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by sparky_z 10y ago
I see the difference, but I don't see how it matters. Pardon's are a legal mechanism. They were built into the system from the very beginning. The fact that they take different factors into account (by design) doesn't somehow
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Suppose we abolished presidential pardons. Now, couldn't the exact same argument be used in favor of abolishing the final layer of appeals courts? And then the layer below that? Keep in mind that many (most?) people consider interrelat
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Pardons can certainly be corrupt, but I don't think they're corrupt by definition. I think of them as a last line of defense-in-depth against unjust convictions. After all, no organization made up of humans can be perfect, and t
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by sparky_z 10y ago
I believe it's just 6 of the lectures, selected for their accessibility to a general audience (i.e., lack of mathyness).
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's important to know whether or not his estate would retain control in the event of his death.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's something a lot of people want but most workplaces won't accept.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's not the same. If you only ever needed to chat with one person at a time, and it didn't matter who that person was, and there was nothing stopping you from downloading multiple apps just to see who's out there to chat wit
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Sadly, a lot of people see a causal relationship between those two observations.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
See also: Ciabatta Bread. I always assumed it had deep historical roots in Italian culinary tradition, but turns out it was invented by some Italian baker in the 1980s who was envious of the French and their baguettes.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
...unless you're working with indexes higher than 3. Or am I missing something?
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Wouldn't it be just the opposite? If, say, 5% of the ketchup is currently left in the bottle when it's thrown away, that means customers who buy the new bottles will get 5% more usable ketchup for their money. As long as they&#x27
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by sparky_z 10y ago
> No word on what his rival thought about it! Not sure if you're joking, but of course we do know. His rival, Andrew Jackson, was livid. He accused Adams (with some justification, but nothing proven) of striking a "corrupt ba
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by sparky_z 10y ago
> because there's been plenty of experience with what can happen if they can be. Such as? Was there ever a time in the history of modern democracies where "vote receipts" were actually used and caused problems? I was under
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's a Hamilton reference. Mods will change it.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
No, in this case I disagree. You could say the same thing, word for word, about any real-world ideology and it would be equally true. If you think I'm wrong about that, I would like a concrete example. (Maybe you think I'm trying
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by sparky_z 10y ago
> Sure, but not everyone enjoys spending their time engaging with Nazi rhetoric. There are plenty of places outside of Twitter where you can actually choose whether or not to have a discussion. You could say the exact same thing about li
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Not sure what you mean.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
In the aggregate, karma is a measure of volume, not of quality. Members with lots of karma are often the ones who spend all of their free time writing comments and submitting links, focusing on quick, easy wins. There's no reason to th
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by sparky_z 10y ago
> If prescription anti-depressants worked, wouldn't Americans be the happiest people ever? Just like depression is more complicated than "not happy enough", anti-depressants are more complicated than "drugs that make
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It was a "component" of a nuclear weapon (the other component being the plutonium core). A cannon doesn't stop being a cannon just because you take out the gunpowder and fill it with sand. It may not be at risk of going off a
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Hardly. Whether or not something is a ripoff is orthogonal to whether or not you can afford it.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
That's what happens if you decline the commitment. But what if you break the commitment? (That is, accept the commitment but discriminate anyway). I'll bet nothing at all, unless an egregious incident starts trending on social med
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Perhaps for the individual (all else being equal), but for the group it is detrimental. It incentivizes your coworkers to come in sick (to conserve precious PTO days they can use for actual vacations/traveling), potentially getting you
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Pretty much impossible to buy a high-quality dumb tv these days. Better to just ignore the "SmartTV" features when shopping around, and then use your own solution.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is that, when affiliate fees are your only source of revenue, replacing all your $4 fees with $6 fees increases revenue by 50%. That's potentially huge. If you're running the company, you
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Yes, that's the point I was trying to make. They've cultivated a reputation for independence, despite possible conflicts of interest, but that's more difficult to maintain when your customer base knows you are exposed to adve
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by sparky_z 10y ago
No, it's saying there's no mechanism (aside from directly modifying the game code) with which to move the spawner into a position that works. It's not saying that no such position exists.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
No, the video is saying that if the coin spawner were in the usual location (above ground) it would work fine. It postulates that this was an oversight: at one point the ground was raised (to provide a ramp for the bowling balls) and they
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's definitely concerning, but doesn't an affiliate link business model also have potential conflicts of interest? There's a direct financial incentive to recommend products from sellers with more generous referral programs
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Well, they didn't call it Brinrank :)

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