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by tacon 3y ago
Top comment at the moment: "The breadth of subject matter here is sobering. What rights should a person have regarding their own bodily capability, including intelligence? Does that relate to a baseline of functionality, or a relative
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Black Swan – Dawn of the Super Soldier – I/Itsec 2023 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by tacon 3y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
That is a fascinating approach. Who signed this DMCA take down notice? Ladies and gentlemen, start your word processors to complain to his/her bar association and state attorney general. Start the DMCA Black List to name and shame.
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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)(scu.edu)
351 points by tacon 3y ago|137 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
>And further, as a juror, why would it enrage you to not see him comply? You say on a jury, you'd want to attack the defendant, but at that point you should not believe he is guilty, or innocent! This is a criminal trial, a formal p
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by tacon 3y ago
The most unbelievable behavior on cross was described by Tiffany Fong. The prosecutor asked Sam to read a section on "preventing clawbacks", which was a head and then some text underneath. Sam read the text underneath out loud.
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by tacon 3y ago
There is no parole in the Federal prison system.
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Our Declining Tolerance for Friction and Wild Concepts May Become Commonplace(implications.com)
2 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
I once read about several companies whose entire product was an Excel addin that did ... pivot tables. The average businessperson had never heard of the pivot table functionality built into Excel, and they were an easy sale for the magical
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by tacon 3y ago
>Are there any good connotations of that word? Of course there are: "a mention of a praiseworthy act or achievement in an official report, especially that of a member of the armed forces in wartime" Don't focus on the Nor
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Counterfactual Thinking, Rules, and the Knight Capital Accident (2013)(kitchensoap.com)
23 points by tacon 3y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
Your reference [2] is to the YouTube channel list. I think you meant to link to https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
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by tacon 3y ago
OP wrote something about the bank's name on the title. Did the OP have a correct title in hand? Without that, the car was not (yet) their legal property.
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Date Me Directory(stevekrouse.notion.site)
2 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
>This is where I buy arduino stuff. > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004305055818.html >And yes, the price is $.57 and $1.29 shipping. Its a total of $12.98 for 10 of 'em. And that includes USB cables
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by tacon 3y ago
The problem of fraud in the generic drug industry is the topic of the book "Bottle of Lies" by Katherine Eban[0]. She joined Peter Attia for a fantastic episode of his podcast[1]. It isn't often I burst out laughing while l
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by tacon 3y ago
It is already for sale on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805512900866.html
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Russian military's review of tactics that work for Ukrainian forces(twitter.com)
11 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
I once read in a book about sales about a tall, well-built athletic guy who was in outside sales. His problem: whenever he walked into a prospect's office, he could detect fear just from his imposing presence. He solved this problem
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by tacon 4y ago
Years ago, the author taught a MOOC covering parts of the book[0]. The course is archived on edX, and the videos are on YouTube[1]. It was fun starting from a super simple functional language and building to a dataflow functional language
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How to do hard things(every.to)
456 points by tacon 4y ago|151 comments
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You Probably Need a Robot(youprobablyneedarobot.com)
1 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
Your email form to follow the book is returning errors to me. And you have no other contact channels I can find. Might want to look into that.
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Offshoring crypto hurts the financial system says Coinbase(cnbc.com)
1 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
This. Can I contribute to your campaign somehow?
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A Physicist's View of DNA(arxiv.org)
1 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
In 1997 I attended an entrepreneur presentation about a newly patented technology where modulated headlights were a safety feature [0]. The inventor was an aging engineer and noticed he had a hard time seeing the road surface at night.
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by tacon 4y ago
>Many of those forces are close to Russian forces so a nuclear strike would endanger their own troops. If one thing is blindingly obvious lately, it is that Russia doesn't care about their own troops, only about winning. Peter Zeih
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On Scarcity(sicpers.info)
2 points by tacon 4y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
I thought COVID required lockdowns because symptoms only appear after days of being contagious. SARS definitely presented a fever very closely following infection, and thermal scans in airports were effective. Not so much for COVID.

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