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by skissane 9mo ago
> First, it doesn't seem like that's always the case, based on another post upthread talking about a land ownership case that went to the high court because of an error in the government's records. I don’t know what High C
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by skissane 9mo ago
No, the county clerk records aren’t a “single source of truth”. In the US system, it is possible to convince a court the county records are wrong, and order them overridden-which makes them not the single source of truth. By contrast, in th
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> No, the United States doesnt have a central land registry because that is not an enumerated power of the federal government. I think you misunderstood the post you were replying to. Torrens title was invented in Australia. Just like in
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How much of what you do with Photoshop could be done with open source tools instead (GIMP, ImageMagick, etc), versus how much do you really need Photoshop for? One technique I’ve used for cleaning up AI-generated images, was a Python script
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> one advantage of having in-house engineers is that you can get custom features built on-demand without having to be blocked on the roadmap of a SaaS company juggling feature requests from multiple customers... Many larger enterprises d
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I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect AIs to get detailed hands-on domain knowledge. A lot of this stuff humans learn by doing and by experience. AI models don't learn anything by doing and experience. A model vendor can&#x27
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For a lot of SaaS firms, a big part of their value is the domain knowledge and best practices encoded in the software. Current AIs often do a bad job of that. Sure, they know a lot of it. But they also get a lot of it wrong, and can’t tell
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> Jews are an ethnoreligious group, not a religion This is presenting the two categories as mutually exclusive, when they aren't. Another commonly cited example of an ethnoreligious group are the Druze–which are even more closed tha
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> Mississippi can’t use social security payments to build infrastructure. Indirectly, it can, because social security recipients spend the payments they receive, and then some of those payments incur state sales taxes, and contribute to
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US obesity rates are around 40% of population. Australia, Canada, UK, it is around 30% of population. Canadian life expectancy is 3-4 years higher on average. UK around 3 years higher on average. Australia around 4-5 years higher Does the g
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> accepting almost no converts This isn't true. Most Jewish communities do accept converts (the Syrians Jews are a notable exception). They don't make it as easy as Christians or Muslims do, but I'm not aware of any cases
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Most other federations have formal mechanisms for ensuring fiscal equity between their federal constituents – Australia has the Commonwealth Grants Commission, Canada has its Equalization Program, Germany has the Länderfinanzausgleich , Sw
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In one (internal) CLI I maintain, I actually put the `if not dry_run:` inside the code which calls the REST API, because I have a setting to log HTTP calls as CURL commands, and that way in dry-run mode I can get the HTTP calls it would hav
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I just realised another angle: 28 U.S.C. § 1442 enables state prosecutions of federal agents to be removed to federal court. Now, if Trump pardons the agent, does the federal pardon preclude that trial in federal court? To my knowledge, the
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Yes, but In re Neagle (1890) is SCOTUS precedent granting federal agents immunity from state criminal prosecution for acts committed while carrying out their official duties (and the act at question in that case was homicide). Now, its pr
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> Will we retract our outrage when a conviction is delivered? Is there a reason we expect nothing to come of this? I doubt the Trump DOJ will want to prosecute this. Now, if Democrats win in 2028, maybe the Newsom (or whoever) DOJ will-b
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by skissane 9mo ago
Variation I thought of on pay-to-review: Suppose you are an independent researcher writing a paper. Before submitting it for review to journals, you could hire a published author in that field to review it for you (independently of the jour
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by skissane 9mo ago
Couldn’t it implement a “fake chroot” by e.g. creating its own libc which wraps the real one but with path remapping, and then linking all its executables against that?
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I’m outside the US too and the link works for me But this also works: https://archive.md/XsxT8 And also this: https://web.archive.org/web/20251208110440/https://www.histo...
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This is a figure for the whole of Iran. So it includes not just the Persian-majority areas, but also the minority-majority areas (Azeris, Kurds, Balochs, Arabs, Armenians, etc). It would not surprise me if the death toll in the minority-maj
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> ISP “choice” is mostly a meme, yeah. I think Australia's model works really well – the last mile is (with occasional exceptions) owned by a government-owned ISP, NBNCo. But NBNCo is purely a wholesaler, and they only provide servi
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> An example of this is "felon". There is no actual legal definition of what a felony is or isn't in the US. A misdemeanor in one state can be a felony in another. It can be anything from mass murder to traffic infractions
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I think there’s a clear distinction between (1) doing an act because you find it fun in itself, (2) doing an act because it eliminates an unwanted consequence of some other fun act. When I say no woman gets an abortion “for fun”, I mean the
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You are ignoring the “for sport” clause. The moral status of abortion is irrelevant to the question of whether “don’t harm babies for fun” is a moral universal, because no woman gets an abortion because “abortion is fun”
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To clarify my principle: "It is gravely wrong to inflict significant physical pain or injury on babies, when your sole or primary reason for doing so is your own personal enjoyment/amusement/pleasure/fun" So, in you
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I don't think you are using "torture" in the same sense as I am. When I say "torture", I mean acts which cause substantial physical pain or injury.
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This is a really strange way to argue. "I have counterexamples to your argument, but I haven't told you what they are, I'm just leaving you to guess–and you've guessed wrongly"
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> Consider a scenario: an evil dictator, let's say Genghis Khan, captures your village and orders you to hunt and torture a baby for sport a la "The Most Dangerous Game". If you refuse, he kills your village. Is it ethical
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A lot of this sounds to me like common prejudices about the past. And repeating ideas ultimately coming from Philippe Ariès' 1960 book Centuries of Childhood , which most mediaevalists nowadays consider largely discredited. Many peopl
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by skissane 9mo ago
In none of those examples were people harming/killing babies for the sole or primary reason of "harming/killing babies is fun", so they aren't counterexamples to my principle.

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