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by Barrin92 4mo ago
His (or other peoples) treatment in the US prison system is another matter and often cruel, but no he didn't conduct himself like a good person in regards to his 'hacking'. He committed wire fraud, he impersonated people, he
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>in 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy. although they didn't just do that, the American founders also articulated the point that the article seems to present a
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>But those who say he had no talent are just ignorant. I don't think anyone says he had no talent, what rubs people the wrong way is that the thing he had talent for is the same thing that the people have who try to scam call your g
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Not true at all. In many of the big football/soccer countries there's always been very strong measures to ensure affordability. England caps premier league prices, the Bundesliga goes further still by having a 50 + 1 rule, that is
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>Why would a company warn that their technology is dangerous if it wasn't? Because Americans are obsessed with eschatological narratives and action hero stories. I talked to a Palantir guy once who told me that he loves it when jour
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>not to promote individual sovereignty, but explicitly to protect European sovereignty from foreign influence good, what's wrong with that? Europe isn't a continent for Ayn Rand reading crypto bros obsessed with their individua
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I'm sorry to tell you this but you'll have to decide between "The British government is doing terrible things that does not represent the British people" or "people are extremely stupid, democracy is terrible and we
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>Yes, and the wishes of all parents together != the wishes of the UK government This legislation has widespread support among British parents across the political spectrum[1] "As YouGov has shown previously, such a policy would be
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>We have parental controls on devices That's irrelevant because social media regulation is a collective action problem. No individual parent can restrict their kids access to social media without ostracizing it, it only makes sense
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>Because we have no moral or social pressure to not delegate everything? "We" depends on where you are. Countries like Japan or Germany have maintained a gray collar, rather than a blue/white collar culture for exactly tha
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>You can read all about it, if you want. I don't need to, I've lived in Japan and done the Ippan Kenshin which is the once a year health checkup. It consists of getting your weight, height blood pressure measured, an eye test
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>that people who are concerned about their health and want more information is a problem It is a problem because there's evidence based standards for when examinations are indicated and prolong or improve a person's life. You b
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because it has negative effects. Over scanning leads to, in particular with the economic incentives of the healthcare system at large not to mention a company like this, over-treatment. It's one of the reasons countries have scaled bac
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>as evidenced by the fact that the most profitable company of all time makes 90%+ of their revenue through ads the biggest reason for this is that the digital ad market is a duopoly (charitably a triopoly if you count Amazon in), if all
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They don't sell weapons to Russia, as Wang Yi said in Brussels, if they'd put their full weight behind Russia the war would be over, this is the middle position for them. Which, I agree with you btw, I don't like but I can u
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How so, with the Snowden leaks we learned the extent of American digital espionage in Europe, the US government puts pressure on Europe to prevent taxation or regulation of American business and even European citizens have become the subjec
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>It’s like worrying in 1960 that the companies that invented computers will hoard the benefits of computing. It doesn’t make any sense. Not only is that exactly what happened, they weren't satisfied with accumulating most of the wea
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the Swiss can only propose new constitutional amendments, not statutory laws. And precisely to avoid having what is supposed to be a technical decision into an overly broad popular vote, because those are still supposed to belong into parli
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>It wasn't overnight, but it was a constant effort by those in power to erode privacy and freedom yes because Russia is a dictatorship. These recent age limits on social media have had broad public support and are widely supported b
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>China or Russia, freedom is also lost shortly after. This may come as a shock but neither China or Russia had their first encounter with losses of individual freedom in the 1990s. This is what the OP is talking about, this is the kind o
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>Perhaps EU or China could build their own network of sensors to track this stuff? already do, the EU is in particular collects a ton of oceanographic data through for example the Copernicus Marine Service, but these particular sensors a
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>wrong with the Neovim ecosystem? It's like a willful exercise in ignoring systems thinking. With Emacs every package tends to be designed with Emacs itself in mind, packages like consult, vertico, marginalia etc all built on Emacs&
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>His core premise is that one's not required to cheat His core premise is terrible if not outright facetious given the case he made. That the girl who is going to become a billionaire in his example has a startup that makes a produc
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>The response to the open-source covenant being broken by AI should not be to break it even more AI can't break any covenants because AI can't enter any. People enter covenants, and it's the people who use AI who broke the
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idk about 300 billion, but the Gulf States have already, and rather silently, unfrozen north of 10 billion in assets ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/uae-to-unlock-froze... ) which is of course t
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>It is completely logical, then, for the US Government to say: No Not sure about that one given that the US government just reversed a ban on the exports on the very chips to China that enable said technologies, you don't hear so mu
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My first experience with Pascal was only a few years ago by way of Lazarus which is now my go-to tool whenever I need to build a GUI for myself. Genuinely enjoy it and find it a much more pleasant experience than C. I'm sort of sad I m
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>But the AUR isn't Arch's main distribution model, and the official Arch repositories contain a ton of packages in the core, so not even the "barebones core" is correct here. I don't think that narrative is suppo
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>but it's been working very well for some of us for... decades, at this point? but it's worth asking why it's been working well. Has it been working well simply because it's been a niche ecosystem, or even because you
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except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol

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