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by bratbag 4y ago
One of those failing institutions is the one that should be keeping weapons of easy mass-murder out of their hands.
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by bratbag 4y ago
The UK used to have a lot of weapons. Then we started controlling them and they slowly went out of circulation. Gun control will not stop all gun crime tomorrow, but 10-15 years from now mass shootings will be far rarer than today.
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by bratbag 4y ago
It's possible to become more than just an opinion. We already have legal rulings to this effect with banning an AI as the inventor in a patent https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communicat... .
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by bratbag 4y ago
I have worked on similar projects in finance, where various regulatory requirements prevent using adhoc internal tools. It's either use an application provided by an authorised third party (who take a cut of every transaction) or becom
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by bratbag 5y ago
It's easier for non-techs to pick up. Confluence is often where the long-term docs for product/design oriented team members end up living, or at least being linked. The easy two-way connection between Jira and confluence uses synt
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by bratbag 5y ago
My current environment is my laptop, which I would also need to access codespaces. So by extension, codespaces is more risky than my current environment.
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by bratbag 6y ago
I disagree. The police should not be asking for blanket surveillance in the first place. It should be on a per-crime basis, with specifics.
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by bratbag 6y ago
I think its a poor turn of phrase. Given the context, I would replace delaying with slowing. We all improve faster with effective feedback loops.
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by bratbag 6y ago
My kid wants to go back to school. He tells me most weeks that he misses it. He is currently doing all the work he would be doing but on our kitchen counter with his mother or I. He gets all the hard bits of school without the fun bits. Per
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by bratbag 6y ago
The work-life balance of software engineers in North America is terrible compared to that in the UK. 40 hours is the normal maximum here. Weekends are clear. At least 4 weeks paid holiday that you must take (I get 6). I've only just re
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by bratbag 7y ago
This just reads like incentive to work longer hours for fewer days.
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by bratbag 7y ago
Does costco have a web platform for selling goods? Does it exceed the revenue limit? Does it sell own brand goods through its web platform? Yes to all three, so it would be caught by this law as it is stated here.
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by bratbag 7y ago
Awesome!
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by bratbag 7y ago
Given that we carry the genetic legacy of all these Hominin species, are we still homo-sapiens? Should modern humans be classified as something else, distinct from the original pre-interbreeding homo-sapiens? If so, given how randy we have
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by bratbag 7y ago
If I understand this article correctly, what you and I consider to be the 'Big Bang' is itself an event filtered through the lens of our consciousness. The big bang, the time that has passed since them, even the concept of time, a
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by bratbag 7y ago
I doubt sapient extraterrestrial life is going to bother with the hassle of shipping resources up from a gravity well, when those same resources are already abundantly accessible everywhere else.