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Re:The Mathocalypse on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:22PM (#49998962)
That reminds me of this paper:

Chow, T. Y. (2008). A beginner’s guide to forcing (arXiv:0712.1320). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0712.1320

> “All mathematicians are familiar with the concept of an open research problem. I propose the less familiar concept of an open exposition problem. Solving an open exposition problem means explaining a mathematical subject in a way that renders it totally perspicuous. Every step should be motivated and clear; ideally, students should feel that they could have arrived at the results themselves. The proofs should be “natural” in Donald Newman’s sense [13]:

> This term . . . is introduced to mean not having any ad hoc constructions or brilliancies. A “natural” proof, then, is one which proves itself, one available to the “common mathematician in the streets.””

Re:Code Is Crap on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:02PM (#49729879)
This talk.

What We Know We Don’t Know • Hillel Wayne. (2019, April 28). Hillel Wayne. https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/

I've read a fair amount of Foucault and while I could guess, what specifically were you thinking of?
Responding to you generally and not to this comment.

I want to thank you for explaining economic principles even if the OP doesn't understand them. As someone who has less econ background then they'd like — your explanations are clear.

Until the terms start including "mass arbitration" provisions limiting consumers ability to even use the psuesocourts the companies force.
I agree with you to the point that I wrote this https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/
NAL but generally familiar with law.

Medical (and especially therapy) notes, attorney/client communications, and a few other have privilege [1] and you would not /required/ to submit this. If the opposing side requested something that turned them up, and they were responsive, you'd include a response and include a reference in a "privilege log" [0]

What is privileged is subtle and often overstated. You can't just put "attorney/client privilege" and CC a lawyer — you need to be asking a genuine legal question. Google almost got in trouble for something like this [2].

Private notes, including diaries, are not privileged. I'd like to see some serious proposals for "diary privilege" but no state has such a rule.

[0] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/creating-privilege-logs-a-... [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/privileged_communication [2] https://www.proskauer.com/blog/the-sound-of-silent-attorneys... — although they won later appeals. My point here is that its complicated.

I never knew the name of that device.

Thanks

This is such a shame. It was the single best code pairing tool for the longest time and did not rely on mere screen sharing.
Re: on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:05PM (#47083589)
I've read this before. The first time you posted this.

Your obsession with Obama and ignorance of current events are well known to me and everyone else who reads this site regularly.

Please make an effort to apply your purported critical thinking sklls and claimed integrity rather than reposting one article repeatedly.

Being unwilling to differentiate between two obiously different forms of badness—both in kind and in quantity—is intentional ignorance and is antithetical to the curious conversation expected of this community.

Re: on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:52PM (#47066216)
... and if you can't differentiate between the badness of Obama and the badness of Trump you have neither integrity nor critical thinking skills.
Re:The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in a Café on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:52PM (#46493693)
I appreciated several of these quotes and added them to my own personal tracker. Thanks for linking this.
Re:Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:22AM (#46136325)
> You're reading research that says they're geniuses?

I didn't say this

> ...

Re the rest. Thanks. I had implicitly assumed we were talking about financial or white collar crimes rather than all crimes. In other words the types of crimes people generally assume that richer people commit (insider training, tax evasion, wage theft, etc.)

I think you are correct in the most general sense of "all crime"

Re:Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:06AM (#46131499)
> The reason criminals commit crimes is that criminals are dumb and have poor impulse control.

What makes you believe this? Any data to support this claim?

It's inconsistent with the majority of research I've read on the topic but I'm no expert.

Re:Coinbase to reincorporate in Texas, exit Delaware on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:16PM (#45985314)
1. You called the judge an "activist" which I don't agree with. Further if there were legitimise concerns about bias they could have requested that the judge recuse herself. It also ignores the, rightfully, failed appeals which were not ruled by McCormick

2. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

3. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

4. I regret commenting on musk's politics. I have no idea if he actually voted for democrats previously and if so he he actually ever supported small-state libertarian values. They aren't relevant to the case.

5. 6. I'm not commenting on conspiracy theories

Re:Coinbase to reincorporate in Texas, exit Delaware on Saturday November 15, 2025 @03:13PM (#45940243)
> * A single activist judge overruled shareholders

false

> * A high-achieving CEO was left with with zero compensation for a ten year period

false

> * Musk's compensation was agreed by a majority of shareholders both before and after the judge annulled it.

not usefully true because the voters didn't have complete information and the board was captured.

> * Musk has a conservative political worldview

false, but I'll admit that many people would call it "conservative"

> * The judge that annulled Musk's compensation was Democrat-appointed

no idea. Irrelevant

> * A man's political worldview should have no bearing on the compensation owed to him by his employer

true. Irrelevant. Musk's political worldview had no bearing on the court case of which you seem to have heard of but not understand.

You appear to be reacting to a simulacrum of reality rather than what actually happened.

I suggest reading https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340

Yeah. Hearsay is an out of court statement provided to show the proof a matter. It has little to do with oral vs non oral. There are also exceptions, exceptions to the exceptions and so on.
Is this actually the case? what about people who were promoted or moved positions?

Is this the case for all federal jobs or can it be longer for some roles?

What do you believe "probationary employees" means?

What is their average tenure at the department?

The article states that the lawsuit was rejected merely on procedural grounds (specifically the doctrine of administrative exhaustion) . It does not come close to stating that the action was legal.

The actual court decison (which I have also read) is consistent with the article.

This is starting to happen. I had to do this for NIH recently.

Or it would be happening absent the recent chaos.

Re:Archivists work to save disappearing Data.gov datasets on Sunday February 02, 2025 @09:25AM (#42908813)
The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) precludes APA review amongst other relief (since it precludes district court jurisdiction entirely). That being said, this "termination" is likely invalid under the CSRA.

Please see Elgin v. Dept. of Treasury 567 U.S. 1 (2012) for details.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-45

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

Re:No one is disrupting banks on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:41PM (#42891036)
I'd believe this in very specific contexts but I can't find any reliable explanation of what those might be. Can you point me to anything worthwhile to read on the topic?

I am fairly certain that consumer and employment pre-dispute arbitration agreements are strongly negative but I haven't learned enough about FINRA/securities arbitration to have a strong opinion.

Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @01:05AM (#42862049)
Relevant Law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103

Good explanation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2017/04/18/what-is-...

Another distinction here is that a store is offering a contract. It isn't a debt until the contracted is accepted.

Re:C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:56AM (#42805170)
This isn't true for the majority of operating systems.
Not commenting on any other part but a slight correction:

The morning after pill is not an abortifacient. While there are different types most (like Levonorgestrel) are antiovulatarory or anti fertilisation.

Re:Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel on Thursday December 19, 2024 @01:33AM (#42458981)
Related: some fascinating history about the origin of the dreidel.

Stephen Winick. (2022, December 13). The Truth Behind the Hanukkah Dreidel: Metafolklore, Play, and Spin | Folklife Today. The Library of Congress. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2022/12/the-truth-behind-the-...

Community notes was designed, implemented and released before the acquisition. Only the name is new. Previously it was called birdwatch.

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