of Fake News and the election of Donald Trump. They asked for it, and suggest
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by sclarisse 3y ago
That really, really depends on whether you’re driving something that gets read often enough that query complexity ruins your product’s ability to predictably deliver on query deadlines — whether that’s “load a webpage” deadline or a “submit
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Okay. That sounds reasonable, with the difficulty of being radically underfunded (especially while locked in competition with the other world.)
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by sclarisse 3y ago
At the small scale, what are the desirable properties of a non capitalist book system? Would all reward and compensation for writing books (physically published or ebook) be dictated by a central authority? Would individual authors be assig
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by sclarisse 3y ago
What are you referring to here? The iPhone didn’t have apps for over a year, until the same time as the iPhone 3G launch.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I mean, the fact that some European commentators are so outraged over a few years’, maybe even just months’ delay because of efforts invested complying with the law… that’s part of the silliness here as well. “How dare our laws have costs
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by sclarisse 3y ago
There’s a value judgment in the business-value sense. Once there’s meaningful revenue from it, or similar, it’s far more likely to be made available there. Until then it’s a business risk and a compliance-auditing expense for nothing. Also
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by sclarisse 3y ago
They’re complying by not offering the product. Makes sense to me. It’s a free product. Any effort spent making it compliant is an expense not paid for. Any non compliance is a business risk, with a percent of global revenue at stake. Why ta
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Look, you can have the laws protecting your citizens from the horrors of everyday web-cookies and the privacy nightmares of the surveillance industry all you like. You can make them as heavy handed as you want, threaten massive fines on wor
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Eh. Bond villains are self-interested and cynical. These are altruistic idealists trying to immanentize the eschaton: The world is unjust and disordered (it’s too short-term focused). And we can fix it and bring about a state of justice (a
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The biggest problem with the current popular idea of “free will” is that people think it means they’re ineffably unpredictable. They’re uncomfortable with the notion that if you were to simulate their brain in sufficient detail, you could p
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> But if you don't trust other humans to decide or even know what the highest good is, why would you trust yourself. Aren't you just a human as well? Because in practice other-humans deciding what is the “highest good” for you
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by sclarisse 3y ago
All the library funding in the world won’t help if you don’t teach the kids to read in the first place. That’s either done with phonics, or with abysmal failure rates.

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