tomoyoirl

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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
They’re treated as persons because they’re owned by persons, and it’s a lot easier to refer to the legal fiction than it is to invoke the legal rights of all the owners (whoever they may be). A programmer should recognize a useful form of e
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
Even if it was unclear, ending Chevron deference wouldn’t say “the agency can no longer make these policy interpretations.” It just means that a court ought to test whether that interpretation is in compliance with the law, when that comes
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
> it’s been going on for ages “All day long they work so hard Til the sun is going down Mending all the highways and byways And wearing, wearing a frown You hear them moaning their lives away Then you hear somebody say: That’s the soun
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
Sounds like this is an analogy better served by nuclear waste than by fissile material.
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
“Look! I filed my taxes and I got money back! Yay money!” (Could have had that money all along.)
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
But why would we do that? Nuclear fissile material is noted for its ability to be formed into weapons that generate dangerous explosions and substances both acutely and chronically hazardous to human life, increasing cancer risk. This is no
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
> You have a lot of faith, it seems, in the ability of the already rich to somehow make better decisions (by some metric) than an arbitrary political process A key advantage of leaving it to the rich is that when rich people fail, they t
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
> until we 'run out of workers', there is no reason to make anything more productive Labor force participation took a major hit during the pandemic worldwide and has not recovered; population growth is limited, and workers are
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
> One man's "lost productivity" is another's salary If that’s how we’re spinning it, forget the spinners and text editors altogether. Bring back the quill pen; surely it will restore many salaries!
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
It might be that PCs were the last of the huge productivity boosts… but saying there’s been “negative economic growth” since the advent of the PC or thereabouts is a pretty fringe take. It would necessarily imply basically every serious att
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
You seem to misunderstand. My objections to the change are minimal. It is the incompleteness of the change that is remarkable.
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
Maybe if they spun up a new cluster with new hostnames it’d say that. It doesn’t.
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
An organization that cared more about inclusivity than compliance would have done more.
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And the walk to work is a self-discipline solution!
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I wouldn’t call it nothing either. I’d call it “actually getting a decent amount of exercise,” something many struggle with.
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20% fuel savings is massive. At that point your safety evaluations need to consider the safety tradeoffs that arise because people decided to drive cars instead of flying, and died on the highway.
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by tomoyoirl 3y ago
The interest rate isn’t about loans you’ve taken. The interest rate on Treasuries is essentially the price of money. The value of an enterprise is the sum total of its discounted future cash flows. If interest rates are at 0% then a dollar