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by Latty 9y ago
Requiring ID often is voter suppression. Democrats repeatedly offer to support these requirements if ID is free and easy to obtain. Of course, republicans often actively work against that. In 2015 in Alabama, DMVs in predominantly black (an
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by Latty 9y ago
You are right, on re-reading the intent is clear. In my haste, I read that as "there is nothing stopping them from being pro-consumer, so there is no reason to assume that the judgements favour the businesses" for some reason.
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by Latty 9y ago
I'm not sure what you are saying. My point was that political support for allowing consumer arbitration to exist is increased (despite it being largely unpopular with the public), because it reduces court cases which is cheaper for the
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by Latty 9y ago
Deals that involve informing are a very different animal, in my opinion. I'm talking about the much more mundane, everyday case where it is just getting a lighter sentence in exchange for pleading guilty. There is a clear trend where p
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by Latty 9y ago
I mean, it's legal because no one has made a law against it. "Freedom of contract" isn't absolute - you can't sign yourself up as a slave. Consumer arbitration could be banned too. I'm talking about consumer ar
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by Latty 9y ago
Nothing preventing them? How many companies will hire the arbitrator that is pro-consumer? There are obvious incentives for the arbitrators to favour the people paying them - individuals are not going to be doing a lot of business with them
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by Latty 9y ago
Arbitration, just like plea deals, are an obviously terrible idea that is legal almost entirely because it reduces the cost of having trials. Less trials is cheaper, which everyone running things likes. Of course, that's trading justic
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by Latty 9y ago
This is it. It's definitely hard because teaching is not easy. It takes time to explain things to kids and it can be hard to tell what they are taking on board and when they are just asking questions because they can and not really car
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by Latty 9y ago
Obviously some things are not easy to make so visceral and easy to understand, but that one is indeed a great one. It stuck with me well.
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by Latty 9y ago
"Because that's what I want" is a perfectly good reason - your children should absolutely be learning you are a person like them, and they should aim to help any person achieve what they want if it is reasonable for them to d
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by Latty 9y ago
Clearly it is a process - the point the article is making isn't that rules shouldn't exist, rather that any rule should just be a conclusion being explained to the child. i.e: The answer to "why" should never be "be
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by Latty 9y ago
You don't need obedience and rules to have good behaviour. The difference is the framing, not the outcome. The author is saying you shouldn't just say "Don't shout in the cinema." and expect them not to do it becaus
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by Latty 9y ago
Except HIV isn't a death sentence. You can manage it with tools that already exist while these things are tested. If you were dying soon, sure, I get wanting to try the moonshot. That's not the situation we are talking about.
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by Latty 9y ago
I saw a lot of people trying to avoid HTML in their websites in the past. The flash ones are the obvious example, but I once had the pleasure of an entire site that looked like any other, except it took forever to load and links worked weir
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by Latty 9y ago
As a new user, it is way more useful. As an old user, you skip right past it. Every Python exception tells you > Traceback (most recent call last): Which is a similar boilerplate statement. Except less useful to newcomers. And if you dou
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by Latty 9y ago
The vast majority of people find XSLT to be an unreadable mess - and for any non-trivial project that requires collaboration, just because it's possible for one person to like it doesn't make it a good choice. If most people agree
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by Latty 9y ago
I just don't buy it - sure it can be used to do good things, but it's not about learning curves or "grasping it" - it's about "is this a good way for humans to write and read this transformation", and the
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by Latty 9y ago
Do people not remember how terrible XSLT was? I mean, sure, it could do the job, but did anyone ever sit down at a file of XSLT and think "yes, this is the best way this information about transforming this XML could be represented&quot
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by Latty 9y ago
The literal next sentence in your link: > One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power, which distinguishes bullying from conflict.
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by Latty 9y ago
Bully is defined as someone in a position of power harming or intimidating someone weaker. Unions are a reaction to the power imbalance of the employer/employee relationship, and at best make that equal. Characterising what Unions do a
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by Latty 9y ago
This is very much my style. I've found that my approach almost always boils down to "how can I make this obvious". This doesn't mean you can't have complexity, but it should be obvious how to use something, and ha
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by Latty 9y ago
Exactly. This is ignoring the fact that code is a more useful blueprint than anything else for programs. I'm sure if architects had the ability to magically conjure building materials out of thin air and try things in real life for fre
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by Latty 9y ago
It depends on what you mean by "console" - this isn't going to be an equivalent to one of the big systems or become a "platform", no, but that doesn't seem to be what they are aiming for. Will people pick them
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by Latty 9y ago
Well, then you jumped in to reply to my post with a useless claim about something happening that we all already know. Again, I am not arguing the opposite is proven! You are literally putting words in my mouth. You are arguing a totally sep
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by Latty 9y ago
Is that even the claim they are making? I honestly never thought about it, but the claim could easily be "we kill 99.99% of germ strains" or "we kill 99.99% of germ cells".
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by Latty 9y ago
My claim is not that attacks don't happen, my claim is that your original statement ("There is a correlation between the % of Muslim population and # of acid attacks") is unsupported. You are creating a strawman of my argumen
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by Latty 9y ago
Doesn't work for me (not the person you are replying to) - every time I change input on my monitors Windows starts trying to use them for audio - doesn't matter what default I set, even disabling them.
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by Latty 9y ago
This isn't a problem only for FOSS - windows starts dumping my audio down my monitors whenever I change input on them, even if I specifically disable the device. I actually don't see any issues like that on arch with pulse.
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by Latty 9y ago
It's mostly historical - Ubuntu shipped it as the default when it was still unstable. This lead to a lot of people learning about it and lots of 'try killing pulseaudio if something goes wrong' advice. The reality now is it i
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by Latty 9y ago
Again, you are making wild, spurious claims with no evidence to back them up. You are the one making assertions about entire races and groups of people and then going "but why should I need strong evidence?" I can find you a simil

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