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by xyzzyz 3y ago
I don’t think that non-school public (ie. government-ran) libraries here are any different from legal perspective: since I am funding my local public library, and since the library has a limited budget, I expect to have a say as a voter as
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I do not believe there is any sort of “ring fence” between schools and politics. The entire point of public school boards and elections thereto is to enable voters to exercise the political control over the branch of government that is prov
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You cannot bring it to a final calculus exam in many public universities, for example. If you want to complain that this is not what you meant by “banning” books, I fully agree with you, but that’s the whole issue here: activists decided to
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
None of these laws punishes possession, printing and reading any books, and the only distribution restrictions are about some public libraries (typically school ones), which are directed to not stock these books, but otherwise there are no
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> Until relatively recently in the US, "banning books" was widely considered one of those morally reprehensible things that only authoritarian governments did, and people were outraged that the US did it at all. This is why I l
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Every single book is “banned” from “somewhere” in the US, so your 1) is true, but vacuously so.
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> Irregular bans are ideologically driven. > They are supplemental to and fall outside of the standard book exclusion process at schools and libraries. Standard exclusions prevent books that promote violent, hateful, or mature/17
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
This article is just NYTimes grasping at straws, trying to conjure a narrative that’s completely foreign to 99.999% low wage workers. Non-compete clauses are not “concerningly common”, these are in fact so rare that NYT couldn’t even point
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I don’t think Walmart cashiers are saddled with non compete. You might have a good point here, but you will fail to get it across if you frame it in such ludicrous, obviously false way.
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In practice, all matrices are diagonalizable, because the set of non-diagonalizable matrices is very small. Concretely, a random matrix is almost surely diagonalizable (ie. with probability 1).
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We are on leaded fuel precisely because FAA makes it too hard to certify new GA engines. Private companies have every incentive to use better, cheaper and more reliable tech, and consumers want them too. Without FAA, we’d long be flying on
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The first one is for Software Engineer, and the second one is for Senior Software Engineer. The difference is in level.
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You can’t have them both “cheap” and “everywhere”.
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Yes, the Americans are not as effective at war on drugs as Europeans, which is why we have very high rates of death from overdoes, which is the main driver of low life expectancy.
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> The Europeans did it by requiring companies to abide by their new law or pay out fines(basically a quasitax) This works only because EU is a relatively big and wealthy economy. If, say, Chile or Botswana tried to do the same, US compan
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I know that you are just trying to make a point, but just to be clear: no paper maker in US is importing Amazon trees to make paper out of them. That would be exceedingly idiotic from profit-making perspective.
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> I also find puzzling, that I remember people being outraged if country X done something and now when something like this gets done in Western countries, there is very much indifference. This also works the other way around. For example
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No, that’s not right. Cellulose decomposition is easy. You are probably thinking about lignin decomposition, which is typically done by fungi, not bacteria.
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You don’t need to be very accurate, because the cost of storage is enormous even if you’re off by factor of 5. Try it yourself: start from here https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ and calculate h
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Same can be said about cities: they are vulnerable to water issues (if a city loses access to water, it’s a major disaster), and military can weaponize them as fortification. Does it mean that we shouldn’t build cities? No, obviously not, t
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Rust is winning market from C and C++ precisely because of strong technical leadership and direction. It couldn’t have made much progress by taking similar hands off approach as C, because C is already more than good enough C.
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> But many of the solutions to these problems are already ruled out in the USA. And that's precisely because the US has attempted to carry on slavery by other means. If you look carefully, you can see that the American obsession wit
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We used to have vagrancy laws too, and jailed hobos for being a nuisance.
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Even aluminum foil can do wonders here.
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> Having immigrant intent is not a barrier to admission on a dual-intent visa. H-1s do not have to demonstrate that they have a "residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning" and "the H category i
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Filtering particulates in interior spaces is relatively easy, and when moving between them, you can wear a mask. Of course, this is very inconvenient, but it is so no matter whether the fire is a prescribed burn or a wildfire. Having to mo
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> It's considered a dual-intent visa by USCIS which means that the USCIS also sees it as the first step to permanent immigration and naturalization. The way the “dual intent” thing works is not by making it a non-temporary, or immig
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This is not a consensus view by legal scholars. While a consensus view is that abortion of a quick fetus had clearly been seen as a “heinous crime” in common law, many argue that abortion in general has also been seen as unlawful, just no
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
You are confusing “not guilty” with “not convicted”. We know that most guilty people never end up convicted, this is the whole problem.
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Naive do-gooders, who do not care about the non profits losing the bond money, because they never learn about it. Non profits don’t care either, as they get their cut anyway, and get good feelings too.

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