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by 9000 5y ago
They aren't referencing the 1951 movie, but instead the 1920s shorts series called Alice Comedies, the first of which is literally called Alice's Wonderland. These weren't really retellings of the original stories, but it wou
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by 9000 5y ago
> So, I guess it wasn’t till after World War Two that their feature films became profitable. They survived, so chances are the shorts brought in money. According to Wikipedia [0], "The U.S. and Canadian governments commissioned the
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by 9000 5y ago
Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]. [0] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse&#
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by 9000 5y ago
> As to your second point, we often hire underage people to do work such as restocking shelves. If sex work is truly the same as retail work would you also argue that hiring an underage prostitute is no different than when Walmart hires
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by 9000 5y ago
Well, the burden of proof is on you for saying that there are small trucks on the market. But, it turns out that the complaint about the Tacoma is spot on. The Tacoma's weight has increased from the 3155 lbs. - 3877 lbs range when it w
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by 9000 5y ago
> Can you give examples of model years and decisions to back up your claim? Actually, I think the burden of proof is on the GP who made the original claim that there are plenty of small trucks for those who want them. Additionally, it&#x
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by 9000 5y ago
I mean, probably, but the article is explicitly only looking at states with the death penalty: > In the analyses below, we include only states allowing the death penalty in the year of analysis. Because we focus on the geographical varia
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by 9000 5y ago
I assume you mean to imply that population alone explains the title of the post? My guess is the argument goes: (1) Crime scales with population. (2) Death sentences scale with crime. (3) Therefore, death sentences should scale with populat
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by 9000 6y ago
Actually, I recommend you check out Freenet [0], a project that's 20 years old. In fact, the Wikipedia page explicitly states: > Information flow in Freenet is different from networks like eMule or BitTorrent; in Freenet: > 1. A
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by 9000 6y ago
> Realtime mass surveillance of every party who receives money is isomorphic to realtime mass surveillance of everyone. I don't believe it is. For instance, imagine a closed system of three people: Alice, Bob, and Carol. Initially w
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by 9000 6y ago
It's referencing a theorem from string theory, as discussed in this Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww The catch is that this isn't valid in what we consider standard mathematics, and y
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by 9000 6y ago
Sure, the bridge operator could do that, but why? Bridges don't operate as efficient markets with heavy competition, instead they tend to act as regional monopolies. If you don't cross this bridge, you usually have to drive an hou
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by 9000 6y ago
> This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws. Yeah, but copyright is not a form of traditional property right. Intellectual "property" rights are better thought of as intellectual mo
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by 9000 6y ago
Well, despite what anarcho-capitalists may say, in an anarchist society you would find it very hard to maintain capitalism as is familair to us today. This is because the State, and by extension its threat of violence, enforces private prop
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by 9000 6y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't think that's what they were saying at all. To me, it sounded like they were saying that when a developer works alone at nights or on the weekend, they cannot ask other members of the team, or the person
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by 9000 7y ago
My understanding is that while yes, in some sense a flat tax is neither progressive nor regressive, that's not really what people are talking about when they say a flat tax is regressive. Instead, the issue is that the poorer you are,
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by 9000 7y ago
For your first question, this is mostly about legal interpretability. The GPL has a long text that describes explicitly what it allows and doesn't. Yes, that is based on an ethical framework, but that ethical framework is all baked int
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by 9000 7y ago
WebAuthn is only secure because it entrusts to browser to pass verified domains to your USB key. Why can't SQRL just do that with no other protocol modifications? Then we don't trust the user with anything, protocol-wise. Cause su
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by 9000 7y ago
I'm not so sure that's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of elements of Christian myths that are considered 'scientific reality', such as people and fruits and the fact that the Romans crucified people. There are also
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by 9000 7y ago
I disagree. If the community wants to make that illegal, they should make it explicitly illegal, and go through the formal processes of review and enactment that allow for checks on the power of the government. Incredibly broad, rarely enfo
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by 9000 7y ago
No, because the point of the value of defending people no matter what is to protect against government overreach. The government has a significant asymmetry of power against its citizens (it can, you know, arrest or kill them), so there are
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by 9000 7y ago
I don't think there is any reason to believe that legislators are the individuals with the most talent at drafting law. It's probably some academic or lawyer somewhere. But, I do believe that the process that gets legislators into
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by 9000 7y ago
To me, it feels like the complete lack of a deliberative process implies that the legislators are not actually providing meaningful oversight in the slightest. Sure, oftentimes special interest groups will understand an issue in much more d
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> Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for. But that doesn't mean they're good at drafti