ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
2d ago
Eh, bankruptcy is (in expectation) priced into the transactions.
In an efficient market, that's true. Is that even legal right now? I know that college admissions have changed over time (and between jurisdictions) between unmeritocratic discrimination being illegal and required.
I would not be the slightest bit surprised if charging previously-illegal immigrants the real cost of a loan (or just denying them) was blocked by anti-discrimination laws.
ulyssessword
2d ago
I had to see how she did the data collection on important metrics like "came in fluffer",
At least you know how that data was displayed, unlike the poor Mottizen you responded to.
ulyssessword
4d ago
I wonder if you could get around their censorship by citing Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
(Emphasis added)
It would probably be about as effective as just fucking accusing your teacher of a war crime.
ulyssessword
5d ago
Journalists are basically rehashing press releases and are doing little actual reporting.
An all-too common story:
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Journalist: "[Source] said [claim]"
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Me: and??? Were they correct?
If you're lucky, you'll get "...but [Source 2] said [claim 2]", but any analysis beyond that is rare.
ulyssessword
8d ago
That reminds me back when my class was fourteen and having debates on 'how to solve unemployment?' and one notion we got was "all the married women should stop working, that would then free up jobs for men".
Oh to be 14 again, when I didn't know the difference between the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate.
ulyssessword
9d ago
If they could replace ads with a proof-of-work miner, I'd be glad to spend a cent (or even two!) on most web pages I visit. It's tons more than typical ads, too.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Wait a second. Doesn't Bitcoin have a record of every transaction ever? Couldn't you just look at the blockchain to see when you got your coins?
ulyssessword
11d ago
Measuring, maybe, but that's hardly all the legislature does.
I didn't set the standards we're discussing here. The claim upthread is "All political action is violence." If you didn't agree with that, then it would've been nice to know earlier. I don't have any reason to debate the fact that some political action is violence.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Nah. I can recognize the difference between organizing and directing people to assault others, and measuring environmental contaminants. The first one is closer to violence, if it was unclear to you.
As a practical issue, I often see "X is violence" paired with the (sometimes unstated) claim that "X can be resisted with violence". I'll admit to some motivated reasoning as my opposition to murdering parliamentarians bleeds through, but I still think there's a difference between being one step removed from fighting in a gang war and being a dozen steps removed from issuing a fine for corporate noncompliance.
ulyssessword
12d ago
You could try libtcod (python 3), which I found on /r/roguelikedev. It sounds like it matches what you're doing.
ulyssessword
12d ago
All [...] is violence
This is such a bizarre argument, particularly for one I've seen repeated again and again in different variations with negligible pushback. When they say "This movie may contain scenes of violence", they aren't talking about a parliamentary committee crafting legislation. When the FBI gathers events for inclusion in their "violent crime" statistics, they don't count voter fraud. People with a commitment to "nonviolence" have no problem voting, and they aren't regarded as hypocrites for doing so.
People have no problem with recognizing violence (or the lack of it) when they see it, but this novel expansive definition of violence keeps popping up.
... or at least the threat of violence. We've put a nice facade over it
A facade, and a wall, and armor plating, and a maze beyond that. Stalin had a facade of nonviolence as he was genociding Ukrainians, but we (practically) have the real thing. People don't think about the "facade" because there are genuine, strong social barriers to using (normally-defined) violence.
...I figured I'd pierce the facade and instead of people giving up violence for petty thing got more "Fine, I'm OK killing you".
One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens.
- Issuing a parking ticket and murdering someone are both X
- You should treat all X consistently
- Therefore...?
Bitcoin went up 500x in the last ten years. Are you worried about getting taxed on 100% of its value instead of (the right and proper) 99.8%, or am I missing something about how it works?
ulyssessword
12d ago
Frankly, MAGA has a lot more in common with fascism than being right-wing nationalist.
Taking Eco's definition, I would argue that MAGA checks about half the boxes.
That's nothing special, so does Social Justice:
- The rejection of modernism
- The cult of action for action's sake
- Disagreement is treason
- Obsession with a plot
- cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak."
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
- Selective populism
- Newspeak
Either those summaries are too broad to be useful, or some traits of Fascism have become broadly entrenched in our society, regardless of what we call the groups that embody them.
ulyssessword
14d ago
No significant amount of aid. The claim I've heard is that there's enough to serve as a fig leaf and no more. By any fair assessment it's an anti-Israel activist project instead of a direct humanitarian one.
ulyssessword
15d ago
I probably could've told the difference between nitroglycerine and nitromethane when I was 10, but it's not that big of a mistake to make.
ulyssessword
15d ago
I want Walmart. Unfortunately due to physical limitations it's impossible to have everyone live 2 minutes from a decent sized store.
A two-minute walk will very literally not get you across the parking lot of the local Wal-Mart Supercenter, but that's not quite a physical limitation. Let's take a closer look.
A two-minute walk is about 160 meters (at 3 mph), which means there is 80240 m^2 within a two-minute walk of any specific point. Given a population density of 100k/square mile (0.039/m^2) (fourth highest in the world), that would mean 3100 people in range of the store.
Locally, each Wal-Mart serves 100k people. You can play around with the numbers a bit by counting Wal-Mart or Costco or etc, and also reduce their required population, and also increase the density above 100k/mi^2 and also this, and also that, but it gets really hard to make up a >30-fold difference by playing around the edges like that.
A 10-minute walk would be approximately possible, but not two.
ulyssessword
17d ago
Canada already rounds cash purchases to $0.05, and it works fine. Sure, you can avoid a $0.02 upcharge or get a $0.02 discount when using cash, but nobody cares about that much money.
That being said, I wouldn't fix prices at $0.25 increments, at least at the low end. There is a real difference in price between a $0.65 can of soup and a $0.85 one, despite both rounding to $0.75. Maybe one cent increments up to five dollars (no more 9/10 of a cent for gas), and 25 cent increments after that.
ulyssessword
17d ago
I wouldn't call it a pure medical board anymore, regardless of what its name is. If you know of any medical and telecommunication boards, let me know, and I'll say everything they do is either medicine or telecommunications. Otherwise I'll chalk it up as an absurd hypothetical.
ulyssessword
18d ago
The board could say whatever it wanted, but it can only regulate the things that the State delegates to them. For example this Act (pdf) does not give them any power to regulate radio broadcasts. Heck, they can't even set their own fees: It's fixed at $100 in section 36, and would require legislation to change.
ulyssessword
18d ago
Thanks.
Yup, that's pretty much as described. "Shouts at" is a bit of a stretch, but that's just a nitpick.
ulyssessword
18d ago
I invite you to see the footage for yourself.
Link?
ulyssessword
18d ago
I was going to comment the same thing.
There's a bit of a blurry line if a licensed therapist also offers unregulated life coaching services (as should be their right, but I don't know if professional licensing boards share my opinion), but at minimum they should have a different line item on their bills if they're flipflopping between professional and unconstrained services.
That categorization doesn't just affect the new law. It also affects insurance eligibility, protections on patient confidentiality, answers on various government forms, etc. ("Have you ever been treated by a medical practitioner for a mental health problem?" "No, but I did have a crisis of faith and talked to a priest over the course of several months. It's completely different.")
ulyssessword
19d ago
"...moral duty to resist them" can definitely stretch to treason. I don't think the recent attacks on the convoy or facility count (they're regular crime instead), but scale it up by 100x and it would.
It could also mean something as milquetoast as refusing to volunteer information and help, which is completely protected conduct.
ulyssessword
19d ago
There are no shortage of other immoral groups it's morally obligatory to resist as well, of course.
Why didn't you choose one of those to compare to? Choosing one with an obvious parallel then ignoring it so hard you can't recognize it when prompted is an odd choice, to say the least.
If you're willing to pay $300/month for a license, Autodesk Inventor is pretty good (I use it at work). If you aren't, then Autodesk Fusion 360 is the next best, and it's terrible (I use it at home). Why is the distance constraint categorized with the lines and circles instead of the parallels and coincidents? Why is "horizontal or vertical" one button? Why do you have to reset your fillets to radius zero to select new edges? Why can't you make coils out of arbitrary shapes? Why do they have so many greyed-out options clogging up the menus (okay, I know that one: the free version is an ad for the paid version)?
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