Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 7y ago
What laws is Uber breaking, or has it broke? Can you provide a citation? As far as I've been able to determine through research, the claim that Uber was breaking the law is largely a myth. Most cities have historically not regulated tr
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read... > In enacting the ECPA, Congress concluded that customers may not retain a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in information sent to network prov
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
It seems like there should be a way to escalate from an ID claim to DMCA -- to reject the ID claim as a content creator and force the claimant to send a DMCA. Then you can dispute the notice if it's issued in error, or counterclaim if
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
So does this mean that companies could possess toxic poison pill assets that make it illegal for anyone to buy the company? That seems wrong. Maybe a nice way to prevent a hostile takeover?
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Just curious: could ownership of the art be gifted to a company, and then ownership of the company itself could be sold? Where specifically would this run afoul of the law? Curious to know.
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
I'm not saying we should cease treating sick animals. I'm saying only treat the sick animals individually after diagnosing them. If that's not practical then let's change farming practices until it is. (I'm not a
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
It seems horrendous that we would give antibiotics to any livestock in an across-the-board way. Livestock should only get antibiotics if they come down with an infection and are diagnosed and treated by a veterinarian. If a bunch of the liv
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Here’s another argument: If everyone uses tabs for indentation, then you can configure your editor to display that as 2 characters width, while the people who prefer 4 or 8 can do the same. No one needs to argue about how many columns of in
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
That’s a good point. If you need specific visual alignment with an arbitrary number of characters on the previous line, then spaces are appropriate. Tabs should be used for the initial semantic indentation then spaces for additional visual
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Definitely not if I'm paying for the offering. If it's free, then I'll consider making that trade-off.
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Clang is a C language family frontend for LLVM. That is, it's a compiler for C and C++ and related languages. Libc is the C standard library, and there are multiple implementations of it, e.g. glibc and musl. Clang does not include an
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
When a new project is proposing to do something that's been done before, potentially multiple times, I think it is reasonable to want to understand how the new project will compare and contrast to work that's already been done. As
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
> Nurses, teachers and public sector workers all critical for the functioning of cities Sure. As a voter, if my region was experiencing a shortage of public sector workers, and that shortage was affecting my quality of life, or the life
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
One of the key benefits of renting, that I outlined in my comment above, is that people can typically rent properties that they could not afford to buy. So yes I agree that people could not necessarily afford to buy the same quality and lo
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
This seems like a problem that is naturally solved by market forces, supply and demand. If some job is sufficiently valued in a city, then businesses and government will pay whatever wage is necessary to hire people to perform that job. If
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Can you clarify what problem you are trying to solve with this proposal? No one is obligated to rent a property from someone else. You rent if you believe it's in your interest to rent, instead of buy. Why stop two consenting people fr
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Isn't it amazing that all of these elements have so many distinct industrial uses? How did people figure all of this stuff out? Real life is sometimes stranger than fiction. Also, related: I read an article in WaPo about the only rare
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
I don't know the answer, but I'm going to guess that it's because they want to build or rebuild their credit, and would not be eligible for credit cards otherwise, even at a rate of 28% with unsecured credit. For example, may
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Netflix switched to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating system in 2017: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-netflix-replaced-its-5-s...
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
As a small note, I think the word we're looking for in this thread is not "nation-state", but simply "state" i.e. sovereign country or polity. Not all states are "nation-states". A "nation" (⋆) i
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Make it the FBI's responsibility. Every NSL has an automatic termination date of at most 10 years in the future. If they require ongoing secrecy past that date, a court order is required. Any party in receipt of an NSL can thereby publ
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
I was curious how the homicide rate has changed over time. It’s true as you claimed that it was substantially higher hundreds of years ago, and has been on a steep drop in modern times: https://ourworldindata.org/homicides
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Could you have committed an unrelated murder, and by disclosing this murder in your testimony, become immune to conviction of it? If that is not how immunity works, then how can the government force anyone to testify? The government does no
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Are prosecutors allowed to imply in closing arguments that asserting one's fifth amendment right should be considered evidence that the person is guilty? I would hope that judges would instruct juries not to consider assertion of this
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
If you have someone's bank account number, you can pretty much take money out of it. By default there is no real authorization process by which the account holder is asked to allow the withdrawal. There is just the assumption that peop
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Could you submerse a human in a tank of water? I've heard that acceleration in water will be experienced as water pressure. That would be pretty bulky and costly to include in an aircraft cockpit, but I wonder if it would solve the G-f
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Fighters are all designed to carry humans. Humans fall unconscious under high G-forces. Imagine a drone fighter. It could turn tighter and accelerate drastically faster than a human-carrying fighter. The US has lots of boring drones, but pe
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
> nation state boundary Note that "nation-state" has a particular meaning, and I think the word you're looking for here is just "state" or "sovereign state". Nation-states are sovereign states that are
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
How can we be sure that this is programmers killing people, and not merely a busted angle of attack sensor, or an inadequate specification for how the plane should be designed (number of sensors or sensor robustness) or how the software sho

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