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by XorNot 9mo ago
The lone gunmen mythology has basically been key to getting America en masse to surrender it's rights. So many complaints about government have the form "I'll hit my breaking point and then I'll shoot a bunch of people
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by XorNot 9mo ago
If you break the law, what happens to you? What does the state do to you? Like say you persistently just refuse to pay a parking ticket after court orders to do so?
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Everyday you're not trying to achieve political change. And a lot of those interactions are backed by implied violence: people paying for things at stores is not because everyone has actually agreed on the price.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Which would matter but the entry box in no major browser do was this. The HN text area does not insert em-dashes for you and never has. On my phone keyboard it's a very lot deliberate action to add one (symbol mode, long press hyphen,
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Statically compiled binaries don't use libc. Golang is one, anything with Rust and MUSL is another, and reliably injecting an environment variables into Nix is well..not reliable. It also links its own hashed libc paths which you can&#
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Man I just discovered this as a good guide on how to exceed the normal limits on Linux kernel modules. Been working on a derviative which hooks the VFS to allow dynamically remapping file paths on a per process basis so I can force badly be
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I feel like the people who post this sentiment have never done any plumbing, electrical wiring or really just any sort of actual creative manual labor. Show me the robot that can plumb a new sink in, or brick up an old doorway... Because I&
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by XorNot 9mo ago
> Pretty much all western countries are experiencing a crisis of democracy. No America is pretty uniquely having one, but because of American exceptionalism instead it can never just be an American problem it simply must be a global on
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by XorNot 9mo ago
It's mostly not reasonable to try and ascribe human motivations to alien entities, particularly when we know some humans would definitely fire up the transmitter if they could. The presence or current lack of alien signals at the very
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I just plain don't have room to store a trailer, but I do have room for a second car - hence I own a ute (pickup or whatever in American parlance). Which is really the thing: it's very useful to have a second car, but a trailer ca
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by XorNot 9mo ago
It might be worth considering what you think research in a field like mathematics actually entails when asking such questions. Because you can write a lot of mathematics with no practical applications for generations (then whoops: number th
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by XorNot 9mo ago
String theory isn't a theory it's a family of related theories sharing some common mathematical tools. People talk about this as though it's an attempt at deception, whereas two people notionally working in string theory coul
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Occam's razor is perfectly empirical: "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity". It's what people repeatedly accuse string theory of violating in low-rent popsci criticism. The other things you refer to are stil
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by XorNot 9mo ago
No at all, this is my actual problem with the proposal. We're 6 months away from the news report about "the new thing kids are using on the Internet" but the open propaganda and AI forgeries on Twitter and Facebook will cont
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Assuming someone won't harm themselves or accept sacrifice for a cause is a poor argument. If burning HN to the ground deleted Facebook and Tiktok out of existence, then let it burn.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
What's wrong with an OnlyFans contributor? It's a self-employed job that services a demand within the economy and pays taxes. It's pretty close to the ideal job an immigrant can have since the product is already globalized
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by XorNot 10mo ago
It's also irrelevant to some extent: manipulating someone's likeness without their consent is also antisocial, in many jurisdictions illegal, and doing so in a sexualized way making it even more illegal. The children aspect just m
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Well also in context the stick figure could still constitute sexual harassment. If a big boobed stick figure with a label saying "<coworker name>" was being posted on your social media a lot such that people could clearly in
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Well I'd say one obvious solution would be to punish a company which deploys a tool to enable turn key sexual harassment at scale. Might send a good message about consent ya know?
830.
by XorNot 10mo ago
For one liability: the person doing the Photoshop is the one liable for it, and it was never okay to do this without consent.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Look at the modern world and tell me where natural is supposed to fit in though? I work a desk job in a knowledge work based society with consistent, reliable caloric abundance. The body doesn't know it's not on the African plains
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Such as?
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by XorNot 10mo ago
My brother was on it for a bit (and should go on it again) and the thing he noted was that it makes it easy to not eat but it gives you no useful habits to keep that up because it's so easy. Which makes sense. I still calorie count eve
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by XorNot 10mo ago
What natural protections?
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Geothermal is essentially negligible to the grid so it's weird to include it. It's also so geographically constrained no one can choose to build it anyway.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
It is how individual power generation projects and measured though. If you install a GW of solar generation, it means you installed solar panels capable of generating 1 GW peak. If you install a 1 GW of coal generation, then same thing. If
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by XorNot 10mo ago
In my experience 80% packet loss makes most common protocols basically unusable. Yes you can still get data out...but many apps will just fail due to timeouts and other things.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
> However, one could very well imagine an infectious disease, with or without a dermatological component, causing delusional parasitosis. Except what's more likely is that it's just psychological - which doesn't mean it do
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Did it work? Is he clean?
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Anything persistent at all is downright unusable - they'll be tracked and destroyed, people near them arrested etc. We're basically talking attritable devices being needed and protocols which make them useful - i.e. something you

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