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by bmelton 8y ago
> My comparison is simply to show the standard laissez faire talking point of "oh, regulation exists just to protect incumbent market players" as bullshit: regulations exist to protect consumers from negligence and misbehaviour
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by bmelton 8y ago
Snark aside, that doesn't dispute the thesis that regulations tend to favor incumbents. Some regulations are good. Some regulations are bad. Some regulations are smart. Some regulations are dumb. Reasonable people can disagree on the
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by bmelton 8y ago
I don't have experience with self-driving cars, Uber or Volvo safety systems, but my Jeep's backup collision prevention often slams the brakes if I'm backing up and the camera detects potholes, oil stains, or irregular painte
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by bmelton 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're intending by this comment, but Scalia's been dead now for some time, and his replacement (who is ideologically close to Scalia's) wrote the decision.
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But what if, extending your extreme hypothetical, both sides used lies and laundered foreign money?
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by bmelton 8y ago
Lazy exposition is a plague in the industry, and is pretty prevalent in basically every broadcast show. CW and Lifetime shows tend to be the most offensive here. There are a ton of shows that let you discover the show along with the charac
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by bmelton 8y ago
It's probably unfair to refer to Netflix as ad-free, but (as I mention elsewhere), from a creator perspective, I'm referring more to the 'break-free' experience than 'ad-free'. I do agree that impositions on th
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by bmelton 8y ago
Call me odd man out here, but I can't imagine wanting that. My input could probably improve a bunch of shows I consider 'bad', but if I think that, it's usually because of either lazy exposition or predictable plot lines
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I'm not talking about ads, I'm talking about interrupting the show. I don't know if the Oreos thing was a product placement (though it seems likely), but if I'm writing a script or a screenplay, I probably have fewer men
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by bmelton 8y ago
> It can play with the structure to make the shows work better for its ad-free format I think people underrate how big this is from a creator perspective. As viewers, we typically appreciate when work is uninterrupted by commercials (tho
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by bmelton 8y ago
In case you aren't already aware of it, you should try to find a copy of his first film, "Following". It's extremely low-budget, but aside from that, showcases good direction, interesting camera work, and a fantastic, N
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by bmelton 8y ago
You 'register' as one, the other, or something different (L, Green, etc.) typically at the DMV or something like it. The selection there is a radio button, not a checkbox. Of course, nothing prevents you from being a member of wha
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by bmelton 8y ago
As to the usage of the word 'webmail', I'd say it's been in techno-parlance for a long time, masquerading as recommended DNS settings. By 'long time', I mean at least since the mid-to-late 90s. I would often s
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by bmelton 9y ago
Finger's got them all beat by a few decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
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by bmelton 9y ago
I've never used that particular mushroom before, but you can use polyporous mushrooms as tinder if you find them in the wilderness. The flammability is measured by the fact that they burn very slowly, like charcoals. On the flip side,
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Many countries have "tried to stave off decline by decreeing how the economy would work." Including the US. > Truman placed the railroad under US military control in 1950 These seem like non-sequiturs to me. The economy i
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by bmelton 9y ago
Moral compass or not, that is the current state of the law. Sending an email to a second party and then expecting them not to do whatever they want with it is as naive as hanging a billboard and expecting nobody to look at it when I don&#x
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by bmelton 9y ago
Oh hi! Despite the green user, I've actually worked with these guys and seen this project up close and in person, and the amount of data they're harvesting here is pretty overwhelming. There are a few other places doing transcript
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by bmelton 9y ago
I agree with (some of) your original post in that Venezuela is an ailing nation at best, but at the same time, it shouldn't take too much imagination to see that if you can convert cheap (in Bolivars) electricity into currency that is
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by bmelton 9y ago
Whenever someone says "no one wants to take your guns away", now you can just point them at this and see whether they maintain that position: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-town-votes-to-ban-assa...
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by bmelton 9y ago
Then there may be a de facto restriction against the exercise of such a right by such a person, as one needs to have a permanent address to comply with the laws as they are currently interpreted.
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by bmelton 9y ago
To be fair, the thing that is most oft intended by the idiom is "look, if the cherished first amendment can be restricted, then so too can the second amendment". It isn't a law, and where I say "might" in my follow-
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by bmelton 9y ago
So, _Schenck_ has largely been overturned on a number of occasions, but the following (untested) likely still holds as punishable (but not forbidden against through ante-hoc regulations): * _Falsely_ shouting fire * in a crowded theater * f
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by bmelton 9y ago
Fischer v Massachussetts[1] (and other cases won by the second amendment foundation) holds that resident aliens are counted amongst "the people" for purposes of second amendment protection (and other rights too!) [1] - http:&#x2F
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by bmelton 9y ago
To be fair, militias of the day weren't generally standing militias, and needed to be mustered. We do have definitions as to what militias are informed to us by writings of the founders, the federalist papers, previous drafts of the
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by bmelton 9y ago
Broadly speaking, that's been the holding of the courts since 1939. U.S. v. Miller loosely established the test (later solidified in 2008's Heller v DC) that weapons commonly used in militia service are inherently deserving of sec
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by bmelton 9y ago
You state: > you shouldn't be able to walk around with a rocket launcher or semi-automatic weapon Generally speaking, this statement speaks to a lack of information regarding what semi-automatic is or what it means. Most firearms so
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by bmelton 9y ago
A private company can censor, and they often do. That is just not a form of censorship that the first amendment provides you any defense for.
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by bmelton 9y ago
What is the logical distinction between purchase and payment? How does one know the differences when the transactions are anonymous?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Like a lot of tech folks, I've only interacted with Solomon on the internet, but in probably every interaction, I've come away from it feeling smarter, or more capable, going all the way back to the very early days of Dotcloud. I

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