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by clucas 5y ago
> Warrants have legal meaning but little practical impact. They can be requested and granted very easily. The process offers very little protection. If the cops ask for warrant to request the list of numbers called, they will get it. Wha
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by clucas 5y ago
> I get that there have been some positive applications, but I'm just not sure it is possible to avoid much of the bad (which IMO outweighs the good) If people could just grant everything else and get right down to this point, the d
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by clucas 5y ago
Whoa, try reading my comment a little more generously, please. I specifically said the current iteration of cancel culture is going overboard. I was not praising cancel culture. My main point was that cancel culture arose because of a real
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by clucas 5y ago
Do you think Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, or Kevin Spacey should have been cancelled? I agree that it's overboard on a lot of things, especially in the past couple years, but I think it's important to remember the "cancel cu
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by clucas 5y ago
Well, I can't see any answers to those questions that don't have serious flaws, worse than the problems such government control would prevent. Which is why I think government control over social media moderation is a really bad id
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by clucas 5y ago
I think you are underestimating the trouble a nation-state can make for a foreign company, especially if that foreign company continues to leave itself exposed by doing business in that nation-state. I don't know the exact ins and outs
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by clucas 5y ago
Axios just had a little blurb about this: https://www.axios.com/housing-prices-construction-costs-8acb... The bottom line is that local land-use laws are murky and problems with local codes are very difficult to predict and
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by clucas 5y ago
According to their blog post, "If we didn't comply, they stated they had the right to block our website (and possibly all data transmission) between us and anyone within Russian borders." They were were going to be blocked an
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by clucas 5y ago
What are the criteria for when a private site crosses the line to become a "public" site where it is no longer allowed to moderate its content (or has to moderate its content based on federal rules)? If it's based on average
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by clucas 5y ago
I'm not on Facebook so I haven't seen what Netanyahu or other official Israeli government accounts post, but if what you posted is a fair summary of their statements, I think the key difference would be that Israel's leadersh
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by clucas 5y ago
Who gets to decide what the site is really for? And if it's not the entity who makes the site, what sort of say does that entity have?
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by clucas 5y ago
You're saying "doing business with these banks is not illegal, so there's nothing to be concerned about." The author is saying "doing business with these banks is not illegal, but they lack certain reporting require
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by clucas 5y ago
I think the beauty of a game like Stardew Valley is that many people with many different styles of play are able to find enjoyment in it. Some people really enjoy min-maxing. Why do you find that perverse?
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by clucas 6y ago
I was on the in-house legal team at a manufacturing company. You described my life. The push was always to reduce what we did down to something measurable. It's understandable, because they're manufacturing people and it's ho
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by clucas 6y ago
Presumably air intake and exhaust for the piston engine.
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by clucas 6y ago
Here is the demo video of the stuff zero_iq is talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHqFrNyLlpA Basically right on point with what the GP is saying.
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by clucas 6y ago
The scenario you outline is of a person experienced in a technical field having second thoughts about something, but not raising the concerns sure to external factors. This is very different from the scenarios mentioned by the GP, where peo
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by clucas 7y ago
You can't re-use oil products that have been combusted.
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by clucas 7y ago
Another example: Frank Langella as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. According to the actor himself, one of his favorite roles.
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‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’ – The US Tailpipe Standards Rollback(theatlantic.com)
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by clucas 7y ago
I use beancount for text-based accounting ( http://furius.ca/beancount/ ), and fava for budgeting and visualization ( https://beancount.github.io/fava/ ). But the tech just isn't that important,
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by clucas 7y ago
I don't think the parent commenter should have the burden of proof here...
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by clucas 7y ago
I do agree with you that base-12 is easier to work with, but I think it's worth pointing out, appropos of the article, that U.S. surveyors actually talk about feet in "tenths" and "hundredths" - so, quick, what&#x27
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by clucas 7y ago
I worked as a CAD operator, surveyor, and occasional field crew worker at a civil engineering firm for a few years. We never ran into issues like this - by far the more common issue was the difference between NAVD and NGVD. At the time I wa
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by clucas 7y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply, that all makes sense. I have never run into a situation where my current company tried to limit its warranty in legally interesting ways (and it wouldn't necessarily get to my desk anyway), so I never
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by clucas 7y ago
I wasn't aware of that, but perhaps it will hearten you to know that I don't deal with warranty law in my day-to-day. So, I clearly have more to learn - not sure why you felt it necessary to call my credentials into question over
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by clucas 7y ago
Yeah, fair - that's definitely a difference between vocational vehicles and personal vehicles. If we tried to do that, our end customers would laugh us out of the room. However, I believe consumers also have a way to laugh Tesla out of
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by clucas 7y ago
This is not legal advice, and you should consult an attorney if you believe that an OEM may come after you for tampering with your own vehicle. That said, I believe that there is very limited legal recourse for a vehicle OEM who wants to pr
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by clucas 7y ago
So, first off, according to the wikipedia article you linked, physics isn't really involved in the replication crisis. Second, re: the scientific community being closer to religion: I think you could analogize the replication crisis to
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by clucas 7y ago
> the goal for the government is to make everything illegal I've heard this line before, but never heard any evidence supporting it. I work with government regulators in the US regularly in my day job, at the local, state, and feder

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