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by codexb 1y ago
What was happening before this year? Surely, congress was not the one approving and awarding these grants. It was a member of the executive agency. Trump didn't declare any power that wasn't already being exercised by the executiv
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by codexb 1y ago
At some level, someone needs to have discretion on which grants to award and not award. You can call it "dictatorial", but I don't see how it's any less dictatorial if the decision-maker is some faceless, unaccountable
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by codexb 1y ago
Variable font width, height, and kerning is more difficult and slower to read. It's fine if you're reading a short childrens book at out loud, but if you're reading an entire novel silently formatted like that, it would becom
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by codexb 1y ago
I've never thought about it this way, but it's funny to think that horses are largely self driving on roads.
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by codexb 1y ago
Netflix's primary goal used to be to attract new subscribers. Now it's a more about maintaining subscribers and finding new ways to monetize the existing subscriber base. That's why you're seeing things like "shar
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by codexb 1y ago
It doesn't make financial sense when the tax policy of the US is to tax domestic companies that produce things but not foreign companies that produce things and benefit from selling them in the US market. We don't need to do res
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by codexb 1y ago
I'm genuinely surprised this hasn't been done before now.
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by codexb 1y ago
Venezuela has historically not cooperated with deportations. They also actively send their criminals to the US.
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by codexb 1y ago
If you’re deporting someone, they have to be in custody. They have to deport her to Canada, not Mexico. They likely deal with many other countries and have to arrange for transportation back to all those countries. I don’t think anyone woul
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by codexb 1y ago
The San Diego port of entry is the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere. The takeaway here should be that the resources to handle immigration along the southern border are insufficient.
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by codexb 2y ago
I think it's just one of the few therapeutic skills that are generally offered to men and that genuinely considers the problems that men face. The problems and issues that men face are largely ignored or downplayed compared with women
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by codexb 2y ago
I think your last example demonstrates the value of stoicism. In many cases, our untrained emotional response to life prevents us from achieving more or enjoying life. Instead of screaming, you could spend the time enjoying your loved ones
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by codexb 2y ago
It's a remarkably good set of strategies and mindset for dealing with conflict, anxiety, and having to make a large number of difficult decisions. The core of stoicism (stressed more by Epictetus, a former slave, than Marcus Aurelius)
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by codexb 2y ago
I would have expected requests to be more prevalent.
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by codexb 2y ago
I will always pronounce it pie-pie
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by codexb 2y ago
Reminds me of this [relevant xkcd]( https://xkcd.com/1095/ )
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by codexb 2y ago
The article comments on it briefly, but doesn't really answer the question -- "Why not just use Markdown?" It's already popular. There's already tons of support for it. What does org-mode give us that markdown doesn
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by codexb 2y ago
Because it comes with very real consequences, sometimes even criminal now.
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by codexb 2y ago
Did we read the same article? It seems like a pretty coherent and plausible explanation for the current state of political correctness.
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by codexb 2y ago
It's not just raves, it's pretty much all "nightclub" type bars. The common nightclub has been replaced by expensive, high-end, bottle-service only type clubs.
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by codexb 2y ago
Brave, Opera, and Chrome all use the same engine.
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by codexb 2y ago
Well, you could point to the fact that there are alternatives to using "razor and blades". You can buy straight razors and re-sharpen them yourself. You can buy safety razors, which are technically still the "razor and blades
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by codexb 2y ago
Normal polling errors would lead you to believe that the actual results would fall equally and normally on both sides of the polling forecast. But they don't. The polling error is nearly always in one direction. Polling consistently un
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by codexb 2y ago
Just to clarify, thats a poll about future "expectations" about the economy. Many of the people that voted for Trump based on his economic policies now have good expectations for the economy because they expect him to implement th
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by codexb 2y ago
Typically, loans and credit being more difficult and costly to obtain, higher prices for everything, and a growing number of large layoffs aren't signals of a booming economy. Inflation has a tendency to well, inflate productivity metr
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by codexb 2y ago
A large reason for the continued growth in size of US cars is EPA gas mileage requirements. Vehicles with larger footprints have less restrictive MPG requirements, and so manufacturers target larger footprints while trying to reduce weight.
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by codexb 2y ago
It's heavily county based. Drive on the 5 through LA county and the second it crosses into Orange County, it magically gets incredibly better.
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by codexb 2y ago
Prepared speeches don't really count; they're basically reading written prose. I'd be interested to hear actual conversations from Victorian times. I wonder if they are anything like how we write them in TV shows and movies.
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by codexb 2y ago
Up until recently, there always seemed to be a marked difference between the way people spoke vs how they conveyed thoughts in writing. These days, it often feels like most writing is just conversational and stream of consciousness and diff
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by codexb 2y ago
I think you're missing the point, or at least the point I took away from it. Much of the art in the collections is genuinely interesting and enjoyable, even if it is technically "bad", in the sense that it's a poor attem

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