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by cbsmith 2y ago
It's not all semantics. You are providing an entirely different justification for why someone shouldn't get two days in jail for smoking weed.
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You either have too positive of a perspective on gangsters, or too negative of a perspective on business.
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Definitely.
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That almost sounds like what commutation is for. It's certainly not what pardons are for.
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> The Biden DOJs bungling of the insurrection, turning a jail into a martyrs club, slow rolling prosecutions, etc is ultimately worse than the insurrection for democracy. I'd argue promoting that narrative was ultimately worse than
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It had a lot to do with the fact that they already had him for more than long enough on other charges, such that it would have been a waste of time.
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> Don't online drug marketplaces lead to reduced gang activity? Online isn't the important factor here. > One does not need a gang and violence to sell drugs online. Gangs and violence aren't there to support a marketpl
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by cbsmith 2y ago
s/businessman/gangster/ Principles are much more important to a businessman than a gangster.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Smart people can differentiate between a transparent marketplace which provides a net economic benefit to society from an obfuscated one which by design enables illicit activity.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
On the same principle, noting that someone who punched someone got one day in jail is not a good justification for why someone shouldn't get two days in jail for smoking weed.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> and it's yet to collapse This will age well.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It's a common misconception of youth to think nobody cares. For the most part, people care, a lot, to the point that they get exhausted. The challenge is prioritizing what to care about, which means as much about not caring as it doe
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I hear everything you are saying, but... Now imagine that all that is true, except it's your home.
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I have a strong suspicion that recent pivots are intended to drive attrition, and this just confirms my thinking.
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I think it very much depends. When BLM happened, I had the opportunity to sit in on a number of discussions with executives from a variety of companies about diversity programs, and the things I heard... "I thought after Obama was elec
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> It seems to me you're doing at least 1 thing here, and acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place. It only seems that way because it absolutely is an acknowledgement that the DEI program was performati
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I've run into tons of optimizer bugs. While it's possible they would require the exact hardware to reproduce them, that has never been the case. Generally you just need something to run the actual output of the optimizer. You can
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I'm guessing then you've never had to deal with optimizer bugs.
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It's like an unholy mix of The Guild, Critical Role, and Leeroy Jenkins.
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> In the 1980s everything was written in assembly and you depending on the clock speed. However these days embedded should have learned that the CPU you write for will go out of production and so you should write portable code except for
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> That's a generic problem with corporatism and monopoly, not "tech". There is a general problem with corporatism and monopoly, but there are also specific problems with "tech". Oil & gas monopolies don'
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Making medical insurance premiums fully tax-deductible would fix that. ...or alternatively, removing deductions for medical insurance.
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I was alive in the 1970's and I can tell you that aside from a Time magazine article, Global cooling was not a broadly feared effect.
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> Blaming Kennedy is a take I hadn't heard before. It was a broadly established take, and the reason why there's a superstition about sitting Presidents having opponents in primaries.
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That's okay. You can just use a bunch of LLMs to filter through to the few resumes you would have gotten before people used LLMs to find jobs... ;-)
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> The etymology is not green/yellow/red. It's just not-Yellow or yes-Yellow. See Stephen Levy's In The Plex (2011) pg186: Yes, I know. I was making a rhetorical point using a metaphor.
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That seems about right. That's actually helpful. When you have a management failure, trying to solving it by "getting better at management" isn't really a solution.
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It's not called a Code Red. Not all catastrophes are immediate in nature. Most organizations have incident response protocol which works well enough for an immediate catastrophe. Non-immediate, gradual threats can represent a much grea
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> Left unsaid is that many human traders are subjected to similar Pavlovian "training" -- and are treated with about as much kindness and dignity as those rats. I think it's pretty clear from subtext that that is the core
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The JDK doesn't include all the J2EE goodness: https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/json/package-summ...

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