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by wahern 3mo ago
s/Napoleonic code/civil law/. Don't think Spain or Latin America directly adopted Napoleonic code stuff directly, though maybe later through reform efforts. Either way continental civil law was always big on formal state
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by wahern 3mo ago
Very small, less than a few kilobytes, and many less than 1KB. I was compressing and embedding Lua source files individually. There were smarter ways to do it if I cared about overall size, but doing it per file kept the build simple. I spe
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by wahern 3mo ago
> without government controlled land registry. De Soto describes the exact opposite situation. Latin America inherited Napoleonic property law, which only recognized property ownership when formally registered, which required quite alot
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by wahern 3mo ago
The problem is you also can't [easily] go fishing looking for parallel construction. Part of a parallel construction scheme is maintaining plausible deniability for the prosecution team and the trial witnesses. Prosecutors sometimes li
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by wahern 3mo ago
Condemnation proceedings are the exception. Most of the time, the entity taking the land under the threat of eminent domain offers substantially above FMV, if only because condemnation proceedings cost money and, more importantly, time. Som
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by wahern 3mo ago
It's more misleading than that. The power line that "may" "primarily"[1] serve a private data center has started construction "after nearly 20 years of planning, permitting and lawsuits"[2]. Per usual, NIM
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by wahern 3mo ago
> empiricism, loyalty, and the great man theory. One of those things is not like the others. Presumably you had another word in mind.
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by wahern 3mo ago
s/universe/observable universe/
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by wahern 3mo ago
In the 1984 Social Security was in the same situation it was today. To balance things Congress (among other lesser measures) set a new schedule for bumping the retirement age, the last step of which only took effect recently. It's not
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by wahern 3mo ago
The narrative and word choices are deliberate. Republicans want to get rid of Social Security. So the narrative is Social Security is fundamentally broken, and it can be silently ended through passive negligence without having to take respo
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by wahern 3mo ago
Doesn't directly answer your question, but the CNBC article appears to be correct. See https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statement-boeing-airworthin... > The FAA stopped allowing Boeing to issue airworthiness ce
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by wahern 3mo ago
AFAIU, when beef prices started to spike a year or two ago, ranchers decided to cash in and slaughter much of their herd, including breeding stock. This was on top of a decades-long decline in herd size, and a recent drought that has driven
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by wahern 3mo ago
I built a benchmark harness for exploring compression of Lua script source files embedded in a Lua app binary as individual static constant C arrays. I settled on gzip, specifically deflate/inflate. Deflate does as well or better for s
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by wahern 3mo ago
Pigs, chickens, rats, and humans all have different thresholds and responses to hypoxia, and CO2 in particular. What might be humane for humans can be extremely distressing and painful for a particular animal, and vice-versa. There's a
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by wahern 3mo ago
This is true in Singapore and Malaysia, as well, where Filipino or Indonesian cooks and housekeepers are extremely common, as are separate entrances--typically into the kitchen. In Malaysia there's an odd situation, the reverse of the
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by wahern 3mo ago
Serfdom wasn't legally abolished in Russia until 1861. Slavery was technically abolished in the late 1700s, but in some areas serfs were still bought and sold like chattel until the end of serfdom. The Ottoman Empire legally abolished
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by wahern 3mo ago
You can do it in Canada. Canada is on a euthanasia tear, and something like 3-4% of all deaths are by euthanasia or assisted suicide, and on track to reach double digits in the coming years. But euthanasia for dementia is a fine ethical lin
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by wahern 3mo ago
Room & board constitutes 1/2 - 2/3 of the cost of undergraduate school. Even in European countries with free tuition (and that's not as common as you think) students still often must take out loans for living costs. With
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by wahern 3mo ago
Nobody in Ukraine is separated from the carnage, least of all the soldiers. The value in the points system is in communicating target priorities down the line. It's just another technological improvement in the vein of, say, the radio.
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by wahern 3mo ago
The point was just that gameification is just a modern word that doesn't reflect any change in behaviors. Presumably you were familiar with these practices under previous descriptors. And your moral objections would have been shared by
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by wahern 3mo ago
Temporal API seems to be based around Unix/POSIX timestamps, which ignore leap seconds. In Unix time a day is always 86400 "seconds". This makes it trivial to do UTC calendar arithmetic into the past and future without recour
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by wahern 3mo ago
There's nothing new about earning "points" for kills. Warriors have always tallied their kills and displayed their numbers, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_marking or https://en.wik
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by wahern 3mo ago
To the extent Xi Jinping isn't seriously interested in invading Taiwan (and that seems dubious), he still needs to keep the PLA and other factions thinking he does. Reclaiming Taiwan is a pillar of PLA ideology and strategic doctrine.
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by wahern 3mo ago
According to https://openai.com/index/patch-the-planet/ Linux: 24 LPEs, plus many additional vulnerabilities. OpenBSD: 1 LPE. FreeBSD: 7 LPEs, plus many additional vulnerabilities. Not sure what that says, though.
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by wahern 3mo ago
> A state of affairs you can thank the US for. Egypt was a military dictatorship long before they were American allies. You can thank Nasser for that. Repproachment with Egypt in the 1970s was a diplomatic effort to stop the fighting bet
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by wahern 3mo ago
I don't understand the conflation of multiplexing and multicasting. Are we talking about the same multicasting? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast ) Regarding QUIC CPU load, at least as of a year or two ag
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by wahern 3mo ago
Yes and no. Had there been more demand it would still be around, of course. But one of the reasons (albeit a lesser reason) there wasn't much demand was because of the antiquated engine tech. The poor A380 fuel efficiency competitivene
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by wahern 3mo ago
> I think a lot of the jet engine manufacturers are seeing this same corporate rot process, the number of high profile scandals across the industry and reports of insiders on how the number crunchers are taking over the business are stra
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by wahern 3mo ago
Weapons systems like the Tomahawk and HIMARS are continually evolved, especially the electronic systems like navigation and command+control. The iteration isn't nearly as fast as in other industries, but the modern incarnations are not
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by wahern 3mo ago
I couldn't find any evidence Google pushed QUIC with the aspiration of utilizing IP multicast. In 2022 an RFC for adding multicast support to QUIC was published, but backed by Akamai, not Google. And of course the RFC has the caveat th

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