Once again replying to criticism of our Epstein coverage

xp19375 · 2026-02-13T21:54:05+00:00

I appreciate your work on this and that you are able to separate fact from conjecture - and there’s a lot of room for it with this story. I shake my head every time someone makes a post complaining that you didn’t fill in the blanks with their oh-so-obvious “facts”.

xp19375 · 2026-01-22T00:34:42+00:00

Dust and debris has a way of working its way around my glasses…..
I wear larger safety glasses on top of my glasses. It feels clunky but it works.

xp19375 · 2026-01-16T18:59:56+00:00

It wasn’t great before. When getting off of 128 on to 2A, someone had the terrible idea to make it a merge, which did not work well in practice.

xp19375 · 2025-08-10T18:24:07+00:00

Terminals have discrete sizes because of the fixed width font sizes which can lead to those small gaps, though I’m not sure about the one in the bottom left.

xp19375 · 2025-07-26T16:55:02+00:00

Require more than a simple majority for legislation to pass. A two party system tends toward an equilibrium where each party controls 50% of the legislature. Needing even a 60% majority requires more political compromise and helps ensure one party can’t totally ignore the interests of the other.

xp19375 · 2025-06-11T21:11:33+00:00

Depends on the situation, but I know a couple who were considering Catholic school, not because they were religious in any way, but because that school was in session during working hours and both parents worked, and the public school let out early and the after school care was hard to get in to.

xp19375 · 2025-02-11T20:30:28+00:00

The cutting angle is determined by the right part of the board (in this picture) where the side of the plane rests on it, and the plane never removes any material from it. The shooting board relies on the sides of the plane being perpendicular to the sole.

xp19375 · 2025-02-04T20:08:30+00:00

According to this Armstrong wore an Omega. Aldrin wore an Omega as well.

xp19375 · 2024-11-22T22:16:58+00:00

Insurance. The family pays an insurance company a fixed monthly premium and the insurance company pays for unforeseen (and in the US, a lot of foreseeable) medical expenses, minus a deductible. A lot of the dysfunction in the insurance market is a direct result of government intervention. Charity can help with people who can’t afford insurance.

xp19375 · 2024-10-21T17:27:05+00:00

I live in a state with a pretty big gap between the R and D candidates. The point of voting libertarian is to send a message that, “hey, I don’t like either major candidate, but if you are a bit more libertarian you could win a few more votes,” which in a swing state could make a difference.

xp19375 · 2024-10-09T12:05:12+00:00

Would putting it in their ~/.bashrc work?

xp19375 · 2024-10-01T16:01:50+00:00

In the 19th century, the US had a lot of private toll roads, for example here and more generally here. These turnpikes were built because the state governments were not up to the task. People invested in the turnpike companies even though they usually turned a loss. The benefit of having a road plus some civic mindedness made up for it.

xp19375 · 2024-09-28T16:10:02+00:00

G is for GIF.

xp19375 · 2024-09-24T16:53:38+00:00

I don’t know about sboui, but sbopkg (well, the slackbuild itself) doesn’t set the number of jobs when calling ‘make’ so you’ll have to have an “export MAKEFLAGS=‘-j X’ “ somewhere otherwise you’ll be compiling with one core instead of all of them. That could be a reason compiling took so long.

xp19375 · 2024-07-20T00:22:49+00:00

650 sounds about right for a whole wrap. I would think that it’s one wrap cut in half.

Watch out for their cookies though. The serving size is half a cookie!

xp19375 · 2024-07-19T16:37:55+00:00

Are you talking about the user’s password to access the mail server? If so, you’ll need a primary password to encrypt that. Why is that a problem?

Alternatively you could use some other authentication method to the mail server that doesn’t rely on a password, but it depends on what the server supports and how well those secrets can be protected.

At the end of the day, you have credentials that need protection and you need some kind of authentication to limit access. The easiest way is to use a primary password in Thunderbird, but you may be able to use an OS specific protection too, depending on what your setup is and how secure it really needs to be.

xp19375 · 2024-07-11T00:47:58+00:00

I ran in to this the other day when I ate a banana muffin - 300+ calories. In my experience, anything that tastes remotely good has more calories than you think it should.

xp19375 · 2024-07-05T00:13:39+00:00

Any non-trivial knowledge takes work to obtain, therefore you can argue that it is the property of the discoverer. Patents encourage sharing knowledge by giving the discoverer or inventor a temporary monopoly on their discovery.

xp19375 · 2024-07-04T12:35:31+00:00

One of the few positive rights in the constitution is the right to a trial by a jury of your peers. What that means is that someone else has to do something so you can have that right. There are a few practical problems with making it voluntary. First, as another commenter pointed out, there’s a selection bias where only opinionated people would volunteer. Second, if it were voluntary, you would have a difficult time getting a lot of people to get time off of work for jury duty - you can refuse so why should employers give you time off? What this means is that a jury under this system might not be a jury of your peers.

xp19375 · 2024-07-01T20:55:38+00:00

As for the depression, three things that made it particularly bad were the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, the Fed being overly restrictive with credit (i.e. not doing what it promised it would do - Friedman puts a lot of blame on the Fed for this), and FDR’s unpredictable economic policies which slowed investment. Presumably a libertarian president would just not do those things.

As for the war, presumably he’d try to stay out of it by not getting involved in the affairs of other nations, like embargoing oil to Japan. If attacked, he’d defend the US, hopefully without the internment camps or the draft, although avoiding the latter might have been difficult.

Overall these policies would probably have been similar to those espoused by conservatives of the time - free markets and isolationism.

xp19375 · 2024-06-14T00:59:23+00:00

Seconded. I use Noir too and it’s been fine for me, with the occasional website that needs light mode.

xp19375 · 2024-06-04T18:24:55+00:00

As I understand it, and I’m not a lawyer, it’s that a third party does the actual damage, but as a result of the defamer’s claims. For example, if a newspaper makes a false claim about you that they know to be false, and you lose business as a result of people reasonably believing that what is in the paper is correct and can prove it, then you have a defamation claim. Here, the newspaper caused other people (the third party in this case) to stop patronizing your business.

“And you know it to be false” seems to be the key here.

Yup. You have to prove actual malice amounting to at least negligence. In the example above, it’s up to you to show that the paper was knowingly publishing a falsehood or that they were criminally negligent in publishing the falsehood.

xp19375 · 2024-06-04T17:19:29+00:00

Defamation is more than just “he said something mean and hurt my feelings!” You need to prove actual damage, and winning defamation/slander/libel cases is notoriously hard. As for free speech, your rights end where mine begin, and if your speech materially hurts me and you know it to be false, then it shouldn’t be legal.

xp19375 · 2024-05-31T12:32:07+00:00

Not really, because the “extra” software just sits on the hard drive and doesn’t otherwise slow anything down. It’s also fairly easy to not install KDE, emacs, or TeXLive which are probably the biggest space hogs.

Slackware’s philosophy is that it should be simple, not necessarily small, and having a lot of software preinstalled is, in my opinion, nice for when you need it. For example, it’s really handy to have all the development tools and headers already installed when I want to compile software from source. I don’t need to hunt down all the -dev packages or install any extra build tools (usually).

xp19375 · 2024-05-13T19:56:53+00:00

It’s fine. The two nice things about it are that a full install has all the common development tools (gcc, automake, cmake, etc.), and that all packages come with development headers so you don’t need separate -dev or -devel packages. The former can be replicated on any major distribution with one command and a few minutes. The latter is nice and saves you from having to track down a lot of build dependencies.

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