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by amalcon 2y ago
I've found exactly three places where I really want to have a mock available: 1) Databases and other persistent storage. Though in this case, the best mock for a database is generally another (smaller, easily snapshottable) database,
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by amalcon 2y ago
There are, roughly, four kinds of physical security one can have in a datacenter: 1) Nothing 2) Visitor logs 3) Locks and alarms on your racks, and/or (if you have enough) the rooms they are in. Remote monitoring is pretty common. 4)
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by amalcon 2y ago
It's hard because the parents object. They want to be able to directly reach their children in the event of an emergency.
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by amalcon 2y ago
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted. I understand why, obviously, but this is going to get acrimonious
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by amalcon 2y ago
If you're going to go to the "legal therefore moral" argument, you could've just started there. There are people who contend that the way some prisons are operated is actually illegal, but I haven't seen any of t
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by amalcon 2y ago
If you're going to contend that solitary confinement is "denial of privileges" rather than a punishment designed to compel labor, then we just aren't going to agree and I don't see much point continuing. "Do t
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by amalcon 2y ago
I mean, I could do that. Or I could just spend 30 seconds googling and let the ACLU do it for me: https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/2022-06... "More than 76 percent of incarcerated
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by amalcon 2y ago
The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution seems to facially disagree with you. It specifically permits criminal punishment as an exception to its ban on "slavery [or] involuntary servitude".
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by amalcon 2y ago
If you go to their source, you also see that there are only 3 data points in the first 75% of the graph. This makes sense, since obviously global GDP can only be very roughly estimated in e.g. 1000AD. It kind of raises the question of whet
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by amalcon 2y ago
A class 3 ebike (the kind legal on most streets but illegal on most rec paths due to their speed) has a top speed of 28mph, so I would say so. Barring a steep decline of course.
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by amalcon 2y ago
Looks like there is a "some" option. For some reason the author quotes one number from one year, a second from the other, and ignores the third option in both. Ignore "not sure" respondents in polls at your own peril.
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by amalcon 2y ago
That has literally happened in the United States before.
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by amalcon 2y ago
SCOTUS didn't need to make a special POTUS-only right to keep that "evidence" out. That would be covered by attorney/client privilege, a right that is available to everyone in the American courts.
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by amalcon 2y ago
They were widely understood to not have that immunity prior to either today or 2020, depending on how you track it. Somehow, that didn't happen.
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by amalcon 2y ago
This is a common class of problem with this kind of system. The state level public defender offices are mandated to exist since Gideon v. Wainwright , but the courts aren't really in a position to dictate budgeting. Legislatures cou
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by amalcon 2y ago
That assigned probability is a function of trust in the speaker, prior plausibility, other available information, and the consequences of being wrong in either direction. You can't avoid the trust question by talking about probability
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by amalcon 2y ago
It's the website for reason magazine, a relatively famous right-libertarian publication. They expect their audience to already believe certain things, which is a pretty good bet for a political magazine with an acknowledged angle. It
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by amalcon 2y ago
You also have the right to litigate under common law, which does have a lot to do with the first amendment. Though granted, you are individually unlikely to prevail in that way. Like said, it depends on the particulars and the judge.
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by amalcon 2y ago
I'm not sure where this idea comes from. That clause is treated as the source of the right to access the civil litigation system; this is what "petitioning the government for redress of grievances" means. The right to sue t
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by amalcon 2y ago
Possibly the first amendment, "petition the government for redress of grievances". Privacy violation is not an explicitly enumerated grievance, but neither are most causes for civil litigation. Also possibly not; it depends on th
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by amalcon 2y ago
That fewer patents are filed is not an absence of evidence. It's evidence that fewer patents are being filed. If one believes patent filings are correlated with innovation (which is debatable either way), then it is (non-probative
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by amalcon 2y ago
My sense (somewhat out of date) is that most flying car people consider VTOL and hovering to be fundamental requirements of the format. Helicopters (and other aircraft capable of VTOL and hovering) substantially mitigate both of these issu
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by amalcon 2y ago
In the same place where a car would be parked. Parking and traffic are both problems with cars, but they are not the same problem with cars. You can mitigate one without mitigating the other.
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by amalcon 2y ago
They would reduce traffic the same way subways do that: by getting people who might otherwise travel by personal auto off of the street entirely, and into another channel with a separate (though still finite) capacity. There are reasons th
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by amalcon 3y ago
Frankly, the biggest problem is that this makes it impractical to test the brake. How do I know the brake even works, if testing it is not practical?
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by amalcon 3y ago
This is tricky, though, because that LLM was likely also fed code with a license incompatible with the AGPL. So in theory, that code (whether source or compiled) may not be distributed under any license at all. Being hard to solve doesn&#x
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by amalcon 3y ago
I'm guessing you're a fellow American? Or talk to a lot of Americans online? Here, for some reason, left-libertarians barely seem to exist compared to right-libertarians. They aren't that uncommon elsewhere, though. The d
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by amalcon 3y ago
It's kind of like a more cerebral party game. The object of the game is not to win; the object of the game is to use it as a framework for a social interaction. The closest analogue is probably something like Apples to Apples, but wit
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by amalcon 3y ago
I'm pretty sure most of society does not care, and would not find either terminology noteworthy if it weren't part of a prefix-apology.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Destroying money is isomorphic to giving that money to the level of government controlling the central bank (with some extra busy-work). The central bank obviously has the option of simply creating an equal amount of money, and may in some

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