PurpleBoxDragon

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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
The problems arises not in the easy to agree laws (murder, theft) or the easy to condemn laws (ban on homosexuality), but with the ones which are debatable on if responding with violence is justified. Many would say that violence against po
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I think laws are a subset of inciting violence against others. It is more controlled than random mob violence, but it is still violence. For example, some extreme groups support adding laws that will require minorities to leave the countr
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>In a perfect world, we would be able to de-platform those that incite violence against others (for any reason) Should we really do it for any reason? Are there not some groups of which a certain level of violence (enforced by the state
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Treating names as unique identifiers? Quadruple ouch.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I'd assume it is to have a enormous front end library to handle all your complicated components and the author would be horrified by the prospect of every component written with a different front end library. It does present an issue
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I once worked with a guy who built an app with everything done server side in web forms, including a datetime picker. It stands out in my memory as one of the worst pieces of software I've ever seen produced.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
You do still have state, but with a MPA you have a cleaner break between each page and thus far less ability for state to persist and cause problems (though there are plenty of technologies to shoot yourself in the foot if you so desire).
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Just look back 50 or 100 years ago to find what was absolutely evil beyond question that is today seen as acceptable. Without freedom of speech, such groups have a much harder time changing social norms. I guess this isn't a problem
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
At some point we have to consider that internet exists because of the government. Where that is can be debated, but without government enforcing certain regulations and restrictions, the internet wouldn't exist. The companies that be
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I wonder how far this will eventually extend. For example, what about websites that have games on them (flash, html5, etc.)? What about websites that host game clients to be downloaded? MUDs could be decently accessible, but most games a
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Intent of the law might be a better term, but it is clear that intent of the law makers does matter when it comes to court cases trying to decide the actual extents a law can be applied. Even the most legalese specific law can have major g
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I only pointed out what defending and using a certain statistic is discriminatory. I made no other arguments, and none directed toward the individual in question or their overall point. Now that you are aware of the discrimination that ha
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
In some states, definitely in the past and perhaps even today though I haven't kept abreast of the law, there were different ages deemed legal for a relationship based on the genders involved. To defend the statistic is to, likely unk
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>That said, I think he's wrong to devalue quota type approaches, because in some circumstances, particularly institutional ones in business and government, those are a very effective way to force a noncompliant culture to take its t
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>A good chunk of this is caused by our city repeatedly choosing awful vendors that bilk the city for crazy amounts of money, and provide trash as the final product. How much of this is voters voting for politicians who are good at what i
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
But scale is an important difference in legality and morality. Consider the following example. Calling someone to ask them on a date is normal acceptable behavior. Doing it 20 times an hour, 3 hours a day, every day, quickly becomes immor
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Is that really an unreasonable conclusion? Even if we ended all private prisons, you could potentially still have unions representing prison workers who would have some of the same lobbying concerns that private prisons possess (lobbying f
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>I don't go out as often. At what point do we begin to consider that choice stiffing the waiters you would've tipped if you did go out? P.S. I also avoid going to coffee shops where tipping is expected.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>(and the expectation is in law, as evidenced by the lower minimum wage) By that logic, tipping is not an expectation since the law says that if the tips do not equal enough to bring the worker's earning up to the minimum wage limit
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>A very easy, relatively pleasant way to get through life in the US if you're well-off enough that you routinely buy coffee in expensive coffee shops: just always tip. Anywhere there's a tip line. You never have to figure anyth
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
It won't be quadrupling the work load. It will be going from 15 credit hours to 20 credit hours. An increase of 33%, 50% being the upper limit for degrees with the least bit of cross over. This is because each degree will share the
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Not all college degrees are created equal. Not all college experiences are created equally. Not all college prices are created equally. Going to a specific college for a specific degree can be a really bad choice, while going to another f
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Fixed with fonts work well when you are using the alt key to work with multiple lines of code at once. This is especially helpful in the middle ground where the lines of code are similar enough that one can easily use a pattern but the ext
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Even libertarians would have issue with that definition when you try to say that you consent to the government's laws by continuing to live under the government.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>maybe we can go with something like a public defender for contract law. Public defenders for criminal law is something massively broken to the extent that we have innocent people going to prison every day. It is a system to be disguste
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Back when I had the freedom (or naivety and luck) to discuss far more controversial topics, I found that everyone wanted to ban free speech. Normally they would come up with some justification of why the particular speech doesn't count
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>What if the contract is complicated and you end up having part of it invalidated in court? Sounds like a feature, not a bug. Contracts have to be simple. If you can't do the transaction with a simple contract, you have to find a
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Maybe that's the wrong approach then. Contracts have effectively been weaponized by those who can afford lawyers against those who can't, with those who can't rarely ever benefiting from any sort of contract. Perhaps the so
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Sounds more like a business/product owner request given to a developer who has been told one too many times they are too negative when being given new stories to work on. But I might just be projecting.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>The legitimate way What determines legitimate? There is, of course, the law. But the law has numerous limits and abilities to be exploited. To some extent, the law of the past was violated by the RIAA and others, and so nothing they

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