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4mo ago
Loud noise is a nuisance regardless of its source, and should be penalized.
a small town (∼50,000 people)
The UN's official definition of "town" (roughly aligning with the common understanding of the word) extends from 10,000 people to 49,999 people. A municipality with "∼50,000 people" is either a large town or a small city, not a small town.
Such restrictions could be imposed through private insurance rather than through government licensing. In some states, private insurance companies already are forced by the govt. to reduce your insurance costs if you take certain safety courses. (See, e. g., New Jersey Statutes § 17:33B-45.1.) Just have the govt. suggest (not mandate) that insurance companies impose actuarially-justified fees on people who drive bigger or more-powerful vehicles without taking corresponding training. (And if in reality no fees are actuarially justified, then none will be imposed.)
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One reasonable method of assessing the overall size of the USA's states may be to take the natural logarithm of (population × land area ÷ km2). Under that metric, the currently-incorporated states contain e27 ± 1.7 people⋅km2, ranging from eμ − 2.99σ (Rhode Island) to eμ + 2.2σ (Texas).
| Proposed state | (ln(population × land area ÷ km2) − μ) ÷ σ |
|---|---|
| Malaysia | +1.9 |
| Cuba | +0.59 |
| Ireland (island) | +0.17 |
| Ireland (Republic) | −0.12 |
| Greenland | −0.77 |
| Singapore | −2.8 |
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4mo ago
There are legitimate reasons to deny personhood to infants. Some scientists have determined that babies do not achieve sapience until several months after birth; and some moral frameworks attribute little or no moral value to beings that have never achieved sapience, regardless of their status as humans or as probable future sapients.
I think someone else in these threads recently mentioned that, for most people, sapience is not the only factor in personhood, and humanness is a major factor as well. Those moral frameworks are reasonable as well. Holders of frameworks in that second set should not denigrate holders of moral frameworks in the first set as "crazy" or "monstrous" ( @ChickenOverlord )—at least in the view of this forum's censors.
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4mo ago
Vancouver's housing could be made cheaper by allowing single-family houses to be built in the empty "Green Zone" (1 2).
The idea that Vancouver-area residents should suffer the least affordable housing in Canada in order to preserve rural open space in a province that has millions of hectares of open space and some of the lowest population densities in the world would be comical if its results were not so tragic.
I have found that the resale market for 2 year old Android phones is not as active
But that doesn't matter if the cost of the phone is negligible.
Boost Mobile (formerly Virgin Mobile): 35 $/mo for the plan plus 100 or 150 $ / 4 a for the phone = 37 or 38 $/mo total
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7mo ago
something that can run Elden Ring, Starfield, etc. and not lag out like crazy on 1080p
I am open to building a PC
Anything at or above the "very good" tier (914 $) on Logical Increments should fit your criteria.
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8mo ago
Animated gifs for user badges are crazy fucking distracting.
You can hide user profile pictures by adding the following line to the custom CSS in your account settings: .profile-pic-20{display:none!important;}
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8mo ago
A parent is the trustee/owner of his child. Therefore, he is empowered to sell to the kindergarten a share of that trusteeship/ownership.
In the unlikely event that the child disavows the contract with the kindergarten when the trusteeship is terminated (whether at adulthood or at some earlier date), the parent is obligated by the same contract to repay to the kindergarten the lost expected value of the child's future earnings.
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That issue was addressed in item 3 of the comment to which you replied. Likewise, the official FAQ says:
How does the FAIRtax protect low-income families and individuals and retirees on fixed incomes?
Under the FairTax Plan, poor people pay no net FairTax at all up to the poverty level! Every household receives a rebate that is equal to the FairTax paid on essential goods and services, and wage earners are no longer subject to the most regressive and burdensome tax of all, the payroll tax. Those spending at twice the poverty level pay a tax of only 11.5 percent — a rate much lower than the income and payroll tax burden they bear today.
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1yr ago
Are you sincere that parents’ interest in their children’s education is a property interest?
It isn't outlandish to consider children the property of their parents. Prominent libertarian Murray Rothbard endorsed that framing to some extent, with the caveat that the "ownership" is merely trusteeship until such time as the child asserts self-ownership.
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Under the Intl. Zoning Code (not necessarily widely adopted, but still a reasonable indicator of common US practice), a normal perpendicular space is 9 ft × 20 ft (180 ft²), while a parallel space is 8 ft × 22 ft (176 ft²) and a "compact" perpendicular space is 8 ft × 18 ft (144 ft²).
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1yr ago
To be fair, "it" is still used for infants, and it used to be used for non-infant children as well.* Maybe it could make a comeback.
*Examples from a 1902 children's book coincidentally named Five Children and It:
Everyone [of the five] got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind.
Each of the [four] children carried its own spade, and took it in turns to carry the Lamb [the baby].
They [four] looked at each other in despair, and it was terrible to each, in this dire emergency, to meet only the beautiful eyes of perfect strangers, instead of the merry, friendly, commonplace, twinkling, jolly little eyes of its own brothers and sisters.
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I spent ages developing systems to give 5e actual exploration and interaction mechanics…
As the saying goes: Have you tried not playing D&D? GURPS Wilderness Adventures seems to cover exactly what you're doing.
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1yr ago
Maybe I should differentiate more clearly between overkill and bloat. When I listen to a piece of music that has overkill, I wonder why there are so many different sounds playing at once, when it would sound less confusing/overwhelming/bad to have just three or four sounds. When I listen to a piece of music that is bloated, I wonder why there are so many different sounds playing (whether simultaneously or in sequence), when it would have been so much simpler/cheaper for the composer to use just three or four sounds.
What is a part? Is a chord on a guitar six or one parts?
I guess that's one spot where the synthesized instrument and the physical instrument can diverge significantly in bloat, even though both compositions have exactly the same position on the overkill meter. Many physical instruments, of course, can create a chord standing alone—but an electronic tracker may require one synthesized "instrument" for each note in a chord.
Is a choir one part, 4–8, or ~8–48?
Similarly, a choir would (I assume) be around four instruments in terms of overkill regardless of its physical or electronic implementation, but a physical implementation could be horribly bloated, with dozens of members beyond the minimum.
If I have an orchestra using a bunch of different instruments to produce a single chord is that one or multiple parts?
I would say that, if an entire physical orchestra is being used to generate a single chord, it's horrendous bloat, but not necessarily overkill. MIDI, of course, has the "Orchestra Hit" instrument that can be used to eliminate the bloat.
Is the guitar and bass guitar different or the same part?
I don't know much about musical composition, but if they're playing the same note then I imagine I probably wouldn't be able to tell that there were two instruments. However, if they're playing the "same" note at different octaves, then I might be able to tell, and to wonder what the point is.
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No. The juxtaposition of the two quotes concisely points out that the first quote has already addressed the second quote's concern. It's a convenient convention that I first saw on 4chan.
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