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by zopa 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodwar... Different Ivy League school, but established a precedent that states must respect preexisting charters.
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by zopa 4y ago
To be a little pedantic, individual states maintained systems based on English common law, rather than the US as a whole adopting it. There’s famously no such thing as Federal common law. This matters in Louisiana, which has a civil and not
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by zopa 4y ago
I think you might be missing the context of the thread, but maybe you can expand on your point a bit. If it helps, you can safely read “I don’t really care about X” as “I think X is significantly more important than Y in this particular sit
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by zopa 4y ago
Correct. Or at least overlapping purposes
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by zopa 4y ago
Maybe no memorial but for sure an OSHA incident report. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/ There’s plenty of room for improvement. But it used to be that a 10,000 person steel mill could expect 1200 deaths and serious
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by zopa 4y ago
Maybe it’s all a facade, but in the U.S. such shows of concern have gotten us effective workplace safety regulation. I don’t really care if the politicians’ concern is fake: the avoided deaths are real.
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by zopa 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition I imagine you’re remembering that P -> Q does not mean ~ P -> ~Q. That’s right, but you can absolutely get to ~Q -> ~P.
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by zopa 4y ago
No need to wait: per Gene Wolf they’re also time travelers. They’ll come to you.
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by zopa 4y ago
Banks borrow short and lend long, and that’s both extremely useful and prone to catastrophic failure. So we have insurance for when things go wrong and regulation to ensure that unscrupulous banks don’t abuse the insurance by taking on too
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by zopa 4y ago
What earthly reason would anyone have to stay bought where SBF is concerned? He’s not going to donate again and he’s so radioactive you wouldn’t take the money if he somehow did.
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by zopa 4y ago
It’s not “from the union’s mouth”! The National Railway Labor Conference represents the railroads, not the workers: > National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC) is an association of all U.S. Class I freight railroads and many smaller freig
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by zopa 4y ago
The proposal to add seven sick days passed the House and got a majority in the Senate, mostly (though not quite exclusively) ‘blues’. It’s not who unions are voting for that’s the problem, it’s the filibuster.
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by zopa 4y ago
If you've got a way to distinguish between accurate foreknowledge and hubris, please share. Everybody thinks the party will never stop until it does.
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by zopa 4y ago
That's a fee paid to the Ethereum network, not to Coinbase itself, isn't it?
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by zopa 4y ago
It's not a bad idea but there's no "simply" about it: organizing is hard. And if you're one of the disgruntled companies, you have to balance the chances a campaign like this succeeds against the odds that Apple ret
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by zopa 4y ago
"This tax credit gets extended" is an outcome. "30 minutes with the Member and their chief of staff to discuss the vital importance of this tax credit to industry X" is not an outcome. You can problematize and subvert an
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by zopa 4y ago
Donations buy you access, not specific outcomes. Just the ability to get a hearing for whatever kinda-reasonable-ish parts of the stuff you want there might be is really, really valuable. And yes, both are corrupt, but one is business as us
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by zopa 4y ago
The approach you're describing sounds a lot like proof-search in idris and agda (coq too, I thing), and it's nicer than you think: you're very often working with definition-stubs created by automated case-splitting, which add
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by zopa 4y ago
If I made it sound like there's something like IntelliSense today, apologies! We've got < https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/blob/master/haskell-... >, but it's type-a-command-and
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by zopa 4y ago
> In something like Haskell I need to know upfront what I may do with some "object". The IDE can't help me discover the methods I need. All it can do is to show me all available functions in scope. Sorry, but this just isn
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by zopa 4y ago
Because we’re not the ones with the power. People with limited power pick the fights they might win, not the fights that maximize total welfare for everyone including large copyright holders. There’s no moral obligation to be a philosopher
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by zopa 4y ago
Debates are about convincing onlookers, not the person you're arguing with. Online, in the pub, everywhere.
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by zopa 4y ago
I'm not one of the downvoters, but: > they are finally ready to publicly admit to what they have clearly been planning and likely doing secretly for ages I'm not going to take a post like this seriously unless there's some
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by zopa 4y ago
> The downside might be people need to move inland. There's a lot of human suffering underneath that anodyne phrase. Deadly storms and refugee camps and all the rest. The trouble isn't the final temperature, it's the speed
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by zopa 4y ago
Keep in mind that what's being done here is research, not a US-only geoengineering campaign starting tomorrow. The interventions themselves wouldn't happen without some pretty serious diplomacy first. And of course we're alre
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by zopa 4y ago
True but there's also decreasing marginal utility for each duplicate. A second telescope in any given class would be awesome but it's always going to be less groundbreaking and useful than the first one.
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by zopa 4y ago
In the 1700s, maybe; today profit comes from fragile human and physical capital that don't like having bombs dropped on them. Let's look at some numbers. Ukraine, a largely agriculture country, is one of the strongest possible cas
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by zopa 4y ago
> It surely goes in cycles in the US. Adams, Harrison, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, Clinton. That spans the entire history of the country, and doesn't leave much room for cycles. I can't think of any period when inherited wealth a
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by zopa 4y ago
Why is a correct response better than an incorrect one? Everything's subjective, but I'm pretty comfortable with faster is better, all else being equal.
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by zopa 4y ago
One other difference here: a class forces you to keep moving when there's something you don't fully understand at the moment. And often that works pretty well --- you cover a bunch of ground imperfectly, and backfill the holes ove

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