Gunax

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by Gunax 5y ago
Over 10 years ago I listened to this radio show about a crackpot physicist: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/293/transcript It's fascinating that this is so well known among physicists but to those of us outside
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by Gunax 5y ago
I think it's good as a lesson or exercise, but I think a lot of this tallying must end up being dubious. How does one account for underpayment of labour or the inconvenience of roads ?
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by Gunax 5y ago
And freedom of association means I do not have to hire that ethnic group I don't like, right? I guess I just find this discussion so tiring. Even if I accepted your definition, that still does not answer the difficult question that I a
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by Gunax 5y ago
Yes! Basically, I find the distinction between 'computer' and 'device' (using the common parlance) troublesome. The control that manufacturers have in phones and consoles would be appalling if done in a general computer,
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by Gunax 5y ago
> This trend to strictly delineate between the principle and the law is a new fashion. Historically speaking, although it wasn't enforced by law, if you were a private organization and you did things contrary to the principle, it wa
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by Gunax 5y ago
I am so glad these abuses are receiving mainstream attention. The way we treat children in our society is rotten. 18 years a slave.
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by Gunax 5y ago
There's no historic precedent until of course there is precedent. Just like there was no historic precedent of states limiting the size and tactics of corporations until the rise of 19th century monopolies. And no historic precedent
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by Gunax 5y ago
MS really came too early. What they should have done is have an app store, only allow users to receive software via the pipe they control, and disallow anything that challenges them, a la Apple with Firefox or Google with youtube-dl.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Perhaps Apple does not invent it, but perfects it in a 'no wireless, less space than a Nomad' way.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I would have thought this back in 2005, but eventually IE did fall. If users eventually dropped IE, why can't they also learn about Kagi or DDG or bing?
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by Gunax 5y ago
I suspect so, but these questions are often defined more by the type of knowledge they would ask. Canadians tease Americans for not knowing Canada, but that's an unequal comparison. Of course Canadians know more about America than Amer
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by Gunax 5y ago
Yes to both. If I cannot walk down my street in the evening, I am not free. We are lacking in prisons.
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by Gunax 5y ago
So is there a burden on the content creator to maintain a list of known persona non grata, who can never be seen nor heard on the platform? Or is this list published by Twitch somewhere?
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by Gunax 5y ago
The key takeaway: > Better than an ISA is an income-dependent loan with some minimum amount that must be paid back regardless of the program outcome. As for collection, I suggest structuring it as a loan, but with an 'income share&#
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by Gunax 5y ago
No, I don't think youre picking on me at all. It's definitely possible to go without those things. No one needs to use Uber or Tinder. But I guess it feels like you're just not interested or need those. Going without rideshar
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by Gunax 5y ago
I think it's increasingly hard to live without a phone or without a smartphone. Many businesses seem to be eschewing web access in favour of using an app. The restaurant I went to yesterday had it's menu only available by QR code.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I find it difficult to believe that operating a major newspaper is as expensive as licensing a film catalog. Admittedly I have no specialty on either and could be completely wrong. I also know many papers are local, where as films tend to h
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's been a few days and I dont know if anyone will see this... but you're absolutely right. I should have checked the section. It just sort of reads like a news article, atleast for the dirst few paragraphs.
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by Gunax 5y ago
If you want details on why this happens, Wired had a good take on a similar incident: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/how-technology-led-a-hospital-... In short: it's the technology. That article changed my vie
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by Gunax 5y ago
I know there are ways around it, but I find that objectionable. Newspapers are certainly free to charge for their content. I just don't understand why it's so expensive. A single newspaper should not cost as much as Netflix.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Remove 'emboldenee' from the title. There was a time when journalists actually did news, and not report whatever slant they wanted to appeal with.
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by Gunax 5y ago
As a society there are sets of established but unwritten rules and norms. I think we are living in a era of re-writing those rules, and until a new equilibrium is reached there will be uncertainty and ambiguity.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Yes, that's all correct. I chose Floyd (and Gibson) because they are famous. I am also comparing Floyds crime to the unnamed person's crime and to Gibson's famous tirade. But I am not comparing Floyd's murder to anythi
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by Gunax 5y ago
No, what I am comparing (not equating) is armed robbery, rape, and a drunk tirade. Whether you allow perpetrators of each to rejoin regular society says more about oneself than the crime. It's about the narrative we tell. Are you brand
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by Gunax 5y ago
These sorts of discussions keep rising. I don't think we have decided how to deal with it. In law, armed robbery is a much more severe crime than an antisemitic tirade. Yet the court of public opinion is more willing to forgive George
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by Gunax 5y ago
Well I am ready for my hairs to stand up. What did the data faucet contain?
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by Gunax 5y ago
The book is roughly about the issue I talk about: laws are complex and innumerable and anyone can be found at fault. In short, we expect investigators to first be notified of a crime, then investigate to determine who committed it. Instead,
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by Gunax 5y ago
Hmm, sounds like something a lot of people do--add some commentary, make some cuts, but effectively reveal the whole movie. If your review of a 99-minute film is over 30 minutes long, is mostly clips from the movie, and reveals the major pl
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by Gunax 5y ago
Facebook (the product, not the company) is still a money machine. Go ahead and mock it all you want for being old (average user age is 40 in the USA, lower globally). For a subreddit that purports to reveal the real value, there was a sur
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by Gunax 5y ago
I know it isn't the main thrust of the piece, but I think the author nailed the real way that laws are used. > The key difference is that such “flexible offenses” tend to be defined more in terms of how someone important doesn’t lik

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