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by chc 9y ago
That's why I never use the "yell fire" example. I always use the example of ordering a hit on somebody. Technically all you did was speak, but that speech has big consequences beyond simple conversation. It would be ludicrous
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by chc 9y ago
Are you referring to the tweet where he said that threatening to literally defecate on his computer wasn't a reasonable or proportionate response? Was that the "snark and condescension," or did I miss another one where he was
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by chc 9y ago
They contrasted two products, Hershey chocolate and Lindt chocolate, and said Lindt chocolate was worse because it contains isoflavones, when in fact both do. I'm not saying anyone's a hypocrite — I'm pointing out that the co
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by chc 9y ago
Not helping them better themselves is also a real risk. "Criminal activity" is generally not an attribute of a person — it's something they engage in. Giving them a better direction for their life reduces the risk of future c
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by chc 9y ago
Hershey's chocolate contains milk, which comes from a pregnant cow, which produces actual estrogen in massive quantities. It also contains isoflavones (aka phytoestrogens) from the cacao. If you're eating dairy and chocolate whi
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by chc 9y ago
So if you start a private (in the sense of "privately run," not "secret") discussion forum and it gets to some level of size, suddenly your discussion forum can't moderate itself? Doesn't that seem a bit strang
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by chc 9y ago
Would you read an emphasis on gender if it had said "Man Banned from US" rather than "Woman"? I think this might simply be a case of the mind erroneously assuming male is the default gender.
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by chc 9y ago
This seems roughly cognate to "There are people who want to do their jobs, and there are people who want to poke the people in Group A with sticks. Should an employer constrain Group B from poking the people in Group A altogether just
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by chc 9y ago
Whereas Rust makes you write complex code because they put a lot of work into making a sophisticated compiler. It's a strange case of convergent evolution.
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by chc 9y ago
Based on this article, it sounds like they're taking every opportunity they can get to fight this law (I'm assuming to establish the case law they want) rather than specifically choosing Milo.
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by chc 9y ago
"Go start your own business if you disagree" seems like a middlebrow dismissal unless you're actually offering to fund the endeavor.
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by chc 9y ago
Apple are super slipshod about their documentation in general. Hardly a day goes by that I don't get a Stack Overflow comment telling me that some link to Apple's docs is broken.
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by chc 9y ago
I feel like you're grouping dry cleaning businesses in with software businesses. In software, there's definitely a perception that the optimal path is to meet VCs, take a bunch of rounds of investment and become a hockey-stick uni
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by chc 9y ago
I think you've misunderstood my point. What code reuse is possible with generics that is not not possible in Objective-C without generics? I don't think there is very much, because Objective-C fundamentally doesn't care the t
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by chc 9y ago
Objective-C has fully dynamic dispatch. In a context like that, generics are just a type safety thing to ensure that you aren't sending messages to the wrong type — they don't make the executable any smaller.
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by chc 9y ago
What does that have to do with anything? This seems like reading an article about how exercise is good for you and replying, "But some people don't have time to exercise!" It's not wrong, but it doesn't add much ins
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by chc 9y ago
It's pretty bizarre to treat driving without an $8000 options package as a weird edge case. If autonomous driving is that central, it seems like it should be a basic feature, not an upgrade.
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by chc 9y ago
Isn't this basically the philosophy that gave birth to the US war on drugs? Blame-and-punish is not necessarily a better policy than prevention and mitigation.
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by chc 9y ago
This could just as well argue against the government doing anything at all — policing, running a military, prosecuting fraudsters, running the post office — and yet most people view those institutions as at least a conditional good and wo
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by chc 9y ago
There are lots of cases where lying is a crime, and I think most people agree that this is as it should be. So I feel like "I don't want the government to have the authority to decide what is and isn't true" can't p
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by chc 9y ago
We do this very inconsistently. For example, we don't force this sort of term-avoidance on turkey bacon, turkey hot dogs, turkey burgers, goat cheese, gluten-free bread, white chocolate, root beer, herbal tea, etc, even though those th
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by chc 9y ago
The definition of "washing machine" in 1800 would have mentioned hand-washing — are modern washing machines deceptive? The thing is, eggless mayo is readily identifiable as mayo, and even reputable food publications categorize it
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by chc 9y ago
You could just replace "egg yolk" with "egg yolk or a similar substitute" — this is actually what many "optionally vegan" recipes do. I mean, the Wikipedia page for cake also mentions eggs — are cakes made with
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by chc 9y ago
But you're still calling it mayonnaise there, which is what the GP objected to and the parent called pedantry. If "mayonnaise" can't refer to vegan products, we can't use the term "vegan mayonnaise" — but
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by chc 9y ago
Given that Just Mayo looks like mayonnaise, tastes like mayonnaise and is substitutable for mayonnaise in every common use case, I don't see why you see this as an important difference. In programming terms, it duck-types as mayonnaise
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by chc 9y ago
While it's true this article is a whole lot of nothing, here's a better article with concrete facts on the same subject: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-life-expectan... On its face, it doesn&#
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by chc 9y ago
Aren't we already past that point, though? This seems a bit like worrying that the horses might bolt today because the barn door was left open yesterday.
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by chc 9y ago
We could also scale back our agriculture by reducing our dependence on animal products. There are a number of mass produced crops that go in large part to feed animals that we then turn into food at a net energy loss. But in general, we&#x2
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by chc 9y ago
Everybody's job looks easy when you don't have the full list of requirements and a deadline in front of you. What looks like resume-padding may in fact be the best way to fulfill a requirement you didn't know they had.
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by chc 9y ago
I don't know why you assume those tasks are similar in difficulty. In general, if you don't factor in the chance of getting caught, it's easier to make money with a an illegal scheme than a legal one. Nobody would break the l

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