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by cabaalis 4y ago
It seems a benchmark of a transformative technology is whether or not people attempt to use the legal system to stop it.
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by cabaalis 4y ago
From https://reason.com/2022/09/28/a-parodist-asks-scotus-to-let-... : > Eleven Facebook users called the police department's nonemergency line about Novak's spoof, which was the basis for the cl
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by cabaalis 4y ago
Chesterton's fence seems to apply here.
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by cabaalis 4y ago
> Star Citizen gathers its funding from players by selling in-game space ships. How is this called "funding" and not just "sales" or "dlc?"
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by cabaalis 4y ago
Naming who appointed judges when writing articles about their decisions is a dog whistle. Change my mind.
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by cabaalis 4y ago
I was in Costa Rica recently and a tour guide pulled a fruit about the size of my fist from a tree. He quizzed us on what the top of the fruit was. We could not identify it. We ended up feeding it to a cow. It was a single cashew. That expe
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by cabaalis 4y ago
Read this policy as "we prohibit others from doing what we ultimately will be doing, so we can prevent anyone else from taking the lead."
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by cabaalis 5y ago
This just means there is a stabilizing force trying to maintain peace and status quo while figures on either sides of issues sway the long game.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
Either people have and live by principles or they don't. Part of our division is these sides you speak of, instructing their followers what to believe about individual topics.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
I'm hoping to one day be "Windows adds user root folder to the quick links in explorer by default" years old.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
If you like this you may enjoy the YouTube channel "Tasting History" https://youtube.com/c/TastingHistory
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by cabaalis 5y ago
This is a lot of effort to express opposition to repealing section 230. Their timeline starts with that event.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
I've only seen Veretasium YouTube video on this a few days ago, and I'm not a mathematician. Is the joke that LLVM has solved the mystery by optimizing out what it decided is an infinite loop?
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by cabaalis 5y ago
Even if one agrees these are good things and needed, why does our congress not pass these laws individually so they can be voted and understood for their own worth?
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by cabaalis 5y ago
Here's an article from the NYT about how they are trying to ethically sell Hunter Biden's artwork. "Ethically sell" was a term I chose specifically because Hunter Biden is not an artist, and the question of why his paint
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by cabaalis 5y ago
I agree with you, but I'm pretty sure the age of social media has us in the minority.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
It appears this analysis is limited to freshwater species. I wish that werent the case. It would be nice to be able to share the "higher rate than the extinction of the dinosaurs event" statement without that big old "but&quo
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by cabaalis 5y ago
> Requiring the publication of arrests makes it harder for the police to disappear people. I see this so much in our society. A reaction to a "bad" practice which was actually invented to combat another "bad" practice
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by cabaalis 5y ago
> Viewing of the video and the conversations about it took place as Garner was 10 feet away in a cell, according to Schielke. [0] It's inhumane behavior, like one would see Roman soldiers in a movie or soldiers in game of thrones. [
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by cabaalis 5y ago
If you can pay someone to do something, that thing you are paying for is a problem which has already been solved by someone, therefore not a problem.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
How was this allowed to go for 20 years without her knowing or facing the charges? What options does she have? Hasnt she been deprived of a right to speedy trial, leaving a lifetime of troubles for lost wages?
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by cabaalis 5y ago
Happens all the time. They even used to publish lists of unclaimed funds in the paper. It's occurred to me twice in my lifetime.
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by cabaalis 5y ago
Can you describe the meaning of passwordless multi factor? What replaces the "something you know" in this case?
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by cabaalis 6y ago
> 1. It is our wish that those of our estates which we have established to minister to our needs shall serve our purposes entirely and not those of other men. It seems like anti-moonlighting clauses are as old as time.
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by cabaalis 6y ago
An example of how the educators drive the narrative for the future.
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by cabaalis 6y ago
Pretty sure a hacker would be perpetrating an actual, punishable-by-trial crime in forging those legal documents. That's generally the first regulation that the US imposes. A disinclination to regulate anything is a good idea in a soci
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by cabaalis 6y ago
> but I thought we were against for-profit education? So it just .. shouldn't be allowed? Free markets allow you to set your price for your abilities and have agency over your future. If I want to charge people something to teach th
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by cabaalis 6y ago
Roblox piggy has that title.
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by cabaalis 6y ago
> I fundamentally don't understand why the Times didn't explain this early on. Sure you do! Context is not important in our age. Reaction is what matters. Let's hope we don't live to see the day when pre-action is wha
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by cabaalis 6y ago
FTA: > The night the program aired, the C.E. Hooper ratings service telephoned 5,000 households for its national ratings survey. From [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._Hooper ]: > Compared to the earlier Crossl

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