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by Kamq 3y ago
Are there a lot of fakes in the sense that they don't contain nicotine? Because that's the main utility in cigarettes. Also, how is tax stamp trafficking relevant to a grey-market barter system?
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by Kamq 3y ago
Neither does github. Any package at github.com/user/package (which is a lot of them) has this property. With the bonus that if github does go down, you can redirect it to another mirror of the package if the maintainer puts one up
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by Kamq 3y ago
Someone help me here, but doesn't every package manager have this problem? If control of crates.io or npmjs.org change, how many rust/js projects will still build? The trade-off seems to be between distributed vs centralized. Wher
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> I am terrified of WET code. and > I usually do create what others would call unnecessary abstractions, to stay DRY. Seem completely incompatible with > Because I tend to write all my code such that a complete stranger should be a
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If the government agency running the honeypot went out and started badgering people into contracting hits. That would be entrapment, according to my understanding.
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Huh, I think the exact opposite. We don't understand consciousness, so I expect it to be something accidental that ends up creating it. A misconfiguration possibly, or just a couple of tools being hooked up in a novel way. We probably
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Under those conditions, I'd expect living in that city to be expensive, yes. Which seems like a problem that would solve itself eventually. If people's quality of life gets too low, I'd expect a decent chunk of them to move,
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> Because expensive housing means they all need to charge more meaning your fighter fighters and we’ll every Goverment employee needs a higher wage to account for it, meaning landlords can charge more meaning wages need to go up.. you s
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> now what about all the people needed to maintenance, groceries, schools, etc? I feel like I misunderstood something here. I presume the police/firefighters were needed to live near the community because they might need to respond
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by Kamq 3y ago
> Police officers and firefighters need to live close to where they work. And, should be able to afford public transport, therefore: Public Housing. This does not follow. You could make it an argument that essential services should be pa
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> Is there a way of telling from the MSDS or other sources that you actually need protective equipment when dealing with a particular chemical? Not generally from official sources. The risk of liability is basically always going to make
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by Kamq 3y ago
That's going to make an interesting supreme court case when it ends up there. You can develop fake images of someone from pretty much purely public data. Images in the past, you would have needed to take an actual picture of the person
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> Linux being linux, I bet it rather deforms the fabric of time before stretching the other dimensions. Can’t wait for quantum computers with a 5th dimension. Depends on what driver you have. That only happens if the spacetime driver is
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Then rational adults are the minority of adults. Questioning deeply rooted social norms will get you thrown out of most social groups. Well, questioning social norms held by that group will generally get you thrown out. Questioning deeply h
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by Kamq 3y ago
> they hold a core set of beliefs, and those beliefs cause them to act a certain way Do they? I'll grant you the first part, as that's the point of a religion, but it doesn't seem to automatically imply the second. The ear
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> Otherwise engineers are incentivized to make their code as configurable, modifiable, and extendable, as possible, regardless of cost or business need. Not to mention all the additional time trying to figure out "canonical" da
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> expect the world to bow to them (culturally, technologically, etc). I mean, I don't expect you to bow to me. But at the same time, the software I produce at work is usually entirely consumed by americans who speak english (ok, wel
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> I know some people still warning others off a neighborhood they were mugged in 20 years ago, but they don’t mention how long ago it was when they say it’s dangerous. But, like, wouldn't a neighborhood with a lot of muggings be mor
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by Kamq 3y ago
Portal is, like, 16 years old... Where's your cutoff for vintage?
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Wait, is youtube still doing that? I thought they moved to putting the money in escrow until the dispute was settled, which cut down on the majority of the false claims?
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> That sounds to me like it's very much a question about perception rather than statistics. Of course, people rarely base that kind of belief on hard evidence: a single incident that happened to a friend of a friend might be enough
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> If the treaty is violated without clear intent by Congress, it would still be in force, and the affected Tribe or Tribes could sue for performance, possibly even affected persons, if they are deemed to have standing. This is probably t
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> then the governments should try to adhere to their spirit (if not the exact letter) as much as feasible. I guess my question here is, do you think it is feasible for politicians in a democratic government that need to campaign for re-e
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> This assumes that the same barriers are being put up in front of all candidates, no? No, my example very much does not. It's about the exact the opposite, where extra barriers are put in front of one group, but not the other.
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> In the first case they are paid the same as someone with a higher title, and when promoted inevitably they will be paid more than someone with the same title. You act like promotions are automatic, but you're ignoring case where t
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> have a treaty with the government to that effect which is being violated by "giving you" The treaty was violated, but it isn't currently still being violated, is it? My understanding of international law is that treaties
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> Unless your friend is required to do the work above their title This is what the OP is implying is happening (I'm not going to rule on fact). Or at the very least, the person is voluntarily doing work above their title.
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> ...on the surface this looks like a pretty ridiculous take. Is it really? If you put up a significant barrier to a group of people, and only the exceptional can cross those barriers, it's shouldn't be that surprising when the
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Sure, but felony is not a synonym for bad. Advocating for breaking the law is also, generally speaking, kosher.
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> and just as in the audiophile world where there's a huge amount of money and energy spent to try to convince people that pricey bits are somehow better than cheap bits I always assumed this came down to the analog part (usually so

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