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by baddox 6y ago
The “no high stakes” part is what’s the most interesting to me, but unfortunately in US national politics I think it tends to not be true. For a single bar, sure, but for massive corporations and industries there is far too much intermingli
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by baddox 6y ago
Who says systems of anarchy wouldn’t also force certain people to do certain things?
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Then you have an endless circle of force, which doesn’t really explain why governments can work but other systems couldn’t work. Because of course other systems would also contain circles of force.
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by baddox 6y ago
How are the human beings in government able to behave in a reasonable fashion without being forced to?
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Challenging the FBI in court is not in violation of US laws.
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by baddox 6y ago
Modern cosmology by definition doesn’t make different predictions than saying “cosmological models mention things like stars and galaxies, and those models fit our observations, but those stars and galaxies aren’t technically real.”
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by baddox 6y ago
The mathematical construct was developed/discovered to explain observations. Normally when we do that we consider the mathematical explanation to be “real” in that it is describing reality.
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by baddox 6y ago
Heck, I've torrented movies and TV shows that are on streaming services I'm currently paying for. The main reason I do that is to get subtitles which aren't on the streaming services. Did you know that HBO, at least in the US
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s not particularly shocking that the nominal winner of an election would not contest the nominal results of that election. To expect a party to do that out of principle would be ludicrously naive.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why is the assumption that the Secret Service would escort the President from the White House? The Secret Service is squarely under the control of the executive branch (formerly the Department of the Treasury, now the Department of Homeland
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by baddox 6y ago
It's lots of people's names, of course. I don't agree that domains should be redistributed based continuously purely on "what's the biggest company with this name," but I also don't like how much momentum
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by baddox 6y ago
A create-react-app hackathon project is absolutely a valid instance of "putting up websites for fun."
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by baddox 6y ago
> If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding, you hurt people more than help. Absolutely. We should have understanding and we ban shit that is harmful.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't know, I bet plenty of people are feeling lonely when they go out for some entertainment and that entertainment makes them feel less lonely. I don't see why that's such a bad thing. I recently supported the new Patreon
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by baddox 6y ago
That's still not what the commenter is talking about. The problem on Amazon is that you can buy a product that is listed as "CompanyX microSD Memory Card" and you will receive something that was not actually manufactured by C
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by baddox 6y ago
On my iPhone I think Apple Maps has a vastly better navigation UI. Part of that is its first-party ability to turn the phone screen on when issuing instructions for upcoming maneuvers, which I much prefer to having the screen on constantly
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by baddox 6y ago
That's where I am too. I actually mostly agree (at least in principle) with a lot of the arguments about Apple's anticompetitive behavior and hostility towards their app developers, but I can't help but think that if app deve
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by baddox 6y ago
Which customers do you think Apple cares more about, app developers or their actual iPhone customers?
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by baddox 6y ago
You’re free to send emails or text messages from the backend of your web app. This is hardly a great example of “Apple crippling their web browser.” Personally I don’t want your advertisements pushed to me. Even the notifications permission
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by baddox 6y ago
What changed though? Before iOS and iPhones existed, you also couldn’t sideload on iOS, but no one was complaining. Apple created a new product essentially from scratch, and it has some limitations to how software can be distributed to it.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why would you build an iOS app with the intention of selling it somewhere other than the iOS App Store? It’s not like Apple is blindsiding any developers with the revelation that the App Store is the only way to distribute software on non-j
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by baddox 6y ago
If you define “what your software is” so precisely that it must be running on iOS to count as your software, then sure, by definition your software can’t exist on Google Play. But that’s just as ludicrous as manufacturing shirts and definin
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by baddox 6y ago
> It's value that they created only by preventing business from servicing themselves. Well, and building a product and ecosystem nearly from scratch that arguably started an industry that’s now around half a trillion dollars a year.
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by baddox 6y ago
You’re asking why you should care about opinions that are different than your opinions?
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by baddox 6y ago
Is it possible that such a system would be more tenable now with cheaper and more ubiquitous devices that can measure or calculate local solar time?
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by baddox 6y ago
They’re not raising any prices on services that I’m aware of. Haven’t these policies and fees been in place for a long time?
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by baddox 6y ago
That's not the question. The question is whether there should be any laws against murder, given that people disagree on precisely what constitutes murder.
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by baddox 6y ago
> Suffice it to say I do not watch the news, I very rarely visit Twitter and do not follow anyone, and that is the only way I have ever seen that expression used - in the news, on Medium, on FB, on anywhere, when I've come across it
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by baddox 6y ago
That example is a crowd intimidating people with the intent to compel speech, of course, and they’re using the slogan “silence is violence.” But those are two different things. You could pick any slogan you want and have a mob recite it whi
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by baddox 6y ago
Why is that not perfectly analogous? The law can describe what is and isn’t hate speech, and courts and juries can decide individual cases when necessary. This is the same for all criminal laws. The fact that not all people will agree what

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