XCabbage

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by XCabbage 7y ago
Care to expand?
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Read the bill instead of blindly believing the article. The article is lying outright about what the bill says. Not only does it not require teachers to accept religiously-based scientifically incorrect answers, it outright forbids them f
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by XCabbage 7y ago
What utter bullshit reporting. For context, this is a bill establishing religious and conscientious rights for students in state law, including things like an explicit right to refuse to participate in acts of collective worship at school
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by XCabbage 7y ago
For whatever it's worth, I didn't share your expectation. The real lorem ipsum is just a fixed load of text, after all - describing something as "lorem ipsum but for code" shouldn't necessarily imply any functiona
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by XCabbage 7y ago
It's a special character in HTML, which is the context in which the name is being shown. The fact that it's escaped before being concatenated into the HTML document is fine; the fact that it's triple -escaped is the problem.
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> With a pension, you promise your employees they will get a certain amount of money in retirement. No, that's not how it works for most workplace pensions in the UK now that we have a statutory system for them. There are statutoril
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by XCabbage 7y ago
It's kind of odd to ask this question in response to a comment that already specified two possible advantages. Namely: 1. It sets up a challenge that incentivizes people to try to contribute; they "think it would be awesome to g
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> What happened is, he promised a certain pension to his employees. No, he promised to pay a certain amount into an established scheme. Then he did so. He's upheld his side of every agreement he's been party to. > Then, he p
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by XCabbage 7y ago
This is a very daft take. It's not even remotely shady for a service to inherently involve knowing where you are. That's something that is true of every brick and mortar store, and indeed every cab driver. Yet the government doe
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Can you cite sources for the factual claims you're making here, which contradict what's claimed by Wikipedia and many media sources I've read?
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> It's not "just to retain the same type rating" that the MCAS worked as it worked. > > The MCAS, as it was implemented in the planes which crashed had to be implemented for the plane to pass the certification requir
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by XCabbage 7y ago
As far as I know: 1. Kaepernick wasn't fired. He simply wasn't signed by anyone team after his contract with the 49ers ended. 2. It's a matter of factual controversy whether his treatment by the NFL was affected by his advoca
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Citation needed. I don't know the sports world, but I know in my bubble, those "weasel words" are something that only SJWs would approve of. If this sort of thing existed in sports contracts in the pre-SJW era, that is an i
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by XCabbage 7y ago
The only reason Blizzard was legally able to engage in this punishment - which involved stripping the player of his winnings - was that there's a player handbook banning offensive conduct and including this as a penalty. If that provis
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Who? In the case of Caleb, I assume because he has a religious objection to it - he thinks that a person cannot alter truly the gender given to them by God, and thinks it would be against his faith to use pronouns in a manner that implies o
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> In reality, I think the likely scenario is more like "I'm a she :)", and unless you continue to use 'he' pronouns then there isn't a problem. This is flatly contradicted by both Caleb's post (upon whi
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> TDD forces you be clear about what the result of your code should be before you start coding ... which is often difficult and inefficient. A large part of the point of the article is that when making changes to an existing system, you
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> What I mean is that freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of censoring. This is at least not quite true of First Amendment law. The concept of "compelled speech" exists in US law, and is considered an unconstitutional
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Choosing not to use a middleman any more so that you can secure higher margins sounds like about clearest example of a "legitimate business reason" imaginable. The purpose of the act is to immediately increase your margins, not to
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by XCabbage 7y ago
> Treat code that cares about string "length" as code smell This is nonsense. Pretty much anywhere that you're accepting user input on the web you want to have some sort of length limit. Even if you're Hacker News rat
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by XCabbage 7y ago
You've asserted this twice on this post, both times without any evidence. I Googled, couldn't find the threat you're basing the claim on, but DID find that the PSF Trademark Usage Policy ( https://www.python.org&#x2
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Nothing wrong with this in itself. A zero-interaction attack - like being able to get root on everyone who even walks past your WiFi hotstop with their phone switched on, even if it's in their pocket not being used - IS more valuable t
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Source? The closest thing I can find is this, which matches some details of your description but conflicts with others: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/706185709481119745
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Given that 'cronyism' means private business inducing government officials to use state force to benefit said businesses, no, it's certainly not what makes the market 'free'. The use of force by the state to entrenc
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by XCabbage 7y ago
This clearly isn't a reasonable standard for asserting copyright. By the same logic: * If I provide an outline of a political argument to a opinion columnist for them to write up in detail, I should own copyright on the argument and pr
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by XCabbage 7y ago
How did Google "hijacking" the Java API harm Oracle? If it didn't, why should anyone need to "protect" against such a thing happening in future? Maybe I'm missing something, but your comment seems to boil down
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Does InfoWars count as "alternative media"? I mean, it's clearly not "mainstream", but the format - the medium - is no different to a mainstream news show. I wouldn't've thought it fell into either of th
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Maybe we're consuming different sets of MSM and alternative sources, but my experience is not only that they are not equally applicable, but that your suggestion that they are is completely ludicrous. 95%+ of MSM articles I read that r
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by XCabbage 7y ago
But is it equally unjustified? I trust alternative media because they show me the primary sources they rely upon. Mainstream media basically never does this; gatekeeping access to knowledge is, for whatever reason, a key part of how they op
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by XCabbage 7y ago
Curious - what does "GP" stand for in this context?

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