Pet_Ant

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901.
by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> What is the point of a jury in your opinion, if not to act as a check on the legal system itself? The check on the legal system is appealing to the higher courts. They can strike down laws that are against the constitution. Trials aren
902.
by Pet_Ant 3y ago
A random selection of citizens can get 12 KKK members on the jury for the murder of a black man. I mean this isn't just supposed to be mob rule, this is supposed to be impartial people applying the established law. The input for opinio
903.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Really seems like the authour doesn't think much of sovereignty. Or thinks they can only have sovereignty as long they don't incovenience him. Any solutions must come only from the American side. Maybe ban dual-citizen ships, or o
904.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Sorry, but do the police actually use these powers to arrest thieves and return stolen vehicles? Or is it like when you can point to the house that your stolen iPhone is in and the police say they can't do anything.
905.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with saying "It is not open source but you can freely use the binaries". That is the same thing, but upfront about it, but this feels like open-source-washing.
906.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
If I had to do a desktop app I’d with Java Swing because of the Java backend libraries and developers. Were I yo ignore those factors I’d go with Gambas for the drag & drop gui.
907.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Give me a Spotify for reading. I don't want to subscribe to Economist, New Yorker, Atlantic, Walrus, NYT, etc. Sometimes I want to read from one, sometimes another and all together to expensive to subscribe to all.
908.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Because of resigned effective of a future date. Any termination of employment before then is either a with-cause firing or a layoff where severance is required. Seems like an interesting idea. Give as much notice as possible and then see if
909.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Maybe that's the problem? The cost should be for submission not for publishing? Dropping the cost by a factor of 15 sounds game changing.
910.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> Why is it so hard to empathize with the victims yet so easy for them to empathize with the murderers? Because it's not a zero-sum game. You can feel bad for both .
911.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> Deterrence and retribution are tightly linked. This is very much not the case. "Deterrence" solely operates on future actors. "Retribution" on those who have already transgressed. We know that the vast vast vast maj
912.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Well they have you covered: > To balance the need for integrity with both the circumstantial, convenience uses of JDK internals and the essential uses, Java gives the user – the application's owner (typically its author, maintainer,
913.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
The old JVMs will still be available and you so will the Docker containers with them. That said the writing has been on the wall since Java 9's project Jigsaw. If you have a product that depends on it, I'm surprised you were caugh
914.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
At the number of friends equal to Facebook friends, definitely, but when you are talking a small fraction of Dunbar's number (which is more than a dozen dozens), I'm not sure it applies.
915.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
So could Ford stop me from using footage of a Mustang? Vehicle design and logos are copyrighted. What about a movie wear characters are wearing designer clothing? Those are covered by copyright as well. Copyright does have limits.
916.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
...also can't these be used as insecticides and other beneficial things?
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> Most man-hours aren't spent on engineering problems but on gameplay and asset generation. Which is a shame. I'd really like to see more done in procedural generation and reactive content. Just read about a mod for CyberPunk w
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> we cannot wait until someone is objectively dangerous ... it leaves very little time to actually intervene before something bad happens I mean that feels like it's dangerously treading close to "pre-crime". I feel like i
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
That is literally what is addressed by the first section of the document. Both in "Summary" and in "Goals" > Far from using a separate dialect of Java, students can write streamlined declarations for single-class prog
920.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
They are saying new jobs will show up. Not that they will be available for those displaced or even in America. Just that jobs will show up. "Jobs" is often callous or disingenuous because when they say it, they know it's not
921.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
They have many op codes that bloat the instruction set, that need to be broken apart to fit into a multi-scalar design. This is over head that takes of silicon space. This is especially painful with multi-core designs since each core needs
922.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
I don't know how far you'd get with an amd64 core that didn't support x86. I mean you couldn't run Windows on it. You probably could run Surface as it's almost certainly legacy-free as it can run on ARM.
923.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
As I said 58 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597194 > Ugh, this frustrates me. You are just saying that the _mix_ put on vinyl is better than the mix put on CD. That same mix put on CD would be even bett
924.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Good for you? Not all of us were alive then and its still a worthwhile learning activity to do at least once and its okay to be excited about it and share. After all, someone had done it long before the 80s as well.
925.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> I don't know who Ted Nugent is. He is a 70's hard rock guitarist/singer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nugent https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-nugent-calls-zelensky-a-ho...
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
That's not clear. The last line I get there is: > That didn’t make us fire-breathing conservatives. It made us human. Which doesn't seem like a sensical ending for this piece.
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
> Moreover, I would like to see the government grow, just not in the way the Democratic party and many democrats do. In which way are those? > Most republicans think like me. I don't want this to sound like a snarky "[Citati
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
I grew up in a ghetto (part of a migrant wave) and as we became more succesful and moved out and moved apart... I miss that community that poverty forced upon us.
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by Pet_Ant 4y ago
If they ask for $10 and you give them a $100 asking for change yes it is the police's job to fix.
930.
by Pet_Ant 4y ago
Well the low-level implementations differ from cpu-to-cpu. Even between Itanium releases the width changes. They don't want to get bound to a single implementation as techniques improve and new approaches are found. Otherwise, each tim

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