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I'm not in any way a Trump supporter or on the right more generally, but I can see why people on the right might be skeptical. The tech community did, after all, run Brendan Eich o…

I think your point here is a little disingenuous. (For reference I'm a longtime LP party member and have recently been getting very involved in the LP at the local level.) While it…

Interestingly, another approach that was seriously considered was to build a fake "Havana airport" in southern Florida and have the planes land there instead. http://99percentinvis…

> That unelected, life-tenured judges exercise this much authority over us, that they routinely subvert our collective democratic will as expressed through elections and referendum…

> In the U.S., despite what officers tell you, you do not have to identify yourself when asked. This varies state to state. In many states you must identify yourself at the level o…

For a body that's nearly spherical like the Earth you do a multipole expansion. Most of the gravity comes from a monopole (just a point mass at the center of gravity). Then you cal…

The reference to Renaissance art may be a reference to the relatively recently formed subreddit /r/accidentalrenaissance [1] where people post photos with unusual compositions that…

This shouldn't be confused with SmartFlix.com, which is like Netflix DVD, but for instructional and educational videos: https://smartflix.com/

The graviton is expected to be massless, but I don't think there's any information about the particle's rest mass.

There's a fair amount of activity here in central Ohio, as well. The most reliable source of discussion is that every few weeks the police department posts a notice about the locat…

No, it would be the longitude. The average of sunrise and sunset will be local noon, and from that you get the longitude. To get the latitude you would need to see where the Sun ri…

This article goes into much more detail about why it became popular in the West to adorn textiles with pseudo-Kufic script during the Renaissance: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/f…

With regards to point 2, at the federal level things do seem to work very differently. Here is a flowchart outlining the steps you would have to take to reclaim your assets from fe…

I didn't want my excerpt to be too long, but Kozinski actually talks about this in the very next paragraph: "Even more troubling are doubts raised by psychological research showing…

What the legal profession believes to be "beyond a reasonable doubt" and what the members of a particular jury consider "beyond a reasonable doubt" are two very different things. J…

> That means that 96% are guilty. That's beyond a reasonable doubt and probably not far from the best accuracy you can expect from an inherently fuzzy system. I disagree. A 1 in 25…

I might have had it slightly wrong in my original comment. I think that only one of his brake lights was faulty and it's not illegal to have one broken brake light.

This principle was explicitly upheld by the Supreme Court in Heien v. North Carolina. A police officer pulled a car over because it had a broken brake light. During the stop, the p…

I highly recommend anyone interested in this to read the article Criminal Law 2.0 by Alex Kozinski (a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). He presents twelve fundamental t…

> A property tax is generally progressive because the poor do not own real property. Won't those taxes still be passed to the poor as higher rent?

Shri Kulkarni said something along the lines of "Given a sufficiently large telescope even an arbitrarily idiotic astronomer can make a discovery."

Border guards and passports as we conceive them didn't really exist until the 20th century. The historian Paul Fussell wrote in his book Abroad : "[B]efore 1915 His Majesty's Gover…

We use completely different accounts on completely different computers.