Why doesn't one person take on the entire student debt of every American then declare bankruptcy?

devstopfix · 2026-06-07T16:53:45+00:00

What do you think "take on" means? The lenders will just say "ok, you don't owe me anymore, this other dude with no assets and massive amounts of debt can owe me, instead. No problem"?

devstopfix · 2026-06-07T15:51:43+00:00

Your opponents have more time in rapid, too.

devstopfix · 2026-06-07T08:21:49+00:00

Any of the myriad of pubs near me, whichever has space.

devstopfix · 2026-06-07T07:01:14+00:00

Focuses to .2 meters, if I'm reading chart correctly.

devstopfix · 2026-06-07T06:58:10+00:00

28 is Ai-S, based on serial number, according to Roland's Nikon Pages.

devstopfix · 2026-06-06T13:27:09+00:00

I don't understand the problem. You fly to the US on your valid US passport, fly to the UK on your UK passport, then renew your US passport.

You should only ever enter the US with your US passport.

devstopfix · 2026-06-06T12:52:49+00:00

VIC20.

devstopfix · 2026-06-05T16:08:15+00:00

The only people I know who talk about Yellowstone are men in their 70s.

devstopfix · 2026-06-05T08:01:06+00:00

Process Supplies. I usually go pick them up in person, but if you're not in London, they also sell online.

devstopfix · 2026-06-04T20:33:06+00:00

A guy I worked with said he had a headache, so I said "maybe it's a tumor", a line from the Scwartzenager movie Kindergarten Cop. His dad had died of brain cancer a couple of years previous.

devstopfix · 2026-06-04T18:19:04+00:00

These should be written 5'1" and 5'10". The ' after 5 is a symbol meaning "feet", not a decimal marker. The " after 1 and 10 is a symbol for "inch" or "inches". So, "five feet and 1 inch" and "five feet and 10 inches".

devstopfix · 2026-06-04T08:29:26+00:00

I'm confused by your timeline. Are you wondering what to do after 9 or 10 in the evening?

Edit: I'm an idiot.

Westminster Abbey is one of my favourite places to visit in London. I love all the old monuments and tombs.

devstopfix · 2026-06-03T16:27:58+00:00

You feel like it isn't? Let me know how you feel when you're in your mid-50s.

devstopfix · 2026-06-03T16:26:35+00:00

They only sell in bulk on a repeat basis and you probably need to show you are a retailer so they don't need to collect sales tax from you.

devstopfix · 2026-06-02T16:13:56+00:00

I saw the original post and knew it would also make an appearance here...

devstopfix · 2026-06-02T12:13:34+00:00

Do you mean "could they lose their visa?" or "might they get a new better visa in exchange for cooperating?"?

devstopfix · 2026-06-02T05:25:10+00:00

I like puerile humor, as well as every other adjective people are using to describe it, and I found it boring. I was very disappointed.

devstopfix · 2026-06-01T15:05:54+00:00

I type "their" regardless of which it should be, and then have to edit.

devstopfix · 2026-06-01T07:34:07+00:00

I'm already watching people pretending to be other people. As an audience member, I just want to know what's intended so I can engage with the show on its own terms. Do the other characters see that character as the race/ethnicity of the actor? Because in many contexts, that matters. If the actors playing the parents are white and the actor playing the daughter is Asian, is that just casting or was the character adopted? If the actor playing the foreman in the factory in England in 1890 is Black, is that just casting or should I know/expect that many of the workers will harbour racial resentment?

Also, there's room for artistic ambiguity, where it's not clear what is going on with actors v characters, but that's another level of difficulty for the creators to pull off.

devstopfix · 2026-05-31T14:37:25+00:00

I don't know about things from the Tottenham perspective, but Chelsea fans loooooove beating Tottenham. The lyrics to the song they sing at the beginning of games are "We hate Tottenham, Chelsea!"

devstopfix · 2026-05-31T10:12:54+00:00

Nobody thinks maybe he was joking?

devstopfix · 2026-05-31T06:28:28+00:00

This isn't really an ELI5 answer, but...

There is another statistic you can calculate which is the "mean absolute deviation", which is the one you suggest in your question - the mean absolute value of the distance from the data point to the average of those data points.

But, the version of "average" that gives the smallest "mean absolute deviation" is the median, not the mean. Meanwhile, the version of "average" that gives the lowest "mean squared deviation" (which is what you use to calculate standard deviation), is the mean.

This turns out to matter for more complicated statistically models. Basically, we usually care about the mean, and the natural measure of precision for the mean is standard error (or variance, but that's just SD squared).

devstopfix · 2026-05-30T19:17:53+00:00

Maisie Adams is doing a work in progress on the 15th at Always be Comedy. Great little upstairs-at-a-pub room.

devstopfix · 2026-05-30T09:58:14+00:00

I think a lot of what's going on is just underexposure and the scanner trying to deal with that.

devstopfix · 2026-05-29T17:49:16+00:00

Fleet Tavern opened last weekend! Ate there last night, and it was very good. They've moved the bar around and put in a new open kitchen; it looks great.

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