TulliusCicero

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by TulliusCicero 6d ago
I totally agree. If homelessness is causing you to become a public nuisance (meaning lawbreaking) then clearly something has to be done. It should be a choice of help or jail, where obviously we'd prefer they get help, but jail is the
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by TulliusCicero 6d ago
Related, I usually hate CRT filters in game, the scan lines usually look too strong (and often the image is darkened inappropriately), but I really liked the one in Cyber Shadow. It just felt right.
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by TulliusCicero 9d ago
I think you're right that people are against these things, but wrong about the reasons. Taking homeless people to jail because they're homeless just seems stupid and pointless, not to mention harmful to the person going to jail.
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by TulliusCicero 9d ago
I understand why, but it often results in bad outcomes. Part of why transit in other countries is better is often precisely because of greater commercialization. It's not just that it's more convenient for travelers, but also it m
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by TulliusCicero 9d ago
This would definitely be a great thing to add. One thing that I don't like about American culture is that people are a little too hesitant about adding 'retail' into publicly-owned spaces. There's a reflexive attitude
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by TulliusCicero 10d ago
It really shouldn't be. We should have dedicated shelters for that. Relying on libraries to be de facto homeless shelters is bad for everyone compared to the alternative of dedicated facilities. It's worse for homeless people, wor
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
Correct, part of safer street and road design is supporting transit, biking, and walking. That said, it's essentially impossible to get rid of cars entirely, and you can see that just by looking at countries or even regions that have g
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
> Fatality data is extremely skewed. 44% of drivers aren't using a seatbelt, 29% are speeding related, I recall alcohol involvement being about 30%, though it's not listed in the link I checked. How is that 'skewed'?
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
Trains or bikes, really (plenty of Waymo/Uber/Lyft trips aren't super far).
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
> Better driver education and higher test standards would save lives too. So would banning alcohol. The biggest thing would be safer road/street design, but Americans are kind of allergic to that. Talk about traffic calming or road
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
> The species was first documented in the 1970s and, being fairly new to scientific observation, has yet to be scientifically described. Because of this, LPSO has no official scientific name. Is that a joke? It takes over 50 years to com
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
People always say this, but a) even countries known for good transit like Japan still have a ton of cars for various things, and b) there's no getting around that the money going into self-driving cars vs public transit isn't some
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by TulliusCicero 16d ago
Yeah, it's not like drivers text while driving, go over the speed limit, fail to signal, fail to fully stop at stop signs, run red lights, tailgate, or park in the bike lane, right?
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by TulliusCicero 17d ago
I mean that's true for side-by-side foldables in general isn't it? It doesn't require what Apple is saying about the aspect ratio here.
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by TulliusCicero 17d ago
But it's not really the same aspect ratio, is it? Because one is used predominantly vertically, and the other horizontally. As long as there's this landscape vs portrait difference, how does the aspect ratio similarity actually
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by TulliusCicero 17d ago
Okay, but IP protections exist to benefit society. Being less harmful isn't good enough, the justification has to be "here's how being longer than twenty years benefits society". Do movie companies or authors choose to m
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by TulliusCicero 17d ago
I don't see any reason it should be longer than patents (20 years). Why should authors be granted vastly larger IP protections than inventors?
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by TulliusCicero 17d ago
Just make it 20 years, like patents.
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by TulliusCicero 18d ago
Exactly what I was thinking of too lol
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by TulliusCicero 19d ago
From what I know about MS, I can understand what they mean. Microsoft famously had teams at odds with each other, so if you "own" something across multiple teams and can't get them to actually work together or take a particul
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by TulliusCicero 24d ago
> They said "opt in to training on prompts by default," which is coherent English and perfectly fine. No, it's really not. It should read "opted in to training on prompts by default". "Opt in" means &qu
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by TulliusCicero 24d ago
I mean if his personal work is incompetent or dishonest...? One of the easy ways to evaluate this is: how has he taken being incredibly wrong about his extremely confident predictions over and over and over? Typically with people like this,
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by TulliusCicero 24d ago
Correctly predicting nine out of the last five recessions.
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by TulliusCicero 26d ago
Why? Companies that sell Windows laptops absolutely have these figured out for various customizations they want. Those are usually shit customizations to be fair, but in this case it'd be actually useful.
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by TulliusCicero 26d ago
Corbyn was an unusually terrible leader even by Labour standards. Amazing that some people still support him.
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by TulliusCicero 26d ago
> And if a law is so bad that it can't even get more than 1/3rd the people to support it What? That's not what you wrote. If it only takes 1/3rd to repeal a law, then you need to keep up 2/3rds support indefinite
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by TulliusCicero 26d ago
Democracies require supermajorities for stuff all the time, it's pretty typical, especially for constitutional changes. And in this case, it would also mean that Britain would've joined the EU with a 55%+ majority as well.
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by TulliusCicero 27d ago
I dunno about 2/3rds, but there should definitely be some kind of supermajority required for things like joining or leaving the EU. Even a 55% requirement would be a lot better than a simple majority imo.
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by TulliusCicero 27d ago
Browser defaults suck, then. This is classic "works fine on my machine".
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by TulliusCicero 27d ago
It sucks.

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