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by SllX 7y ago
Your explanation was excellent and satisfactory. Thank you! From where I'm sitting, any and all of my stipulations are academic in nature because as far as I can tell from your description, Texas has a form of governance which is essen
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by SllX 7y ago
As a non-Texan, I would like to ask more about point B. I myself am increasingly of the opinion that while government, national and State (I’m a Californian) has a role, it has unfortunately carved out too big of a chunk and allocated itsel
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by SllX 7y ago
LG, Lenovo, Samsung, Spotify, Sony, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, H&M, L’Oreal, Zara, Gucci, Nescafé, Nestle, IKEA are also big brands here. Then there’s all the crap we buy from China. All
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by SllX 7y ago
I was too young for the Central Freeway, so no comment on that one. Feel free to pull in the relevant data yourself though. The Bay Bridge was built in a different time under a different regulatory regime and with fewer rules. The Eastern S
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by SllX 7y ago
You know what? Fine. I think the increased trend in cycling in day, San Francisco is neat. I have questioned the sanity of those who thought plastic pylons were adequate “protection” wherever I’ve seen them. Streets are typically city-owned
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by SllX 7y ago
Nah my friend. I mean you have to physically mine anything you want to save into an archive of your own. Exploit. Sorry if this seems cynical, but if anything on the Internet is worth referring back to, it’s worth making your own copy or yo
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by SllX 7y ago
I agree with the general sentiment that more often than not it seems like an “upgrade” in the user experience is actually an enormous downgrade . However it is important to not romanticize anything on the Internet too hard, speaking from
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by SllX 7y ago
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2848 9 years later and still spot on. Just waiting for the day they “sunset” Yahoo! Mail and delete everything.
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by SllX 7y ago
CEQA, pervasive unionization of labor, cronyism, and probably at least five other reasons I can’t think of at the moment. Feel free to chime in add to the list!
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by SllX 7y ago
Doing so under the umbrella of NATO would be even better if we can swing it. No guarantees on that right now though.
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by SllX 7y ago
You have power but so do a lot of other people. You use your power to serve your best interests, but people with equal or greater power are also acting in their best interests and sometimes that means your power and their power clashes. Whe
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by SllX 7y ago
Most of China’s exports are low value manufactured goods which can be made elsewhere. There’s a lot more countries in the world than there are Chinas, even if your worldview counts both of them.
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by SllX 7y ago
I don’t know enough about economics, nearly enough, in fact I’ve decided after listening to an economics podcast for the past month (still working through the backlog) that I’m essentially a know-nothing today. That said, I have some questi
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by SllX 7y ago
Are your interactions with the ruling sovereign within a given jurisdiction arbitrary or governed by Law? Are the actions taken by the enforcement arm of the sovereign power fairly predictable according to the code of law they publish, or i
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by SllX 7y ago
An autocratic government is inherently antithetical to the Rule of Law. They are mutually exclusive.
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by SllX 7y ago
Nah. P4s, a gig of SDRAM, either a GMA 800 or GMA 900 for graphics, a 1x and a 16x PCIe slots, a 160GB disk and a DVD drive all running on the first Tiger service pack (10.4.1). Yours for 18 months for only $999! (‘Twas a rental.)
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by SllX 7y ago
Under the Constitution the government doesn’t have a leg to stand on to either ban crypto or ban open source software. Certainly no more than it can ban algebra, Elvish or volunteer work.
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by SllX 7y ago
The big problem with that idea, at least in the United States, is the States’ employees don’t actually work for the Federal government, and requiring them to pass fines collected upwards would violate the 10th Amendment. Nor is it within
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by SllX 7y ago
Mate, he’s saying that as much as you love your kids, it gets old at some point to have them constantly interrupting your meetings. Sometimes you want to finish the meeting and be done with it, so you can go ahead and actually spend some
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by SllX 7y ago
The types of governments that are typically collecting fines on a regular basis don’t possess the authority to destroy money or lawfully affect the money supply in any meaningful capacity.
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by SllX 7y ago
You can have emotionless warriors or you can have emotional pacifists. You might even have emotional warriors, but emotionless pacifists is a hard sell. If the State monopolizes violence to the point that we can’t hash things out with our f
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by SllX 7y ago
With an intensive enough Eugenics program? I’m sure anything is possible. The real question here is: why would you want to?
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by SllX 7y ago
There is no gun to your head telling you to buy anything from McDonalds, Amazon or Walmart. But you won’t find that small profitable businesses automatically have better compensation packages either, nor even those rising star hipster burge
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by SllX 7y ago
So long and thanks for all the code! To be blunt, I’m not sure the FSF is worth having without someone as stubborn as RMS at the helm, but with any luck, they can still do a proper job of maintaining his legacy. Increasingly I find Stallman
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by SllX 7y ago
That independence movement is as much about giving up their own claims on the mainland and continuing as an independent nation without ambitions to one day kick out the poser government currently controlling the PRC as anything else. All th
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by SllX 7y ago
We might come to that, but I think the attitude we have right now is reflective of a very basic fact that we rarely admit to ourselves: introducing new species into an ecosystem adds an additional level of complexity that changes it in ways
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by SllX 7y ago
Jesus Christ how did I miss that? I’ll own that mistake and leave my original comment up unedited as a testimony to my unobservant off the cuff commentary.
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by SllX 7y ago
> When there are many of us there isn't enough space left for them. Something I’ve always wondered is whether this has to be true, or if we’ve decided as a society that it should be true, and if we decided that we wanted to attrac
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by SllX 7y ago
You enforced speed and lost clarity. You wrote “...to make writing more powerful.” which states nothing of value while “...designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.” tells you precisely that it was designed with the objec
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by SllX 7y ago
You know what can happen? We can vote the current President out for being too buddy buddy with a foreign power, if we politically determine that to be in the best interest of our country. That’s the political process. Your Edit reinforces m

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