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by bdowling 2y ago
Science does change based on ideological beliefs. See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
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by bdowling 2y ago
Being able to selectively mute people was an element in a couple of Black Mirror episodes.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Kill La Kill is also fantastic as a gateway to the classic anime and TV that it references. See, e.g., https://marshmallowgoop.tumblr.com/catalog-project-part-i
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by bdowling 2y ago
Welcome to the NHK - A black comedy about hikikomori , the anime industry, cult religions, conspiracy theories, pyramid schemes, suicide, and other topics. Not cheerful topics, but it is funny and has a lot to say.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Zip file support has been in Windows since 98 (via the Plus pack) or Me (2000). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)
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by bdowling 2y ago
Recasting a voice actor when there was a contract with the prior actor (and such a contract would typically allow for recasting) is one thing. Copying a famous actor’s voice without any kind of agreement at all is something else.
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by bdowling 2y ago
This is fun and all, but if you lose your connection, your windows will go away and your program will usually exit. It’s almost always more usable to run a desktop session in Xvnc on the server and connect to it with a VNC client, because i
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by bdowling 2y ago
You think only inexperienced developers have stopped reading books?
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by bdowling 2y ago
So, inverting is just swapping the left and right pointers for the entire tree? Why would you ever do that? That will flip the ordering of the tree and none of your search or balancing functions will work anymore. Shut up! Don't ask q
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by bdowling 2y ago
> If the invention takes 3 weeks and $0… …then the patent can be invalidated on the basis that it is obvious. If the invention is commercially valuable, then invalidating it (or just pretending it doesn’t exist until you get sued, then i
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by bdowling 2y ago
Is there a video that goes with those slides?
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by bdowling 2y ago
Don’t forget that the lawyers probably took 33-40%, after costs.
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by bdowling 2y ago
We can't truly exalt our enlightened present and future without denigrating the past.
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by bdowling 2y ago
> many/most states have laws that the seller/buyer must disclose, not the price the house is sold for, but how much of a loan was issued for the house. As far as I know, this is usually not true. Neither the buyer nor seller m
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by bdowling 2y ago
Nerd sniping? Not this time, buddy. https://xkcd.com/356/ Edit: You got nine of us with one comment. You win.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Is there a term for nostalgia for a time and place that one never experienced? Triggered by music or movies or reading about history, some people experience a kind of nostalgia for life in times they never lived and places they've neve
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by bdowling 2y ago
There is certainly a possibility of civil liability for breach of contract or copyright infringement for violating a EULA. In some cases, a person could even face criminal liability (e.g., hacking game servers using a modified client could
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by bdowling 2y ago
> Also less than a year ago age of consent in Japan was 13 years, talk about priorities. If you read past the clickbait title, however, you’ll find that the individual prefectures have had stricter age of consent laws for many years. ht
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by bdowling 2y ago
The analysis I read listed various reasons why existing manufacturers wouldn’t adopt the technology (sorry, I can’t find the link). Increased cost per saw was one, but adopting the technology would also create two product lines: “safe” saws
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by bdowling 2y ago
This is a bizarre take because if not for SawStop, many, many more people would have lost blood, appendages, and lives to conventional table saws. In fact, SawStop the company only exists because 20 years ago every table saw manufacturer re
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by bdowling 2y ago
You seem to think this situation is very different from what publishers have done for at least hundreds of years. For at least hundreds of years, publishers have published many, many books each year, only a few of which become bestsellers.
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by bdowling 2y ago
> And you need to repost it somewhere. Exactly, you can repost them elsewhere. That is the opposite of “you can’t take them anywhere else.”
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by bdowling 2y ago
> cannot leave by taking what you already contributed. Of course you can. Twitter/X doesn’t own your tweets. You can take them and post them somewhere else if you want. This is all clearly stated in the Twitter/X terms of servi
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by bdowling 3y ago
It might come from: “To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;” U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 8. If a mortgage is a security in this context. But I don’t know for sure. Usually the answ
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by bdowling 3y ago
It wasn’t just any bank, it was a bank insured by the U.S. government . The U.S. government does not take being lied to lightly. By the way, anyone who has applied for a mortgage in the U.S. has seen many, many warnings about how lying on
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by bdowling 3y ago
Often no member of the public does business with these corporations. E.g., a corporation set up by a celebrity to own a private home and keep her address out of public databases.
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by bdowling 3y ago
For all we know there is a whole cyber-squadron (or whatever their military units are called) behind Jia Tan and other accounts.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Yes, they would charge for headphones to watch the movie. The movie (there was only one, or maybe two on a long international flight) was played on CRT monitors mounted on the ceiling of each cabin section. That was 20+ years ago, before
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by bdowling 3y ago
I really like this idea, but what you’re describing sounds more like “Software Engineer, Testing Department” than QA. In my experience, QA functions more like an extension of automated unit tests for the things an engineer hasn’t gotten aro
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by bdowling 3y ago
> What do you do in a situation like this? If you are one of the attorneys in that case, then you are found guilty of fraud and extortion, are sent to jail, are disbarred from the practice of law, and are forced to repay all of your proc

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