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by wat10000 1mo ago
The fun thing about being extremely vague is that it's inherently unsearchable. I can do a search and find reports of USPIS abuses, but I have no idea if they're the ones you're referring to or not, because you didn't sa
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by wat10000 1mo ago
"Specific" would involve some sort of detail about what these abuses were, or when they happened, or something beyond just "previous abuses of the US Postal Inspections Bureau."
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Your vague handwavey manner of writing sounds very presidential.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
That's just fear mongering. Absentee voting by mail has been a thing for centuries. Attempting to limit it to people who are unable to vote in person doesn't do anything to make it more secure, and is a very weak control. It'
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by wat10000 1mo ago
My read is that the Air Marshal was confirming a gap in the orders, which were amended after this flight. Less of a "what the hell were you thinking" and more of a "what the hell were we thinking allowing this in the first pl
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by wat10000 1mo ago
It even says “maybe this is just a retelling of stoicism.”
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by wat10000 1mo ago
I suppose that makes sense when "they" is politicians and media. It's just weird that pretty much nobody mentions the other official numbers. Politicians/media tend to talk about "the" number, but then so do pe
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Maybe I'm in a tech desert, but I can't remember the last time I was required to use an app for anything. It's a convenient option for my grocery store loyalty card, certain restaurant menus, my HVAC system, etc., but not m
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Living through it doesn't save you from having a selective view due to only seeing a tiny, tiny portion of the country, or just rose-tinted glasses. I've seen The Simpsons argument brought out a lot and it's weird to me. Home
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by wat10000 1mo ago
If you mean the memory that stores the actual tags associated with each 16-byte chunk of memory, that's a separate region that should be inaccessible except for using the special instructions for reading/writing tags.
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by wat10000 1mo ago
To expand a bit: 16-byte chunks of memory can be associated with a four bit tag. Then you steal four unused high bits from your pointers to store a tag value. When memory has a tag, a pointer used to access it must have the matching tag in
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by wat10000 1mo ago
> Means 51% unemployed people. I replied to what I replied to. You made a statement. Your statement is only true if my eight year old counts as unemployed. Where's the problem?
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by wat10000 1mo ago
According to this, around 6% of workers had multiple jobs in the 90s, versus 5% or a bit above today: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620 Frankly, the biggest reason for these sentiments is straight up false
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Property tax is already ubiquitous. LVT is almost the same, it just doesn't tax the value of structures on the land. Why would LVT be worse for this?
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by wat10000 1mo ago
Only if you count my eight year old as “unemployed.”
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by wat10000 1mo ago
This stuff drives me nuts. Everybody’s like “omg did you know that the unemployment rate doesn’t count people who stopped looking for work?!” Yes, I did know that, from the ten thousand times people said the same thing before you did. I als
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by wat10000 1mo ago
The places that are doing congestion pricing are not the places where your commute is 30 minutes by car but 90 minutes by bus.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
So when I go buy rum at the local liquor store, the price on the shelf is actually a tax? That's not what the word means. Land is a scarce resource. Roads require land. Charging money for access to land is extremely common.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Depends on how you use it. You can use AWS in a way that protects your data even if Amazon is compromised. You can even run LLM inference that way, but it doesn't seem at all common.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I don't think this should be described as a tax. It's paid access to a scarce resource, no different from a parking garage charging people to park. In this case it just happens to be a government-owned resource, but that doesn&#x2
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Is there any city implementing congestion pricing that doesn't have public transportation?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
People love density. What they don't like are some of the consequences of density, such as traffic. This alleviates a major consequence without getting rid of the stuff people like. If you don't like density, there are plenty
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by wat10000 2mo ago
A crime? Dude. Whatever you’re on, cut the dose.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Sorry, but how does using “swindle” in a way that’s completely divorced from how it’s normally used qualify as “grammar policing,” but comparing a small change to a scientific definition to a crime is somehow reasonable? Financial motives?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Rather ironic to complain about redefining a word by abusing another word beyond recognition.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
A swindle, really? Who got cheated out of money?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'm not sure about the tin-foil-hattedness of worrying about them violating their contract. But that's by-the-by. It is definitely not tin-foil-hat to worry about the data being taken in a breach.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
So if my ancestor was really into feeding the poor, I wouldn’t be honoring them if I fed a poor black person today because they were also racist and wouldn’t have thought that counted?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It was pretty well understood by the 1960s that smoking was harmful. The big tobacco settlement was in 1998 . That is an extremely bad example of tort being a sufficient alternative to regulation. If we're on a similar timeline with A
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by wat10000 2mo ago
There’s no way it relies on them. Google Maps wouldn’t go down if the register got pulled. They have made a policy decision to follow those registries.

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