Dracophoenix

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by Dracophoenix 16d ago
Or conversely, individuals should possess the right to form a militia or employ a private force to defend oneself and one's property from the encroachment of the state and other trespassers. They should be able to exercise this right f
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by Dracophoenix 22d ago
What you call "the endowment " doesn't exist in any monolithic sense. "The endowment" is a disparate collection of donations from alumni such as scholarships, artwork, buildings, etc., governed by their respective,
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by Dracophoenix 22d ago
An endowment isn't free money and launching a telescope into space remains a costlier venture than plopping a few arrays on mountains like Mauna Kea or atop the Chilean Andes. Contrary to your imagination, radio telescopes aren't
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by Dracophoenix 1mo ago
I linked to this same article a few years ago, although the original URL is now broken. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616289
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by Dracophoenix 2mo ago
A jury is relevant to the legal adjudication of harm, not the institutionalization of a certain ideas, activity, etc. as harmful. There are many so-called harms that are arbitrarily declared by agencies as such long before a lawsuit is conc
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by Dracophoenix 2mo ago
> My point being that not having a clear definition won't stop us from grappling with the harms. Nor should it. In the absence of a clear referent or definition, who gets to decide what constitutes a "harm"? What substance
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by Dracophoenix 3mo ago
What model number? How color accurate is your printer for photos?
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by Dracophoenix 4mo ago
> I also did and still suffer from massive pain caused from most in ear headphones, even the recent AirPods with adjustable silicone tips I use sparingly and never more than a hour or so. Have you tried replacing them with foam tips?
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by Dracophoenix 4mo ago
Visa and (to an extent) Mastercard have been known to block transactions from their foreign-issued credit cards to digital Suica and PASMO cards. US issued Amex and Discover cards (at least prior to the latter's acquisition by Capital
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by Dracophoenix 5mo ago
G&L is no more as of last year. Fender acquired the Leo Fender name and potentially a whole host of other IP from the now defunct company, which may or may not include guitar designs like the ASAT (itself based on the Telecaster) among
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by Dracophoenix 5mo ago
Which ones? Who were you working with? How did you get published? Did you do any Toonami games?
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by Dracophoenix 6mo ago
Yes. Amsterdam has one of the largest IXPs (AMS-IX) in Europe and is also one of the largest European markets for Internet Infrastructure services (i.e. hosting, DNS provision, domain name registration, etc.)
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by Dracophoenix 6mo ago
This isn't good reasoning. According to your analysis, any website, ISP, or hosting provider that uses a firewall or Cloudflare is by definition a publisher, since they algorithmically shape traffic to prohibit suspicious IP addresses
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by Dracophoenix 7mo ago
Since you're now focusing on the AT protocol, will E2EE/OTR become a priority?
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by Dracophoenix 8mo ago
That's the issue with most RSS client I've used. The feeds are portable but the data and metadata aren't. I wish there was a permanent solution to this problem.
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by Dracophoenix 8mo ago
Jstor is an information database provider that that specializes in the republication of academic journal articles. The web is the company's delivery mechanism, not the defining trait of the its existence. A public-facing website doesn&
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by Dracophoenix 8mo ago
Jstor is a tech company?
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by Dracophoenix 8mo ago
> Despite its history, it’s still a valid example of an exception to the First Amendment under current law. It's not. The current standard, set by Brandenburg v. Ohio, forbids speech which advocates imminent lawless action. It is a
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
If you don't mind answering, what exactly was this particular passion of yours? > There's a certain beyond which you don't build things because it's evident that society can't be trusted with it. Where does one d
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
> Good thing following memes to their ultimate conclusion is a ridiculous proposition. If the conclusion of a meme is ridiculous, it stands to reason that the claim it makes is similarly so. Memes are not substantial enough to be conside
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
Morality requires agency and conscious agreement. A machine/device doesn't choose to be made or operated nor can it act against its maker/operator any more than rocks can act against the Earth. Regardless of motive, a moral c
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
The "torment nexus" is just as reductionist a claim. It is almost always an ad hominem selectively invoked under arbitrary standards. If one consistently follows the argument raised in the meme to its ultimate conclusion, then not
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
What gave you the idea to write a graphic novel in the first place? What's your workflow?
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by Dracophoenix 9mo ago
Define "drive". Correlation is not causation. It's difficult to anticipate the trigger for a particular action or choice when other circumstances or stressors may have more significant factors that contributed to the decision
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by Dracophoenix 10mo ago
> When I was in my early 20s I used to think I was very clever for pointing out apparent hypocrisies. Now I realize how easily that devolves into “you are imperfect therefore you may never criticize anything”. What's the solution? T
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by Dracophoenix 10mo ago
> I've heard others say this (and was a "loyal advocate" of Windows for around 2 decades myself), but the reality is they simply do not care. You are merely a single user out of several billion. What changed your outlook?
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by Dracophoenix 10mo ago
> This is the exact kind of thinking that leads to this in the first place. The idea that a human relationship is, in the end, just about what YOU can get from it. That it's just simply a black box with an input and output, and if i
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by Dracophoenix 10mo ago
A few questions: How much did you pay for the house? How much rennovation did it need? Are you working remotely there? How did you acquire a house in an area that's less accommodating to English than Tokyo? Did you need/use a real
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by Dracophoenix 11mo ago
"Bad" people can still have good ideas or well-thought arguments. It happens often enough to have become became a clichéd meme. https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...
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by Dracophoenix 11mo ago
> People who don't have kids, or only limited experience with kids, declaring that parents are neglecting or abusing their children because they don't behave the way the hypothetical ideologically pure parent would. From what I

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