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by conistonwater 6y ago
I don't know if Overcoming Gravity was named with this in mind but I've always loved its title: what is it that always keeps you down in life? Do something about it!
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I do not think this is really true, the proposal published by Bill Barr's DOJ did not call it a repeal but if you examine the actual legal contents of it it wasn't a reform at all [1]. > On the whole, the Justice Department
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> However with our choice of 2^16 blanks between each item, we can support no more than sixteen consecutive insertions between the first and next item. After reaching this limit we would have revert to the previous approach of shifting
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Why do you call it a deliberate backdoor when the Apple developers (see elsewhere in this thread) have said this was a bug?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> The justice system just moves slowly. Many people spend upwards of years before going to trial. This is nothing unusual. I think this is one of the things I learned from Ken White on All the President's Lawyers : we read about
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by conistonwater 6y ago
If you extrapolate backwards, imagine how good life must have been in the 80's.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Wait, so is the idea of those proposals that the federal government or the courts or the lawyers are going to be in charge of deciding what counts as aggressive moderation as opposed to regular moderation? Is that supposed to be better? Als
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Through [1] I found this article [2], and it seems even if you pay people for content (Blumenthal v. Drudge, page 7; AOL was paying somebody for writing articles and somebody sued both that person and AOL for defamation) you're still e
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Yes, I believe that's why it was introduced in the first place because that used to be a problem. The EFF has a summary of its history [1] and the case was [2]. [1] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/legislativ
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Do you mean to say there is a market for used bunny suits? I think 'jpttsn might have a point specifically with respect to useless nonsense products.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
No, it's not implicit. Why is your football analogy reasonable at all? There is also the matter of the general pattern of conduct that president Trump has established over the last few months, which is more relevant here. If you tell p
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by conistonwater 6y ago
There is no "despite" in that tweet.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
That's always the pattern, isn't it? One minute of ranting about fake grievances followed by a one-second token nod to civility.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
The very fact that a random HN commenter can allege that such a backdoor exists is enough for me to believe that it probably exists, but of course you can't be sure.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Can't they use the experience and the setup to collect the 20% themselves then instead of whatever this is?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I clicked around a little, and it seems "icc 21.1.9", "x64 msvc x19.28", "risc-v clang (trunk)", "armv7-a clang (trunk)" compile it to four separate byte loads, it looks like. It's not that I don
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> Most of the Islamic fundamentalism that the USA is fighting today can be traced back to that one event. This is just plain false. A nice book that I can recommend on the actual history of it is Ghost Wars by Steve Coll.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
The law is not just about impersonation, it says the platform can't arrange for delivery of food without having an agreement with a restaurant. So if it's not impersonating anybody, and just orders food on your behalf with you kno
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I think part of the puzzle is why they would cheat by stamping a logo that is almost right but not quite. Is it that their level of honesty such that they wouldn't cheat regulations but would cheat a trademark? Maybe they themselves
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by conistonwater 6y ago
– (1) “Do you live in the UK?” / Alternative: “What is your occupation?” – (2) “How long do you stay?” – (3) “What do you do in the UK?” These are the questions I always get every time I cross any border anywhere except the border (on
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Wikipedia says the European Commission says this is an urban legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export I mean I don't know anything about it, just wanted to point that out. But then this one ht
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by conistonwater 6y ago
But predictit is not a usual financial construction. For example, the first thing it says is: > PredictIt is intended and offered as an experimental research and educational facility of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> For 96¢ you could buy a dollar I'm skeptical of this because Withdrawals are subject to a 30-day holding period after your initial deposit and a 5% processing fee . ( https://www.predictit.org/terms-and-condition
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I don't disagree, but 50 years is a very unintuitive number to give because it makes it sound like you're going to die of natural causes before the cancer causes you harm, which is pretty harmless as cancers go.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Wait, why don't you think those were great fallbacks? You described them all as being solidly at least middle class. What would you consider a good fallback option?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Well the paper clearly states that they interviewed 6966 septuagenarians and 5114 of them "declined to participate".
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by conistonwater 6y ago
It is perfectly reasonable for the control group to be following standard guidelines. In all medical trials, for example, the control group usually follows the current standard of care. Why does that stick out?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> Ant Group has recently reported to China’s securities regulator about the significantly changes in regulatory environment, the exchange said, and this major development might make Ant Group fall short of the listing requirement regard
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by conistonwater 6y ago
RDAs are not recommended doses, they are lower limits such that if you follow them then you are very unlikely to be deficient.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
That's not the argument made in that post, AFAICT?

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