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by chroma 12y ago
Felons and the mentally ill have many of their rights curtailed. Voting is an individual right, but felons typically can't vote. Mentally ill people can be imprisoned and forcefully drugged. Individuals can be deprived of rights so lon
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by chroma 12y ago
Some people still try to interpret the 2nd amendment that way, but DC v. Heller[1] made handgun ownership an individual right. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
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by chroma 12y ago
Nice idea, but how does one reliably detect RFID jamming? This isn't rhetorical. I honestly don't know the answer.
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by chroma 12y ago
I own half a dozen firearms and I wish smart gun technology worked. The main problem with RFID smart guns is that they can be jammed. If such tech was required by law, any criminal with a jammer would create a zone where only they could sho
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by chroma 12y ago
On the disagreement hierarchy[1], your downvoted comment is DH3 at best. Also, it's needlessly disparaging. I think you'd fare better if you avoided such digs at others' opinions in the future. Also, don't worry about do
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by chroma 12y ago
I thought the same thing as you (answers prayers == more perfect), but figured proponents of the argument would ignore that. If a perfect being must answer prayers and prayers aren't answered (which seems to be the case), then it'
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by chroma 12y ago
Note that even if you accept this proof, it says nothing about a god that answers prayers or otherwise intervenes in daily life. It also says nothing about an afterlife. Unless you're a deist, ontological arguments are practically usel
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by chroma 12y ago
Then it sounds like we agree. Freedom of hearing refers to people being able to decide for themselves what they should hear. I would behave like you in your examples. To go with your university case, the line is crossed if one tries to get
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by chroma 12y ago
I've made this point before, but I feel compelled to repeat it in response to this post. The late Christopher Hitchens, in one of his greatest orations[1], made some excellent points about free speech: ...it’s not just the right of th
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by chroma 12y ago
Considering reactions to cartooning of Muhammad, I'm not sure that threat was so empty. Still, it's sad the episode was censored.
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by chroma 12y ago
Wow, the Jason Scott! While you're here, can you please answer two questions: Does the Wayback Machine retain data excluded by new robots.txt rules? (In other words: If you change your policy in the future, can the change be retroact
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by chroma 12y ago
I hope your claim about them keeping the data is correct, but... If a tree falls in the woods and robots.txt later excludes it, does archive.org make a sound? While the distinction may be useful to someone with access to the data, it doesn&
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by chroma 12y ago
I've donated to the Internet Archive and I'm a big fan of Jason Scott, but the Internet Archive is not an archive . Any site on it can go down without warning, thanks to the fact that they apply current robots.txt rules to past a
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by chroma 12y ago
It's a shame the report is so partisan. The democrat and republican sides disagree on basic facts, such as whether torture worked in extracting information, and whether that information helped to save lives. Both sides accuse the other
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by chroma 12y ago
> The Docker team does this a lot, and it's part of their PR machine. They creep their way into and eventually try to steer every conversation regarding containers, especially when it can potentially be damaging to their "brand
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by chroma 12y ago
It's important to consider what we want a standardized test to measure. Is it to check that students have learned the curriculum? Is it to evaluate abilities for future prospects? Current tests seem to skew toward the former, and the a
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by chroma 12y ago
What a mess. I didn't know HiDPI was so spotty on Linux. It's unclear to me why people would subject themselves to such an experience. If you want a HiDPI laptop, why not spend a little more to get a retina mac? On a developer&#x2
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by chroma 12y ago
Talk about overkill. That's a quad-core x86-64 CPU clocking up to 2.33Ghz. I realize Atom microarchitectures aren't wide as Haswell and ilk, but that's still some serious horsepower. It's also interesting that Intel does
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by chroma 12y ago
When I was in Hangzhou, it was quite easy. I guess our anecdotes cancel each other out?
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by chroma 12y ago
I completely agree with you. On a related note: The Great Firewall is rather easy to get around, but that's the point. That tiny inconvenience sates the nonconformists while making the vast majority of people simply give up.[1] The sam
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by chroma 12y ago
People complain about Uber's unethical (and sometimes illegal) business practices, but I think it's useful to entertain a different perspective: Considering all of the laws restricting hired transport, do you really expect a nice
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by chroma 12y ago
Why not publish the offending emails? As it is, those who threatened you face no repercussions. Their tactic worked, and they have every incentive to visit abuse upon others in the future. Edit: Thank you. I was under the impression that th
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by chroma 12y ago
These priorities seem sane to me. Vehicles kill over a million people every year. Self-driving cars can drastically reduce that number.
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by chroma 12y ago
Your biggest criticism is that it paints ISIS as bad? If ISIS can't be called bad, I don't know what can be. ISIS is really, really bad. They behead and crucify people for non-crimes like blasphemy. They slaughter innocent non-S
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by chroma 12y ago
Humans suck at estimating risk. From the Wikipedia article on motorcycle safety[1]: Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car. In 2012, the US had 23 fatalities per 100 m
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by chroma 12y ago
The people in this story (including the author) seem insane to me. It's crazy enough to ride a motorcycle (let alone without armor), but that's a footnote to the real issues: the violence, needless aggression, and treatment of wom
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by chroma 12y ago
I think the late Christopher Hitchens put it best in a debate on whether freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate.[1] At the start, he makes the point that freedom of speech is just as much about freedom of hearing: ...it’s not just
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by chroma 12y ago
First, assault & battery are misdemeanors. They are punishable by up to a year in prison, and maximum sentences are rare. Second, violence is not acceptable as punishment, but it is acceptable (often necessary) in defense of self and ot
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by chroma 12y ago
I intend to raise the kids in the same manner. If you hit an adult, it's assault. If you hit a dog, it's animal abuse. If you hit your spouse, it's domestic violence. But hitting your child is not just legal, it's enco
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by chroma 12y ago
I think you misunderstand me. The sides can have different thresholds for "too many body bags." The american threshold was lower, because the americans weren't fighting in defense of their homeland. Had the war been a purely

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