Bjartr

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by Bjartr 6y ago
> It didn't get me anywhere. Where were you trying to get to? > They believe that anything that could be labeled "socialism" is literally evil, and will literally lead to the "destruction" of our country, beca
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by Bjartr 6y ago
There is nuance for why a person who, in practice doesn't need to worry, thinks they need to. Why does that scare them? Why does it motivate them? Why is it so important to them? This can, and will, vary subtly from individual to indiv
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by Bjartr 6y ago
> when there is no good faith way to see 'real, legitimate, reasons ... believe what they believe' That's exactly my point. There is. It's not impossible to come to understand the life experiences that led a person in
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by Bjartr 6y ago
When I say "facts", I don't mean the politically charged "facts" that people argue with. I mean the ones about their life experiences that led them to the dark place they find themselves in. You don't exit the
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by Bjartr 6y ago
While this view is potentially applicable to the party as a whole. I still maintain that the best way to engage with an individual is to try to understand, from their perspective, why they've come to the conclusion they've come to
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Some of it is the need for precision. Cheap resistors, capacitors etc. can be outside stuff spec by +/- 10%. Which is fine for all kinds of applications, but audio is really sensitive to that kind of variance, so to get the one or two
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by Bjartr 6y ago
You engage by not going in with the intent to change a person's mind. Instead, you go in with the intent to understand their position. Just because someone's conclusion seems ridiculous or wrong doesn't mean there aren't
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by Bjartr 6y ago
You teach effective critical thinking in schools nationwide for a couple of decades. You encourage empathy for those you disagree with. You tolerate intolerant people (but not their intolerant views)
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by Bjartr 6y ago
As if there wasn't a binding arbitration clause in the Ink for Life service agreement.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Even then if you pay for YT Premium / YT Music
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by Bjartr 6y ago
IANAL, but as far as I recall, a site receiving a DMCA notice must immediately remove the stated content. The person who put the content up may then file a counter-notice, which, if uncontested may then be followed by reinstating the co
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by Bjartr 6y ago
And dihydrogen-monixide figures heavily in their production. Nearly everyone that's ever died had consumed DHMO in the 24 hours leading up to their death!
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Probably just excludes the term that would damp it, so it never loses energy.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Are there "unofficial" weightings available so that inflation could be analyzed under a different set of assumptions?
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by Bjartr 6y ago
If you were to train a person to paint in the style of another artist, does the original artist have any claim to its licensing? Does Disney have a right to any cartoon that looks like a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but doesn't actually depic
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by Bjartr 6y ago
I think this is allowing a civil case to be brought by Microsoft, and therefore the ability for them to bring their significant capital and legal counsel to bear, rather than just waiting for the criminal justice system to get around to d
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by Bjartr 6y ago
I'm pretty sure they do support 7 (and earlier), for an exorbitant fee, for their largest clients.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
> Even if they offered an affordable ultimate Office package with everything, they'd recoup the development costs and even profit. Mind sharing the development & support cost numbers, and the sale numbers for the Office suite th
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by Bjartr 6y ago
If they only offered one tier, it would be Office Professional, at a price that made sense for most businesses, so they can recoup the cost of building and providing ongoing support for the product. This would absolutely price a huge number
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by Bjartr 6y ago
> I would be happy with a chronological order of all videos from all my subscriptions. Is this not the subscription view? I've never noticed a video from any channel I subscribe to that didn't show up there.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Which laws are okay to break for the sake of a joke and which aren't?
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by Bjartr 6y ago
That one mechanic emerged and became popular is not the same as a game whose core conceit depends on emergence occurring within each game.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
From the support page I linked: * All PlayStation®3 systems can play most PS One games. * Certain PS3™ systems have the ability to play disc-based PlayStation®2 software titles (backwards compatible). * All PS3™ systems have the ability to
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by Bjartr 6y ago
The PS3 can absolutely play PS1 games, but only a few models can play PS2 games. https://support.playstation.com/s/article/Play-PSone-and-Pla...
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Microsoft gets a cut of microtransactions?
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by Bjartr 6y ago
How common is it for code editing tools to be able to highlight local methods v statically imported ones differently? I know Eclipse does it, but I don't know how prevalent the feature is. e.g. Can Vim do it?
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by Bjartr 6y ago
So long as the speed of light is an ultimate speed limit, the only way to ensure identical latency is to make everyone experience the same latency as the person with the worst latency since every 1000 miles of straight-line distance adds 5.
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by Bjartr 6y ago
Why not leave it up to the authors of a site to decide if it needs to be rebuilt in a new system. That people's daily usage of the web is different today does render content written for the older paradigm valueless. Google's misso
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by Bjartr 6y ago
> How much does GPT do? How much turf beyond chatbots and automatic journalism does it cover? The real answer to this is that we don't really know just yet. People are still finding ways to represent problems as text completions and
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by Bjartr 6y ago
No vaccine, no medicine really, is 100% safe. A very small percentage of people do have serious adverse reactions to them, potentially deadly. Distributing an ineffective vaccine causes harm to that population for no reason.

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