Dracophoenix

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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Lax zoning regulations, relatively cheap labor, low cost of materials, and depreciating home values incentivize building new real estate. That is what separates Tokyo from New York City.
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
The protocols were made open by necessity, not by design. The motive was to connect academic , government, and commercial institutions across the country, all of which operated on incompatible operating systems and data networks. However
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Are there any new developments on the technical side of microscopy such as new materials or techniques? What journals or trade papers are reliable in researching this information? How does one become a microscopist as a profession? It seems
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/swoleacceptance/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Brodinism/
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
How does a corporation fight back when previous administrations have neutered its ability to do so? The Patriot Act (Bush), mass spying on Americans via gag orders (Bush/Obama), proactive anti-trust litigation as a government cudgel (
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
There's a robot mafioso character named Clamps. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
This circumstance is more commonly known as the Jevons Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Like homosexuality, atheism, blasphemy, miscegenation, witchcraft, vagrancy, and a whole host of other "anti- social" behaviors, right? After all, who polices the morality police?
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Even if Section 230 is written out, the First Amendment still defends app makers from prior restraint. As demonstrated in Snyder v Phelps, It's not illegal to embarrass private individuals or provide a service/platform that permit
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> This should also come as a lesson to all the people that base their rationale in "government icky" moronic arguments. Corporations are all too happy to abuse consumers in the lack of proper regulations. While the government s
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Gesamtkunstwerk
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> "Wait, this is a fake castle made by a crazy dude?" They're in no short supply even today. https://www.ctinsider.com/realestate/article/chris-mark-cast... It has a moat and a dungeon in case an
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Tell HN: Happy International Moon Day
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> Women were ultimately pushed out as the field gained perceived prestige. They weren't pushed out so much as the nature of the market for programming changed from office work and military projects to personal computers and applicat
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
The fact that it was removed at all was a sea-change from Valve's previous stance. Temporary or not, it set a precedent for other removals. For example, Valve had unceremoniously prevented the publication of Super Seducer 3 and retroac
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
That changed with Hatred in 2015. There have been a number of them since. It seems that anything that gives Valve bad press is on its shit list, even if the premise theme has been done before by a bigger or more well-known company stateside
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Correction: Won't somebody please think of the pixels?
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
You're forgetting that that the Internet was intertwined with the phone system at a time when the latter was the only reliable form of communication at both local and long-distance levels. Interference with the Internet would be interf
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Are cartels inherently unethical? The US government approves of and protects certain cartels (e.g. unions, hospital systems, defense contractors). If anything, cartels thrive under heavily regulated and dirigiste economic systems, where as
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Similarly, publication of an image on the internet is not implicit permission to use it for any possible purpose, however technically feasible. Are memes, or for that matter, satire and parody unethical?
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
This is why I don't think empathy, as it is commonly defined, exists.
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> If those things mattered we'd have a lot fewer people mad about the state of things They're mad precisely because they have differing expectations and interpretations of these things. If even they did agree, consensus shouldn
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
His end goal is the pursuit or promotion of his own self-interest. Whether the consequence of this is the maximization of profits depends upon his goals and circumstances.
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> Capitalists don't like markets, or at least not the markets that we're told capitalism will bring about. The "markets" most people learn about are artificial Econ 101 constructions. They're pedagogical tools fo
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> They repeat my technical question, pause for a few seconds, their voice drops to a monotone and they quickly recite a bulleted list of low level technical details that sounds like a wikipedia page. Can you provide an example?
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
David Tepper's short move to Miami in 2016 upset New Jersey's budget. Jeff Bezos permanently relocated to Miami a couple of years ago and while the move hasn't publicly affected the state of Washington in the same way, it&#
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
Why shouldn't we? A law that isn't well-defined in no law in the proper sense. Ambiguity and overbreath will just be weaponized against people and organizations the government doesn't like just like the Department of Educatio
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> AI behavior on the other hand can cause under-informed users to do crazy things that no one would ever want. The form of the harm is less predictable, the magnitude isn't limited by anything except the user's ability and skep
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by Dracophoenix 1y ago
> but there is in fact precedent against trying to hire a sound a like over the one you want to sound like. You can't be in talks with Scarlet Johannsen, reject her, and then hire a sound a like and say "talk like Scarlet"

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