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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Yeah, I sadly only heard about it, not actually witnessed it. It doesn't really work anymore, unfortunately, and criminals are kept alongside normal people for far longer than acceptable.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
“Patient care” is not the ultimate good. It must trade off against other priorities in the society. We cannot dedicate 100% of our resources to patient care. This means that even public healthcare systems must operate on a budget, the resou
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
If aviation fuel was taxed at 100%, the ticket prices would only go up 20%. This alone would not make trains significantly more competitive. Generally speaking, though, it doesn’t make sense to compare subsidies and taxes individually. Both
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> Maternal milk is better than formula in every possible way and there is a perfect scientific consensus around this. I have not seen result like this obtained in a randomized, controlled trial, and it is almost certainly false as stated
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Oh, I did not meant to imply that the framework necessarily makes it so that the results open like a softened, rubbed nut, as Grothendieck said; I don't quite agree with that. For me, the benefit is rather in building a mental framewor
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
The above definition (analytic function on a moduli space of elliptic curve) actually extends in a natural way. I haven’t known what modular forms were before the parent comment, but I know algebraic geometry, and so it is natural for me to
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> Because in some ways society really is a sort of expanding zero-sum game. When one group declines, another group defacto rises. Yeah, in exponential processes, the exact value of the base matters exponentially.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
That's hilarious to me -- I took two courses in Complex Analysis, 4 courses in Algebraic Geometry, can prove Riemann-Roch theorem, and also still don't know what modular forms are. They have always been just beyond the horizon, ri
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Yes, you have not given a single example of “the kind of military-grade firearms we see used in mass murders in the U.S” that’s banned by Switzerland. This is what “utter lack of evidence” means. The fact that instead of doing that, you seg
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
No, it is you who keep moving the goalposts. The original claim was: > Switzerland has strict gun laws that mostly ban the kind of military-grade firearms we see used in mass murders in the U.S. And this is clearly false: you have not
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
No, because this doesn’t ban anything that’s in common use in US. The 30 rounds magazines in common use in US do not count as “large magazines” for the purposes of that Swiss law, because these are normal capacity magazines. As I said, yo
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Yes, you can follow that link and find that you are completely wrong. Please name one weapon that is “military grade”, commonly available in US, but banned in Switzerland. You can’t, because you’re wrong.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> Switzerland has strict gun laws that mostly ban the kind of military-grade firearms we see used in mass murders in the U.S. This is completely, verifiably false. It even contradicts the rest of your comment, where you quote: > After
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
This is not so: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secu
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
"You can say anything you want as long as it doesn't break the law" is rather weak standard for free speech, in fact it makes the mockery of the concept. By this token, Soviet Union and North Korea also have free speech: crit
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Your link only refers to religious sensibilities, and I specifically mentioned secular sensibilities as well, precisely to preempt this sort of retort. For example, France is marked green in your link, but it very much does exactly what I
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Yeah, US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen. Most European countries will happily punish you for your speech if it offends the prevailing sensibilities, religious or secular.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
What Anduril is trying to do is to first build product that they think the customers will need, on their own dime, and with no exact specs from DoD or anyone else, and then present the (more or less) finished product to the customer, and te
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Maybe then tweet something to the effect of “we are extremely sorry, and we would love to continue having Anduril as sponsor and part of the community, but because of a screw up on our part, we didn’t realize we need to comply with venue re
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Do you mean Wh/mi? I don’t even know what W/mi would mean as a unit here.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
No, not the ones that are under discussion.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Sorry, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. > "is there anything that would prevent you from obtaining a clearance?" If SpaceX asked that, it would be even easier for govies to prosecute them, because
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Yes, it's not like we can hold the government to the same standard that the government tries hold the private companies to. Clearly, government couldn't possibly be expected to follow the regulations it imposes on everyone else.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
The point is that they earned this authority, because their planes fly, whereas, for example, experts on childhood education cannot point to such obvious undeniable achievement that laypeople cannot reach.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Brooklyn in 1980s was a decrepit criminal hellscape, no wonder prices were so low. I’m quite sure you can afford to buy a place in Detroit or Indianapolis, maybe in 40 years one of these will turn around like NYC did.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
The land yachts were only barely lighter than modern SUVs or trucks. The weight difference between Crown Vic and a new Ford F-150 is 2 extra passengers worth of weight. F-150 gets better gas mileage and lower emissions too.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
I am a heavy UHaul user, and at least here, it is crucially important to know which location to use. Where I am, some locations are consistently fine, others are okay but busy, and some are busy and atrocious.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
The poster you are responding to is referring to misdesigned Obama-era CAFE efficiency standards, which created an incentive for companies to build bigger, heavier cars and classify them as light trucks or SUVs, because the customers did no
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Cloud customers love it when they can just attach stuff to their VMs without having to recreate them or even reboot them.
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> It's possible to plant big trees but it requires heavy machinery as root are large. Mature trees are also simply expensive by itself, as they require many years to grow. They are expensive to transport, and the transplant frequent

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