KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The shareholders that were supposedly wronged didn't get anything from the SEC action. It's comparable to criminal and civil law existing side-by-side: if you run a red light and someone gets hurt, you'll be fined for the tra
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You’re intentionally mislabeling “not using a crisis to hand out billions in tax breaks to rich people” as “socialism” to extend people’s historic aversion to socialism to this situation. Do that often enough and you’ll find people quite wi
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s almost funny that the best that Trump supporters can come up with these days is “but everyone knows he has no clue and lies a lot”.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I didn’t mean to suggest that people should invest time to remove bootstrap. Only that Bootstrap offers far less now than it did in the past, and shouldn’t be considered the default option when starting any new project. Among the downsides
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Bootstrap needs a modern browser, but modern browsers don’t need bootstrap. Seriously: 90% of the value of bootstrap was homogenizing browsers and making horizontal positioning easier. Both these issues have improved dramatically, with brow
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Yeah, that’s the cookie-cutter generic answer to any consumer protection. Does anyone actually belief it’s workable to require every single consumer to be informed about the most minor details of a router’s DHCP configuration in order to st
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
In Europe, or at least Germany, there are consumer protection initiatives that have standing to sue in such cases. They sometimes take up individuals’ cases, and even take companies to court preemptively for onerous ToS. Mobile phone compan
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s complicated... I would suspect (not a lawyer) that the main issue will be jurisdiction. As a consumer in the EU, jurisdiction in matters with commercial entities is the consumer’s place of residence. But HN/YC isn’t in the EU, and
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The facts didn’t change: it’s the same virus now as it was then. Our understanding of it may have changed. But even then, its lethality was obvious to anyone who didn’t think Europeans are somehow different from Chinese. And it’s easy to pr
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Chernobyl radiation levels spike as forest fires burn in exclusion zone(nbcnews.com)
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Marxian Alienation and Web Development(heydonworks.com)
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Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes(blog.chromium.org)
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I remember from my intro to neuroscience that people who have lost all emotions due to stroke or brain injury are usually incapable of making even the most minor decisions. They are given two options for a doctor’s appointment and just can’
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The GDR was toppled without guns. The Maidan revolution didn’t have guns. None of the Arab spring revolutions involved violent overthrow using guns. Apartheid ended without guns. All of the color revolutions were nonviolent: https:/&#
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The EFF didn’t change. You just went off the deep end. They don’t care about your pet issue of alt-right 4chan stars not getting rooms at universities because there just is no right to get meeting space at public universities. (And what a s
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Bullshit. It’s a law you disagree with. Not war.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The risk is that the economy might behave like any complex machine, or the electric grid: once it’s turned off, it might take a really complicated sequence of steps to turn it back on again. And unlike machines, nobody knows that sequence f
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s specifically set up to protect privacy. If governments didn’t care, or had anything near the power and data that conspiracy theorists always assume they do, or felt justified to disregard the law, or empowered to change it, they’d tell
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It doesn’t have to be perfect. If this stops just one in four infections, and masks, washing hands, and distancing each do the same, R0 goes from 2.5 to 0.8 and we win.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I have my doubts about (accusations of) plagiarism being an issue, and even more so w.r.t. copyright. The first usually involves copying of "larger" features, such as storylines. If the model manages to do that, it would actually
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Well that’s a convenient tautology, then.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You seem to be nurturing some stereotype of Mac users. Just check (photos of) any Silicon Valley or MIT Cafeteria to maybe calibrate your worldview.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s true, though. The drosophila community has a long history of coming up with creative gene names.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I’ve had zero problems with Catalina. You can also find complaints about every release of MacOS going back a decade+.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Homebrew tends not to install to bust/local/bin when that would replace a native version.
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Defining the Habitable Zone(arxiv.org)
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I can’t decide if I want to be on that team, or just play the character in the inevitable movie.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
If piracy could be limited to cases where people would not have bought the work in question, that would be ideal. You’d get fanatical support from creators who, after all, do enjoy people reading their work. But that’s just not realistic, i
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I‘m neither author nor publisher. And, yes, I think that argument is essentially correct. People on the internet like to get hung up on the differences (zero marginal costs etc) but that doesn’t really matter for the core of the argument: i
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I don’t see them twisting anything. Their arguments are the most basic standard knowledge on the economics of IP, and you just continue to refuse engaging with them with anything but superficial slogans.

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