actually_a_dog

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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
How do you evaluate a community organizer/constitutional law professor as a candidate for the US Senate? Or a real estate billionaire for President? What about the foreign policy positions of someone who's never run anything lar
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Isn't this the problem "smart contracts" were supposed to solve? I say "supposed to," because the problem here is that if contracts are code, and code can have bugs, then contracts can have bugs. Technically, this
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Sure, that's possible. But, even if it were some sort of other crime that was exacerbated or precipitated by a drug addiction, the fact that the sentence included the option of rehab + probation seriously limits the badness of that
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Why is it an either/or? It seems like it would be possible to improve air filtration and have an inquiry.
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
You know, you didn't actually answer the question I asked....
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
> I don’t have much sympathy for people that commit actual crimes. Even when the "crime" doesn't hurt anybody except the "offender?" GP post strongly implies the charge was some sort of possession charge. Drug
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Let's not forget: this also applies to forums, such as HN. I have seen enough comments (edit: with significant merit) downvoted without comment to believe this is true here, and I've seen it on other forums as well. Go against t
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Yeah, I agree. It seems to clip between phonemes and it has weird diction because it doesn't get the stress patterns of the words right.
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Do you have evidence for this besides 2 links to books on Amazon that I can't currently read? My searches aren't finding much in the way of papers and such.
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
I wouldn't even want to be surrounded by a pissed off pack of Airedales, forget hyenas.
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by actually_a_dog 5y ago
As a member of the canine family myself[0], I would like to point out that there are a few dog breeds that can at least come close to 225 lbs. [1] That said, yikes! Regular hyenas are scary, but add another 100 lbs on one, and we're t