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by cjslep 6y ago
There are ways to understand why things went wrong and how to prevent them in the future, without assigning blame. Blameless post-mortem. I'm a reasonable man, I find accountability a positive virtue. I'm also not a foolish on
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by cjslep 6y ago
In what way does assigning any blame help? Magically US citizens will be able to successfully sue China for lost wages? Magically there will be less deaths?
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by cjslep 6y ago
This is a false equivalence and you even hint at that very fact yourself ("Spanish Flu" => Spanish first broke worldwide censorship vs "Wuhan Flu" => Place of origination). There was no worldwide censorship of Covi
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by cjslep 6y ago
Yes. HIPAA provides the government's law enforcement a large amount of conditions under which they are able to acquire an individual's medical records without a warrant. See 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(f). Furthermore, the ACLU's pos
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by cjslep 6y ago
When we first moved to a Gemeinde just outside of Zürich, my wife and I were amazed to see these cat ladders coming down from balconies. We pass by cats on our walks occasionally, so they definitely use them. It probably helps that we'
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by cjslep 7y ago
I grew up with the puritanical mindset of: "Your intrinsic worth as a human is the money you earn; because the money you earn is from how hard you work; and how hard you work is a reflection of your intrinsic Virtue." Thus I grew
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by cjslep 7y ago
Frantic minds are terrified Life lies in a grave Silent death rides high above On the wings of revelation Multi death from chemicals Arrogance has won Annihilation must be swift Destroy without destruction Gods on the throne must be watchin
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by cjslep 7y ago
> It simply isn't possible to shut down the economy and then pay people, businesses to sit idle for an undetermined amount of time. The Swiss Federal Council is setting aside billions of CHF (I think the total is currently at 32 bil
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by cjslep 7y ago
Make happy events at home and celebrate them. - Learned to bake my first loaf of bread from scratch. Wife and I celebrate by eating some of the bread together. - Germinating my seeds in seed trays for the first time. Food stuffs like corn a
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by cjslep 7y ago
Roche is a Swiss company [0]. My neighbor here in Canton Zürich works at a lab that uses these machines. She's been testing coronavirus, and she's having to go in on Saturdays now to deal with the backlog. Not Sundays though. Labo
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by cjslep 7y ago
And we've come full circle: your argument here is exactly the same as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528636 I am happy to let you keep showing off your circular reasoning to the world, and will happily re
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by cjslep 7y ago
OK. Sorry for disappointing you.
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by cjslep 7y ago
> As you are somebody who is responsible for stewarding the ActivityPub specification I am not associated with the W3C in any way, and had absolutely no hand in creating ActivityPub. Chris Webber and many others deserve that credit. I do
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by cjslep 7y ago
Because you have not cared to clarify your ethical view in the last 3 responses to me, nor in your ethics statement of your project. Your system is designed to download and save information in an unaccountable manner on behalf of anyone, &q
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by cjslep 7y ago
Your first statement looks like it should be logical, but when read for soundness, the consequent ("[then] I think you might...") makes absolutely no sense following the antecedent ("if you think..."). I only mentioned n
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by cjslep 7y ago
Yep, just like I assume countries that enrich plutonium to weapons grade levels and stick it on the pointy end of an ICBM are threatening others with nuclear weapons, even if they're never launched.
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by cjslep 7y ago
I'm sorry someone promised you the Fediverse as if it is "free speech heaven". It isn't. Which is fine by me. To be honest, I think your view of what "free speech" is, is a ridiculous extreme. Go use FreeNet. I
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by cjslep 7y ago
Careful with this. A lot of communities don't like scraping of their public content. There was a guy who got booted from archive.org I think for trying to archive an instance that had a lot of under-18 folks' content. I'd enc
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by cjslep 7y ago
The "deep state" and "tech giant bias" ideological movements of the Right sit firmly within the broader definition of critical theory. Whenever the Right appeals to freedom from corruption or freedom of speech for those
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by cjslep 7y ago
For relativistic effects I think you'll need to apply the Lorentz factor [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
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by cjslep 7y ago
> I've never thought that a black or a Hispanic should be treated or thought of badly because of his or her race. Nor do I think that my thoughts and experiences should be discounted because I am a white male. Everyone should just b
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by cjslep 7y ago
Are you talking about the philosophical idea of critical theory? Because I find the internet rotten with it, but probably in a way contrary to your ideological viewpoint (which also makes my critique a critical one, and so round we go). For
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by cjslep 7y ago
> I fail to see any evidence for how 'direct democracy' is the primary, or even relevant social artifact which drove the special directive highlighted in the article (i.e. cancellation of public events), or even any evidence th
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by cjslep 7y ago
Swiss democracy and the Old Helvetic Confederacy precedes its modern wealth (early 20th century) by half a millennium (14th/15th centuries?). The old leagues and communes of Graubünden, which had some semblance of communal voting based
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by cjslep 7y ago
GP is talking about things like the chromatic scale, pentatonic scale, whole-tone scale, etc Writing melodies with these would comprise of 12, 5, and 6 different tones per octave, respectively. Not 8. Plus, some minor keys comprise of diff
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by cjslep 7y ago
At least consider the illiberal nature [0] of the way the current administration is rooting out the corruption, compared to following established norms to lay bare the corruption for all to see. For example, consider if during the current a
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by cjslep 7y ago
Same in Switzerland
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by cjslep 7y ago
One of my first jobs out of college was working on simulation code dealing with weapons effects, incl. nuclear weapons. I know I personally struggled with the ethics of it, but not all colleagues did. To some it was patriotism, to others it
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by cjslep 7y ago
The USA tried to give flawed nuclear bomb plans to Iran in a bid to slow down their nuclear weapons program, but it backfired and Iran was informed that the plan had purposeful flaws. It is debatable whether it wound up accelerating the Ira
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by cjslep 7y ago
Federating applications allows one to balance the competing factors of building a local community with its own identity and having that community participate in a wider whole. The hard part is convincing users to use the federated applicati

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