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That's a different post.

Withholding isn't relevant here. Non refundable means it can't cause the government to net pay you money: that is to say, it can't make your refund larger than your withholding.

> since we are not solving the problem at hand in a good way, we decided to solve it in a worse way It's a different "we". Rephrased: since Houston's government is not solving the …

Silicone is not rigid, which is sometimes a problem.

They have this for babies! It comes in powder and puff form. It's to prevent babies from developing allergies.

Sure it is! If we were trying to compress an archive of orbital data, one way to do it would be "initial positions + periodic error correction". If you have the new planet, your er…

Firefox can screenshot the entire page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/take-screenshots-firefo...

Don't forget CS2: Episode 1!

Isn't this chapter 11 bankruptcy?

Wait, can you link to that?

I believe inkscape has this: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathE...

Re: auto generated code: it saves ci time which is a pretty huge benefit. You still need to regenerate the code to make sure it's up to date, but you can do that in parallel with t…

High school is a bit under a third of school years in the US, so that's a high school of about 3000 (which is how big my high school was, for example).

You need a heat difference, not just heat, to generate electricity. Now my sibling comment links to a paper where they say they can find heat differences in the body that are suffi…

Sure, but you can make it as progressive as you want by redistributing the tax income back to people.

I think odds ratio ( p/(1-p) ) is the thing I'd use here. It gives the right limiting behavior (at p ~= 0, doubling p is twice as good, and at p~=1, halving 1-p is twice as good) a…

I came to rust from the other direction, as it were: from Haskell. There are a lot of similarities! The type systems are similar, with some name changes (sum types -> enums, typecl…

Gravitational lensing. From the description[0]: Other features include the prominent arcs in this field. The powerful gravitational field of a galaxy cluster can bend the light ray…

I mean, these are all valid criticisms of the swimming experience, it just sounds silly because you can't edit swimming.

I realize this is a joke, but it isn't! Play a video of a ball flying up and then back down again and it'll be the same forward or backwards (up to air friction anyway).

Do you think there's any level of child abuse that shouldn't be unconditionally be forgiven as part of growing up?

I don't think Will's experience supports that. It's not that he gave some consent that, looking back on it, wasn't valid. Instead, he repeatedly and explicitly did not consent, and…

> I'm not sure why choice of programming language is such a heated topic. I think there are two reasons. First, languages live or die by their ecosystems. If you love a language, i…

"Incorrect" is way too strong here. I agree that a reference frame that has about the same velocity as the stuff you care about is in some sense privileged. But the fact that we ha…