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by dctoedt 3y ago
> If you just go into a chamber that has been empty/full of seawater for a couple months you can drop dead because of CO2 buildup (or some rusting processes that eat up oxygen) And deadly hydrogen sulfide. "Hydrogen Sulphide
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be better to direct public policy and funding to helping create jobs elsewhere and leave the wealthy urban people make their own coffee? That’s certainly worth exploring too. But there’s a reason I no longer mow my o
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> But is subsidizing people to be service workers for wealthy Parisians a good public policy and good use of public funds? Given that each of us is allotted exactly 8,760 hours in a year: Is it good public policy to force non-wealthy p
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Third Point confirms funding chipmaker R2 patent suits against Intel (unlocked)(marketwatch.com)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> What makes you think they’d otherwise have leave? Personal experience during port visits after time at sea (in the U.S. Navy).
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Trust me, that's how courts operate, and that's pretty much all we need to know unless and until Congress can be convinced to change the law (which is highly unlikely). In civil cases, on questions like this, courts go with the &q
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by dctoedt 3y ago
My strong suspicion is that the sailors involved in this would much rather be on liberty than having to dress up and perform what amounts to a little play for the tourists. But maybe things are different than they were BITD ....
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> How do they verify the person hitting "agree" is legally able to consent? See my long response to @Brian_K_White just below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39650782 ).
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> No simple computer action like that can actually be proven to have been done by any particular person, or any person at all vs say soda spill or a kid or a dog or a fall or I was changing the batteries in the other room not even looki
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Every four years election promises go into the black hole of the administrative state, where they make at most minor changes in how the country is run. And that's a bad thing? The administrative state is like code that's
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> If the highest law of the land requires your OS to be a micro kernel, then sorry you’re not putting the GUI in kernel space, even if that would improve performance. And if you’ve already done that, well we gotta rip it out. Except no
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Putting it in software terms: The administrative state is arguably the result of a lot of incremental hacks adopted to cope with decades of changing conditions — and the fact that political polarization (and our imbalance of power favoring
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> we should just admit we are a failed state and disband What??? That sounds like the newly-hired dev who says, "I want to rewrite the entire code base, because this time we'll do it right!" Yeah, sure ....
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by dctoedt 3y ago
"By your fruits ye shall know them." One could venture that most people care far less about a government's fidelity to any particular abstract written standard than they do about whether the government does an acceptable job
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Our Constitution, in reality, is much more than the words written in it. It’s morphed due to judicial precedent over the course of 200 or so years. — is supported by anyone with legal expertise. A majority of current, GOP-appointed S
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Look, we can appreciate that you're trying to construct an argument, but you're out of your depth here, in roughly the way that someone who does a quick Google search about a disease takes it upon him/herself to proclaim that
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I turn over my king, sir. </sarcasm>
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The government doesn't have the right to force one person to risk their life for another. I guess you haven't served in the military?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Friend, your ad hominem comments in this thread are really billboarding your naivete. There are many things that Rayiner and I disagree about, but he's a brilliant lawyer who clerked for a federal circuit-court judge (one of the mo
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> they [Reagan and Carter] basically subscribed to the same religion and shared an idea of what a good society looks like. That’s no longer true. Agreed that it's no longer true — now ask yourself why that is: • Carter was alway
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> And then those of us who would rather live in Salt Lake City will have to live in that society you’ve created. That's the price you pay for living in a continental society where you're outvoted by people who (broadly) prefe
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> A society built on individual choice and self-determination as core values ends up looking like San Francisco or New York City. You can't create Tokyo or Mayberry with those values. Leaving aside that Mayberry is a fantasy, SF a
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I miss when NPR was a legitimate news outlet and not a culture war clickbait outrage rag. That comment says everything we need to know about your values — and your judgment.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
A couple of years ago, a young family friend told me he'd had Bitcoin back when it was going for like nothing — he sold it to buy an iPhone or something like that. He was phlegmatic about the riches he'd have had if he'd hung
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> When such divergences emerge around the world, they almost always result in political schisms. In the U.S., we have a group (or collection of groups) that believes it has a divine mission to impose its fundamental values on everyone
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Trust has collapsed. Agreed — and each side thinks it has good reason not to trust the other. (One side is right about that.)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Even educated people (perhaps, especially educated people) trust other professionals to do their jobs. That's a pretty sweeping generalization. As Ronald Reagan used to say (to the point of annoying Mikhail Gorbachev), the old R
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by dctoedt 3y ago
FWIW, Musk's named lead counsel Morgan Chu is an extremely high-powered lawyer, one of the best-regarded IP trial lawyers around. (Decades ago we had a client in common.) One of his brothers is Dr. Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in physics
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Yeah, he seems to have deleted everything from his profile, so I won't identify him further, but he's a pretty high-powered guy (albeit with some views that puzzle me).
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by dctoedt 3y ago
But returning to my question: As Lenin asked: что делать (what to do)?

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