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by Talanes 5y ago
I didn't go through the entire list, but it does seem like a lot of those countries either use a standard national ID, or have a nationally issued voter ID. Unfortunately, federally assigned IDs are a weirdly hot-button issue in Americ
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by Talanes 5y ago
What keeps these hypothetical people from just fraudulently getting a second state's driving license while they're already fraudulently registering to vote?
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by Talanes 5y ago
How does an ID help with that? People can move without updating their ID right away. And, heck, I don't remember there being much, if any, that I had to do to prove my address when I got my (non-RealID) license. Really all the address
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, it's not the Distro's fault that they didn't design it for how people actually use their computers. How could they have guessed that would be an issue?
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Apple dictate what is inside their App Store. Walmart dictates what gets put on their shelves. Should we throw them into this contest too?
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by Talanes 5y ago
For a five minute walk? With having to start and park the car, you might not even make it faster.
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by Talanes 5y ago
You're assuming the "because that information was valuable to them" part. Or you're using such a broad definition of valuable that would also make this comment thread valuable because I have refreshed it multiple times.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I think you just missed the joke of the comment you replied to...
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by Talanes 5y ago
And yet if I do just open the door to the Mayor's office and it's unlocked and I wander in, that's still not the same sort of trespass as entering someone's home. And, if I'm in City Hall, the mechanism that keeps m
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by Talanes 5y ago
The analogies in this thread are mostly only furthering confirmation bias. Because any physical analogy is such a poor representation of how a website actually works, everyone just cherry-picks the analogy that demonstrates the logic they b
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's a public website. If we have to use the doors analogy, these are doors at City Hall, not people's houses.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Five minutes doesn't even feel quite like I've left home.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Walking the small path between a highway and some fields was literally how I got to high school.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm actually wondering what you consider not a long commute if 30 minutes hits the threshold. I've known plenty of people who have longer commutes driving directly from home to work.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>So they were having a conversation and I’m not? I don’t really get your point. My point is there is a major contextual difference between someone entering a conversation between you and a third party to say rude things about the third p
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by Talanes 5y ago
Competence at being a CEO, competence in the core business (whether engineering or otherwise,) and competence at splitting focus between completely different levels of the business are all different competences. Being skilled at all three i
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by Talanes 5y ago
Where I am, they pay out vacation time, but not sick time (unless it's a combined pool, in which case vacation takes precedence.) I don't know how common that situation is, but it certainly incentivizes getting "sick" ri
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by Talanes 5y ago
The question wasn't how could the customer be impacted. None of those scenarios have to do with the customer being held legally liable for the IP violations of a vendor whose product they use.
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by Talanes 5y ago
No one was saying depression was a valid excuse for the behavior, just a reason someone might do it. Attempting to understand a motivation doesn't automatically mean excusing it.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Or "ideology," depending on the motivation.
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by Talanes 5y ago
It was clear the the GP commenter was grasping for something bigger than the actual results provided, and neither that article or your explanation of it added more depth than the Twitter thread alone did. I don't understand why you nee
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by Talanes 5y ago
>How so? Because you weren't having a conversation with someone trying to convince them of anything, you jumped in to police the speech of someone expressing their frustration with the state of their nation. >When you talk down t
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by Talanes 5y ago
You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context. And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestl
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by Talanes 5y ago
And if you had an example that was attested in the region by that time period, you would have the start of a convincing theory.
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by Talanes 5y ago
But pissing people off by jumping in to police their speech is better?
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by Talanes 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelation_therapy Why don't people like your criticism? Maybe because you're trying to position yourself as smarter than the experts, but with ideas that take 30 seconds research
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by Talanes 5y ago
If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely. Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latt
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by Talanes 5y ago
I just don't understand what kind of person expects their idioms and mental models to have a literal 1:1 match. If I wanted to say exactly what I'm thinking, I wouldn't be reaching for idioms.
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by Talanes 5y ago
The tone implies that you think the first statement is wrong in some way, but it's still not clear why. Their comment was bring it back around to the original topic of the thread: the entire scope of homo sapiens sapiens existence and
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by Talanes 5y ago
I think it's vastly more likely they used a technique that had been around for at least 1,800 years over one that was going to be invented around 250 years later.

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