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by SllX 3y ago
> if we reduce it to just 2 sides You reduce anything to just two sides and you are needlessly polarizing and handicapping your own analytical abilities. If the subject matter is actually serious and not a passing fancy, this is useless.
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by SllX 3y ago
One of the ways less corrupt countries keep it that way is by free societies calling out and addressing that corruption. When we refuse to, that’s when corruption festers, even if it looks like heaven on earth to an outsider, corruption is
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by SllX 3y ago
> There's such a deep seeded, systemic bias against linux that it actually can never win Probably the reason it can never “win” is because it’s an operating system kernel. It’s software. You know what can win? People. Companies. In
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by SllX 3y ago
Ah, express and local service are terms of art used by at least Caltrain that I may or may not be wrongly assuming is more widespread (although another commenter below mentioned it’s used by the Shinkansen services in Japan as well which I
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by SllX 3y ago
You can cut some of those out then if you think they don’t make sense. It was a quick and dirty example I came up with from my minimal knowledge of Oregon/Washington geography (not nothing but not exceptional) and tracing a route throu
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by SllX 3y ago
Eugene -> Albany -> Salem -> Woodburn -> Wilsonville -> Tigard -> Portland -> Vancouver WA -> Woodland -> Long View -> Castle Rock ->Centralia -> Grand Mound -> Olympia -> Lacey -> DuPont -> T
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by SllX 3y ago
If you’re asking me that question I think you misread my comment. This is a list of general purpose computer platforms Apple has made in the past in addition to the Mac. The Mac may be the last one they’ll ever make as open and general purp
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by SllX 3y ago
You have to go back a long time, but just the Apple II[1] technically, and maybe the Newton, but both would be less general than a pre-App Store 2007 iPhone because Safari is such a difference maker. [1]: I, III, Lisa, too, but I mean you g
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by SllX 3y ago
Actually it’s not true for iMessage. Messages switches to SMS/MMS if the phone doesn’t support iMessage or has it disabled, but if it’s an iMessage it’s an iMessage—encryption and all—and you can see in advance if that is the case. T
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by SllX 3y ago
I looked earlier for it and didn’t see the video. Maybe she added it later or it didn’t load initially on my iPad? Doesn’t really matter if it’s in the Medium post or the Twitter post, the video is worth watching/listening to. Also log
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by SllX 3y ago
So this looks like it is a repost of Esther Crawford’s original Tweet, and it’s a shame this is the linked version. Here is the original Tweet: https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/168429104868268441... Now I
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by SllX 3y ago
OP’s original statement was that got to me was as follows: > They're not human, it doesn't matter. What this and your textbook example share in common is a lack of respect for the human factor. Sony Group Corporation may not be
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by SllX 3y ago
Yep!
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by SllX 3y ago
Sony Group Corporation is a kabushiki gaisha under Japanese law, which translates roughly to “stock corporation”, which is a legal entity representing its owners (individuals and institutional investors, but if you follow the trails of pape
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by SllX 3y ago
So what are they? Aliens? Robots? A front for the dolphins? Sentient paperwork?
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by SllX 3y ago
So a technical note I’m posting here mostly because I dug into this only for a comment I was responding to to be deleted: What they lost in the case they filed in June was an enjoinment to prevent the merger and acquisition of Activision&#x
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by SllX 3y ago
The lawyers in R&D are working on this as we speak. But nobody tell them that hardware stores figured this out decades ago…
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by SllX 3y ago
Only in a world where an officer can’t get closer than 8 feet from you without a warrant. We don’t live in that world and while I’m not anti-police, American PDs have proven they are both willing and able to game little loopholes like this
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by SllX 3y ago
It’s a four factor test. You can lose on one of the factors and still have it be determined to be fair use by a Judge, but if the Mona Lisa were still under copyright (shouldn’t be, but we’ll use it for this example anyway), then per Andy
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by SllX 3y ago
They can portray it however they want but if they lose in court because they can’t keep kosher then they lose in court. At which point their only recourse is Congress.
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by SllX 3y ago
Fair use isn’t straightforward to begin with, but basically there’s room for a Judge to narrow its applicability in this instance. Here’s the four factor test courts use: > In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular
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by SllX 3y ago
That’s true of every conceivable government. Political office is ultimately a position of power and so those who have it seek to maintain and expand it, but I think we roughly have the right mix of institutions serving the right functional
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by SllX 3y ago
Have a Constitution that limits government power. That said, it has become apparent to me that we need to impose further limitations because apparently the whitelist/blacklist approach we have thus far is insufficient and the Anti-Fe
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by SllX 3y ago
Not without a focus. The mission to go to the Moon wasn’t just a mission to go to the Moon, it was also a mission to come back from the Moon. This was basically a blank check and a massive cross-disciplinary exercise. Our next focus sho
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by SllX 3y ago
> Your argument depends entirely on scarcity of life-sustaining resource. We’ve objectively not had that situation for quite a while. What we have had, and still have, is a situation where scarcity of resources is artificially generated
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by SllX 3y ago
Well you’re not wrong.
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by SllX 3y ago
Not when you’re the one getting scammed, and it was stated in the comment I replied to that employment is a scam, specifically: > Isn’t the entire concept of employment meant to scam you out of more value for your labor than what you put
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by SllX 3y ago
I think that depends on their circumstances. Slavery is already illegal, and there isn’t really a market for slaves to go around negotiating the terms under which they are being kept alive at the pleasure of someone else so they may not be
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by SllX 3y ago
What’s “fair” is generally what is accepted by the parties involved. Even if you complain about the compensation, if you’re working at a particular rate, you have implicitly agreed to that rate rather than seeking a higher compensating posi
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by SllX 3y ago
Scams don’t usually put food in your belly and a roof over your head and keep you warm at night.

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