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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> I know superficially why you think that: PDF are Good Guys killing Bad Guys, and ISIS are Bad Guys killing Good Guys. Like I said, I feel no obligation to explain myself to someone who frames their questions in such an obviously bad fa
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
No, I actually do consider ISIS and the PDF to be distinct, in both goals and methods. If you cannot figure out why, then I have no desire to explain it to you.
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
It's worth reading one of the many[0] UN reports that cover the Myanmar Military Junta's varied crimes, from indiscriminate airstrikes on civilians to mass rape to literal genocide. Opposition to this sort of thing does not entail
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
I highly recommend you read Kavanugh's opinion; he rather elegantly lays out how it was in fact the majority that was warping the definitions laid out in the statute and departing from the text. Someone else already posted a small exce
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
The decision to reverse the 9th circuit was unanimous, but the decision to redefine 'adjacent wetlands' and restrict the EPA's authority was 5-4, with Kavanaugh rather enthusiastically joining the liberals in opposition.
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team Weird choice to
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor. Seems like in this case most of the mortality was due to young men who had no choice but to work in those conditions. This event, among ma
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
It looks like[0] as of the start of this year, only works made in 1927 or earlier are in the public domain. Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now. [0] https://copyrightlately.c
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> The royalty is being paid in the OS licence attached to the viewer's computer, basically. So who is paying for Linux? Or is Linux using open source alternatives to these fonts?
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
If the sole purpose of the Fed is to facilitate easy monetary policy for banks then it sure is odd they're continuing to hike interest rates even though most banks are massively underwater on their bond portfolios (some to catastrophic
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
As an example[0]: > HB 637, "Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors," bans most direct-to-consumer vehicle sales if the automaker has ever sold any model through a franchise in Florida before (i.e. ev
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Do they design/manufacture these themselves, or are they rebadged from an ODM? And if if it's the latter, which ODM are they using?
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> “They told the police that I was a home invader and that it was their home. And so I ended up being arrested and detained,” Arko said. The arrest itself was because police believed the squatters at first. The homeowner never actually d
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
This[0] is Wikispooks' page on the Holocaust. Wikispooks is one of this guy's 7 listed sources. However much I may distrust 'mainstream news', I automatically trust the whole lot of them more than I trust Holocaust denie
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Per his website > We did the research for you and compiled a database Given that I am relying on this person and his editorial decisions, this sort of thing is very relevant to me. It might affect what data he chooses to include or exclu
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
The UN and the ICC are two different organizations (maybe you're thinking of the ICJ?), and the US isn't party to the Rome Statute either. That said, yes this law is dumb.
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Presumably the Foundation sees a future (which is pretty close at hand, if the Foundation is to be believed) where there is no longer a shortage, at which point they would like to continue having industrial customers (which you won't h
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
The Foundation's charitable activities involve funding educational programs for children.[0] Those educational programs are funded via the profits made from selling Raspberry Pis[1], so their charitable goals are aided by selling as ma
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> treat a Chromebook as a regular laptop, install any Linux distro you wish to Apparently this is via a VM, with limitations (no hardware acceleration, for example); presumably the original commenter wants to be able to run Linux binarie
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
I don't think the person you replied to was asking for it to be enabled out of the box. Them talking about using a Chromebook as a dev machine makes me think they'd be okay with having to enable developer mode to run Linux binarie
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> No, a large loss to the people who paid taxes. It's both, not either/or. > Meaning that such an outcome would be terrible. Less terrible than a total write-down.
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
You can already sideload APKs on Chromebooks with developer mode enabled, so I don't see why they couldn't allow the same thing with Linux binaries.
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> A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an "amnesty window" in which they could give up grants without penalty. This would still pro
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Try the sources column in this[0] table. You can expand the notes for each entry to read more. There's also this one[1] that's on the front page right now, though its provenance is questionable. [0] https://forums.spaceb
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> That means a user would have to fill in that form for every single remote instance they visit It looks like you're correct; I went looking and found that https://universeodon.com had the new feature as well, and I had
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Presumably the end goal would be to have BBC personalities with accounts on the BBC server, so at that point the Mastodon microblogging will make sense. This seems like a bit of a trial balloon that will hopefully lead to more.
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They have very recently uploaded this flow a bit. Most servers don't seem to have it yet, but mastodon.social does. Now, the first time you try to follow or do something when your account is somewhere else, it asks you to type in your
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Apparently the proposal is working its way through the W3C, so they'll have to take official and public positions on it eventually.
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
I know about the Safari captcha system (the only one of those that's truly analogous to WEI). Nobody cared about it because Safari's market share is very small. I would care if those companies jumped on the Google proposal because
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> Safari is not only leading browser in mobile No it's not? Android has upwards of 70% of the mobile market[0], and Chrome has nearly 65% of the mobile browser market, compared to Safari with under 25%.[1] > the only choice any i

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