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I dare say that your autism is so strong it would be ITAR-restricted.
Come on, you're exaggerating here.
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Writing up an invitation to a housewarming party is not autistic at all! After writing this particular invitation, I actually asked my local decensored LLM to write up an example invitation to a housewarming party, and it looked more or less like what I had written (though obviously much less detailed, since it had no source material to work from). And this document is only two pages long—perfectly acceptable for an invitation. Maybe the digression about insulation in appendix C is slightly autistic, but energy efficiency is important for homeowners.
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Enjoyment of designing houses is not autistic at all! Writing up a distillation of concepts in order to help others design their own houses is slightly autistic—but, again, this particular handout is only two pages long (if I adjust the margins), not a gigantic eight-page tome.
Please share the final form when you're done.
To clarify, (the unredacted version of) this PDF is 99 percent complete. In order to be insured, the house must be inspected by the insurance company after completion—so the only substantive incomplete part is where it says "insurance information pending" under the invitation to take a ladder up to the "flat" roof. (Plus, of course, the date hasn't yet been fixed, and the walkthrough video hasn't yet been made and uploaded.)
It's an "early draft" not in terms of completion, but in terms of time: (1) I haven't yet gotten a new estimated completion date from the contractor, so the worst-case scenario is completion on July 6; and (2) the insurance company says that its inspection probably won't happen until 30 to 60 days after the house is completed and I submit an application.
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Reuters:
Alberta's separatists hit by legal setback
Alberta separatists have been dealt their first major setback in their campaign for a referendum on seceding from Canada, after a provincial court ruled this week in favor of a First Nations bid to halt the referendum petition.
Justice Shaina Leonard ruled on Wednesday that the province's chief electoral officer was wrong to allow separatists to collect signatures requesting a referendum, because the process should have triggered a consultation with Indigenous peoples whose rights might be violated by Alberta's separation from Canada.
"Alberta independence would fundamentally contravene" the land treaties Indigenous peoples signed with Canada, Leonard said.
[Alberta Premier Danielle] Smith, who pushed through several legislative changes last year making it easier for separatists to trigger a referendum, said the court decision was "incorrect in law."
Smith has stopped short of publicly supporting independence, but some factions of the movement back her leadership. She said that her government would appeal against Leonard's ruling and that her caucus would meet "to discuss the full context and make some decisions after we've had a chance to talk it through."
The Applicants contend that the duty to consult was triggered by the CEO Decision, and Alberta's failure to undertake consultation results in the CEO Decision [the Chief Electoral Officer's approval of the petition application] being incorrect. ACFN [Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation] raised this as a primary argument while Blackfoot Nations raised it as an alternative argument.
The Proponent argues the CEO Decision does not trigger a duty to consult and contends the Applicants’ argument is an attempt to transform a non-adjudicative administrative step into a constitutional decision, which, the Proponent argues, it is not.
Similarly, Alberta argues that the CEO Decision does not give rise to a duty to consult as the CEO Decision is limited to allowing the Proponent to gather signatures to determine if there is enough support for the Second Proposal to move forward to a referendum. In fact, Alberta made oral submissions that the duty to consult would not be triggered until after the referendum.
The Applicants dispute Alberta and the Proponent’s characterization of the limited scope and effect of the CEO Decision. The Applicants arguments are based on the legislative framework that requires that a referendum be held if the signature threshold is met.
Alberta acknowledges that the duty to consult often arises when the Crown makes decisions that may adversely impact the lands and resources that affect the exercise of Aboriginal rights but argues that the CEO Decision is not akin to a “strategic, higher-level decision”. The CEO Decision was a nondiscretionary decision dealing with the approval of an application for an initiative petition. It simply allows signatures to be collected. In Alberta’s view the CEO Decision did not engage in governmental policy development, strategy, or resources approvals affecting Aboriginal or Treaty rights, that would elevate it to a strategic higher-level decision.
I have already found that the framework of the Amended CIA provides that upon the CEO verifying that the Second Proposal complies with statutory requirements, including verifying that the signature thresholds are met, it is mandatory for the executive to undertake the subsequent actions outlined in the Amended CIA and the Referendum Act. This means, once an initiative petition is approved and the required signatures are obtained, the executive must hold a referendum and must implement the results of the referendum.
The statutory framework only allows the Applicants to participate in secession once the process enters the realm of the political and is no longer justiciable. I conclude that the CEO Decision, i.e., the Crown conduct, has the potential to adversely affect Treaty rights.
I conclude that the CEO Decision triggers a duty to consult. All three elements of the Haida test are satisfied. The Crown has actual knowledge of Treaty rights that are engaged by the Second Proposal. The CEO Decision triggers a binding referendum on secession. Because of the sequence of events that are triggered by the CEO Decision, the CEO Decision constitutes Crown conduct. A requirement to implement secession without prior involvement of the Applicants has the potential to adversely affect Treaty rights. The CEO Decision therefore triggers a duty to consult.
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12hr ago
Brown envelopes with windows? Spammers normally use white envelopes with windows in the USA. But your concerns will be taken under advisement.
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17hr ago
He isn't nearly as cool as I am, and would only drag down the quality of discussion.
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19hr ago
To clarify, construction is not complete—this invitation is just an early draft. (Sorry, you're not invited.)
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Astral Codex Ten's latest official meetup post indicates that some people held a meeting in Oslo a few weeks ago. However, that post provides only an email address for the organizer of that meeting, and does not indicate that a long-term community exists there.
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2d ago
Quote from Publication 970 chapter 7 (regarding "qualified tuition programs (QTPs)", also known as "529 plans"):
Qualified Higher-Education Expenses
The expense for room and board qualifies only to the extent that it isn't more than the greater of the following two amounts.
The allowance for room and board, as determined by the school, that was included in the cost of attendance (for federal financial-aid purposes) for a particular academic period and living arrangement of the student
The actual amount charged if the student is residing in housing owned or operated by the school
A state webpage says the same thing. So I think this actually doesn't work for online schools, which obviously will not include room and board in the cost of attendance.
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2d ago
You were in high school but also homeschooled? Wouldn't that make you not homeschooled?
I think discontinuing homeschooling in late middle school or early high school is a strategy concocted in order to make getting into college easier.
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2d ago
The local code official conducts inspections throughout construction. If he isn't slacking, he presumably will notice the difference between the 7-foot-wide living room shown on the plans (code-compliant) and the 6-foot-wide living room from which you have cannibalized a foot of width for the adjacent bedroom (not compliant), or between the 77.5-% stairway shown on the plans (code-compliant) and the 85-% stairway from which you have cannibalized a foot of length for the adjacent bedroom (not compliant).
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2d ago
What would be the point of designing a house that you can't build?
Codes don't cover just structural integrity (though you should look at those parts, too, in order to avoid laying out a gigantic living room without realizing that it needs a bunch of obstructive columns in the middle to hold up the roof). They also prescribe minimum dimensions for rooms (both habitable rooms like living rooms, and non-habitable rooms like bathrooms).
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2d ago
Well, I sort of have hobbies, mostly "reading, listening to music, and getting away from people as fast as I can".
Quote from a text message sent by me to my mother (who has failed to take up any hobbies several years after I pestered her into retiring): Reading books and watching shows are not sufficiently interactive to count as real hobbies.
Hobbies can delay cognitive decline in old people. Try designing a code-compliant dream house.
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3d ago
As the saying goes, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". Astral Codex Ten:
50% of patients are “responders” and 50% are “nonresponders”. (Source: personal experience. This study gives similar numbers, but this sort of thing is very hard to operationalize, and I will just go with personal experience.)
The probability that your four people were all in the unlucky 50 percent who get no benefit from SSRIs is 6 percent—low, but well within the realm of possibility. If you broaden your net of anecdotes to encompass the denizens of this website, you probably get something closer to the expected 50 percent.
Rebuttal from Astral Codex Ten
A small minority of patients do worse on SSRIs. These patients bring down everyone’s average, and then studies find that “on average” “participants” only get an effect size of 0.5. Fine, but in real life the people who felt worse on SSRIs would have stopped them immediately.
My reading of Kirsch is something like: Antidepressants will work for about 50% of people. For those people, they will have a large real effect size of 1.0, plus a large placebo effect size of 0.9, for a very large total effect size of 1.9.
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3d ago
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3d ago
Apparently there's a loneliness epidemic.
You forgot to copy-and-paste a link here.
Now, am I depressed? I think I might be (can't get a diagnosis)
Astral Codex Ten suggests taking the PHQ-9 questionnaire for self-diagnosis of depression.
So I never grew to regard friendship as transactional because I could never get those transactions going.
Mostly I don't like people.
Based (1 2). This is the part where we suddenly fall in love.
You have hobbies? No.
Or not.
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3d ago
Nobody is forcing you to read the entire thing. As I recently mentioned:
What matters is the journey, not the destination. Among non-professionally-published literary works, I think it's very possible that I've enjoyed more incomplete ones than complete ones.
Even among professionally-published works, there's nothing wrong with giving five stars to The Three Musketeers, four stars to Twenty Years After, and three stars plus "did not finish" to The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
If you like the early parts, but find that the story becomes less enjoyable as you progress, then just drop the story.
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The deliverable would ideally be something that can run in a browser, but if it has to be a self-contained executable, so be it.
I think this would be a heck of a lot easier to accomplish as a GIS file openable in QGIS rather than as an HTML+CSS+Javascript file openable in a browser or as a standalone executable file.
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4d ago
Under the 25th Amendment he would be only the acting president, not the actual president.
It's the full novel, not a graphic novel rendering with speech bubbles etc. Maybe that's what a visual novel actually is and I am just learning the term.
Yes, that's what a visual novel is.
A typical visual novel consists of text over an anime-style background image and is accompanied by background music. Throughout the game, the player usually has to answer a few questions which will have an effect on the story. Thus, playing a visual novel a second time while giving other answers may result in an entirely different plot.
Note that these particular visual novels are in the non-interactive "kinetic novel" subcategory.
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4d ago
converting public-domain novels into visual novels
It's my understanding that a purely linear visual novel is more often called a "kinetic novel".
A kinetic novel is a VN that does not present the "player" with any choices at all; he simply reads through a single unbranching story.
The term originates from Visual Art's brand KineticNovel (and all games produced under that brand are examples of this), but it is now also used to describe games by other companies with a similar structure.
Using the term "visual novel", with its connotation of interactivity, may mislead readers into thinking that you have added new branching paths to the plots of these books.
Scientific study from year 2017 (news article):
120 male participants viewed photographs in six categories: neutral items (e. g., a binder clip); disgusting items (e. g., a bowl full of maggots); man+woman public displays of affection; man+woman kissing; man+man public displays of affection; and man+man kissing. Afterward, their disgust was measured through levels of a digestive enzyme that appears in the saliva of a stressed human.
A statistically significant increase in enzyme level was found only when comparing man+man kissing to neutral items (p < 0.2 %), comparing man+man kissing to man+woman public displays of affection (p < 2.0 %), and comparing disgusting items to neutral items (p < 3.6 %). This result was obtained among all participants, not just among the ones who self-reported as disliking homosexual men in an online survey that was administered prior to the experiment.
Presumably, actual sex would prompt an even greater response than mere kissing.
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