explodingman

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by explodingman 5y ago
Reminds me of The Culture of Defeat by Schivelbusch https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/29/history.higher... Very good book.
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by explodingman 5y ago
> If there was even the slightest expectation there would be a judge, Okay, I'm confused. My anecdote, which comes from Australia, indicates a 100% expectation of a judge. Are you saying that in Texas, a $US6K matter is likely to
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by explodingman 5y ago
The appropriate course is to sue the other driver directly and ignore the insurance company. A person cannot ignore a court summons, not even in Texas. The judge will know that the other driver's insurance will ultimately pay, so he c
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by explodingman 5y ago
> The public policy motivation for liability insurance is to protect the lawsuit route. A friend of mine had the same experience from the other side. She ran into some guy's car, apologised for her mistake and told him not to worry
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by explodingman 5y ago
They are in company, not good company.
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by explodingman 5y ago
What atrocities?
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by explodingman 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210929201944/https://www.nytim...
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by explodingman 5y ago
Why doesn’t the back button work on your site?
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by explodingman 5y ago
The article points out failings of political/cultural elites as a way of casting doubt on the competence of scientific elites. The analogy is false, The proposition that the vaccines are safe and effective, and predictions around Brex
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by explodingman 5y ago
> the question is how long can this strategy go on for. Australia's strategy involves relaxing/reducing lockdowns when vaccination rates reach 70% and again at 80%. These levels are less ambitious than they seem because they d
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by explodingman 5y ago
What is the “1982 Exxon prediction” ?
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by explodingman 5y ago
The URL isn’t supported on outline.com and there’s no citation of the source article in the first few paragraphs. How do I read about it?
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by explodingman 6y ago
https://outline.com/z4EFpV
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by explodingman 6y ago
If you take a bit more risk driving, you get a bit more hazard to yourself and other road users. If you take a bit more risk with COVID-19, you get an epidemic with thousands of mainly elderly people dying in an overwhelmed medical system.
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by explodingman 6y ago
Not for me, on either iOS or OSX.
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by explodingman 6y ago
The article site disables "back" function in the browser. You'll want to open this one in a separate tab. is there any way to disable browser compliance with websites that pull this stunt?
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by explodingman 6y ago
Dark pattern ahead. The cookie notice has a checkbox (unchecked by default) saying "Do not sell my personal information".
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by explodingman 6y ago
The steady eclipse of traditional media by Big Tech services has led the USA to a situation where a significant minority actually believe that Trump is a sort of superhero saving the world from pedophiles (QAnon) and a larger minority who r
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by explodingman 6y ago
Non-paywalled link to summary of article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/overweight-and-healthy-is... In the study, the bottom group by activity contains 63% of the population, while the bottom group by obesity con
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by explodingman 6y ago
Apple can monetise user data by keeping it private and offering privacy as a feature to drive hardware sales/margins. I don't know for sure if this is their business model. I think it is, and it makes sense as a strategy.
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by explodingman 6y ago
Discussion [1] indicates that the control group were energised into exercising about as much as the "moderate" (not HIIT) intervention group. This is not an uncommon problem in intervention trials in this area. Something is bette