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by Guvante 1y ago
I am not trying to defend the actions on legal grounds. I was merely using a steelman argument to attack the actions taken as inappropriate regardless of legality.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Ah yes because we didn't illegally detain them long term my point that detaining people is different then asking them to leave us bogus. Again I repeat detaining people is not the same thing as asking them to leave and pretending it is
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by Guvante 1y ago
And how is that different from previous situations? I responded to someone claiming a difference in action was taken. You responded with "well that is hard" as if to reclassify action to include previous actions.
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by Guvante 1y ago
As long as it is a legitimate discount (which it legally always is) they aren't lying perse. After all the discount getting inflated by charging non-insured people ludicrous prices is the real issue but not one you can meaningfully com
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by Guvante 1y ago
Unless you are comparing a generic to a name brand in a situation where the insurance company forces the name brand that shouldn't be the case. For better or worse in your hypothetical the uninsured price legally has to be $1,000 for m
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by Guvante 1y ago
What specific action did the US government take against Hyundai here? Or did they just gut their workforce and claim that was "enough of a penalty". Historically the US has implicitly condoned these illegal actions by employers by
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by Guvante 1y ago
Please don't pretend that asking to leave the country is the same thing as detaining. Using deport to reference throwing people in jail is deceptive at best.
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by Guvante 1y ago
There is a difference between enforcing the law (you can't bring workers here on a tourist visa) and raiding a factory putting everyone into jail. For the purposes of "was it a reasonable action" yes it is important to unders
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by Guvante 1y ago
You are on a high deductible plan. With those plans you pay the first $X and after that a percentage of costs (coinsurance) up to $Y. Sometimes certain things are covered before you hit your deductible other times not.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Him making an anti consumption policy would fall under the "broken clock is right twice a day" situation. Arbitrary policies can be found to align with arbitrary ones if you inspect on a different metric than is used to create the
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by Guvante 1y ago
I responded to "we are going to have to build up our internal stuff to survive" which isn't reasonable in the medium term let alone the short term.
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by Guvante 1y ago
To be clear all talk of water usage has been focusing on local usage which isn't well represented by national numbers.
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by Guvante 1y ago
The US imported $3.3 Trillion in 2024 and had goods value add of $4.9 Trillion of which $2.1 Trillion were exports. Given generally speaking imports and exports tend to be distinct products we would need to add 118% goods production to not
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by Guvante 1y ago
Ah yes the governor should not work with Trump to get national problems fixed he should personally look at a single incident.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Again censorship means something and "I don't like these people we shouldn't listen to them" is not censorship. Musk has only had negative feelings except possibly some fringe thoughts (I have never heard a call for gove
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by Guvante 1y ago
I am simply rephrasing the person I responded to and noting the difference in the meaning of the word "censorship". Aka in once case it is censorship in another it is just people complaining which isn't censorship.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Far right is calling for the government to block access to certain things they don't like aka censorship. Far left is critiquing those who don't virtue signal enough. That isn't censorship at all.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Who says it wasn't in the contract? If they had a terms of service that promised to never sell and then revised it to remove that clause is that legal? Probably not but good luck fighting it. The problem is legal suits over complex con
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by Guvante 1y ago
Private equity can sometimes save failing businesses unfortunately there aren't a lot of businesses that go public out of private equity so it is difficult to measure their effectiveness. Since after all the only time private equity is
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by Guvante 1y ago
I think it is fair to be annoyed that crowd sourcing is used to enrich a select few. Honestly the best course of action is to let it die. $300M is enough money that losing the user base would be enough for similar things to stop happening.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Honestly it can be quite difficult, generally speaking the best you can do is release the data in raw machine readable format with a permissive license. Unless you already have large interested parties "bribing" (not technically o
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by Guvante 1y ago
Doesn't have to be naive we have just decided to not allow this kind of website to exist by forcing them to deal with anyone else. Want to know why? Because major websites have to do is no matter what so figure minor websites getting s
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by Guvante 1y ago
"Pull requests aren't the time to talk about this" is only ever correct if the next part of the sentence is "because we already agreed" or some such. Otherwise that is a red flag. Like pull requests are when discuss
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by Guvante 1y ago
Buy now pay later at 0% is what these programs offer which does not align with what you are saying at all. Used properly these provide liquidity by spacing out payments. Certainly there are economic concerns about not being able to afford g
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by Guvante 1y ago
It is already pretty common to start with IP blocking but upgrade to blocks when the bad behavior continues. Assuming a /64 as a starting point is an easy win and bumping it up with repeat offenders seems pretty easy in the grand schem
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by Guvante 1y ago
Seems akin to virtue signalling "I don't carry much cash don't try to mug me" seems to be the real message here.
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by Guvante 1y ago
Two things can be true in your hypothetical: 1. Someone was forced to maintain Nix and want to switch to easier to maintain tooling 2. That someone can lack in technical understanding of the problems they are facing The former doesn't
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by Guvante 1y ago
Did you actually discredit someone or have you not properly considered your units in this response? Commute through the Grand Central station everyday is certainly not a few hours. And people don't tend to get a CT scan very frequently
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by Guvante 1y ago
And if most of your code looks like that you are making a mistake. "Sometimes I need multiple lines" is fine, exceptions happen. But again I ask, visually are those lines super different? Ditto for things like for loops which have
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by Guvante 1y ago
Let's be real in most situations it doesn't matter. One "statement" per line is bog standard. Whether that statement is surrounded by parens or ended in a semicolon isn't impactful for reading. LISP is only better w

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