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by toss1 1y ago
I'm not talking expert-professional-level knowledge. Merely sufficient familiarity with the STEM, History, etc. to be able to pass undergrad distributive requirements. In this age, if you do not have a clue about how the scientific pr
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by toss1 1y ago
I've long thought sortition could be adapted for our government and make it more democratic. Properly randomized selection among the qualified and willing would ensure no one has a sufficient chance of great power to make it worth atte
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Most scientists aren’t trying to mislead anyone, but because they face strong incentives to present favorable results , there’s still a risk that you’ll be misled. >>We also found evidence, once again, that researchers tend n
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by toss1 1y ago
>>This is kind of how plywood is made - take wood chips and glue and press them together. You are evidently thinking of chipboard, not plywood. Chipboard (also known as Particle Board), is a wood composite material of wood chips and s
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup. As H. L. Mencken observed in 1926 [0]: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the North American public." Perhaps there should be an event next year to note the centenary of that astute observation, which
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by toss1 1y ago
Umm, the simplest tech to actually do the job. I wasn't talking about adjusting prices by the hour, more like by the week or month, but as you point out, with a toll system, it would be straightforward to do real-time updates. So, zoo
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Ideally, they wouldn't change it more than, say, nine months out So, the system is highly unresponsive compared to adjusting a toll +/- a small amount for changing conditions The system is also completely unresponsive to t
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by toss1 1y ago
Of course everything can be computed. I'm talking more of the overhead for every single person who might want to come into the city on a given day — they will need to check and work their schedules around 1) being sure to check the c
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by toss1 1y ago
I agree adding exemption tokens or 'ding count' is a good idea. But YES, I am arguing: 1) random selection creates both substantial unfairness and cost on people who through no fault of their own have schedule issues, when compare
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by toss1 1y ago
>>why are you begging, and why should I give you anything, if you can afford cigarettes? The expense profile of a motor vehicle in the USA in 2025 is quite different than cigarettes. And yes, if you are buying two packs per day of cig
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by toss1 1y ago
Operating as designed. If you have a car, you can already afford purchase/lease, insurance, registration, fuel, maintenance, etc., so affording a reasonable and variable toll is not an issue. If your need to take that vehicle into that
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by toss1 1y ago
Of course congress can delegate powers, and yes, it is certainly necessary for implementing regulations. Plus, abandoning the Chevron decision framework was IMO, a very bad move by SCOTUS, but respecting the SCOTUS decision in that case ma
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by toss1 1y ago
NO. People also voted for every other authoritarian who converted their democracy into an autocracy. That does not mean they endorsed in advance every subsequent action by that dictator. The constitution specifically states: "The Congr
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by toss1 1y ago
On average? Maybe not. But that is not the point; it's the massive info imbalance between US vs China population I would bet, of the US 48% who read above a 6th-grade level, at least 2/3 of them know the rate is well over 100%. Th
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by toss1 1y ago
>>When you grow up in those conditions, it’s like you’re the kid of a rich person who made all the money, and you now feel entitled to it without any of the work it took to get here, and without experiencing the pain without it or the
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Which in context of the conversation, means nothing. Umm, it's the central point —» Which population is more prepared and willing to endure deprivation to win a trade war? Those multi-generational experience of safety, stabili
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by toss1 1y ago
Agree the US is ill-prepared (and less-prepared vs Chins) for any kind of war, trade or otherwise, which was the point of the analyst I cited. I won't dispute that the median reality for most people is far less than ideal. Yet from a
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by toss1 1y ago
Sure, maybe she's wrong and the US population is actually hardened, tough, and patriotic enough to get over their divisions and unite to support tariffs. I'm looking at it from a general historic perspective. Just look back 100 y
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup Heard an interesting analysis by a Bloomberg Radio guest, running down the advantages/disadvantages between US and China. They came out mostly balanced, but the big imbalance is the population. The US population is a LOT less toler
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by toss1 1y ago
There is a reason high tariffs are only implemented after very long, multi-generational intervals, e.g., 1820s, 1890s, 1930s, 2020s. The consequences are so bad that everyone who remembers the disasters brought on by high tariffs must be de
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by toss1 1y ago
Defense and Offense are not the same. Crime and Justice are not the same. If you cannot figure that out, you ARE a major part of the problem. Keep thinking until you figure it out for good.
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by toss1 1y ago
This sounds very much like an application begging to be done as a stand-alone company supporting these F500 companies. Could be very profitable as the basis for a service-provider model while you gain enough knowledge to product-ize and
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by toss1 1y ago
You can start right now with an algorithm I learned from an expert when I was working in a landscaping business. It is a very simple three-pass plan: "Deadwood, Crossovers, Aesthetics". So, first pass, go through the tree cutting
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by toss1 1y ago
That is also making a lot of assumptions that all cars will soon be mandatory internet-connected. I expect there will be a LOT of push-back on that one, and there are still also many areas without cell coverage. Would you expect all cars wo
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Is this merely adding a device to a criminal’s vehicle? For the topic of the post, YES The article was specifically about laws allowing a JUDGE to add a device to a specific convicted person's vehicle for a limited time. OF C
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by toss1 1y ago
Automated license-plate readers are a completely different topic And yes, I oppose those also, in large part because they are 1) a general dragnet against every traveler, 2) have zero specificity to any particular individual, and 3) have no
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by toss1 1y ago
OF COURSE NOT! It is impossible to implement a backdoor to a broadly-used encryption method for only specific criminal individuals - it is being implemented across the entire usage base. Adding a device to a specific criminal's vehicle
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by toss1 1y ago
>>monitoring everyone all the time and eliminating the ability to move from Point A to Point B privately That is a 100% strawman argument. NO ONE is proposing such measures No proposal, even the blanket EU requirements eliminate priva
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The Periodic Table of Primes (2024)(papers.ssrn.com)
7 points by toss1 2y ago|1 comments
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Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?(academic.oup.com)
73 points by toss1 2y ago|113 comments

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