RustyEarthfire

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

slightly more weight per vote

Wyoming citizens count three times as much as California citizens

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Like a spider dangled over the fire by a thread.

No I wasn't emotionally scarred by high school American Lit, why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Also, he was suspended in July 2021, so the consequences were pretty quick, and only the final nail in the coffin was delayed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Sisyphean Effort is actually a thing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

omg Toad, you can't just ask people why they're purple!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The short answer is being admitted by the bar; we already trust them to certify humans.

If for some reason I were arbiter, I would say a convincing record of doing actual legal work, vetted by existing lawyers. The legal profession already has a well-defined model of how non-lawyers can contribute to the work, so there is no need for a quantum leap up to being a lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
  1. The bar exam is just one part of a larger set of qualifications
  2. The bar exam is just a (closed-book) proxy for the actual skills and knowledge being tested. While a reasonable proxy for humans, it is a poor proxy for computers
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

menu prices increased by only 3.7%

Worth noting this is a "difference-in-differences" study, so that change is estimating the impact of the policy alone. Folk's observed changes will be a bit higher because they are also affected by national changes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It has a watermark explicitly saying it's a colorization. The embossed faux cursive is pretty hard to make out, but it is https://www.jecinci.com/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Is this p-hacking?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

"Journal", "it's", and "because" are all mispelled in the original.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, that's another cut up with very little of the interview

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