EarlKing

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by EarlKing 4y ago
This has nothing to do with creating housing for the homeless. Homeless shelters already exist. This is about creating affordable housing for people moving into an area that can't support the population it already has. Until all the ap
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California is still in the middle of a drought, and politicians want to railroad the production of additional housing supply for more people when the state can barely afford to provide for the water needs of the population it has? Yeah, sou
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Well, you must understand that they only just awoke from a few million years of sleep to discover their entire cleaning staff is dead. Who's going to pick up the bodies? That's what nobody seems to have an answer to...
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"Greetings to you. This is a recorded announcement as I am afraid we are all out at the moment. The commercial council of Magrathea thanks you for your esteemed visit but regrets that the entire planet is temporairly closed for busine
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The basis of my belief is the undeniable fact that prior courts didn't do a damn thing about it despite decades of opportunities. This simply isn't a partisan issue, no matter how much certain petit bourgeoisie-aligned persons wou
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The current court was preceded by a far less conservative court which did precisely dick about the problem for decades. Stop trying to frame this as a party issue when this is a class issue -- and the bourgeoisie controls both sides of the
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Hmmm, yeah "doorway page" probably wasn't the term I was looking for. However, that would almost definitely be regarded as some sort of spam or SEO tactic by crawlers and lead to further penalizations, which was my point.
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> strip the content client-side depending on the domain it's being served from That would almost certainly be regarded as a "doorway page"[1], resulting in you getting manually ranked downward or even deindexed entirely. [
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> what are the alternatives that I can run locally ...you will be disappointed by the answers to that question for the foreseeable future.
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And I'm sure you can point to the statute that violates. I'll wait.
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No, I'm quite clear about what standing means, thank you. They're predicating their standing on this being a violation of a nuisance statute. I didn't say they don't have standing under that statute, just that the statut
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It wasn't, actually. I made that comment before I read the complaint. The statutory basis of their complaint is that Facebook constitutes some specie of nuisance, hence my later comment that even if we took their factual assertions at
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Having read the complaint, no, it doesn't have relevance here (obviously I made that claim prior to reading the complaint), but what they do assert is even worse: They're trying to claim that use of Facebook, Tiktok, etc and conse
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Their alleged standing is predicated on a single count of violating the Washington Public Nuisance Law, RCW 7.48.010 (see page 86 of their complaint[1])[2]. So their torturous logic is that somehow not only are the defendants' services
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Literally this. You'd have to twist yourself into a legal pretzel to somehow claim that because teachers act in loco parentis for children in their care that now somehow their supervisors have power of attorney over their charges. This
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> Wealth is a curse ...said absolutely no one without wealth.
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Toast-yyyyyyy!
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Jax... wins?
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Doesn't matter because... 1. The CCB is completely voluntary, so in most cases a determined troll in unlikely to submit to their jurisdiction. 2. In most cases when someone speaks of a DMCA takedown w/r/t Youtube there is no
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You know, the funny thing is that we used to largely mitigate such things in the old days with this thing called a Postage Stamp. If the stamp costs enough, spammers have a tendency to stop spamming. In fact, the only reason most of them co
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Rather I value AAA titles so little that I'd rather see the price attached to art assets come down so that more companies can afford to enter the field and compete on a level playing field. In short: I want to see more competition, and
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> I certainly don't see how not using AI is dwelling in darkness. We can have a very nice and functional society without it. We can also have a very nice and functional society without penicillin, hot water, or fire... but nobody ar
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If it's not reproducing protectable expressions then it's not theft on any level, but merely another tool for producing art, albeit at an industrial scale. This happens in every profession eventually. It's simply your turn. F
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by EarlKing 4y ago
This is precisely how things worked back in the days of FidoNet, and it was one of the big arguments that was never fully resolved, as you had one group of sysops who felt that if you wanted to be a FidoNet sysop you should be obligated to
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I've tried telling people before that the Fediverse doesn't scale, that decentralized solutions where nobody is paying for anything only work for flashcrowds (i.e. torrents), and ultimately this is going nowhere... but nobody want
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> horrible abuse Every time someone mentions this I ask for examples, and generally all I ever receive in reply are examples of people disagreeing with them. I begin to think that those who shout about 'abuse' are incensed that
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...except they don't do that. This is no different than Reddit's own policies on spam and self-promotion. You're expected to use the site for discussion and building community, not directing people elsewhere. If the latter is
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Don't forget the popular "[<modal_verb>|'Is'|'Are'] X Y?" -- because Betteridge's Law of Headlines is almost invariably accurate.
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Not exactly. SRAM will be replaced by other technologies that can if and only if there is a commensurate increase in speed (since that's the whole point of using SRAM over DRAM).
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1. Highway toll systems aren't random people on Twitter. 2. In such a case you have a need to know that supersedes one's right of privacy. Are you saying you have a need to know where Elon Musk is at all times?

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