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by bfdm 3y ago
It doesn't need to be "efficient" in terms of cost, that doesn't really matter. What matters much more is whether it is seen and being effective and fair in collection of taxes & enforcement of violators.
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by bfdm 3y ago
Had this exact same experience. Picked the Simpsons just to try it out and in the first pair up was S1 stuff vs some episode from S18 I've never seen. So I picked The S1 episode. Then it was another S1 episode. Repeat. Then an S2 episo
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by bfdm 3y ago
"you open Confluence and desperately read through six possibly relevant pages" Too real. What's left out is the detail that all contain stale references and are last updated by Unknown User no longer at the company.
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by bfdm 3y ago
I suggest playing, you'll quickly see it's about strategy of taking and locking squares. Walls can't be taken back and cut off chains to other walls. Never played before buts it's interesting.
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by bfdm 3y ago
I only know it as the thing that broke all my screen capture tools because none of them had implemented the necessary changes the last time I tried, admittedly small N years ago.
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by bfdm 3y ago
We really ought to just nullify DMCA 1201 entirely, but at an absolute minimum it must not apply to otherwise lawful pruposes. This can be packaged with right-to-repair alongside explicit allowance for interop.
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by bfdm 3y ago
Yea that tripped me up reading too. Something felt like it didn't add up.
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by bfdm 3y ago
Interesting! But also really speaks to the need for a browser setting for very coarse location without requiring user entry. Eg, I always block location API access, and sites often have poor fallback UI for entry. If it'd let me, I&#x2
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by bfdm 3y ago
Who said any of that? I mean our elected government (US and Canada alike) is evidently unwilling to enact & enforce toothsome antitrust. And that's a source of a huge portion of our bigger problems. Outsized influence by a small nu
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by bfdm 3y ago
I don't particularly care what the current case law says, antitrust has been eroded for four decades to the point of being a joke. We need to overhaul this around the world and tame megacorps everywhere. The behavior is plainly monopol
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by bfdm 3y ago
Of course it's monopolistic. What standard are you comparing to? You don't need to have 100% of the market to exert monopoly control. Non-monopoly behavior would be users and developers having the choice to offer & install iO
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by bfdm 3y ago
I have been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it's great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise. I'm in the market for a similar device to replace m
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by bfdm 3y ago
Don't. Just dump all reviews upon any product change (at least by default). Everything goes into a secondary bucket of "Old reviews for a previous version of this product." With a clear notice that "product features or e
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by bfdm 3y ago
And what about all the "free money" being granted to those already holding a high balance? "Basic income for those with the most savings" has been one of my favourite framinga for interest rates.
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by bfdm 3y ago
Yep. When congress (or any government) passes bills with spending implications, following through with the associated payments should be automatic/mechanical, not relitigation of the issue. To pretend the central bank/treasury is
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by bfdm 4y ago
There are many more economists building on MMT than just them, at many institutions globally. Describing the job guarantee/transition job as equivalent to "workfare" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the JG. Two ways
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by bfdm 4y ago
Warren* Mosler, one of yhe founders of Modern Monetary Theory. Lead author was Phil Armstrong, and he did a great discussiom of the paper on the MMT podcast.
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by bfdm 4y ago
I mainly meant to say that there's way more going on than what's described.
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by bfdm 4y ago
You could also argue that the "red" categories align more closely with "needs" people have little to no choice but to pay, and are ripe for predatory pricing. It's true there are monopoly problems here, but the answ
80.
by bfdm 4y ago
Have you considered that your mother just uses this as an excuse to talk to you on a regular basis?
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by bfdm 4y ago
That can be solved by setting the payment terms to match some minimum % of total compensation of some period before the paid leave. eg, you get full benefits plus no less than 80% of all compensation of the previous 12mo. Non-cash compensat
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by bfdm 4y ago
They are free to cease offering unpaid accounts if they wish.
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by bfdm 4y ago
Why shouldn't I be able to uae the software of my choosing? If i habe an account and have properly authenticated, the client I use is my choice. You can't reasonably make the "go elsewhere" argument with the monopoly hol
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by bfdm 4y ago
This is really not the gotcha you seem to think it is. One is unlikely to learn how difficult repairs on a given device are until deep into the ownership cycle and well past any return window.
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by bfdm 4y ago
Well a start would be educating riders on how to safely park the damned thing when their trip is done, instead of literally dumping it on a sidewalk/pathway, and collect fines for bad stewardship. You could have motion/orientation
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by bfdm 4y ago
This is hugely subjective. Today's was instantly recognizable for me allowing me to guess with just the 1s clip. Other days I am familiar with the song but not the opening so I would never be able to guess. Most days are fun to guess,
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by bfdm 4y ago
What? That is just clearly untrue, even though I agree it ought to be the law. DMCA 1201 made no exemptions to circumvention of technical protection measures (for research, interoperability, fair use etc). Assuming any kind of security me
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by bfdm 4y ago
But this doesn't make any sense, that's exactly the problem. If you wanted a particular configuration they should direct the plant to assemble that configuration just as soon as they've finished assembling any special configu
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by bfdm 4y ago
This is what I don't understand, though. If you only want to meet the requirements with low quality PRs, you've always been able to achieve that with your own public repository. I've mostly used Hacktoberfest as an annual o
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by bfdm 4y ago
Yes, I think that's the point.

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