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by clucas 4y ago
Can't speak for the other commenter, but isn't it obvious? Trump has been praising Putin for years. Here's a recent example: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-...
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by clucas 4y ago
If you took all the reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 and had to assign assign percentages for how much each one contributed to the decision to invade, what value would you assign to "securing lucrative contracts for defense and oi
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by clucas 4y ago
To my knowledge, the U.S. military has not been used for looting and plundering in the modern era. If you are going to say "but Iraq 2003!" I would ask you to consider the money we spent funding that expedition vs. the supposed fi
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by clucas 4y ago
If you had a crystal ball and could magically determine how many incidents of harassment per daily active user were coordinated on KF vs. Facebook, which site do you think would come out looking worse? Or... Let's say a group of a do
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by clucas 4y ago
Can't you engage the point in good faith? Of course intent matters! If you have a fleet of trucks and occasionally one of your drivers gets in an accident, that's way different than if you have a fleet going out there running peop
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by clucas 4y ago
Nah, I think it would be more surprising if you couldn't track this stuff down. In the industrial and construction world, everything works off of POs and work orders. When a company buys or sells anything, there's almost always
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by clucas 4y ago
I'm going to take a guess... you are probably under 30, and the people who brought up Jon Stewart are probably over 35. He was pretty big (bigger than Rogan, probably) when we were forming our political opinions in high school and coll
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by clucas 4y ago
OK, fine, change the example to... imagine there are a hundred restaurants in town, and the police come and arrest one restaurant owner. OP is the guy saying "they're coming for the restaurant owners!" and I'm the guy sa
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by clucas 4y ago
How do you know that this guy was arrested "just for writing open source code?" The whole point of my comment was that he was probably arrested for more than that... Or at least, we should wait to see what the evidence against the
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by clucas 4y ago
If the international law enforcement community is really trying to go after "all cryptographers" why do you think we haven't seen more arrests? Why do you think they only arrested this guy? I get that you really want to defen
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by clucas 4y ago
Wow... I ride Metra almost every day, and I also stand in the vestibule. I feel like this a TODO list for what I should be doing. Thank you!
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by clucas 4y ago
Let's say we, as a nation, through our elected representatives, decide to pass a law against trojans. Then let's say there's a site hosting a trojan repo, open to the public, and they refuse law enforcement's demands to
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by clucas 4y ago
No it isn't. Here's an analogy: Is it hypocritical to say "we shouldn't punish people who sell marijuana," but also say "we should punish people who sell heroin?" Maybe you disagree with the person's
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by clucas 4y ago
Sounds like you are consistent with your usage of terms, and I understand the logic and the motivation. I would just caution that it's fairly idiosyncratic - plenty of people out there don't use the word "power" the way
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by clucas 4y ago
Interesting, so do you avoid describing one programming language as being "more powerful" than another? They're all Turing complete, after all... it's just a question of how fast you can develop in one, right?
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by clucas 4y ago
He explicitly endorsed Trump: http://web.archive.org/web/20190716163531/https://www.scotta...
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by clucas 4y ago
> even if someone was born of rape or incest, we don’t discuss killing them at 1yr old You are correct in this quote. But to a lot of people, there is a fundamental difference in the moral consideration due to (e.g.) a 15 week old fetus
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by clucas 4y ago
> society sends no signal that I am a problem beyond outrage when I admit it Aren't you only admitting it to people who can't DO anything about you, except express outrage? Why don't you tell your boss your scheme, and see
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by clucas 4y ago
In what way would this paper affect social issues? Edit: Someone asked "does this paper aim to influence policy" and you replied "of course." I'm asking how.
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by clucas 4y ago
They're not prescribing any policy in the paper. But you seem to be saying it's impossible to write about your observations of humans without having some ulterior political motive. This seems pretty tenuous, can you back it up? Wh
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by clucas 4y ago
"Prevent us from having any say"?? Legislators are directly elected, president is elected somewhat indirectly but largely by popular vote, administrative rule making has notice and comment process, Article 3 judges are appointed b
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by clucas 4y ago
What? Is it immigrants who are choosing to pay teachers such low wages relative to the education and other professional requirements we put on them? In my opinion, one of the key things that made this nation great was our high quality publi
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by clucas 4y ago
I assume in your analogy the general population is still buying the same amount of grain, so losing a silo of grain to rot is a pure loss to the farmer, and in a way is a loss to grain buyers (prices have to go up slightly). But in the offi
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by clucas 4y ago
Right, but if I'm sitting in the chair as a regulator whose goal is to reduce the harm that financial products can cause to an average member of the general public while still allowing the market to work on its own as much as possible.
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by clucas 4y ago
One big difference is that Netflix is subject to securities regulations and must file regular reports with the federal government providing important information about how they have been making their money, how they plan to make their money
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by clucas 4y ago
Interesting. Would you consider type 2 diabetes to be a disease? There are clear, well known steps people can take to reduce the likelihood of it happening, after all... I would be more sympathetic to your position if it were likely for d
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by clucas 4y ago
Do you have any source for this? I didn't see anything to that effect on Wikipedia (which cites articles from NEJM and other reputable journals when discussing the phenomenon) or the Mayo Clinic's page. You (and others in this thr
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by clucas 4y ago
Obviously I can't speak to your specific county-level issues... I will say, if you can make a case for why something is bad, and you can get some of your neighbors on board with you, you should absolutely go to a county commissioner&#x
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by clucas 4y ago
Fair enough, the electoral college is a step between the President and the people. But even with the electoral college, you're talking about a huge number of people overriding the will of a slightly larger huge number of people, you&#x
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by clucas 4y ago
> the Telecommunications Act signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996, which 72% of the public didn’t even know about and no one voted on . Bullshit. It was voted on by the House of Representatives and the Senate. Both of whose mem

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