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"What’s the painkiller equivalent of GNC?" Painkillers are a highly regulated market. Even the Sackler family had to work the system to make their ill-gotten profits. Vitamins are not. Indeed, the highly criticized Dietary Supplem
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Sure, but you said that was the end of the day analysis, and I didn't think you went far enough in your analysis. FWIW, I'm not thinking about git at all since I use Mercurial, and never enabled vc hooks in my emacs, which is base
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I'm pretty sure the lesson is that at the end of the day, it’s worth being aware of the risks of using git, as security issues intrinsic to git can extend to other tools which use git as a component.
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I have no doubt that systemd will implement a place to store political party membership, religion, LGBT status, veteran or draft status, or ethnic group membership if a handful of governments start to require that information. I mean, why w
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"Spectrum quickly learned that far more had gone wrong than just a units conversion error. A critical flaw was a program management grown too confident and too careless, even to the point of missing opportunities to avoid the disaster.
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I did not know that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_wine has more.
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"A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe" - https://tcm.computerhistory.org/Timeline/TinkerToy.pdf and https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81 "Great Tin
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Nothing about the essay seemed "woke", I haven't heard that age-gating is a woke thing, and it's not uncommon for anti-woke people to say wokeism is a form of fascism. "Why wokeness really is like fascism" - h
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What does "woke" have to do with the essay? In fascist speak, "woke" means "someone I disagree with". ;)
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The text calls it a codeword: > The solution the world's leading experts have landed on is one your grandparents could have come up with: codewords. You, your family, business partners and anyone else you communicate with about impo
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According to one of the comments: """Actually they rejected the PR and just didn’t want to be distracted with endless flame wars over something they’ve already resolved. To attack open source: 1. Request a controversial and s
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"orchestrated by fascist elements" I do not think "fascist" is there right term here. The American Heritage dictionary says "Broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control o
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> You have access to a PC and the Internet in your air-conditioned compound, don't you? Your personal insinuations are noted. Shall we also discuss near-slavery working conditions of the Filipino staff for your Dubai lifestyle? Or s
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Pay the developer enough to take over distribution, add a backdoor, deploy as part of the next update. Alternatively, use threats of physical violence, including from the government, or appeal to the developer's patriotism, greed, nobi
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> let me congratulate you I don't follow - I've never been to Cuba. I assume this is an ad hominem or other irrelevant commentary? > "Foreign investment" You must be quoting someone else, as I didn't bring it
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You've listed a whole bunch of commodity bulk goods and consumer goods. The embargo doesn't affect those, which is why they can happen. The embargo isn't a blockade. It's a series of laws which make it harder even for no
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Your position is that Vietnam has been destroyed? Because the US seems to be doing a lot of trade with a communist country which calls itself Vietnam. And that country seems to be in rather better shape than Cuba, with the biggest differenc
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Vietnam is a communist country. It is a one-party, authoritarian state ruled by the Communist Party of Vietnam. Why has communism not destroyed that country? Could it perhaps be the US embargo has been more effective at destroying that isla
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Why did IKEA build in an industrial area which requires most people to get there by personal car? I assume it's because the land is cheaper. Which means IKEA's business model depends on urban sprawl. Which might be good for profit
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A sticker is not required for the ordinary course of its operation.
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In the US the law makes it illegal to 'circumvent a technological measure', defined as: > descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological m
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When I was a wet behind the ears programmer, I learned a cautionary tale about Lisp and macros. Very smart people love macros and are good at them, and will modify things to fit their needs. Problem is, other people think different ways. A
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I don't think "courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression" is fully correct. Otherwise there could not be states with two-party/all-party consent requirements for making an recording. I think requir
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The BBC used to encourage its announcers to use Received Pronunciation, which was associated with high social class. The solution to this form of elitism was not to make everyone speak RP, but to encourage non-RP accents, which is more comm
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What I do for questions like these is read what medical researchers have published. The first I read was https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5696634/ > Coffee consumption was more often associated with ben
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Thanks! I think that means the Mastodon instance I'm on, with ~50 users (all adults, that I can tell) does not count, right? I remember the BBS days back in the 1980s when the BBS admin called you up to verify adult status.
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https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2025/Lei... > DAS REDES SOCIAIS > Art. 24. No âmbito de seus serviços, os provedores de produtos ou serviços direcionados a crianças e a adolescentes
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Calling something "performative", like "virtue signalling" or the older "politically correct", is also a claim that the other party is making the argument under false pretenses. In all cases, the implication is
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The Shirley McKie case was in Scotland, which doesn't have US-style plea bargaining. McKie accepted £750,000 in full settlement. There was a public inquiry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint_Inquiry .
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A couple of famous cases are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield . The definition of "match" is complicated, and not just for i

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