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by openasocket 6d ago
This is actually not true! This is a pedantic point but I think is important. The department of defense is not equivalent to the pre-1947 War Department. The War Department was in charge of just the army. There was a separate Department of
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by openasocket 11d ago
Ok, so the article buries a lot of the context here. To clarify: plaintiffs can 100% sue the city for this under tort law (I believe the clean water act, but there’s probably other causes of action). This particular case was about suing the
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by openasocket 13d ago
They absolutely can, depending on the jurisdiction. I saw plenty of cases out of Atlanta with drug possession cases with no prior history getting an ankle monitor, back when they were live streaming bond hearings from Rice street.
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by openasocket 21d ago
I’ve always wondered why candidates need so much money. I mean, this doesn’t go directly into their pockets, it’s largely used to fund ads, right? I have a pet theory about political ads that I would love to find data to be able to confirm&
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by openasocket 24d ago
Sure, but as I said in my second example, forcing oil and natural gas companies to prevent methane leaks would have much more of an impact than reducing air travel, and requires no sacrifice for the average person. When considering which po
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by openasocket 24d ago
Do you really think that traveling somewhere to experience a natural or historical or cultural landmark is intrinsically immoral? Do you think less of me for traveling to South Africa to go on a Safari? For visiting the Louvre? Why?
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by openasocket 25d ago
I think that's a bad frame of mind in general. One of the primary ways industry tries to prevent regulation is by putting the burden on the individual. People think the only way we can have a healthy environment is by sacrificing thing
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by openasocket 27d ago
Short answer - yes. If you post bond, and you don't violate the terms of your bond, you get your bond back when your case is resolved, whether you were found guilty or not guilty. If you do something that violates the terms of your bon
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by openasocket 27d ago
For those that don't know, grand juries declining an indictment is extremely rare. A grand jury is basically a check on prosecution, that they have to have some initial evidence before charging someone with a felony. The standards are
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by openasocket 29d ago
It’s an effective a surprisingly old technique, being used on cruise missiles as early as the 1960s. It actually precedes GPS and satellite navigation by several decades. Im continuously blown away by what engineers were able to do in that
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by openasocket 1mo ago
Important to note that this was not a decision on the merits. The court didn’t find that the decision was written by AI; just that the facts alleged would be covered by judicial immunity. Proper action is to appeal, and file a grievance wit
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by openasocket 1mo ago
Ben Gvir is the minister of national security and has been for years. He literally is a representative of Israel. He may not represent the views of Israelis, but he is in power, and is using that power. That makes him a relevant example, as
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by openasocket 1mo ago
Whether something is “thinking” or not is really more of a philosophical question. It really depends on which of the many, often contradictory, definitions of “thinking” you choose. Sometimes we use “thinking” to describe advanced calculati
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by openasocket 1mo ago
I know exactly what you mean. Something about those AI explanations just make my eyes glaze over. Dozens of new terms and metaphors and analogies conjured out of the ether to explain even the simplest thing. And when I try making it explain
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by openasocket 1mo ago
For those that aren't aware, the uncertainty principle goes pretty deep. You can actually define the uncertainty principle as an inequality involving the integral of a function vs the function's Fourier transform: https:/&#x
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by openasocket 1mo ago
With the expiration of New Start earlier this year, there are no nuclear arms control agreements in effect between the US and Russia, which hasn’t been the case since the 1960s. Russia, China, and the US are all actively modernizing and dev
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by openasocket 2mo ago
Biggest thing I can recommend is to focus on the fundamentals, even if it doesn’t seem like it’s something you would use in practice. Learn data structures and algorithms. Understand finite state machines and context free grammars. Learn at
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by openasocket 2mo ago
+10, I can't stand AI-generated comments. Half the time they are paragraph-length translations of every 5 lines of code into English prose, or just regurgitating whatever prompt they were given. When they actually try making high level
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by openasocket 2mo ago
One thing that has really frustrated me with "mainstream media" in the last few years is that the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline. I feel like half of the news articles are just a collection of quo
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by openasocket 2mo ago
It’s a pretty fine line, and if they want to do anything beyond just telling you things about your data, actually taking any sort of actions or communications with health care providers, they should qualify as a business associate under HIP
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by openasocket 2mo ago
Searching in vain for any mention of HIPAA compliance…
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by openasocket 2mo ago
Funnily enough, it was almost discovered several years earlier. The science fiction author Arthur C Clarke wrote in “The City and the Stars” a passage that, as an aside, describes a mathematician looking for patterns in the primes by arrang
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by openasocket 2mo ago
The simplest explanation would be the fact that the Riemann zeta function is also equal to the infinite product of 1/(1 - p^{-s}) for all primes p. The proof is rather accessible, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by openasocket 2mo ago
Curiously, I relate to both. I have a certain degree of fear or trepidation of sharks when swimming in the ocean. I feel vulnerable, and keep imagining a shark coming up under me or behind me. But I’m also a certified diver and have exactly
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by openasocket 2mo ago
Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, thanks to the dismantling of USAID and US foreign aid. Not hypothetical deaths in the future, people who have died in the last year because Musk cut off their suppl
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by openasocket 4mo ago
> I don't give much credence to new allegations. Where were these allegations when he was alive It’s worth noting that it’s common for it to take years or decades for victims to speak out against an abuser. Especially when the victi
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by openasocket 4mo ago
That article was written 16 years ago and misses a lot as a result. it doesn’t mention the new allegations, including those documented in Leaving Neverland. It also glosses over the accusations in the 1990s. It’s papered over that those all
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by openasocket 6mo ago
That’s a very fair point. Frankly I don’t know enough about the Artemis mission and general path, and would like to learn more. I’m certainly open to the argument that NASA’s budget isn’t properly allocated to the right priorities. I was re
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by openasocket 6mo ago
This argument comes up a lot, about whether a space program is “worth it” in some sense. One problem I’ve found is that these discussions often treat this in the abstract. And then we get into the nature of human endeavor, the economic bene
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by openasocket 6mo ago
Just comes off like a puffed-up pigeon strutting around the stage, trying to cover up his own insecurities. The true great military leaders dont act like this. Even Patton, who has that kind of reputation, was far more thoughtful. On the jo

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