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by stbede 5mo ago
A two millennia old institution rarely operates on the scale of decades. The workers’ rights movement may have become a pressing political issue then, but workers have been around for thousands of years. Most genuinely new ideas are actuall
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by stbede 6mo ago
Yes, but the thing causing the pain may still be there
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by stbede 7mo ago
So she died of cancer
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by stbede 7mo ago
The current pope is a little more traditional, but it’s hard not to be more traditional than Francis. However, the cardinals as a whole are more or less on board with the previous pope’s agenda, American bishops a little less so, and many A
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by stbede 7mo ago
European Protestantism and American Protestantism differ in substantial ways. Crudely, European Protestantism went the way of Hegelian dialectics and evolving beyond the Christianity of the Bible. American (conservative) Protestantism large
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by stbede 7mo ago
> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain I think right now it’s the exact opposite.
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by stbede 7mo ago
American religions are more like American Indian tribal nations. They have independent jurisdiction and their income is not subject to taxation. Whether or not they engage in politics is completely their prerogative and has no bearing on th
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by stbede 8mo ago
The original law (like many laws that delegated congressional authorities at the time) contained a legislative veto provision which gave the legislative final oversight of any administrative action. In the 80’s the Supreme Court found that
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by stbede 8mo ago
But that kind of recklessness is malice
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by stbede 8mo ago
“In any statutory definition of a crime ‘malice’ must be taken not in the old vague sense of ‘wickedness’ in general, but as requiring either (i) an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that was in fact done, or (ii) recklessn
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by stbede 3y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect is not well established. It often doesn't reproduce. Also the effect isn't that people misjudge their knowledge, it's that they misjudge their place within a distribution. Suppose I give an exam to 3
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by stbede 3y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by stbede 3y ago
They are about $500 on the cheap end if I'm not mistaken.
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by stbede 3y ago
At least where I live, it's a requirement in order to operate a business. If you go anywhere and ask for their AED and they don't have one they can be shut down.
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by stbede 3y ago
The mass of the earth dictates the acceleration of the individual masses towards the earth. However the acceleration of the earth itself towards the masses are dependent on how much mass is falling towards the earth. When more mass is falli
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by stbede 4y ago
But what prevents a human from digitally signing content generated by an AI?
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by stbede 4y ago
Increasingly, medical history includes genetic information. Because of the nature of genetics, your private healthcare data includes data about your parents, siblings, etc. > Dropping patient history into this thing is incredibly ill-adv
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by stbede 4y ago
In a capitalist economy with several major AI competitors, two of which already offers search for free.
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by stbede 4y ago
> I don’t know how bank stress tests work, but... SVB would have passed stress tests because they did what all banks were supposed to do. They invested in "safe" long term treasuries. The only economic environment hypothetical
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by stbede 4y ago
I don't care if SMS goes away for good, but whatever replaces it should be a different universal standard that can/will be implemented by carriers. I'm not going to purchase a smartphone just so that I can use a fancy messagi
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by stbede 4y ago
The irony of the quoted Robert Frost poem > Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. is that Frost's line is sarcastic. He wrote this poem about a friend that would