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by seoaeu 4y ago
"The most frequently appearing words in this pile of un-translateable text are the most common words in the language it is written in" seems like it falls somewhere between blindingly obvious, and entirely useless. Unless you have
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Society makes laws to prevent individuals from enrich themselves by harming the public. Committing climate arson so that you can get rich speculating on cryptocurrency is precisely the kind of externality that environmental regulations are
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by seoaeu 4y ago
If you’ve been paying any attention to US politics over the last few years, it is pretty clear they’re talking about police killings of black people and/or hate crimes directed at Asians and LGBT folks
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Who defines what constitutes murder, what food safety regulations are, or any of a million other laws? It really doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem
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by seoaeu 4y ago
If you're so completely devoid of empathy that you have no reaction to hearing that someone is afraid for their for their life, that says a lot more about you than it does about them.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
That doesn't explain why absolute free speech is necessary. If you are allowed expose violations of your voting rights, but not allowed to engage in hate speech... you still have the right to vote? But part of it is also the broader
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> Speech is the most important non-violent right that we have Really? More important than the right to vote? Than the right not to be arbitrarily detained? Than the right to a fair trial? I strongly believe in the importance of free spee
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The idea of an emergency fund is for unexpected expenses like car repairs or a medical bill. The primary use of SNAP is to supplement an employed person’s income so they are able to afford food.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Why? Turning off your smoke detectors to save battery seems like a profoundly bad idea
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Did I miss it, or does the article not actually explain why we know that at least one pair can be eliminated every round? It seems plausible that the process could get "stuck" in a place where Peter and Sandy both don't lea
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The problem is more that there's a whole bunch of different programs that don't make sense together. The "right" thing to do would be to combine all of them and make it so that you lose say 35¢ of benefits per extra $1 o
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Seems in a lot of cases the limit is $2500! Even a very modest emergency fund is probably going to be double that...
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Who doesn't know this? The problem isn't that there's no safety net, the problem is that navigating it is a maze and there's tons of cracks for people to fall through. Many, many people don't get the help they need
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Your point still stands, but US federal spending is more like $4-7 trillion depending on the year. I assume you went based on Google’s answer box, which somehow confuses total GDP with government spending.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> We need to change the laws to give any taxpayer standing to sue when they see taxpayer money being misappropriated. If you did that, then any government aid program would spend all their time and money fending off frivolous lawsuits in
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by seoaeu 4y ago
And in many jurisdictions, qualified immunity to shield them from murder charges!
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> 10 years ago, which is plenty of time for the public health community to do relevant research Ok, that's enough for me. You're clearly just trolling
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by seoaeu 4y ago
It is also a vicious cycle. If you want to hire construction workers in a place like Seattle, you have to pay them enough so they can live in the area.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> However, employers haven't raised wages to keep up with this new reality. No, they've instead raised wages to attract employees, which they have to do because of the labor "shortage".
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Even assuming the markets were separate, if corporations were buying up tons of housing stock and flooding the rental market with it... shouldn't rents be going down?
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> Coronaviruses ARE one of the flu types. No, influenza is not a coronavirus. > Note that Covid-19 is SARS2 - SARS1 was 10 years ago. I don't know what this has to do with my comment, but if we're going to be pedantic, Covid
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Almost like the flu and Covid are different diseases that don’t have identical patterns of transmission
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The Supreme Court is a bunch of partisan hacks. The only thing that ruling proves is that they wanted the eviction memorandum to be over
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The thing that makes most macro op fusion non-viable on x86 is that most of the macro ops you'd want to fuse are already a single instruction!
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by seoaeu 4y ago
There's lots of ways that licenses can be objectively wrong. They can contain content that renders them invalid, or wording that legally means something different from what the author intended. A lawyer has the "right" to poi
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by seoaeu 4y ago
You (presumably) live in a country with rule-of-law. That means that if you are involved in a court case related to your GPL code, the legal system in your country will determine the outcome. Refusing to consult with lawyer in advance about
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by seoaeu 4y ago
1 KB might be a realistic size for a low fidelity background or thumbnail, but 0.01 bytes/pixel or 0.06 bytes/pixel isn't a reasonable compression target. In other words, when making a thumbnail you should probably be downsam
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Many billions of RISC-V of CPUs have shipped, so, pedantically, that means they're already viable for including inside consumer devices. However as other replies have noted, you'll have to wait a number of years before they'l
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Decode doesn't take up much space in a high-end processor. Even if your architecture's decoder doesn't "scale" as well, you can just throw a bunch more transistors at it to get performance. That said, I doubt there&
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Because the people those transactions were with didn’t want them reversed, and there was no rule or law that required it.

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