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by wat10000 4mo ago
An arbitrary score that's meant to represent said years, not the actual output of those years. It's important to remember that money is not value. It's a score that's meant to represent value, but the value itself is ent
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The American electorate seems quite happy to elect people who will sabotage the US economy, so that isn't any reassurance that it won't happen. Tariffs are currently going up and down based on a single man's whims.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It's hardly a second order effect if you're talking about heating a space and the light is absorbed by the walls of that space.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Should have rolled the cost of the soda into your damages in the lawsuit.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
What do you count as "officials"? I doubt some random manager at the FAA or CFPB took bribes. The rank and file tend to take this stuff seriously. The high-level appointees? Yeah, I'd believe it if most of them had to go. And
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Even if it's politically motivated, it's still punishment for a real and serious crime. Compare to prosecuting someone for touching a pool that the president happens to really care about for no good reason.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
This company sells buttons for Teslas: https://www.enhauto.com/pages/buttons The "cloud features included" line amuses me greatly given the low-tech theme.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
They clearly did have a desire to borrow that book, as evidenced by the fact that they borrowed it of their own free will. You’ve just arbitrarily decided that their reason is unworthy.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Nobody's going to be looking for a venue for a wedding or a whale biology conference and think, that hotel looks nice, but they canceled Palantir, so they just can't be trusted.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
That's fair. I assumed the investigation began earlier, but it looks like it didn't start until 2025. In that case I'd say they both screwed it up. Investigating and then imposing a tiny fine seems slightly worse, since it pr
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by wat10000 4mo ago
You’d think he could have done better, what with all that foreign policy experience from his years on The Apprentice.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
In addition to that, while it is possible to hit a delay and run out of buffer because memory access is slow (the most obvious would be if the input got swapped to disk at an inopportune moment), but the audible effect is really obvious.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I'd distinguish between differences that anyone can detect but some may not care about, and differences that may not be objectively detectable at all. Muscle cars, at least, are different in a way that anyone can see. Push that pedal t
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Surely the relevant question is who was in charge when the punishment was decided, not who was in charge when the misbehavior occurred.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
How many animals have wheels? And yet wheels are a pretty practical choice for a lot of things.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Tesla runs its stuff on ~150 watts of local compute that's bundled into the price of the car. The $99/month is just to rent the software.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I’d take it farther. If you knew, or a reasonable person should have known, that this sort of thing might happen (for example, because you signed a time-limited licensing agreement), then you’ve lied for financial gain. The legal term for t
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Less toxic stuff is always good. My point is just that the conversation around nuclear waste is weird and it seems like it's due to flaws in human perception, where "tens of thousands of years" feels worse than "forever,
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by wat10000 4mo ago
What happens to a diplomat if they don't show up for the suit or comply with any judgment?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The 14th Amendment was largely codifying how things had been done before, plus insisting that, yes, it also applies to black people.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Are you saying birthright citizenship played a significant factor in getting Trump elected? Illegal immigration certainly did, but birthright citizenship played roughly no role from what I saw. I'm not sure what you consider to qualify
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by wat10000 4mo ago
No, I haven't dealt with radioactive substances beyond what's found in ordinary households. But I'm not a complete ignoramus as you imply. Have you at least done a search on how much non-radioactive waste there is? Spoiler,
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The waste thing is weird. We're able to dispose of other highly toxic substances. One dangerous thing frequently mentioned about nuclear waste is that it remains dangerous for thousands of years. But many other dangerous substances rem
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Seems to work fine. Dozens of countries do this. It's not some weird hypothetical nor is the US some bizarre outlier.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It’s no skin off my back. Why should I give a shit?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
This wouldn't really be applying laws retroactively, but deciding what the law has always meant. If the decided meaning is that children of illegal immigrants are not automatically citizens, that means they weren't automatically
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Why do people act like the sky is suddenly falling when the Court just keeps things as they have been for two and a half centuries?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It's not that rare. Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere does it this way.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The question of whether babies born to foreign tourists are automatically citizens is separate from the question of whether this is desirable. On the desirability side of things, it's been this way for the entire history of this countr
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It was a pretty inherently expansionist ideology. Even if you skip over that, the same idiocy that got them into an unwinnable war with half the world applied elsewhere. I doubt the good times would have lasted either way. In any case, rega

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