1qaboutecs

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by 1qaboutecs 2mo ago
The part that's indefensible is the illegal and sudden nature of the cuts. You have absolutely no moral obligation to pay for bungee jumping lessons for your friends, but if you cut the cord after he jumps, you're still a murderer
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by 1qaboutecs 3mo ago
Was trying to explain convolution (of functions) to a friend and I wanted to build a little picture. I typed more or less nothing into Claude and it gave me a fine web-app for demo'ing examples to my friend within minutes. Three years
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by 1qaboutecs 4mo ago
Yes, this is the crucial distinction. (I wish that articles criticizing PE were framed in terms of LBOs + bankruptcy-law instead, because that's the root of the policy problem.) Corporations can go bankrupt without risk to the human be
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by 1qaboutecs 4mo ago
generally when you want people to have free intellectualism you don't force them to take your courses
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by 1qaboutecs 4mo ago
Also fewer prerequisites to understand the statement than the average research problem.
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by 1qaboutecs 5mo ago
i confused michigan with north dakota, and it all makes sense now! sorry.
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by 1qaboutecs 5mo ago
(light correction - she was extradited hundreds of miles all the way to Michigan!)
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by 1qaboutecs 5mo ago
I never really understood about PERM. Suppose I am a manager on a team and one of my employees is going through the PERM process. I'm supposed to put out a job advertisement (but the job isn't real) for my employer. If an applican
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by 1qaboutecs 5mo ago
scary but thank goodness github actions is highly reliable, robust to change, and has a simple-to-understand ontology.
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by 1qaboutecs 5mo ago
came with the same complaint. the website then had the nerve to tell me i am overconfident.
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by 1qaboutecs 6mo ago
The government enforces contracts, so it gets to choose which contracts it enforces. Without a functioning judicial system (and a law enforcement system to enforce its verdicts), a contract is a piece of paper. Plenty of contracts benefit b
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by 1qaboutecs 7mo ago
When is the last time the Democrats ran a billionaire?
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by 1qaboutecs 8mo ago
Has anyone played Bean and Nothingness? Great game, but also a great Discord server for this problem, with lots of norms around spoiling. I've been disappointed in some board gaming forums moving to Discord (because it's hard to s
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by 1qaboutecs 8mo ago
Bug? It shows me the note and I just have to mash it and then it shows me the next note.
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GitHub Actions Degraded
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by 1qaboutecs 9mo ago
If X is a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field k, then we can make a (huge, useless) abelian group Div(X) which is the set of formal sums of points on X. (The "free abelian group" on X). It would be flippant