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In the US, public officials have to prove actual malice to win a defamation claim to avoid this sort of scenario.
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That bit you quoted, “Professor Scofield plotted and ordered the murders”, was the author's summary, rather than the actual statements made by Guillard.
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There seems to be people in these comments that know, so: is there something similar to the ESP32 but for cellular networks? A small, cheap microcontroller that I can add a SIM to and get connectivity? The only ones I've messed with b
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> It's like, the purpose of becoming hard, tough, and a badass is to sit there enjoying that you are a hard, tough, stoic badass. What are you going to DO with that? I mean, yeah, kind of. The purpose of things like this, imo, is
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Considering the average fitness level of an adult in Western society, it's entirely likely.
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Maybe not, but it's definitely relevant if the founder is the only employee.
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I'm not super familiar with the details of the case, but I'm familiar with Fortnite since I play it with my son. We frequently find voice chat being turned back on at startup, despite us turning it off. Maybe that's what th
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> There is no way an "image consultant" could do half the job that the specialists can do combined. In construction, you'd call that a general contractor. It's a common model. You want a single point of contact that
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> I think if you'll ask the suppressed people of Xinjiang, you'll find that they disagree. Are you suggesting that China's slaves would prefer that the global economy continuing exploiting them? > How is Apple responsib
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> I'd kind of expect most blob storage solutions to use abstractions other than just the file system, or at least consider doing so. Honestly, I'd expect the exact opposite. Filesystems are really good at storing files. Why n
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> It was addressed to programmers who anally rejected everything that was not (in their opinion) in spec. What's wrong with that? The only issue I see is the _in their opinion_ bit. If there's confusion about the spec, then i
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Hadn't seen that law before. Absolutely hate it. The harm from poor input invalidation over time is massive.
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The Greeks and Romans had varying levels of democracy and vast trade networks for hundreds (arguably thousands) of years.
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We had fossil fuels during both world wars.
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The number of people killed 'daily' is vastly less than it has been at any other point in history. Why is it more peaceful now?
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Ok, then what else explains the long peace?
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I dunno, if I was writing the Spotify recommendation engine and wanted to trick people into thinking it was good, I'd do the same thing.
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It's Twitter, though, so the 'competent workers' piece is questionable.
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Not making 500k in a job you're incompetent at != being destitute.
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Not really. It's been known for a while that the tech side of Twitter is incredibly low-performing.
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Crime has multiple causes, and multiple solutions. One proven solution is increased police presence. It isn't required, though.
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I can disagree with the editorializing while looking at the numbers.
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Private prisons had 3.9B in revenue, and private prison services had 2.9B in revenue in 2021 [1]. In contrast, this is: - Half of what the Car Wash Illuminati makes [2] - About the same as the Evil Door Handle Lobby [3] - Only 80% of the Po
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> So it is OK to inflict righteous punishment on the 5% of innocent prisoners? It's not OK, but it is inevitable. > If we built a society that treated everyone with respect, we ... Agreed. But it's irrelevant. You can buil
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> What you call "righteous punishment" is just revenge. You want revenge. It is a natural response to being wronged. But that is not justice. Says you.
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One case is the definition of 'not systemic'.
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It doesn't matter. We should take steps to prevent it, and the discussions are useful, but once someone is provably willing and capable of committing violent offenses, they have forfeited most forms of sympathy.
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UNICOR makes 61 million a year. Not exactly big business.
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Sure, let's try to reduce the crime rate. Let's also not just ignore crimes and refuse to imprison people for them.
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> Firstly, where is pulling back policing happening? Most metropolitan areas. Seattle [1][2] and Minneapolis [3] have both established public policies of not responding to, citing, or arresting for a wide range of offenses. > I don&#

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