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by Reelin 6y ago
> But in any event Section 230 Safe Harbor is a rather novel immunity and most other industries have no such protections, so it's not like it would be the end of the world. I have to disagree here. What other industry revolves aroun
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> incumbency is more powerful than anyone expects I agree, and would also point out that the competitors aren't static targets. D seems to be well on its way to getting a borrow checker. Well written C++20 looks nothing like C++98.
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And yet that significant portion of the population somehow manages not to descend into a life of lawlessness even though meth is incredibly easy to come by almost anywhere in the country. I'm pointing out that it's absurd to attri
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Mexico only has drug lords because US drug laws fuel their black market. If you are skeptical of this, there are academic papers on the topic. You could also examine the history books regarding the rise of organized crime there. (For that m
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by Reelin 6y ago
Agreed regarding route - I didn't mean to imply that all patterns of use were equivalent. I was trying to illustrate that it isn't some bogeyman that will swallow you whole. The drug alone simply cannot explain the issues that are
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't have the time or energy to synthesize an exhaustive list of concerning examples on the spot. If the prospect of an under regulated food supply doesn't concern you I would strongly suggest reading "The Jungle" by
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Meth is used to tread ADHD under the trade name Desoxyn. Alternatives include other amphetamines which exhibit substantially similar effects. A significant portion of the population consumes amphetamines on a daily basis and manages not to
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by Reelin 6y ago
The interstate commerce clause made for a fine end run around the spirit of that bit in the end. If we do ever manage to address the interstate commerce clause, we'll have to account for the fact that our day to day functioning has com
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by Reelin 6y ago
In the limited case where redistribution is equivalent to disposal from the perspective of the producer, and the food goes directly to people who are otherwise starving (ie literally incapable of purchasing food) I just don't see how t
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by Reelin 6y ago
> If we truly payed blue collar guys a market rate, no white collar jobs would exist, because what is the price for risking your health? Isn't that exactly what we do though? Doesn't pay (very approximately) correlate with requ
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by Reelin 6y ago
> If I’m another potato farmer and all of a sudden all those extra potatoes are teleported somewhere else, I will in all likelihood raise my prices. There seem to be two different scenarios being conflated here. You describe producers ac
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by Reelin 6y ago
That's an excellent example but I'd point out that in any such scenario devices ought to be thoroughly locked down and run strictly audited environments. If properly configured you wouldn't be firing an employee for using Tor
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by Reelin 6y ago
> There is no legitimate use for it in this context Do concerns about being tracked between websites suddenly disappear at work? Is it no longer legitimate for an employee to log in to a personal account for non-work purposes via the cor
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> but I haven't really done any graphics programming before I've never written any demos but do enjoy playing with GPUs. Regarding anything and everything graphics related, try not to get overwhelmed by modern APIs; it's v
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by Reelin 6y ago
> TIL: about the Demoscene In that case, definitely have a look at this amazing write up ( http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories ).
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by Reelin 6y ago
My desktop with KDE Plasma 5 consumes somewhere in the ballpark of 500 MB RAM initially on startup. RAM consumption by Konsole, tmux, and Neovim (30+ loaded buffers) combined is negligible to say the least. RAM consumption by my browser wit
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I don’t believe JITs can ever beat AOT compilation. In certain cases [1] JIT can beat AOT by a decent margin because it has access to live information that isn't available at compile time. In theory you could AOT compile, profile,
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by Reelin 6y ago
Wow. This is really disappointing to see. ( https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887 ) I guess PlaidML might be a viable option?
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by Reelin 6y ago
> The reason amateur radio exists is because we follow the rules. It can all disappear overnight if you violate them. As an American this sort of sentiment is absolutely depressing to see. It seems to be incredibly common in a number of
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by Reelin 6y ago
I believe the US is fully standardized on 120V and 60Hz for quite some time. > In the US the weird way they get 110V As a US resident I'm genuinely curious - what do you find weird about how we do the conversion from three phase? Do
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by Reelin 6y ago
I was with you until you pinned the problems on anonymity. Correlation does not imply causation. In this particular case there are (IMO) many counterexamples regarding anonymity, including HN in particular. A different comment here points o
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by Reelin 6y ago
It seems like having only (up / down) conflates at least two distinct messages that a reader might want to quickly express. The "official" one is dispassionately judging post quality for moderation purposes. The "wrong&q
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by Reelin 6y ago
My solution to this is to use a LTS type release that's reinstalled and configured once every few years for boring desktop work. Almost never add or remove any software, just apply updates weekly or so. For dev or other technical work
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by Reelin 6y ago
> when unpatched Windows machines cause problems for others Charitably that's only half of the story. Their security model was ... not great in the past. If as you claim their security PR problems were all due to poor decisions by u
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> can update the kernels without rebooting The implementation is (IMO) really interesting from a programming perspective ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/livepatch/livepatch.h... ).
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In the same vein, forced updates is why I refuse to allow Snap on any of my systems and opt for Flatpak instead.
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> > A local software would address local needs better than the generic "one size fits all" solutions would. At what cost in terms of development effort? "Not Invented Here" is a well recognized anti-pattern for goo
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It's not "completely decentralized" due to various realities, but federated and self hostable services such as Matrix, Mastodon, and PixelFed should mostly work for use with family and friends at this point.
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If it's fully decentralized why wouldn't the user change their selected mechanisms? If all they have is voluntary subscriptions to others' feeds, in what manner can that be corrupted? If they voluntarily chose to subscribe to
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Speech that leads to violence, how about starting with that? That's already illegal in most (all?) of the US. The precedent for that is Brandenburg v. Ohio; the legal term is "imminent lawless action". (Regarding Facebo

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