AequitasOmnibus

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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Your comment is made in bad faith. Notably, you posted from a brand new account echoing the most inflammatory talking points that the government uses in support of eroding encryption. Either this is some blatant (and bad) astroturfing, or y
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
I appreciate the good faith attempt to rationalize the idea, but it's fundamentally flawed. We (as in Western Civilization living in post-Enlightenment liberalism) can't purport to respect human dignity and self-determination and
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Leave it to an HN commenter to suggest that a marginalized group face the most draconian, outlandish, unrealistic proposition as a viable solution. Might as well propose that we eat the homeless and mentally ill. Then we can complete the Jo
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California couple charged nearly $30K for one Uber ride(ktla.com)
6 points by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago|3 comments
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
“What was supposed to have been a ₡30,000 Costa Rican Colones charge – which equates to a little more than $55 – was processed as a $30,000 charge.” I don’t understand how a mistake like that happened on Uber’s end. It seems trivial (and au
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
It's funny, I just spoke about this in another thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36691047 ) recently. These findings don't merely apply to coding, they're applicable to any type of focus-driven work
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
I spend a large amount of time in my profession writing and editing[1]. The industry standard is Word, with some scant holdouts on WordPerfect. Word is a behemoth. The UI objectively makes reading and writing text difficult. Recently, I&#x2
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
I hope this is poorly conveyed satire. If not… good God. Apart from the hygienic value in brushing, whether you agree with it or not, halitosis is an offensive smell to most of the public. Some of the worst breath I’ve ever had to smell cam
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
No, there’s no obligation to memorialize everything in writing. But it’s a two way street. If a conversation is important enough, the parties also have incentives to write it down (to avoid recanting or conveniently forgetting or misunderst
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
This is such a spot on observation. But the incentives aren’t there for business competitors to self-regulate in an ethical manner. That’s why we as users (and yes, we’re all users to various degrees) should push for more robust regulation.
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
> I really enjoy planning my life with a kanban, and executing my day from a todo list (scheduled). That’s hard to nail. Well said. I pay for Trello premium solely for the scheduled checklist feature, but it’s clear that this is not a to
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
Dawson's Creek, for one: https://entertainment.ie/on-demand/on-demand-news/why-does-d...
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
This happens all the time in the entertainment industry. For example: TV show X licenses pop song Y for its initial broadcast. The group that owns the syndication rights didn’t buy the right to use song Y, consequently they have to replace
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
The article indicates that the majority of the revenue drop came from people spending less on games. What isn’t addressed but seems logical to me is that as inflation rises and overall consumer spending declines, smartphone users have less
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by AequitasOmnibus 4y ago
The stories may be public domain but your arrangement, and more importantly your trade name are protected. You may not have the desire to take action like a dmca takedown, but you're definitely within your rights to do so.
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by AequitasOmnibus 5y ago
The reason disposable email addresses exist and are popular is because services have abused users' trust to not use these emails for shady ad revenue and marketing schemes. It's further compounded by shoddy security that leads to
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by AequitasOmnibus 5y ago
I don't think the founders would have conceptualized governmental liability the way that we do in the modern era. Even hallmark legislation like 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a product of 20th century jurisprudence. Very early supreme court opin
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by AequitasOmnibus 5y ago
Not quite true. The idea of sovereign immunity is fundamental to our constitution. While QI isn't codified in the way you're talking about, Congress and the states do have laws on the books to expose themselves to liability. That&
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by AequitasOmnibus 6y ago
I think it comes down to how both sides view impartiality. There's definitely confirmation bias when the president nominates a judge - often the candidates come from the same party so they share some broad ideological positions. Most j
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by AequitasOmnibus 6y ago
In this case it's probably superfluous to include under which president the judge was appointed, but there is merit to including the information generally. The Circuits ordinarily hear cases in 3-judge panels (occasionally cases are he
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by AequitasOmnibus 6y ago
This is abusive behavior by Proctorio. Unfortunately they're not the only bad faith actors using DMCA inappropriately. We need desperately something akin to an anti-slapp[1] defense to fight back against these abusers. [1] https:&#x2F
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by AequitasOmnibus 7y ago
Great idea! What source do you use to identify coffee shops? Yelp?
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by AequitasOmnibus 7y ago
This is great. I've thought about making something like this myself. One additional feature I thought would be useful is instapaper-like scraping of articles that get served in full in the newsletter. So I could share links to the arti
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by AequitasOmnibus 8y ago
This is a simply ridiculous response. Geolocation is the least intrusive data that is being discussed here. By far the bigger offense is tracking an individual's health to ensure that the employee is sufficiently "healthy." J
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by AequitasOmnibus 8y ago
Vote-buying is already criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 597 [0]. Several states have similar laws [1]. Scenario A could still happen, but seeing as it's explicitly illegal, the likelihood of it causing widespread voter fraud is unlikely.