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 Discussion on answer by Mary: Is birt…

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EvilSnack
Jul 1 22:24
"Subject to the jurisdiction thereof" most likely is intended to mean those people who do not enjoy diplomatic immunity.
 

 Discussion on question by It'sMe: How…

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EvilSnack
Apr 5, 2024 21:21
"As time approaches infinity, the probability that a practical application will be found for any given discovery in mathematics approaches one." -- EvilSnack's Conjecture
 

 Discussion on answer by Franck Dernon…

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EvilSnack
Mar 27, 2024 18:51
In an indirect way, the first $5.12 per hour of tips (depending on the jurisdiction) already goes to the employer, in that they are allowed to count tips as part of wages paid for the purposes of meeting minimum wage laws.
 

 Discussion on answer by Hold To The R…

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EvilSnack
Mar 2, 2024 17:48
"In order to successfully argue a reductio ad absurdum it is necessary to accept, for sake of argument, the premises of one's opponent." This is what many people arguing from the Problem of Evil fail to do. Up front they verbally assent to the idea of an omniscient and omnipotent God, but then quietly slip a non-omniscient or non-omnipotent entity into God's place in the argument.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: In…

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EvilSnack
Feb 6, 2024 20:58
More to the point: The trope where somebody bursts into the courtroom with evidence that ends the trial and frees the wrongfully-accused defendant is a TV-and-movies thing, and not a real-life thing.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ken Graham: I…

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EvilSnack
Nov 27, 2023 12:09
@bob Some Protestant churches. The Churches of Christ address the elder, deacons, and evangelists with the same terms as any other member, usually as Brother So-and-So.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Do…

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EvilSnack
Nov 18, 2023 18:08
A raise that puts you into a higher tax bracket cannot lower your total after-tax income. The higher rate applies only to the amount of your income that exceeds the lower threshold of the bracket.
 

 Discussion on question by Stupid_Inte…

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EvilSnack
Nov 16, 2023 22:14
Why do they want a resignation letter from someone who isn't resigning?"
 

 Discussion on answer by Mermaker: If …

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EvilSnack
Nov 3, 2023 04:00
@AlexP My parent's walk to and from school was uphill both ways...
 

 Discussion on question by INPU: Could…

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EvilSnack
Nov 25, 2022 22:22
The city of Commorragh in the WH40K setting is pretty close to such a society. You're allowed to stop someone from killing you, and allies of whoever you kill will want revenge, but aside from that the city is a happy-go-lucky murder haven.
 

 Discussion on question by user366312:…

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EvilSnack
Nov 15, 2022 20:03
You help them develop more quickly.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: Under wh…

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EvilSnack
Sep 6, 2022 09:51
This answers the question of whether my 400 meter space station at the L-5 point in the moon's orbit will be visible to the naked eye from the surface of the Earth.
 

 Discussion on question by Chris Roger…

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EvilSnack
Jun 4, 2022 13:31
What really makes the statistic disingenuous is that the 10% risk is an unnecessary risk. There is simply no good reason to smoke cigarettes, and that, coupled with it's increased risk of cancers (of all types), is enough to establish that smoking cigarettes is inexcusable folly. Contrast this with the risk of drowning when swimming for recreation, or crashing on a bike ride, and risks associated with other activities; there are benefits to these activities which render the risks acceptable.
EvilSnack
Jun 4, 2022 13:31
83% of Russian roulette players survive each round.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Siegel:…

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EvilSnack
Dec 2, 2021 16:58
There is a reason that the concept is called copyright and not sellright.
 

 Discussion on answer by Aster: In Sta…

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EvilSnack
Nov 23, 2021 18:39
(Sigh.) There are people in this life who believe that in the heat of battle, while facing unprovoked aggression, and people are already getting killed, that a peaceful solution is always still possible. Well, no. Sometimes either you kill the other guy or he kills you and your loved ones, and there is no option C, and what's going on in the scenes under discussion is an example of clinging to the notion that there is such an option.
EvilSnack
Nov 23, 2021 18:39
TL;DR: The show writers are slaves to wishful thinking.
 

 Discussion on answer by TenthJustice:…

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EvilSnack
May 28, 2021 10:54
"If they'd called it a tax, it would have been okay, so it's okay even thought they called it something else." That has got to be the wobbliest logic to come down from the high court in my lifetime.
 

 Discussion on answer by Roman Odaisky…

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EvilSnack
Dec 29, 2020 18:05
I do note that in the quoted text, the appropriate course of action when there is reasonable doubt is presented as an obligation (must do, shall do, it is your duty to), but the appropriate course when there is no reasonable doubt is presented as highly recommended (should do). The focus seems to be that avoiding wrongful conviction is a higher priority than avoiding wrongful acquittal.
 

 Discussion on question by Ankit: Can …

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EvilSnack
Sep 1, 2020 18:05
I seem to recall an incident in which (by accident) the cap of a scuba tank was broken off. The tank came to a rest a couple of city blocks away.
 

 Discussion on question by creative-us…

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EvilSnack
Jul 8, 2020 03:11
Your question presents a common issue with magic in fictional settings. Magic, like everything else, must have its own laws, behaving in a consistent manner that is ultimately discoverable so that reliable predictions can be made. If the only "law" for your magic is that it does whatever you want it to do at any given moment, then your story is one deus ex machina after another.
 

 Discussion on question by Trevor Mers…

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EvilSnack
May 28, 2020 07:28
And to add to @PeterSmith's comment, a lot of really cool stuff was written using those 51 instructions.
 

 Discussion on question by ssquidd: Ho…

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EvilSnack
May 10, 2020 06:40
What procedures are in place for dealing with students who abuse the process? I think that a formal complaint from every affected instructor would not be something the administration would choose to ignore.
 

 Discussion on question by user8600: C…

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EvilSnack
Apr 27, 2020 22:08
Or maybe it was sketchy. Perhaps due to some error his efforts did not achieve consistent results, and he did not think it worthwhile to publicize this.
EvilSnack
Apr 27, 2020 22:08
If Newton kept his alchemical research private because he had no results to show for it, then he was being an exemplary scientist.
 

 Discussion on question by Charlie Her…

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EvilSnack
Feb 13, 2020 11:15
As presently written the question is of the form, "How can you prove something when the only available test yields false positives?"
 

 Discussion on question by user1034912…

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EvilSnack
Feb 9, 2020 13:47
Just remember that the value of buggy code is zero.
 

 Discussion on question by galactic_an…

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EvilSnack
Jan 30, 2020 09:39
What the OP describes seems to fit GMOs quite well.
 

 Discussion on question by user69899: …

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EvilSnack
Oct 25, 2019 05:43
I'd say that a black hole is the ultimate storage device. Retrieval, on the other hand, is going to be problematic.
 

 Discussion on answer by Matt: Coworke…

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EvilSnack
Oct 18, 2019 11:56
$200 weekly x 52 weeks per year = enough money to get a second monitor, the best mouse on earth, and a company-paid monthly dinner at a restaurant chosen by worker consensus, for all of the CAD draftsmen.
 

 Discussion on question by Yukang Jian…

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EvilSnack
Aug 27, 2019 17:49
"Why do you ask?" Someone wanting to know if I have money on that scale (or higher) needs to have a very good reason before I'm going to answer.
 

 Discussion on answer by Mat Cauthon: …

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EvilSnack
Aug 15, 2019 15:14
On top of this, we also know that Galadriel can communicate by thought with Gandalf, and I daresay that the latter's true nature was much more apparent at such times.
 

 Discussion on question by Whose: Does…

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EvilSnack
Jul 16, 2019 03:46
From the penny's frame of reference the train bounces off of the penny.
 

 Discussion on question by TheDyingOfL…

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EvilSnack
May 7, 2019 05:27
Hint: The very worst crimes in history were very clearly not motivated by material desire.
 

 Discussion on answer by Smitty: Is it…

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EvilSnack
Apr 21, 2019 19:38
If you want an extreme example of how ugly the situation can get, the Mattel/MGA war is a good read.
 

 Discussion on question by Spooikypok_…

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EvilSnack
Mar 12, 2019 14:58
@EliasRowanAlbatross: "It's only a flesh wound."
 

 Discussion on question by JBH: Could …

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EvilSnack
Sep 3, 2018 22:22
@JBH If it's safe for me to navigate through the asteroid belt, it's safe for the pirates, too. The whole premise is flawed.
EvilSnack
Sep 3, 2018 22:22
If you're that risk-averse, what's stopping you from flying outside of the belt's known orbital plane?
 

 Discussion on question by kingledion:…

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EvilSnack
Jun 8, 2018 14:21
I think we can all agree that the dumb ones will be the first to go. Whether the smart ones are smart enough remains to be seen.
 

 Discussion on answer by Valorum: What…

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EvilSnack
Sep 18, 2017 13:51
If there was ever a regime that bought into the notion that the end justifies the means, it's the Ministry of Magic. Muggle parents who get too stubborn will wake up one day with the child gone and a cover story for their child's disappearance magically implanted in their memories.
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe Strazzere…

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EvilSnack
Jul 24, 2017 08:28
@Horuskol: Unless the OP's compliance violates a law or a contract, the manager's definition of "as necessary" is the only one that counts.
EvilSnack
Jul 24, 2017 08:28
If the OP's job description contains the phrase "Other duties as necessary," then the boss is absolutely not wrong.
 

 Discussion on question by ghosts_in_t…

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EvilSnack
Jun 20, 2017 13:24
You will need to re-conceive the secret organization's evil power. There is no practical defense against it. (Better yet, just scrap the whole idea of mind control. It never makes for a satisfying tale.)
 

 Discussion on question by Kumal J: So…

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EvilSnack
May 28, 2017 18:59
@Mehrdad: If the OP is lying, then the CEO doesn't have to say that there's nothing he can do. He investigates, discovers that the OP is lying, documents that, and makes that the basis of future actions.
EvilSnack
May 28, 2017 18:59
The CEO said there's nothing he could do? That is bull-mother-{filtered} {filtered}. He's the {filtered} CEO. He can re-hire you right {filtered} now.
 

 Discussion on question by Lorry Laure…

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EvilSnack
Feb 19, 2017 04:59
You don't need high-rise buildings to have a city.
 

 Discussion on question by Authors Ano…

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EvilSnack
Jan 20, 2017 04:34
@kingledion All rapists are in it for the violence. This was tested a few decades ago in a clinical trial. Rapists, when shown a film of women being abused in non-sexual ways, got erections.
 

 Discussion on answer by loneboat: Is …

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EvilSnack
Oct 12, 2016 09:21
All hard AI is currently made from unobtainium, and is built on a design based on the collapse of the hand-wave equation, as predicted by quantum theory. (I also work in software development, and I regard AI as purest fantasy.)
 

 Discussion on question by Space Ostri…

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EvilSnack
Sep 30, 2016 13:38
We actually have something similar with atomic particles. Their wave-like nature prevents them from manifesting anywhere that the wave would negatively interfere with itself.
 

 Discussion on question by Mooz: How w…

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EvilSnack
Aug 5, 2016 23:26
The way to mitigate abuses (assuming that the voting is not rigged) is that persons who fail to vote are counted as opposing the banishment of the person under consideration.