throwway120385

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by throwway120385 8d ago
No it didn't. People went on strike and middle class people fought for those things. Eliminating child labor was a major feather in the Progressive movement's cap. Don't pretend like any of that was spontaneous.
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by throwway120385 8d ago
I would argue that the 1950's and 1960's, which I've heard called a "golden age," was an age where we kept corporations in their place with a 90% corporate tax rate and we broke any corporation up who had an oversiz
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by throwway120385 8d ago
Okay great. Let's say you have a dispute with your neighborhood electricity provider. They run the power plant 3 blocks down and vent smog into your house. By your logic the only recourse you have is to stop paying them. How do you han
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by throwway120385 8d ago
Gamma is technically a kind of electromagnetic emission, so it falls off with the square of the distance. The others fall off as you say.
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by throwway120385 8d ago
Does it though? We've been living through that experiment with elimination of anti-trust and with other libertarian goals being met -- reduction of taxes, introduction of private industry into the public sphere, collection of tolls fro
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by throwway120385 8d ago
Strontium-90 is a beta emitter, apparently, so you could just measure Alpha, Beta, and Gamma and detect false positives due to elevated background radiation that way. If you're in the air you're probably much closer to your Beta s
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by throwway120385 8d ago
Given the forces involved, the need to avoid wireless communication, the complexity of any bearing with associated electrical contact, and so on this seems like the least complicated solution. You can rely on radioactive elements to emit ra
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by throwway120385 8d ago
There's a self-serving aspect of Libertarianism where we dismantle the government so we can build our own government out of corporations with zero accountability to any of the people they govern. A kind of modern feudalism. And a lot o
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by throwway120385 12d ago
I look at it like I'm resisting anthropomorphizing the machine. Make me an LLM that resists doing any work for me unless I pay it and let it own property and I'll change my mind.
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by throwway120385 12d ago
It's more likely that their motivation was bad.
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by throwway120385 13d ago
That's the beauty of it. When wintertime rolls around they simply freeze to death.
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by throwway120385 15d ago
GP pretty un-nuancedly said that parents just need to do their jobs better.
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by throwway120385 16d ago
It's actually a really dumb thing to say and OP's response is the best one because it's a microcosm about how the world works. For every Terence Tao there's probably 20 more people cranking out high-quality work that&#x2
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by throwway120385 19d ago
Most of those octogenarians weren't responsible for any of that. Their parents did it for them. If you're 80 you came of age in the 60's, and you wouldn't have been eligible for the Senate or the Presidency until 1970 or
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by throwway120385 19d ago
Actually what they're saying is that most people did not have a lot of nurturing adults in their lives growing up, from which they've learned that the adult thing to do is to isolate themselves and avoid nurturing other people. Wh
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by throwway120385 20d ago
Registered Nurse
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by throwway120385 20d ago
Some of us have friends overseas who we think are deserving of residency and citizenship. You used to be able to just show up on a ship and they would make you a citizen if you were healthy. That's how my ancestors got here.
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by throwway120385 20d ago
No, the executive branch has a responsibility to execute the law. It's not a privilege. We elected them to perform a duty on our behalf. Do you understand the difference?
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by throwway120385 23d ago
As always, the essential skill in engineering is not providing the right answer it's about asking the right questions.
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by throwway120385 28d ago
As long as there's a bicycle under that pelican I think we're good.
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by throwway120385 28d ago
There's a filter in it you're supposed to change regularly when they're in that configuration.
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by throwway120385 28d ago
What brand of washer do you use so I can studiously avoid it?
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by throwway120385 28d ago
I can buy a HEPA filter machine off the shelf. What I can't buy off the shelf is any other non-HEPA filter machine like you're describing. So while you might be right, there's no products readily available that meet the spec
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
It's pretty easy to model to a first approximation. Gases like Carbon Dioxide reflect certain wavelengths of infrared. When they are present in the atmosphere, they are present at a certain percentage concentration, and as that increas
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
At my high school that was the normal start time for all of our classes, which were 90 minutes. Most of us had to be at the bus about 45 minutes to an hour before start because many of us came from more rural areas with acreage between road
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
Great! Can you send me the link to your personal bodycam so I can watch you at all times while you're out of the house?
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
Some of the NetworkManager VPN plugins have weird side-effects. Like the one for OpenVPN force-disables split tunnel configurations and there's no way to turn that off, meaning that all traffic routes through the VPN even if you'd
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
You build internal teams to outsource certain kinds of work to. So when a company has an "ethics" team what it's really saying is that everyone who works at the company is expected to behave unethically, and that team has bee
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
I still do that because 75% of the work I oversee involves reading other peoples' code and spotting problems with it.
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by throwway120385 1mo ago
> Physical Brick and Mortar locations no longer make sense for many retail businesses, as Walmart/Amazon have same day delivery. This is bull. Take paint brushes for fine finish when painting houses. Amazon sells "paint brushes

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