yttribium

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by yttribium 2y ago
Good thing we came to terms with that in 1789.
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by yttribium 2y ago
Large chunks of the world economy run on specifically Excel.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Very little on the "how", a lot of complaining that someone is able to publicize what occurs in publicly funded schools, and a huge amount of insinuation that anyone who wants to control their children's education has "b
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by yttribium 3y ago
This thread wildly misunderstands "chevron deference". "Ending chevron deference" does not somehow throw us into a Mad Max anarchic hellscape where agencies cannot actually do anything, because there is always some st
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by yttribium 3y ago
Gerrymandering is required by federal law to make sure that blacks are able to elect black representatives; this has obvious second order effects in how the rest of the map is drawn under adversarial conditions. Somehow it seems unlikely t
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by yttribium 3y ago
We learned during the COVID school shutdowns that schools would really prefer parents not be aware of what actually goes on during a typical schoolday.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Did you know that within living memory there was an entire network of anonymous telephones you could pay for with untraceable cash in five cent increments?
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by yttribium 3y ago
It's a little bit academic as most platforms (eg zoom) notify participants of in-band recording, and employee handbooks will often mention the possibility of recording and retention.
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by yttribium 3y ago
They will admit testimony by some cop to explain that "based on my training and experience, I believe 'going to the pool' to be code for 'soliciting a murder'"
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by yttribium 3y ago
EU governance structure is set up so that a EU parliament resolution has basically the status of a People's Choice Award.
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by yttribium 3y ago
That looks like a copy-paste of their general TOS, "...but for AI".
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by yttribium 3y ago
That's worldwide, not US. No one seems to know what these "subsidies" are in the US context other than vague complaints about tax treatment of profits. The numbers are never netted out of, eg, fuel tax either.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Those aren't American numbers. Many countries for instance subsidize fuel, the US taxes it.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Give an example of an American fossil fuel subsidy.
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by yttribium 3y ago
SPLK option expiration dates are weekly out to 6 weeks.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Court historians telling the stories the ruling class wants in an effort to buttress their legitimacy is absolutely not new.
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by yttribium 3y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anarcho-tyranny
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by yttribium 3y ago
It's called anarcho-tyranny.
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by yttribium 3y ago
The United States absolutely does have multiple quota systems in different domains. https://selectgcr.com/blog/minority-owned-businesses-how-to-...
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by yttribium 3y ago
Identical phenomenon exists in US where groups with well above average incomes are considered officially "disadvantaged groups" for purposes of eg SBA loans.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Essentially every country in the world aside from the United States (particularly Europe and UK/AU/NZ/CA as I mentioned) actually bans particular books for real, well beyond "you can't buy it with tax dollars, you c
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by yttribium 3y ago
Somehow I suspect the kvetching does not die down when the AG is tasked with drawing up a yearly index librorum prohibitorum.
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by yttribium 3y ago
When a book is actually "banned", you get thrown in jail for downloading an illegal copy from libgen or conspiring to distribute photocopied samizdat. Consult the United Kingdom for examples.
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by yttribium 3y ago
Similar maintenance schedule to large steel naval vessels. Rust never sleeps.
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by yttribium 3y ago
There's a distinction between a fact witness and an "expert witness". A private agreement can't prevent a court from subpoenaing a fact witness to testify. "Expert witnesses" are overwhelmingly hired guns pai
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by yttribium 3y ago
You can do this by injecting non visible unicode (LTR / RTL markers, zero width separators, the various "space" analogs, homographs of "normal" characters) but it can obviously be stripped out.
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by yttribium 3y ago
American companies are generally forbidden by EEOC rules from having reasonable security precautions unless some product is associated with a government contract and can require full blown security clearances. As a result you can safely as
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by yttribium 3y ago
"Fun" if you like living in a PvP zone
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by yttribium 3y ago
Which the FDA in fact have a pattern of doing with various supplements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_Research_%26_Longev... And the ATF with pistol braces. It's a standard regulatory tactic at this po
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by yttribium 3y ago
"Sun Microsystems literally invented Java and has done a ton of open research on RISC, how are they not able to execute as those technologies are exploding"

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