Jiro

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by Jiro 3y ago
This is about if you have wronged someone else, not if you are wronged, If you've wronged someone else, maybe you should live miserably if you can't possibly make up for the wrong.
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by Jiro 3y ago
The bicycles are not property of the company and returning them is not compensation.
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by Jiro 3y ago
Also, the feature that you read about in the manual and try out, but it doesn't work. Eventually you realize that the game has disabled that feature until you learn about it twenty minutes later in the forced tutorial. (Consoles have
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by Jiro 3y ago
Every time someone complains about being kicked off of Facebook or Youtube or some other such service for political reasons, the response from just about everyone is "they're a private business, they have a right to kick you off f
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by Jiro 3y ago
If you let your roof leak so you could pay for college, you graduated, and you eventually fixed the roof, that's strictly worse than fixing the roof immediately and getting a loan instead, graduating, and having your loans forgiven. T
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by Jiro 3y ago
The problem is that if you paid for college by your parents not fixing the leaky roof, living in a bad neighborhood, and choosing a worse college that didn't cost so much, you wouldn't get a refund the same way that someone who pa
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by Jiro 3y ago
The problem is that when you convict someone, it's important that you convict him for the correct crime with the correct evidence. Letting him be convicted for threats without having to demonstrate that he meant it, and without other
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by Jiro 3y ago
Furniture is rectangular with corners. Boxes are rectangular shaped. Windows that are rectangular can slide in ways that circular windows cannot. Look at the picture in the article showing a couch and chair at angles to one another. This
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by Jiro 3y ago
This is a crayon license. https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists...
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by Jiro 3y ago
Plots of land are physical things you can claim as property. Stacks of money are government creations in a sense, but I don't believe that without government creating fiat money, there would be no such thing as money.
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by Jiro 3y ago
Trademarks are a government-granted monopoly and as such are inherently not capitalistic.
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by Jiro 3y ago
If you put something in the water, the water is going to dissolve a bit of stuff, and will now be impure water. So it is impossible for "pure water" to be dangerous in this way.
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by Jiro 3y ago
>Now, what if they do the same thing to you? If they're going to do the same thing to us, they're going to do it to us anyway, regardless of whether we do it to them first or not.
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by Jiro 3y ago
>after his drunk dad sent him to jail as a 17 year old for writing a check in his dads name. This lacks the details for me to know whether I should be sympathetic or not. Are you saying that he forged the check for some reason related t
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by Jiro 3y ago
If work was enjoyable, people would do it for free. And if someone else would do it for free, nobody's going to pay you for it.
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by Jiro 3y ago
You can try dosbox-x. It was forked from dosbox a while back and has enough compatibility to run Windows 98. (Regular dosbox 0.74 was released in 2010.)
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by Jiro 3y ago
They told the employees that if they got the programs to work with Windows, they could keep them. Of course, that makes them income, so the employees would have to pay income tax on them. I wonder how many of the employees scrambling to ge
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by Jiro 3y ago
Isn't that basically a computed COME FROM?
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by Jiro 3y ago
We don't have teleportation devices or antigravity shoes because making those things is not possible, and you can't make impossible things possible by throwing money at them. And of course this becomes worse if you're using o
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by Jiro 3y ago
As a heartwarming human interest story, this is fine. As a political story, this is subject to the objection "if all immigrants were like him, there would be no problem, but are all immigrants like him?" The article also points o
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by Jiro 3y ago
They can't ask legal to vet it unless they put it in writing, which would defeat the purpose. If it's put in writing, 1) they have to retain it for however long their document retention policy says and 2) it can be subpoenaed and
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by Jiro 3y ago
"Thousands of complaints" does not mean "thousands of valid complaints".
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by Jiro 3y ago
A lot of people commented on the article with "I or a relative were involuntarily committed and it was necessary" or "there was a lot of suffering because a relative should have been involuntarily committed and wasn't&qu
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by Jiro 3y ago
For k-pop, Japan has notoriously been very tight with licensing restrictions on music. That allowed Korea to leap ahead.
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by Jiro 3y ago
The soup can was not used by Warhol to sell soup. The Prince art was being used in an article about Prince. And that point was a major part of the Supreme Court decision.
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by Jiro 3y ago
Apple would say that regardless of whether it's true, and there's no way to audit Apple to confirm it, so it provides no useful information. This is just a longer version of "Apple said to trust itself".
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by Jiro 3y ago
>Did the government threaten Twitter in any way? Of course they did. You're assuming that if they don't spell out in so many words "or we're going to do something about it" they haven't made a threat. >I
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by Jiro 3y ago
>And then someone needs to figure out what "some" is. Just let the company decide it. It doesn't cause a problem because if the company sets an unreasonably high standard for how many jobs you need to take to not be fired,
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by Jiro 3y ago
>What if I sign onto the app, but then don't accept any of the deliveries I get offered? Then they'd be required to make sure I get minimum wage, without ever doing any actual work. That's like asking what if you don'
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by Jiro 3y ago
Doesn't the monarchy have to pay a lot of money for maintenance on the properties that they "own", which the government would have to pay instead if it was confiscated?

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