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by baumandm 6y ago
In order to avoid the appearance of impropriety, the Office of the Pardon Attorney was created, along with a process for reviewing and vetting pardon requests. Historically it has not been quite as arbitrary or controversial as one might th
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I had the same question so I did some digging. Here's some relevant excerpts from the decision from the US Court of Appeals: > A district court may consider as part of its sentencing determination uncharged conduct proven by a prep
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by baumandm 6y ago
Not according to the US Constitution: > The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits increasing the maximum authorized sentence for an offense based on a fact not found by a jury.[1] You're arguing the judge can e
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by baumandm 6y ago
Most multiplayer video games today don't ship with splitscreen co-op, people just play with their friends remotely over the internet. I agree VR isn't great for a party game or hanging out with your friends in your living room, bu
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by baumandm 6y ago
I agree with GP as well, but I do think there are unique circumstances with GraphQL. One difference is that if the front-end makes N+1 REST calls, it's (hopefully) obvious to the front-end developer. It's also generally easy to ma
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by baumandm 6y ago
Two things: Why would Joss Whedon take his cancelled network show and pitch it to Universal as a movie, just so he could write a FU to his fans? An alternate take is that without the plot armor normally required by network shows or franchis
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by baumandm 6y ago
The article mentions developing nations; this technology is being researched to provide a solution for vaccine records in places where it's only reliable option. Issues with digitizing and/or making medical history easily accessib
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by baumandm 6y ago
Imagine you're working on a bespoke blog engine for your company, so you have a GraphQL API that lets you query for all articles or just a single article. Now the product folks want to add comments, so you add a new comments field on y
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by baumandm 6y ago
Facebook Messenger can already transfer money between people. They could just expand that into a fully featured digital wallet to compete with WeChat, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Cash App, PayPal, etc. It's actually astonishin
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Changing routines is hard. Just because people can spend time moving about outside doesn't mean they will. Just like because people can eat healthy food in appropriate amounts doesn't mean we don't have an obesity problem. F
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by baumandm 6y ago
There's a lot to respond to in your post, but let me address a single point: In-person public school education is an essential service because our society is not setup to allow every child to stay home all day with a parent or caregi
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by baumandm 6y ago
> We used to think of medication as something you took occasionally during a crisis. Now we take it as a given that a large percentage of the population will be on maintenance drugs for life. Not disputing this, and it certainly support
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by baumandm 6y ago
> Had the Democrats put up anyone who was less divisive than Hillary Clinton then we are not where we are today. Fun fact I recently learned, but a 2013 Quinnipiac University poll found Hillary Clinton to be the most popular US politicia
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by baumandm 6y ago
This is not accurate. The HEROES Act was passed by Pelosi and the House of Representatives in May, and it would have included stimulus checks. It was never brought to a vote in the Senate. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08&#
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by baumandm 6y ago
I'm not sure why you think people don't realize this. It is well-established tradition for both news organizations to call races and the apparent loser to concede, well in advance of December 14th. Biden's lead in both the el
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by baumandm 6y ago
This is accurate, but it's not just due to gerrymandering or FPTP voting. The US government was specifically designed as a representative democracy. There's no federal ballot proposition mechanism that allows the public to vote di
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by baumandm 6y ago
Actually, I believe these all have broad approval in the US, at least at a high level. When it comes to specific policies (e.g. who pays for the benefits) it becomes a bit more divided. > Fifty-six percent of Americans think providing a
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by baumandm 6y ago
I'm a bit late to this thread, but thanks for making & sharing this extension. It looks amazing!
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by baumandm 6y ago
This is likely misleading for two reasons: about half of Americans say they are trying to lose weight[1], and roughly 90% of people who lose a lot of weight eventually regain just about all of it[2]. So even if there is a mechanism that mak
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by baumandm 6y ago
You're making an argument in favor of software engineering licensing, just not that every individual involved needs to be licensed.
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by baumandm 6y ago
The issues at play here have nothing to do with how much money Epic or Apple have.
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by baumandm 6y ago
Same experience for me moving from Google Play Music to Spotify. Their UI is missing incredibly basic features, and isn't even consistent across platforms. - Want to clear everything in your queue and listen to something else? You ne
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by baumandm 6y ago
The funny thing about this comment is that if Firefox had the market share of Chrome, then it makes perfect sense. And as other comments have noted, there are several forks of Firefox, which is great. But the reality of 2020 is that Firefo
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by baumandm 6y ago
Wearing a mask is a trivial inconvenience and the least you could do to show empathy for other vulnerable people in the middle of a pandemic. There are plenty of human rights violations and government oppression around the world; face mask
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> We have endured far worse than this while we simply sat and did nothing. Perhaps this is the real issue that needs addressing?
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IMHO one of the key use cases for query builders like Knex is that you can programmatically build up a query in a very clean fashion. Otherwise you need to resort to workarounds like concatenating strings, or building the biggest possible q
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by baumandm 6y ago
That's not a very charitable view. Some people want to help solve problems that are local to them or have personally affected them. There's nothing wrong with that.
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My takeaway of the grandparent comment is that 1Password squandered much of its customer goodwill, missed the opportunity to move into the Linux market, and their current attempts to build Linux support is too little too late. If this story
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by baumandm 6y ago
I believe there was a thread here previously on this topic. It varies across jurisdictions but most police officers are paid better than other salaried workers[1], which is significantly above the minimum wage[2]. [1] https://ww
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by baumandm 6y ago
As someone recently considering Pi-Hole, can you explain why you aren't fond of dnsmasq?

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