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by tocs3 8d ago
People did not think this policy through fully. It seams more likely that it was thought through and officials just don't care.
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by tocs3 8d ago
I think it is important because the case was not about guilt or innocence. It was about the governments right to search without any cause. If the case was about whether there was enough cause for the search we would be having a much differe
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by tocs3 8d ago
Near the top of the article: “Today’s decision leaves Americans’ most sensitive information open to search at the border without any suspicion at all,” I think this is just an extension of a general we, as government officials protecting
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by tocs3 9d ago
What are the things that campaigns spend money on that really makes a difference in outcomes. Is it plastic signs in peoples yards, advertising, paying for news stories. I have a hard time believing voters hear candidate X raised more mone
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by tocs3 10d ago
There is a cap to how much and insurance company can make (health insurance for instance are capped at 20% of premiums). To make more money next year they can sign up more policy holders or make sure costs go up. Companies also often have a
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by tocs3 11d ago
Sure there are valid uses for insurance. It is just the incentives are all wrong for the insurance companies.
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by tocs3 11d ago
Holding actual people liable sounds like a more effective option. The insurance would just be included into the cost of doing business and make everything more expensive. Insurance makes everything worse. Holding actual humans liable (with
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by tocs3 12d ago
I would like to see it go into more philanthropic endeavors. Of course, setting aside for a reasonably comfortable future is important also. Some luxuries are always nice but are they really going to be that great when you get old enough t
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by tocs3 14d ago
I do not know but I think I am happy about this. I have savings. I worry though inflation will rise and make the money worth less.
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by tocs3 16d ago
I think it is not just colors.
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by tocs3 17d ago
This is slightly disappointing finding for me. I tend to walk a little slow (and do everything a little slow). Mybe I can be an outlier.
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by tocs3 17d ago
You can do the same with wood, just do not glue it. On the other hand there is something to be said for making something that looks a certain way (even if it is hidden in the final presentation) for the enjoyment of the craft person. On the
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by tocs3 17d ago
I have not been to Mexico City or Vancouver but would like to see both. It seems much of the US (and maybe the rest of the world, I don't know) is becoming very homogenized. Especially along large roads and highways. This is not a new
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by tocs3 18d ago
I think the democrats are just little behind the times. It is getting ease to just make direct payments to politicians theses days.
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Object A – Visible Passes(heavens-above.com)
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by tocs3 22d ago
My reply here is just bout the one quote. I more or less agree with the sentiment of your post. But.. Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!? I think the point of the game tetris is to build a wall or at least could be tho
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by tocs3 25d ago
I really like this and may have to try to make a poster.
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by tocs3 25d ago
I think it is more like human values are so all over the place that there is no real meaning in the phrase. For all my life I have heard, from humans, everything from peace and love to destroy all humanity. Then there is everything found in
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by tocs3 25d ago
So, what is going on here. It seems like I have been reading similar stories. Are researchers giving a prompt like "Do your worst. Hack into some business" or giving free access to a bunch of tools and prompting "Do something
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by tocs3 28d ago
It looked a little interesting but I am not so sure I really like it. It does not seem to really explain so much as show another way to represent things. Such as In 1+2×3 why does 2×3 go first? My understanding of things is that it is con
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by tocs3 1mo ago
I was listening to a math podcast a while back and someone said "I am a conservative" and then was quick to add "with a small c". That might be an important distinction.
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by tocs3 1mo ago
We live in a big modern world there some options that are not really available. As if we are stuck in a really wide raging river. We are not going to be going upstream regardless our desires. Saying stop I want out is not really an option.
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by tocs3 1mo ago
Some things I would like to see are pedal controlled devices. Something like a pedal controlled wheelchair, not powered by the pedals just control the forward and back motion. My mother with sever arthritis can still pedal but has a very ha
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by tocs3 1mo ago
This is a little "Follow your dreams", not really bad or wrong just a little narrow minded. Some good companion thoughts might be found in Grant Sanderson's commencement speech a few years ago ( https://www.3blue1br
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by tocs3 1mo ago
Ok, I do not know how knowledgeable this guy Terence Tao is. The first line in the paper is: As any car driver knows, it is possible to maneuver a car into a tight parking spot, or to perform a U-turn in a narrow street, by performing a se
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by tocs3 1mo ago
The notion (right or wrong) is that consumers payed for the tariffs. Target may have not passed on the cost at the time but they still made a $1B profit. Now they are getting $1B on top of that. The consumers that might have payed lower pri
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by tocs3 1mo ago
I am not so sure the United States as a whole will even notice. Looking around I am not really sure that the US is even noticing that the US has a space program. I have been a bit isolated for the past few years and do not really talk to ma
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by tocs3 1mo ago
In some sense "understanding" (understanding if it is true, if it is important, how to use it) is about the only bottleneck in math. Any theorem that you can write down or imagine is already true, false, not provable already. In s
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by tocs3 1mo ago
If I need a mathematical solution to my problem (my fusion reactor is not working) it is not quite good enough to know that some theorem is correct. I need to know how it applies. If I want to use some argument about history (US Civil War f
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by tocs3 1mo ago
Maybe the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series was predictive in pointing out the problems of ill defined questions (The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything).

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