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by DropInIn 3y ago
Nearly everyone thinks the ferengi are a stereotype of them, from Capitalists to Jews to Koreans and where I live pretty much every ethnicity has had a stereotype of greed at some point because of population distribution and the nature of s
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by DropInIn 3y ago
It's what we see in our own world. A contract is a contract, provided all parties are in and beholden to the same jurisdiction. Theres plenty of examples of bad actors who violated contracts without recourse due to living where no acti
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by DropInIn 3y ago
I always felt that was them being disingenuous. Economic wars are a thing in our own world, let alone that one. These cause widescale deaths and famine. It's doubtful that the ferengi never experienced widespread death and disabling in
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by DropInIn 3y ago
It's an amalgam of Palestine, the Irish Troubles and period since, and a smattering of pre and post WWII Jews (both Zionist terrorists and Israel, manifest in the prefederation period and competing factions corrupting the "interim
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Well it kind of ends with glorification of rebellion against corruption as a counterpoint to the earlier pro military stuff...
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by DropInIn 3y ago
In light of the story I see just above this one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475376 ) Imma call inflated bs....
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by DropInIn 3y ago
The quotation marks denote a very specific form of usage, one that generally implies a disregard/disrespect for those who use the word legitimately. Using the word isn't the issue, it's How you use it. Like using the word Jew
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Doesn't look like a straw man to me....
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by DropInIn 3y ago
You do know it effectively only applies to franchises and not to mom and pops, right? Because it sure doesn't seem like you know the first thing about the issue.... And when we don't actually know what we're talking about wha
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by DropInIn 3y ago
How are they to know it's a QR code? They don't put them in the same spot always and there's often a no smoking or other stick as well, often several. I could go on but really....
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by DropInIn 3y ago
So blind people are required to give a stranger thier unlocked phone? Really, there's not a single thing that can be said to make it less stupid.
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by DropInIn 3y ago
How does a blind person use a QR code? Not like they can see where the camera is pointing, let alone locate the code in the first place.....
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Actually, a Windstar/Aerostar/etc with the seats down/removed holds longer material with zero overhang, can hold more material than a pickup bed without the need to cover anything, and can be used to move an 8 man workcrew. T
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Okay c'mon now, are you even trying to understand/empathize with their argument at all? Right off the bat any real consideration will make you aware that large particles will distribute very differently from small particles of the
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by DropInIn 3y ago
The creators intent can be known When They've Explicitly Discussed It. You're Presuming based on your Prejudices aka Pre-Judging.
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by DropInIn 3y ago
It reads like your saying that if AI reads the source for a Floss project then the AI has to make any code it generates Floss as well... Which is like saying that if a person has ever read floss source then all projects they make must be fl
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Bajorans are not Israelis, though they are in part inspired by the Jewish experience. Keep in mind there was no major Exodus, the vast majority of bajorans remained on Bajor and never left. The fee who did were either escaping the cardis or
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Bajorans? An amalgam of post WWII Jews, Irish during and after the Troubles, and modern Palestinians. Interestingly one of those groups is still being very actively oppressed and abused, yet everyone always ignores that and often denies the
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by DropInIn 3y ago
No. Just because you have prejudices you apply to the work does not mean the creators did, which is where any factuality of racism or caricature could come to be. Your prejudices and experiences aren't shared by everyone else, which me
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by DropInIn 3y ago
No. A Character Type is different than a Caricature, which is Specifically when one is representing a Specific Person or Peoples. When there is no such intent and is not based explicitly in such prior art, such characters are just that pure
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by DropInIn 3y ago
You missed the key feature of eminent domain when talking about the standards yet remembered it when discussing your prior example... Renumeration. They would simply pay "fair market value" for the rights, though likely there&#x27
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Seems to me your saying the problem is that independents and corporations make the standards rather than governments and nonprofits...
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by DropInIn 3y ago
If they just buy whatever is most cost affordable then the risk factor for trojans goes sky high. Even with major brands this would be a significant issue (see HDD manufacturers bs with drives shipping with malware in the firmware). Theres
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Your confusing simple punishment with the concept of Deterrents. Deterrents do have an effect but only to a point, with further escalation beyond that point also escalating the severity of associated offences. Eg - if you have a death sente
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by DropInIn 3y ago
> Plaintiff Mark Schobinger was Twitter's senior director of compensation from February 2019 until May 26, 2023 Get the feeling that he may just know wtf he's talking about on this issue....
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by DropInIn 3y ago
That sort of business sounds like what we want in milsec and government suppliers, no? Reliable even down to the bug behaviors...
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by DropInIn 3y ago
People complain about the mods but theyre nothing compared to the admins... Theres serious issues that far exceed those or the mods, not least of which being that they are even more prone to abuse of power without Any oversight of substance
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Heres the behavior I see repeatedly: People tell a story that matters to them. They do this with everyone they see. The next time you see them they tell you again. And the next time. And the next.... Ad nauseum... They don't care abou
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Being unwilling to leave does not mean they won't stop using the platform. The fact they didn't move while the platform was effectively shut down proves that the category bof service isn't even that important to them. Just re
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by DropInIn 3y ago
Reddit won't open any source because that would make apparent how badly made their products are. The site is really just a bunch of kluges barely held together with duct tape....

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