DugFin

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by DugFin 9y ago
> it is by default legal until we decide to make it illegal. No, it's legal because of the Federal Arbitration Act passing in 1925. Prior to that, waiving of such rights "in advance by agreement" was explicitly disallowed,
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by DugFin 9y ago
The idea is that the sound of an impact drill adds to the noise pollution of a supposedly "natural" area, and that they're "too easy" so they result in a proliferation of bolts in the rock. There's a lot of arg
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by DugFin 9y ago
> The US doctrine have always been fleet warfare with large formations of US ships sailing alone on the open sea or in some water they have complete dominance over One of the problems with the US Navy over the last 70+ years has been a
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by DugFin 9y ago
> I wonder why signatures replaced signet rings? As the need for legal documentation spread downward from the upper classes, they needed an identification method that anyone could use, and wasn't limited to people who could afford
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by DugFin 9y ago
The problem is that a lot of people aren't capable of working remotely and/or treat work from home as a day off. Well, that's half the problem. The other half is the tendency of many managers to view all requests to wor
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by DugFin 9y ago
>closing the fuel cycle loop in a way that is proliferation resistant Isn't simply using a non-PUREX reprocessing method sufficient? Realistically, a "nuclear club" nation like the US/France/GB only needs to ensu
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by DugFin 9y ago
>Turns out the answer was _always_ "No." My experience has been the opposite. I bought a Pebble so I could know whether I had to put down my tools, pull out my phone, and answer a call from my boss; or if I could just ignore ye
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by DugFin 9y ago
no, it just prolongs the inevitable. The first player to gain an edge on the others still eventually wins, it's just that it takes hours instead of minutes.
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by DugFin 9y ago
That's not the reason. Benadryl being in blister packs long predates its use in meth cooking, like by 30 years. The real reason is more likely marketing. If they sold them in a bottle, the amount they charge for those few tiny pills wo
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by DugFin 9y ago
>But reading McMH does not compete with browsing those real estate listings. So it's probably fair use. No facet of the fair use defense is based on the fact that one is exploiting a market for the work that the rightsholder current
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by DugFin 9y ago
>due to flaws in their reasoning or refusal to consistently apply their own reasoning for personal reasons That's not the entirety of it. The problem is that these ethical problems exist within a certain societal framework, and that
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by DugFin 9y ago
Yep. Though as with most things, it's not so much about changing people's minds as it is waiting for the old folks to die: >Approval of black-white marriage is higher among younger Americans, and lowest among those 65 and older
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by DugFin 9y ago
The physical vinyl won't outlast your digital, it'll just fail more gracefully, slowly losing fidelity every time you scrape it with a needle. You're just replacing a small chance of catastrophic failure with a guaranteed gra
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by DugFin 10y ago
Thing is, it arrest actually IS a problem. It's often said that any decent prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. Throw in a dash of racism or classism, and you've got a recipe for sending lots of people to jail who didn't com
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by DugFin 10y ago
The way I see it, they probably did it somewhat incrementally. To some degree, they've ALWAYS programmed the ECUs "to the test", because isn't that basically what the authorities want? A system that meets standards X, Y,
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by DugFin 10y ago
There should probably be a restriction on offering plea bargains, basically eliminating "plead to a lesser charge". The DA should be allowed to prosecute no more than the charges they want you to plead to. Piling on charges is coe
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by DugFin 10y ago
In jurisdictions friendly to the US anti-pirating effort, they've largely adopted a legal standard of "I know pirating when I see it" rather than following the strict definition outlined by the law. "Making available&quo
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by DugFin 10y ago
Indeed, Martha Stewart is a prime example of how NOT to deal with the SEC. Turns out she wasn't guilty of insider trading, but she still went to jail for lying to the SEC about the trades in the first place. They take that very serious
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by DugFin 10y ago
YMMV with Nextdoor . THe only thing I can vouch for about my neighbors on Nextdoor is that they're all batshit insane racists.
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by DugFin 10y ago
>The percentage of alcohol users (ie almost everybody) who become alcoholic is quite low. The percentage of heroin or meth users who become heroin or meth addicts is very high indeed. Do you have a source for this? Every study I've
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by DugFin 10y ago
I've seen people drink themselves over the course of a year into a state of health similar to what you allude to with "a year of meth, oh my". I've also known meth users who were highly functional and used it for years w
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by DugFin 10y ago
There are sanctions in place against individual Venezuelan officials for their part in human rights abuses, and a general embargo on arms, but other than that, no. The US is still Venezuela's largest trade partner.
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by DugFin 10y ago
The practice of wearing a surgical mask in asian countries is far more than 10 years old. I saw it in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 70's.
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by DugFin 10y ago
Most of the power generation reactors in the US are privately owned, so probably about the same.
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by DugFin 11y ago
"Irradiated" and "radioactive" are not the same thing. An irradiated sandwich poses absolutely no threat to its consumer.
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by DugFin 11y ago
He's only declining FIELD sobriety tests. I know of no state that automatically pulls licenses for refusal to play along with a FIELD sobriety test.
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by DugFin 11y ago
Yeah, you kind of have to keep the context in mind when reading about Feynman's "pick up artist" stories. Much of it takes place not only in the context of the "hook up scene", but also in the hook up scene fifty-pl
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by DugFin 11y ago
"Coercion" is specifically the use of threats. "Inducement" is a broader category that includes other methods like begging, badgering, and wheedling.
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by DugFin 12y ago
I've seen several critical opinions of Stanford Prison and Milgram, and they laid out all their objections. Do you have a link to something that lays out specific objections to the way Rat Park was conducted?
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by DugFin 12y ago
Higher pay doesn't address the problem with cops. They pay cops VERY well in my city, and yet they are still in the news constantly with the same sort of antics. The problem is that the job of law enforcement is BORING. There's si

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