FactolSarin

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by FactolSarin 5y ago
The optimal power ratio is one person equals one unit of power. The problem is any change to the Constitution would require 2/3 of the states to agree. Many of those states require supermajorities to pass an amendment. Generally any
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
1) I didn't mention children at all. I'm certainly not making a "think of the children" argument. That implies you think COVID is overblown and not a serious threat. But it is, and it's killed millions. 2) I don&#x
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
How do you feel about "scuba" or "laser?" Acronyms that are pronounced like they're spelled (eg, Nasa, gif, taser) tend to end up being spelled like words sooner or later instead of being in all caps.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
So then what's your problem with adding a small Democratic-leaning state? It seems like you're fine with small Republican states that give your preferred party an outsized power over larger states, but don't want the other si
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Regardless of who it benefits, giving statehood to DC gives more people the right to vote and be represented by their government. Maybe if you find yourself opposing giving people votes because they won't vote the way you want, that&#x
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Only one side is trying to undermine the electoral process itself. Don't forget that many Republicans voted against certifying election results. Sorry those nuns are upset about buying health insurance, but I pay for all kinds of thing
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Public Schools aren't just benefiting people with kids. It benefits society (a society you and OP are members of). Getting rid of schools is like getting rid of the military. Maybe you feel like you don't personally benefit from i
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
For anyone who doesn't check the video out, it was on display for one day: April 1st.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
I agree with a lot of that, but there's a difference between something being art and something being worthy of support. If you buy into the idea that art is about creating reactions, then the reaction that you're going for is very
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
All of Amazon's "we're not actually a monopoly" and "we're not responsible for defective products" arguments are based on this. They claim they are very much NOT a Costco or Walmart.
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
I mean, it takes money to make money. It's a lot easier to get a hundred million dollars when you start out with 1 million to put in the stock market.
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
Not quite, there is a difference... but close enough. If we all stopped minifying tomorrow, I doubt a single end user would notice. The few kilobytes you save don't really matter when you're downloading a 12 MB image as well.
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
I would love to see those!
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War stories from a female 1974 Computer Science grad(blog.jonschneider.com)
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
For social networking companies like Facebook, is that bad? Shouldn't each county be able to enforce the things that are important to them (ie, outlawing Holocaust denial or allowing more nudity) rather than the entire world bowing to
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
There's two ways to interpret the constitution: the honest way, and the way where you pretend that not only were the Founders of one mind on what the Constitution meant, but also that you can read that mind two and a half centuries lat
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
You can already send money to friends, though being confused about that is understandable. Originally, you could send payments from Google Pay, then they moved that functionality to a separate app called Google Wallet. Then they changed the
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
But Elon says it's happening next year!
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
> It always starts like that. That's the "slippery slope" fallacy. There's a knee-jerk reaction in America that any censorship is bad and will somehow always lead to more censorship. But there area places where censor
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
Obviously this is a screw up on Adobe's part, but this is a good time to remind everyone that if you're not backing up your data, then it must not be very important to you. Back up your stuff! You never know when something unexpec
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
"I only block ads because of privacy reasons." "OK, then we'll offer the option to pay a small fee to support the content creators and not have to deal with ads." "Why would I do that when ad blockers are free?
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
While I'm sympathetic to this idea, one thing that I get hung up on is game consoles. I enjoy multiplayer shooters, and I like knowing that none of my opponents are using bots. So the fact that the console is locked down is part of t
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
In most states there's no legal monopoly. It's just there's a high barrier to entry for new providers. This is what an unregulated market looks like
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
The Mexican food in what is now Texas already I used a a lot of beef and cheese before it became part of America
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
It actually depends on the judge whether the lawmaker has a say in it. Traditionally, most judges looked to the legislature for this kind of thing, but that type of judge has been in rapid decline over the last few decades. Let's take
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
Atheism isn't a religion. It's simply not believing in God. Even the stronger version of actively believing there is no God isn't a religion any more than actively believing that there is no Bigfoot. In short, not all atheist
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken down because of course it was. Is there that much of an anti-Micros
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
That's not really what's going on here. "Ninjutsu OS" is a modified Windows 10 ISO. Basically a pirated copy.
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
A corporation is a device for maximizing profit and minimizing ethics. Everyone can say they're behaving ethcially. Consumers can say, "Well, all my friends are there, I can't quit," and it's true for some people. T
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by FactolSarin 6y ago
People get good quality healthcare and spend less doing it?

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