zermelo
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Comment · 11 months ago
that was a fun project: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
Comment · 11 months ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate: the EU's mission was to bring peace. Maybe 80,000 employees producing garbage is a small price to pay for piece.
Comment · 11 months ago
A quick glance on who Isaac Newton is tells me all I need to know about these pieces.
Physics @ Trinity College @ Royal Society
Various memberships at pro Science institutions
Expect inertia narratives, gravity dogmas and... wait, do you believe economics science is pro lobbying?
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for bringing it up.
Link if someone is interested: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administratio...
Comment · 1 year ago
My understanding:
* excepted (essential) employees (including ATCs) are required to work, are not getting paid, but will be paid back for their work when Congress passes a new appropriations bill
* furloughed (non-essential) employees are told not to work, are not getting paid, but will be paid back under GEFTA once the shutdown ends, without any new law.
To be clear, I'm trying to state the facts, not my opinions.
Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/24
Passed by Congress in January 2019 and signed by Trump. " Employees furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations shall be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. "
Comment · 1 year ago
To most of the commentators saying "why work when you're not getting paid", please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't federal employees not paid during a government shutdown getting retroactive pay once funding has been restored?
Comment · 5 years ago
nope, puzzle is fine.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yep, 1h5 hours for me!
Comment · 5 years ago
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
c/o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
my comment: There is no automated way to define justice and tolerance. You can't take a shortcut from thinking.
Comment · 5 years ago
what's the counterfactual? How can you tell the difference between "criminals are undeterred by prison and will commit offenses no matter what" and "prison hardens criminals and does not help with their reinsertion"?