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by corin_ 5y ago
Ok, edit my hypothetical person to not advising their patients, but standing at the hospital entrance after their shift telling all other patients that cigarettes are good for you.
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by corin_ 5y ago
The benefit would be if the downside of having one fewer person doing that work is less than the downside of multiple people hearing wrong advice from someone whose license implies they won't talk nonsense about healthcare. I've n
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by corin_ 5y ago
I think it's not surprising that it had (and probably still has) positive connotations to many people, because "tough love" sounds like something most people employ sometimes - from a parent enforcing bedtimes to a friend tel
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by corin_ 5y ago
Were you just guessing their motivation before, when you wrote "Claimed their users were too ill-informed to know the difference."?
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by corin_ 5y ago
If you trust the OS, it could hypothetically be built into the OS such that the app only gives what needs to be encrypted to the OS and gets back an encrypted payload to send, then the app wouldn't need to access your keys? Of course a
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by corin_ 5y ago
I agree.
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by corin_ 5y ago
Well for example, and I'm not advocating for these ideas other than pointing out that they'd be much simpler than changing the structure of society: the Government could either buy, or forcefully take control of, Wikipedia, or the
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by corin_ 5y ago
Why would that require communism or a revolution? The American state already gives tax breaks and/or funding to charities, research organisations, public messaging initiatives, school systems, public services etc... there's a hug
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by corin_ 5y ago
Couldn't the police just take a mugshot, confirm the arrest, and say "this person was later released without charge, none of our business where they are now"?
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by corin_ 5y ago
It wouldn't bring any benefit to anyone (except maybe private prison companies). And also it's because he's still a person. A person who did a terrible thing while literally insane, but still a person.
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by corin_ 5y ago
It's long in the context of how much mental health treatment they can have provided him over that time. If 7 years is how long it took to be sure he wouldn't reoffend, why go longer? It would be a waste of taxpayer money, it would
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by corin_ 5y ago
The offender was found to be not criminally responsible due to extreme mental health problem, was put into secure treatment for long time, and eventually considered safe to be in society. Locking him up further would be purely revenge not j
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by corin_ 5y ago
Yes it's being going up overall (a lot), but even if you just look at a chart of the last 12 months, it hasn't dipped more now than it did a few times last year - I can see why some people think it's going to keep going up fo
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by corin_ 5y ago
Your lawyer may have recommended it but it seems to me that you could have chosen not to mess up that kid's life. Ah well, at least your dogs are happier!
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by corin_ 5y ago
Better an overly close reading (which I think is actually correct) than the one in which you literally misquoted their words inside quote marks.
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by corin_ 5y ago
The same way you can own part of a house, part of a business, or even part of a bottle of wine. Contracts can easily dictate who owns how much of a thing, they wouldn't have to literally rip a paper stock in two.
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by corin_ 5y ago
Would you prefer they count each bike as a separate crime so that once somebody has stolen a certain quantity they'll be locked up for life? 16 months combined with some sort of monitoring afterwards (and, in an ideal world, support in
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by corin_ 6y ago
The point I'm making is that you're wrong to think that the "British union movement [.. is] destructive", in actual fact the unions have been unfairly scapegoated and villainised for decades leading some people to believ
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by corin_ 6y ago
> "British union leaders simply play workers against management for their own gain, then leave both workers and management worse off, but workers get the worst of it." Again, you're buying into nonsense anti-union propag
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by corin_ 6y ago
You're buying into propaganda about British unions, blaming them for the car industry is ridiculous, and when it comes to mining you seem to think that the mines would have lasted longer had unions not been against shutting mines?
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by corin_ 6y ago
Minor correction, I think you meant "I have doubts..." not "I have no doubts" (or you meant to double negative it later with "I have no doubt that... would not want...")
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by corin_ 6y ago
I don't entirely agree with their comment, but while "technology" is a single noun, it's not a singular noun - it encompasses many different things.
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by corin_ 6y ago
That feels a little bit like pointing at Obama to prove there's no racism in the US.
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by corin_ 6y ago
I know little about the subject, and it would certainly make sense for it to be running late with a pandemic going on, but it seems like 5 years is a typical prediction from start of building to being in operation according to this page: h
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by corin_ 6y ago
As one data point, one of the UK's in-development nuclear power stations, Hinkley Point C, was announced in 2010, plans approved by the owner + government in 2016, and expected to be operational by 2025 (no idea if that's an accur
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by corin_ 6y ago
Why would airport layout data not be handled the same way as city layouts? Maybe effectively automatically caching airports to make up for potential bandwidth issues? And for the specific UX, sure but isn't that just a single feature f
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by corin_ 6y ago
Wouldn't it be significantly less than a MB for all the info about "how does Uber work at this airport" info to come in json or whatever? It could surely survive without downloading special airport-specific media like logos,
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by corin_ 6y ago
I'm probably missing something obvious as I'm tired, but why does the Uber app need stuff like specific airport rules stored in it rather than pulled from their servers when needed? Map apps let you look at any city in the world w
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by corin_ 6y ago
It's not really a loophole is it? European drivers are welcome to drive LHD cars into UK via boats/channel tunnel just as we can take British cars to the rest of Europe, American troops just happen to be a significant group who ta
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by corin_ 6y ago
If I were friends with Buffet, and a billionaire, I absolutely would pick individual stocks on my own, if only to be able to tease him if I were to get lucky. Not as my only investment strategy, sure...

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