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Comment Re:2 out of 10 - Could do better. (Score 2) 195

Current plan is for you to estimate your mileage at the start of a year, make a payment on account, and then get the odometer read by a DOT inspector at the end of the year. You then settle the difference. Costs of reading to be borne by the Govt and will normally take place as part of the annual inspection. If it's anything like the rest of the tax system if you overestimate the mileage they'll pay you 2% interest on the overpayment but if you underestimate it you'll pay them 8%.

Comment Re:.PICT files (Score 1) 52

Follow the recipes on the web, get UTM and Mac OS 9.2.1 as a VM and you're back in 2001.

Open and edit PICT files in Simple Text, Claris Draw, Claris CAD, Microsoft Word 6, etc. Edit them with the contemporary tools and/or export them by printing to PDF.

It's a real trip down memory lane and, on an Apple Silicon, MacOS 9.2.1 runs faster than it did on the original G3 hardware and looks great on a retina display.

Comment Fallacies (Score 5, Insightful) 86

Carl Sagan's adage that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is not a "logical fallacy". It is better thought of as a statement about (Bayesian) inference.

For example, supposing that I have an a priori belief that the probability of life on Mars is one in a million. Loeb finds a rock that he claims has a 99% chance of being made by a Martian and and a 1% chance of being made here on Earth. I would update my belief to one in ten thousand, which is still a long way from being persuaded.

A better example of a logical fallacy is 'They don't seek the evidence and they argue, "Well, we don't have any evidence...."', which misrepresents his opponent's position and is a example of the straw man fallacy.

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