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by curryst 6y ago
It's an intractable problem; most people believe software should be accessible to people with different needs, and most people also believe that other people shouldn't be able to force you to do work for free. Which one you decide
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by curryst 6y ago
I'm American as well; those things don't count as a duty, they're just things you legally have to do. Duty is beyond the things you have to do without being thrown in jail. Many military people do feel a sense of duty, and t
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by curryst 6y ago
> If public transportation is not reliable, make it reliable. Because people who don't use it don't want to pay for it. There is a lot of opposition to public transport that doesn't pay for itself. There is also the horrib
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by curryst 6y ago
Some cars already have those. I've got a car from 2017 that has some kind of sensors wrapping all the way around the bumper. When I'm parked between two cars, it can detect a car roughly 15-20 feet away as soon as I get an inch
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by curryst 6y ago
> “Inequality inevitable” sidesteps that and asks that we just give up before even trying or imagining different possibilities because we’ve failed in the past. It is hard to not see such arguments as a misguided effort to rationalize o
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by curryst 6y ago
Door handles should not retract at all. Anything that retracts comes with a risk that they get jammed in a retracted position due to rust, dust, debris in the mechanism, maybe heat, etc. Even if it's not jammed much, it's hard to
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by curryst 6y ago
> Or NFS mounted homework? I would not wish this pain on others. It works great when your systems are homogenous. It rapidly becomes a pain when you need to make customizations that only apply in a particular network, or on hosts with a
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by curryst 6y ago
My packages already show up looking like they were dragged behind the truck. I can't imagine what they'd look like if they got fired out of a rail gun. In real terms, I'm doubtful that the majority of people's goods woul
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by curryst 6y ago
> It bothers me that instead of adapting the tool to us we have adapted ourselves to the tool. Isn't that always the way it is? Society made obvious shifts with the invention of the car. With the invention of the printing press, we
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by curryst 6y ago
> They're not using cryptography, but aren't they demanding ransom? No, a ransom is a fee paid for the release of something you value. Cryptography is one way to take a user's data, and release it back to them on payment.
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by curryst 6y ago
Either this is a massive failure on the government's part, or something else is going on. I can't believe that the ledger doesn't match the balance, and that that still doesn't count as proof that there's a bug.
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by curryst 6y ago
> I don't see the evidence against Bob. If I were Bob, my defence would be along the lines of 'The software says there was $x in the office. Then surely all transactions must add up to this number. Your allegations are baseless
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by curryst 6y ago
> Personally I would not be opposed to facial recognition in school and I don't think there is any expectation of privacy in schools. I disagree for a number of reasons. First of all, we are dealing with children that are largely u
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by curryst 6y ago
My layman's interpretation is that variants are kind of a stepping stone to a strain. Viruses do mutate constantly, but I would guess that many (maybe most) of those mutations are effectively a no-op. It's a mutation in a dorman
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by curryst 6y ago
I have always presumed the intent of pardons was to provide a check and balance against the Judicial and/or Legislative branches. I think the only thing we're missing is a conflict of interest limitation on the pardons. In cases
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by curryst 6y ago
> I really wish more activist types helped around the world today vs shouting about the past. I don't really even see the need for activists. This seems like something that could be fairly easily handled by the world's govern
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by curryst 6y ago
The cynic in me really wonders if the money (and tech) for this is coming from a defense company. This system seems like it could be easily adjusted to fire tear gas, pepper spray, phosphorus, CBN payloads, maybe thermite for anti-vehicle
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by curryst 6y ago
Buses are under-utilized, but walking and various forms of wheeled transportation (motorized longboards, those one wheel things, bikes, scooters, etc) are popular. San Francisco is only about 7 miles wide. You can walk from one side of the
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by curryst 6y ago
They really aren't that small. A single wide is 500-1200 sqft, which is fairly competitive with apartments in major cities. A double wide is 1000-2000 sqft, which is competitive with most homes. High rises are basically just bespoke
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by curryst 6y ago
I'll second you on 3. I've been trying to find ways to turn Amazon boxes into either something more compostable or something that consumes less space in my recycling bin. I ended up with a paper shredder that will shred cardboard
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by curryst 6y ago
> The software does not automatically fail a student, it only flags for further human review. Seems like it’s doing its job. That is it's intended use, yes, but it does not appear to be how it's being used. The article even sa
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by curryst 6y ago
I disagree, for the same reason that forums typically ban trolls rather than just let them be. It takes an order of magnitude more effort to defend against a claim than it does to make the claim. I could hypothetically accuse you of being
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by curryst 6y ago
Someone above brought up a very good point that YouTube really only has to do content reviews on videos that get watched. It's cheaper for YouTube for everyone to watch the same 30 videos than it is to spread those out, because then t
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by curryst 6y ago
> There's a near-universal expectation of sex, so this could easily fall afoul of FOSTA-SESTA regulations. I've always been curious where exactly the line on prostitution is drawn. Not in a judgemental way, just in a legal cur
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by curryst 6y ago
You're being downvoted without anyone responding, which seems unfair to me. I disagree with you, but your point is valid (if more certainly phrased than I would have gone with). You're right. As a species, we are wrong nearly al
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by curryst 6y ago
I think it would be more apt to issue a jury instruction that loss of evidence against law enforcement by law enforcement can be interpreted as a sign of guilt, similar to how pleading the 5th can be interpreted as a sign of guilt in civil
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by curryst 6y ago
> But yeah, they'd have little reason to start one, other than trying to scare porch pirates into giving up. I hate laws intended to try to scare other people into compliance. They seem to almost universally fail, and in the proces
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by curryst 6y ago
In another thread, someone mentioned that the regulatory difficulties of operating a credit card company are so high that no one has started a new one in decades. So theoretically, removing some of the regulatory capture would help unseat
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by curryst 6y ago
> The question is whether some foods are inherently addictive, at least for some people who are more predisposed to food addiction. In some sense, yes, because to get to extremely high weights, you need to consume extremely high amounts
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by curryst 6y ago
I'm with you here. I've often tried to update my minimum price to something that cuts out the crap, and half the results are the exact same thing under a slightly different listing. I've come to the conclusion that the only

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