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by EpicEng 7y ago
And you think they did not in this case?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
So... Chase is, in your imaginary world, supposed to refuse a lawful court order because this person claims that they don't actually owe the money? Hey, maybe Chase could even pony up for a legal defense fund! I mean, why wouldn't
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by EpicEng 7y ago
That is not in any way untrue... but I understand why they don't care :)
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I think it's more that they are DRM obsessed and don't give two flying ducks about Linux. If Linux were important, their DRM would work on it. For one I blame them, for the other I don't. I have to admit I just don't car
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Yet you seem pretty annoyed by their lack of Linux support... I don't want to go too far on this because I agree with you on DRM, but "doesn't work on Linux" is a non-issue for most consumer products, for whatever reason
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by EpicEng 7y ago
And in between tyranny and the right of free speech (which not even all modern countries agree on I would add) there's a whole lot of gray. For example, is healthcare a right? How about voting for felons?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
It means that we can't agree on the list to begin with, and it's not always cut and dry.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Depends on what you consider a "right" to begin with, which brings us full circle. I think some things are easy and most reasonable people will agree on (like here) but there are many which aren't so clear cut.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
You may recall a certain war faught against the British...
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by EpicEng 7y ago
That's a silly (mis)characterization of what this is. Some rights are only afforded to the citizenry, and that is not inherently evil and is often the only reasonable approach. Other rights are afforded to everyone. The discussion cent
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Is it dumb though? Why should they care about Linux users? Really, how does it make sense for them to spend time on it?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Sure... But it's a country of 17M. More people than that probably signed up today.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
At least, it would have been, if not for the massive early winter storm currently barreling across the Midwest.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I don't necessarily agree with your premise, but I don't think it matters. Who's "we" here? The people putting the politicians you're talking about into office are not likely the people who would benefit most b
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Please. It's been decades, not months. These problems are still here. Voters are supposed to just hope it gets better instead of doing what's best for their children?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
But it's not happening, so it's not reasonable to expect these voters to rely on hope while their kids are suffering.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Right, except they have children already and things need to change very quickly to benefit them, and most of us just don't have the time or energy. It's not reasonable to expect everyone to crusade for reform. I want what's b
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Tell that to the kids going to schools with massive gang problems. Even if they want to succeed it's a constant battle. My wife teaches at one of these schools and she has no problem understanding why kids would want out.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>I'd expect them to have continuous issues for the first 3-6 months I don't think it will be anywhere close to that long. Disney already has plenty of experience in streaming video (BAMtech / Hulu).
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>What do you do? Must be some super crazy dream project for solving some ultra hard problem. You talk as if you're elite. I don't have any more time for this at the moment, but I promise you that your views are not nearly as co
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>This is the essence of my argument. Why can't the database API occupy a layer similar to the OS or compilers? >If I don't understand the underlying implementation of compilers and OSs' why do I need to understand the u
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by EpicEng 7y ago
A database is not on the same level as e.g. the CPU. Almost none of us could write assembler for a modern chip without a lot initial of research. That's ok because we have compilers, the OS, and other layers to handle that for us. Howe
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>Theres no rhyme or reason to it at the API level. You have to look under the hood... Every abstraction is leaky. I have found that the best engineers are those who understand how things work under the hood. They can solve hard problems
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Why wouldn't it? What makes a format more amenable to being decoded via ML?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
That would work regardless of the format, so why use ML today? Today you just write a decoder that assumes the format, in the future it can be reversed engineered using whatever means they have available to them.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>We have no idea if vaping is safe. We still have no idea if vaping is safe, except we explicitly know it is unsafe (to the point of acutely poisoning you) if it involves this chemical. Sure. In other news: don't vape bleach. It&#x2
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by EpicEng 7y ago
iirc 14% of them claim this. People lie all of the time, especially about drugs. We have ten years of people vaping without dying and a sudden outbreak where all of the evidence points to black market THC cartridges and vitamin E. But yeah,
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by EpicEng 7y ago
But you'd still need to be able to run the classifier, right? What's the difference between that and a piece of code that just knows the format? There's still a format here, regardless of how it's being decoded.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
It is possible! Happens more on HN than it does on Reddit at least. I'm ok with being wrong.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>Entities that bill insurance But that's not true. Third parties, companies which do not in any way "bill insurance" or may not even provide healthcare services directly may be considered a covered entity. >Entities tha

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