readingcabbage.bsky.social
He/him. Software engineer.
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"We submitted a PIA that contained false information for no reason" incredible winner of an argument I'm sure.
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Impoundment is *already* unlawful! Why think Trump would obey whatever is in this package?
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This is like learning there are people who don't use adblock. The very first thing I do with any app I install (I prefer browser when possible) is disable notifications.
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"3% of all people in the United States are people claiming to be over the age of 120 and collecting social security" I'm skeptical!
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This has bitten me a couple times. Without a link I have to guess what the source is and if I guess wrong... how do I know? Happened a few times with people who don't *seem* like they would edit screenshot or make something up but without the actual link how can I tell?
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I would like to see this metric extrapolated back historically before making any judgement. Was this number high before? Is it newly high? "I made up a metric and it sounds way worse than official statistics" is not a compelling pitch.
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Maybe I don't understand odds ratios but doesn't this contradict the abstract? A 20% chance should be 5:1 odds right? But the abstract gives odds ratio of 20:1 for it being in Wuhan conditional on it being in the PRC.
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This makes it sound so simple. Wouldn't it be a contingent liability that would substantially exceed the value of these companies pretty rapidly? "If we EVER mess up the terms of this NPA we're over."
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Imagine a sword of damocles the size of $5000/user/day hanging over your head.
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Reminded of this snippet from the excellent Money Stuff article on Celsius.
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It will be! When I'm around 50 years old. Tolkien died 20 years before I was born...
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People with no accomplishments love taking credit for the accomplishments of people they happen to share a race or gender with.
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Felt this way about Prelogar in the TikTok ban the other day.
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IANAL but a lawsuit can have negative value, right? Like if you get sanctioned? The worst outcome is not "my case gets dismissed, I'm only out costs."
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I hope I am wrong, of course. I hope Democrats refuse to support any Republican for Speaker, but it's not clear to me what is different from May to motivate different action.
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I know the answer (racism) but why doesn't the intergenerational logic imply that I should be opposed to other people having kids? That guy's kid might steal a job from my kid! No immigration required.
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Tangent but I sometimes feel crazy for using social media websites this way. I'm always hearing this or that thing has changed but it only changes for me on a delay of weeks or months because they updated the app long before the site. I would think it would be the other way around?
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I would not have been able to make biking stick year round in Michigan either. Even in Washington some days were a little too cold in the winter so I would drive. The better bike infrastructure out here makes a huge difference though.
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I spent ~8 years driving to work when I could have been biking. Only started biking last two before I moved too far away to be feasible. Wish I had biked all those years!
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Well see Will the 22nd amendment wasn't, contra popular belief, about limiting the number of times an individual could be president. It was merely a limit as to how many times they could be on the top of the ticket in an election!
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Forget a third term. By this logic there are *no* limits to the number of presidential terms one can have, as long as one can find someone to run as president and step aside post election.
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Substitute the three hobbit movies with the Rankin and Bass animated hobbit movie. Shorter *and* better!
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"If there's any impact to American's speech it's ByteDance's fault for not complying with the law, not the law's fault!"
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No see, the market is an incredible mechanism for allocating goods and labor UNLESS it involves crossing magic lines in the dirt.
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Read a post by someone who used a powershell script to configure all kinds of GPO stuff in Windows, baffled others didn't do the same.
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Thanks for the reminder, now I gotta go read the su3su2u1 HPMOR review again...
danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpm...
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I suspect we're probably on the same page re:ending the filibuster. In the form of reducing the threshold for cloture to a simple majority and reducing the maximum post-cloture debate period. That period is already bypassed sometimes (7 Senators from each party + leaders move to invoke cloture)
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Sure but the way to resolve that is to address *why* leadership won't take up those bills. My impression is that invoking cloture, even if literally possible, eats a lot of time. Potentially 60 hours for one bill. Reducing that time seems like a better reform to me than limiting objections to UC.