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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Just wait until you find out how the feds enacted the 55mph speed limit or are using the threat of revoking Medicare funding for hospitals that perform certain medical procedures that the feds would like to have not happen...
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Presumably the airport or airline has agreed to (or would agree if asked to) have TSA decide whether you are “free to go that way, towards the airplanes”. You are already free to go that other way (towards the street), but not necessarily f
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
I think it’s a mistake to assume these policy decisions all have peer-reviewed science behind them.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
A gate pass is a thing to pick up or drop off people who will be flying as unaccompanied minors. I don’t what other circumstances allow their issue, but when I did it a couple years ago, everyone seemed to know the process, so it’s not that
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
If they decide to follow up to make an example of you, they can easily record a video of you until you raise your arms over your head somewhere later in the airport or on the flight. You won’t have a good time proving your case.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Is your concern that a thimbleful of good faith for vandals is too much or too little?
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
If you confiscate my Diet Coke at security, you have created demand for Diet Coke on the other side of security.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Headline says “…if asked” Article and facts are “…if served with a valid legal order compelling it” ∴ Headline is clickbait.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
PLA-CF is not particularly stronger than PLA. Some properties are improved, mostly geometric stability and appearance, but the carbon fiber acts more like defects in the plastic than strengthening. It’s got very little of the benefits that
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
Do you by any chance have over a decade of coding and under a year of CAD? You might have forgotten how hard coding was when you had under 200 hours of experience with it.
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by sokoloff 9mo ago
It’s easy to understand, but not easy to live under. If the worst case is I lose 25% of every “extra” dollar in some range, I have to think about it way less than if I lose the entire benefit for being 1 unit of currency over a limit. In th
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
My understanding is that ABS in cars has surprisingly little effect on fatalities. It is a huge lifesaver when deployed to motorcycles, and a benefit to reducing non-fatal crashes, but not much for fatals in cars. (I agree it's a well-
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> We are now treating it as a rite passage that qualified high school students can be mysteriously rejected. How could it realistically work any other way? Each year, Harvard gets nearly 50K applications for 2K acceptances and 1.6K enrol
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
How fortunate that the only downside of frequent gunfire on the streets outside your house is the noise .
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Suppose there’s a failed state or widespread corruption somewhere and a child there who needs $1 worth of vaccine or $1 worth of food. What’s the chance that or fraction of your dollar, my dollar, or a billionaire’s dollar will end up actua
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$ If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Are they being subsidized the same way my employer subsidizes my lifestyle? If I sell steel, grain, boots, or launch services to the government and that gives me profits that I invest into some aspect of my business, I’m not sure that “subs
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
NB: “single family homes” not “residential real estate”
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Some people think the primary purpose of building permits and inspections is to ensure quality work. Others disagree.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately . Or else what? Their union will hold them to account? Their colleagues? Their administration? I have two kids in such public schools and I
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I’m not in your target user, but I love the “day pass, no recurring billing” concept and specifically applied the second half of that. (Without that, it’s shady.) I can imagine many tools that I’d use under such a model, and while I suspect
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
It can be simultaneously true that 5% of educators are great, 20% very good, 60% are good, 13% are adequate, and 2% should have fired 5 years or more ago. If you’re in the first three groups, it can be hard to understand the disrespect and
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
IMO, government owned basic dormitories with high density should exist. Think of something one or two steps above emergency shelters. Call them pods if you like. Rent and utilities could be positioned at a level that permitted people to su
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I feel like a lot of politicians get exposed making these “accidents” that just fortunately happen to be beneficial to them. Perhaps they ought to be more careful when filling out paperwork. Or perhaps they’re not accidents.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I live in Massachusetts. Maybe I’d like to move to Palo Alto or Malibu. I hear they’re lovely. To what extent, and by what mechanism, should the government of those two areas weight my preferences on housing policies in those areas? (I th
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
If you have 97 flights landing at airport with 1-3 pax each and 3 full jumbo jets and you survey passengers leaving the airport, the average person surveyed will report that their flight was packed.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Exclusive does not mean unrestricted.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Over the term of the lease agreement, rent is contractually predictable.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I don’t understand the last sentence in your second paragraph. If “people [think] that real estate goes up forever” why does that trigger them to sell?
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
In general a roof repair (including a full replacement) won’t trigger a re-assessment but a kitchen remodel will. A roof replacement isn’t really an improvement so much as expensive maintenance.

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