Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
Also, counties often have their own sheriffs with a separate set of powers and responsibilities. Sometimes court systems have their own enforcement arms, separate from other agencies. The US often seems to have more layers of administration
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Yes. They're actually police , with attendant legal status and powers.
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I once worked for a company where bonuses were literally Christmas presents. They gave them out at the company holiday party and everything. I remember being enraged when the company Christmas bonus was $50. It struck me as showing that man
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I believe the point the other person is making is that multinational tax compliance is inherently complicated. Moreover, it does not become simple and easy if a company just adopts a simple structure because the forces that drive that compl
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> Which actually feels less secure since if hackers get their hashes, that as good as getting clear passwords to login directly your site? I'm not actually clear on that. You're right. This turns hashes into passwords, and is d
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No, nothing about being open-source or a non-profit fixes the technical flaws in a system's design choices. It just makes this a poor design with an ethically pleasing organization behind it.
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Perhaps it means that this is a known problem with known working solutions. Countries that haven't solved identity are ones that either don't want to or can't, generally due to a mix of corruption and poverty. Perhaps I am si
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How much do you trust the independence of the Washington Post, now that it's owned and backed by Jeff Bezos? They clearly have freedom from market forces and political pressures now.
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It's easy for people to look at the highlights of journalism and think we must go back. It's more challenging to remember that yellow journalism and worse came from that old old journalism. Perhaps it's only the best result
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You're absolutely right. The JCPOA is the only show in town. What do you think Israel's good Strategic measure would be?
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That's a good idea! What do you think would convince hardware vendors to match a reference device?
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You're absolutely right! The US is pretty hard-headed on any number of subjects, reasonable or otherwise. A lot of these are great ideas. Formalizing into law the system where a judge decides what is a reasonable amount of attorney&#x2
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It's a useful line to trot out if you subscribe to the narrative that there's plentiful resources to go around, if we just make the rich assholes share. In ideological terms, it's a very convenient position to work from. It m
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The conventional wisdom on the internet, often backed by common experience, is that significantly less than 0.01% of visitors leave a dollar. Internet donation plates are not known for producing consistent revenue.
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For my own part, I mark a difference between fairly defending one's position and what we witnessed above. That was: * Poorly formed. It has no clear central thesis and could have been reduced to and improved by a handful of relevant li
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It's worth bearing in mind that Galileo was not treated poorly for his scientific advances. He was treated poorly because his scientific claims tended to run in advance of what he could prove, because he made an ass of himself when his
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I don't like to hand out downvotes, but your conduct here is possessed of bountiful opportunities for improvement. Might I suggest taking a walk? Perhaps come back when you're more inclined to engage with the commenter's not-
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> (1) regular taxis could not be summoned via an app or web page, instead requiring a phone call or curbside hailing This is partially true. It wasn't just that taxis couldn't be summoned through an app. It was that when you tr
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One of the key advantages a large corporate model has over a small, local cooperative is the ability to effectively harness resources for shared infrastructure. In the case of Uber and Lyft, that's all the technological infrastructure
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In that case, please correct me! I would like to know more about your thoughts on the failure modes of centralization vs democratization in the arena of artistic production and resourcing. I understand if you consider such questions condesc
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Really, what I'm looking for is if you've thought about the failure modes of centralized management of resources and tastemaking. It seems you believe there are no different ones. Is that accurate?
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The BBC is widely and justly praised! So long as you like its choices, everything is great. Central coordinators can, as you say, earn widespread praise and acclaim. What happens if you're an artist that the BBC isn't interested i
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> This isn't even the problem. It's that to be successful you need to be more than good at your job you need to be great at doing a few other jobs as well. Namely running a business and marketing. And lucky in catching the brea
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Who would be in charge of choosing which artists and which art gets subsidized by society? How do we decide when we've subsidized artists enough and should move on to all the other things society might want to do? I'm not being fl
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> which is who is who if anyone is regulating these things for safety Great question! Perhaps it's been asked before: https://www.loc.gov/law/help/restrictions-on-gmos/usa.php This seems like the mos
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> I am baffled how anyone at Twistlock decided that this was a useful thing for their product to detect, or why any Twistlock customer trusts it given issues like this. If I was injecting something malicious into your containers via upda
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> In the former case, it's trivially easy to jog the screen up and down or sideways, to see if there's missing content "I jog my screen around to see if anything moves" is a clear sign of two things: One, that you&#x2
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Often people are deeply frustrated because they're getting pages and pages of irrelevant SEO-bait and then the recipe. It's rarely meaningful, substantive, informative, educational, or helpful. I don't care how much someone&#
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> I genuinely do not understand this industry. A great many restaurants do not know how to run their own effective delivery operation or do not want to. Third party apps handle all of this.
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I use it to place the blame of someone refusing or failing to understand on myself. The goal is not to signal a lack of investment, but to give someone a way to admit to being wrong without actually having to admit to anything. It sometimes

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