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by afthonos 3y ago
No, the goal is to prevent consumers from being deprived of the benefits of competition . That may sound like what you wrote, but it really really isn’t. In particular, it presumes that competition is a good in and of itself, and that it
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by afthonos 3y ago
> Certainly considered things like that. Not sure if you are a parent, but just wait until you go on school tours with your kid and see them fall in love with a specific school. I know this is a standard way of thinking, so I’m not criti
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by afthonos 3y ago
The bill of rights was extended to the states via the privileges and immunities clause if the 14th amendment.
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by afthonos 3y ago
Yes, this is true, but in a far more boring way than you imagine. Prosecutors have huge latitude on what to prosecute, and the police on what to direct investigatory resources to. At every point, the unconscious and sometimes conscious pol
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by afthonos 3y ago
The right way to think of marriage for government purposes is a contract. If someone has entered in this contract, they get certain benefits. If the benefits are properly designed, they are valid only for the duration of the contract. As lo
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by afthonos 3y ago
How would you measure harm? Any normal software system will occasionally hurt people who don’t fit the world model written into the system, so zero hurt isn’t reasonable. How then? Probably by using some statistical measure, like “less than
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by afthonos 3y ago
I remember it verbally in the mid-2000s.
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by afthonos 3y ago
“Defenestration” was also the best slang for quitting Windows, back in the day.
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by afthonos 3y ago
My favorite thing about the plaque is that it explains it’s commemorating the Second Defenestration but makes no reference to the first. I’d say it raises more questions than it answers…
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by afthonos 3y ago
I feel you should clarify that “TL/DR” means “too long, don’t read”, since what you’ve written is in no way a summary, but rather a statement of opinion in no way supported (and indeed assumed away ) by the article.
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by afthonos 3y ago
No, this is pedantic:: De facto means in fact. Given that the king does no governing no, he is not, in fact, the ruler. You may be looking for de jure , though I question even that.
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by afthonos 3y ago
That's completely wrong. First, every court of appeal can strike down a law as unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is only special in that there is no further appeal. Second, case law absolutely determines the interpretation of each
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by afthonos 3y ago
Mostly right, but [0] is out-of-date, was overturned, and is a zombie free speech trope that is resistant to any headshot ever tried: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/free-speec...
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by afthonos 3y ago
US prisons are a hellscape. For any question you may have, the answer is “whatever is most convenient and cheapest, irrespective of any cost in living quality, dignity, or health of the inmates, unless it would be fun or satisfying to make
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by afthonos 3y ago
Nit: I’d rephrase to say that your body has no opinions about T-cells. But people who had proto-BBBs survived better than those who didn’t, AND T-cells would nuke the central nervous system from space.
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by afthonos 3y ago
You could also have said that about Altavista, and you would’ve been right. Like GP said, it’s too early to tell.
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by afthonos 3y ago
Microsoft did quite well for decades with Windows, never once charging developers to distribute on the platform. Apple does quite well with macOS. The value proposition of the App Store is access, period.
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by afthonos 3y ago
There’s a difference, though, between everyone having access to what you have done, and people in your circle of trust gossiping about you to people outside of it. First, you can theoretically figure out the gossip and exclude them. Second,
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by afthonos 4y ago
That’s…not a solution. That’s a goal.
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by afthonos 4y ago
"Shenanigans"..."shenanigans", "shenanigans"...Oh, of course! Shenanigans comes from the Greek word "συνάντηση" (see-NAN-dee-see), which means "meeting". How do you do shenanigans? You meet
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by afthonos 4y ago
Modern Greek speaker here. No. The grammar and syntax are noticeably different, and the words are related but not the same.
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by afthonos 4y ago
Indeed. My favorite theatre memory is getting to play Septimus, and having an audience member tell me the lynchpin of my interpretation was something they had never realized before. The tiny, infinite reward of having a role in a masterpiec
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by afthonos 4y ago
A powerful AI could help with that! >.>
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by afthonos 4y ago
It’s (not) self-driving in the same way planes do (not) fly. Just because something doesn’t do things the way we (or our or a bird) does doesn’t mean it doesn’t achieve its goal.
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by afthonos 4y ago
This is not that conversation. I'm a huge fan of the comic, but there's a difference between discussing the worth of having art at all, discussing how we make art, and discussing whether every wall everywhere should be covered in
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by afthonos 5y ago
> Plausibly, all of these should be possible as zero-install web apps – but as Apple (& others) have started raking in the App Store money, their investment in competitive open web technologies that could match proprietary-platform n
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by afthonos 5y ago
I think COVID disruptions are recoverable. However, rising international tensions and a move away from globalization will at least result in a readjustment; managed poorly, it could lead to longer-term decreases in quality of life.
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by afthonos 5y ago
Since none of this is about criminal proceedings in the US, “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a meaningless (quite literally; what do you mean?) standard.
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by afthonos 5y ago
Rendering the different symbols in different colors might be enough, as long as those colors are used in the text defining the symbols. Used sparingly (i.e. only for the symbols that are relevant to the argument), it can greatly enhance rea
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by afthonos 5y ago
I’m not sure “people not yet alive have a right to mundane details of your life” is the less entitled position, tbh. In their defense, they’re not the ones making that argument.

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