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by ared38 3y ago
As I understand it, the US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws. For example the US Criminal code sets penalties for "assault" but a long series of precedents define the act
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by ared38 3y ago
The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace. "Instead, the new incentive for most countries would be to build a military in a wa
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by ared38 3y ago
You are actually correct. The speed of light you always hear about is the speed of EM radiation in a perfect vacuum. In a medium such as the atmosphere, the pulse doesn't travel as fast. The slowdown depends on the refractive index, wh
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by ared38 7y ago
Because we're too expensive to waste on something another employee could do. The bitter irony is we're so expensive largely because being siloed leads to wasted effort and rework.
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by ared38 7y ago
But while spirits became a larger share of alcohol consumed, "per capita annual consumption [immediately after the repeal of prohibition] stood at 1.2 US gallons (4.5 liters), less than half the level of the pre-Prohibition period&quot
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by ared38 8y ago
That table is expressly from the point of view of an English speaker; I'm sure it would look very different if written for Arabic speakers. Since it's largely a function of similarity to your native tongue, how would we even measu
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by ared38 8y ago
While I agree jumping to the conclusion that they're unreliable and flaky is ridiculous, being "polite" like that does no one any favors. Just be honest and explain you've been caught up with higher priority issues and h
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by ared38 8y ago
> Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Anyone that's read even the intro section of the Fermi paradox Wikipedia page already has: "There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox ... suggesting that intelligent ex
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by ared38 8y ago
I'm sure you're extremely smart and dedicated -- I've only dreamed of putting in that much work -- but have you considered your mindset might be holding you back? Would you hire someone who had never worked in low-level game
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by ared38 8y ago
> Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting? Except he doesn't acknowledge ignorance, he plows ahead and puts the entire continent in the same category as Syria and Afganis
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by ared38 8y ago
Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but "zombie prepping" is useless: Revolutionary War: Unless
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by ared38 9y ago
> the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others Isn't this just a return to form? This sounds like what newspapers, publishers, academics, etc have
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by ared38 9y ago
ANNs aren't supposed to model biological neurons, they're more inspired by them. We actually know a great deal about how real neurons work, although the emergent effects keep us from learning much about the brain as a whole. But m
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by ared38 9y ago
I'm not impressed with either side in this argument. Jarrett Walker is confusing capacity with crowding. It's ridiculous that he can't admit having someone's underarm shoved into your face during peak hours does in fact
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by ared38 9y ago
Dumb question: Why are the vendors bothering to send anything?
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by ared38 9y ago
> how would a government pay to secure their blockchain? What do you mean? Aren't they inherently tamperproof? > how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin? A few people might live that way, but unless the entire sup
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by ared38 9y ago
All you have to do is arrest people converting rebel cryptocurrencies into the one you can use at the grocery store. Since every transfer of legitimate money is now in the blockchain, they'll be able to identify them pretty quickly. No
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by ared38 9y ago
Firefox has had syncing built in for a while: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/ Haven't tried it on iOS yet, but it worked great on my Android.
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by ared38 9y ago
UBI has an incredibly simple solution (that you already quoted): The programmer gets paid way way more than the basic income, because she also has a real job (vs a government subsidized basic job). If her current employer is demanding 80-ho
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by ared38 9y ago
Mine didn't have HR monitoring, but I found the movement (aka actigraphy) to be pretty much useless. Fitbit was counting all the time I was laying still trying to fall asleep as "deep sleep", and looking at the chart I couldn
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by ared38 9y ago
> Every minimum wage increase is different! Sure, but > You can't extrapolate this stuff. Why not? I'm not saying it's like physics where we can make nearly exact models, but can't we at least make educated predict
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by ared38 9y ago
> I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws Understatement of the century. Would you tell someone working at CERN "I don't pretend Newton's laws are perfect, but..."? &gt
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by ared38 9y ago
Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies. I'm sickened by my "pro science" party rushing to
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by ared38 9y ago
Disappointed this article didn't talk about maintenance. I get the feeling most people don't take care of their cars (oil changes, tire rotations, etc) as often as they should -- I certainly don't. And with driving, it's
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by ared38 9y ago
Natural != good for humans. We evolved and are well suited for the current ecosystem. Whether you view human-caused mass extinction as natural or not, it probably won't be great for us. So it makes sense to try to preserve existing spe
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by ared38 10y ago
But AirBnB and Uber aren't actually sharing. The uber driver isn't carpooling on their way to work, they're your driver, which is a luxury. Likewise an entire apartment on vacation is much better than a hotel room. Actual sha
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by ared38 10y ago
The hotels I stayed at in Spain, France, and Italy made copies of mine.
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by ared38 10y ago
Honest question: I thought the big problem with solar and wind is what to do on windless nights. AFAIK battery technology is nowhere near good or cheap enough. Nuclear seems like a solution to that gap. What are others?
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by ared38 10y ago
But how? If it takes 4 months to train on a new CNC machine or 8 to learn the latest web design tools, how do we make people more adaptable? There are certainly some jobs that are currently over trained, as evidenced by nurse practitioners
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by ared38 10y ago
Totally agree, we drastically overestimate the power of the President. Congress does most of the things Presidential candidates promise to do, and local government rules everyday quality of life issues like criminal justice and education.

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