badnewsbandit
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badnewsbandit
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1yr ago
That's unfair. Donovan, Powell and Calvin all get pretty decent characterization in iRobot. Calvin more than the rest as part of the framing device.
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1yr ago
But I think it's not enough. What the US needs is a switch to electronic receipts. Do you know how much paper is wasted on printed receipts every day? Here's a nice system by the Treasury Department which replaces paper receipts. It's smart enough to cross-reference the data from different shops and payment processors for your convenience: you can give the shop one of your emails, or phone numbers, or just a credit card number, it will recognize it's you and show you all your expenses in a single convenient location.
I have exactly zero desire for such a system for my personal expenses and an exceptionally large negative desire for anyone else to have that data. Personal financial management products are a niche market with most of the growth in things like robo-advisors for investment accounts rather than Mint mobile style phone photo receipt tracking (which even then targets small businesses more than individuals).
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1yr ago
the AR-15 platform is literally the best platform for doing what it does
The AR platform is only customizable to the degree it is in a post-GWOT, post-M4 carbine world. Even then you still have gas tuning peculiarities between various gas system lengths/blocks, buffer lengths/weights. Direct Impingement with the buffer system trades some weight and some softness in recoil for a lot of dirty gas in critical areas all the way down into the magazines. The buffer system also makes folding the stock for portability require an expensive adapter that still can't fire in that configuration so most folks disassemble the rifle for that use case. The design is mid and it survives because of half a century of government funding leading to wide availability of critical and add-on parts.
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1yr ago
Pretty much every piece of high speed kit you're thinking of is attached via picatinny rail. Which I'm sure you know has nothing to do with the design of the AR as a platform. The US Army could have stuck with the slightly updated magazine fed Garand as a platform and you'd still have the same sort of kit hanging off it. Carry handle gooseneck mounts and underbarrel grenade or shotgun mounts you could claim exclusivity to the AR platform if you wanted I suppose.
The Warsaw pact side rail dates back to N variant AKMs that holds and returns to zero with non-garbage tier attachment mounts pretty simply. It's easier for me to swap between two mounts with different optic combos on them on one of my AK patterns than setting up two optic combos on a picatinny rail with indexing and having to QD each optic. (Say an LPVO to a red dot + magnifier and back again, at least the magnifier doesn't need QD but it's appreciated when swapping.) Personally speaking I don't get gassed out of my x95 with the factory port cover. Sure it matters for suppressing and mag dumping but that also applies to the AR platform. The CETME was originally built for 7.92x41, was rechambered to 7.62x51 but has been scaled down to 5.56x45 and 9x19 so the delayed roller lock system is not that difficult to rechamber. With the roller system there's a bit more tolerance for different pressures since it's not a gas system at all. The stamped metal receiver weight and wear and tear on the rollers having to be checked with calipers are major draw backs of that platform. It doesn't drop in swap but even with the split receiver design of the AR you're not jumping from 5.56 to 7.62 with the same lower. In a slightly different timeline where the BATFE wasn't focused on full auto conversions, different AR uppers would have been considered different firearms and for good reason what with the whole matched bolt, barrel and tuned gas system being integral components. The threaded screw-in barrel is an actual design upgrade compared to pressed trunnion barrels but that serviceability come at higher per-unit costs of having to thread that end of the barrel. The MCX platform does one better on that score of course by using trunnion pin-like captive clamping screws.
That virtuous cycle is my point. The US military could have standardized on literally any rifle design and most of what makes modern ARs attractive would apply all the same. The AR is dominant in the same way the US military is dominant because the US military is dominant (plus a side helping of foreign aid in the form of selling ARs for cheaper than any country could produce a competitor).
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1yr ago
Milling or forging the upper is not trivial. No one focuses on that because when the BATFE categorized what part of the AR was a controlled item they were concerned about full-auto uses and so picked the lower since traditional AR full auto configurations have a different fire control + sear pocket and drop-in auto sears were a later innovation. Stamp, bend and weld at scale is cheaper and faster than milling and forging. Especially when you have to mill along more than one axis. The T(G)36 clone costs are a mix of niche product, complex plastic receiver from a small shop and sourcing HK parts for all the rest.
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1yr ago
Lindsay Ellis's three part analysis of the The Hobbit movies is pretty good as a whole, but the end of the first part she points out just how lazy and bad from a production stand point they are. Reusing the Ring Wraith leitmotif for a movie original scene where Thorin charges an Orc.
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
Before she was unpersoned, JK Rowling was notorious on Twitter and other places for all kinds of silly retcons that no one asked for. (That trivia tweet was sourced from her own supplemental writing.)
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1yr ago
I looked them up on the English language net. What a sad story. Armed forces apparently didn't like the AMD-65 so instead they produced the AK-63 which is just another AKM clone. Major export markets to Afghanistan (Taliban), Iraq (Saddam), Nicaragua (Sandinistas) and Croatia (during the Yugoslav war) ended up closed off from various sanctions right around when Hungary joined the EU. Supposedly they mostly do HVAC while the Hungarian Defense Forces started buying Czech rifles.
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1yr ago
It seems in line with how people treat trade dress. The underlying justification was to prevent customer confusion where someone buys a product they did not intend because the branding was so similar. That has been expanded into the look-and-feel standard in the digital age. It's not that far of a logical leap to apply that to a case of training an AI on a specific artist. Take a test case of a programmer with no art skills training an AI on a particular artist they like to produce an app or a game and profiting off the similarity and you've got a precedent for that sort of thing. I don't think that's the correct way to handle things but I can see something like that happening.
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1yr ago
Romm Art Creations Ltd. v. Simcha Int'l., Inc. seems applicable to me but I'm just some rando on the internet. Typical plaintiff work compared to a defendant work that was enjoined in that case.
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1yr ago
Meanwhile in the 1974 pre-AD&D Volume 1: Men & Magic races were class restricted and had hard level caps on those classes with special abilities to compensate in odd ways like Dwarf magical resistance. Basic introduced races as classes to simplify some of the awkward book keeping, especially with things like Elf multiclassing. "Hobbits are nimble and good-hearted" isn't some add-on, halflings are restricted to only the law alignment while men can take law, neutral or even chaos which none of the demihumans can take. It's a pretty quick read, 36 pages for what would become the Player Handbook. Volumes 2: Monsters & Treasure and 3: The underworld & Wilderness Adventures are essentially the Monster Manual and Dungeon Masters Guide and equally short.
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1yr ago
Contra your point about large legal firms, wasn't there a whole thing about Kirkland & Ellis LLP splitting with Paul Clement and Erin Murphy over not wanting to handle 2A related cases?
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1yr ago
Why is that a problem? What do differential outcomes have to do with the racism and collectivism your OP was concerned with?
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1yr ago
Muggsy notwithstanding I recall there is something of a high pass filter effect when it comes to height and skill correlations in basketball. Once you've filtered out all the people below 5'6" then other factors dominate.
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1yr ago
Every other KPI that results in a hire or promotion? You're the one creating the hypothetical situation that absent disparate impact "almost no Black people" will be hired and those that are will "never get promoted". In your hypothetical is the only reason such a thing would happen because of racism?
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1yr ago
Blue tribe adult converts to or second gen raised by blue tribe converts to non-Christian, especially non-Abrahamic religions tend to be very open to overt discussions about religion. Typically Wiccans, blue flavors of Neopaganism or various Buddhist sects (ironically Soka Gakkai codes blue in the US in-spite of Komeito being an LDP partner).
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1yr ago
They're poking fun at the study showing that white liberals have negative in-group bias which on average means whites compared to other races have the lowest in-group bias (even non-liberal whites have lower in-group bias compared to other races on average). So preferentially hiring from whites compared to other races means the business will have less in-group racial bias than some other demographic mix, making it better from a lessening racism, in-group bias perspective.
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1yr ago
The survey questions were literally using this thermometer widget to answer these among other questions in a random order:
- How would you rate blacks?
- How would you rate whites?
- How would you rate Hispanics?
- How would you rate Asians?
Then cross referenced against other answers about the survey takers demographics. "On a scale of warm-or-favorable to cold-or-unfavorable how do you feel about $race" is the kind of thing you could ask someone from 1022 as easily as 2022.
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1yr ago
remembering all of the cases where the pattern doesn’t work
Somehow the Greeks with access to both the Minoan syllabary and the Phoenician abjad birthed the evils of the alphabet on the world and thousands of years later we are still paying the price.
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1yr ago
Mandated hijab wearing is still something American liberals are not entirely ok with. It was one of the things played up back during the invasion of Afghanistan. American liberals generally support the protests in Iran right now over the woman who died in custody for a hijab violation. On the other hand they will overwhelming support the wearing of it if it's framed as empowering the woman from her choice rather than mandated upon her. Sort of like Asians and White privilege.
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
The rest of that users comments and replies do not seem to have much in common with someone who would have been at the event.
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