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by efitz 3y ago
The key points here are that there should be a trial, that it’s up to the government to prove that the stuff is not yours, and that the taking happens after the trial. CAF inverts all of these. They take your stuff, sometimes they allow yo
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by efitz 3y ago
The problem with civil asset forfeiture is that it’s theft and it’s unconstitutional (violates due process and arguably is a “taking”).
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The problem is while credit card processors want 2-4% with a minimum, Apple and Google would want 30% - their App Store rates. So expecting Apple to do it is a nonstarter.
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by efitz 3y ago
OK fair enough. As an aside, I don't think that's greed, I think it's perverse incentives - e.g. if a VP wants that big stock bonus next year, they have to figure out how to cause x% revenue growth, rinse and repeat. Sooner
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by efitz 3y ago
A paid web could eliminate the ad ecosystem and all its toxicity (surveillance technology, etc.) I don't see any solution that was based on customer goodwill ("that was cool, here's $1") as something that there is much d
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by efitz 3y ago
I see what you did there.
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by efitz 3y ago
Maybe we should make confessions illegal unless done in front of a judge (with prosecution and defense attorneys present. The judge can advise the suspect of their rights and ask if they've been promised leniency or any other accommod
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by efitz 3y ago
Although the linked page was highly entertaining, I suspect (and this is pure speculation) that the real answer is that, to the people who had to make the original decisions back in the 70s and early 80s, the current design “looked better”.
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by efitz 3y ago
Correct, but it’s mass (weight) is 3x higher than earth’s, and since gravity is proportional to mass, you’d likely be much heavier there. If the radius of the planet was the same as earth’s, the gravity would be 3x higher, but if it’s bigg
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by efitz 3y ago
> Try breathing in a bag. Dumb argument. Is water a pollutant because of the drowning risk?
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by efitz 3y ago
I said cost be benefits - it’s now clear that the costs of many usages of lead and asbestos outweighed the benefits. I’m suggesting we look at both sides before we make a decision. Doesn’t seem like an extreme position.
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by efitz 3y ago
What are the benefits these chemicals have provided, and do the benefits outweigh the negative effects? Are these chemicals dangerous in the forms that they're found in the environment, e.g. there are unlikely to be many pools of acid.
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The last 4 companies I worked for bought back stock all the time…
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I’m not arguing the judgment was unfair and I’m not asserting that musk and the board acted wisely, prudently or even ethically. But the guy just got robbed of his compensation after increasing the value of the company’s stock by 10x. In r
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by efitz 3y ago
I really like the usage here. I would love to generalize the app to find people hunting and setting off fireworks at impolite times. Why did you use pixels on a map image for location, instead of GPS? Phones have GPS these days. You coul
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by efitz 3y ago
Elections are about power; there could hardly be a bigger motivator to rig the outcome even in the absence of any external factor like betting markets.
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by efitz 3y ago
The example the author gives is the 2020 election. Without rehashing anything or endorsing anyone’s viewpoint, there were lots of issues being raised, lots of court cases in flight, and possible procedural issues in the states and in the C
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by efitz 3y ago
I live in Florida and I’m in my third Tesla now. I have not seen unusually fast wear on the tires, but I don’t drive particularly aggressively, and I pay very close attention to tire maintenance. The vehicle has a TPMS and I am meticulous
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by efitz 3y ago
I’m an Apple Card user and love it. That said, I have no idea how GS convinced itself to sign the contract. For that matter, I have my doubts about the ethics of the people on the Apple side even proposing such terms as the ability to add
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by efitz 3y ago
TL;DR Climate models are showing that a parameter (ECS aka “climate sensitivity”) has been increasing since 2019. This parameter determines how much temperature increase can be expected if atmospheric CO2 doubles.
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This is great news given the relative scarcity of brains among humans.
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Yes. Python was designed from the beginning to be compatible with C; it can make calls directly into C modules. There is an entire portion of the Python ecosystem dedicated to C interoperability. Many of the most popular packages are writ
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by efitz 3y ago
Is the purpose of the syntax to maximize human readability or to make parsing efficient? SELECT/DELETE/INSERT etc. are commands, it makes sense to me that if I were writing a parser I would start with the imperative that will dete
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by efitz 3y ago
I didn't think you were poking fun, I think your advice is very insightful! But yes, customer trust is based on both listening and delivering results that help them.
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by efitz 3y ago
I disagree with the article. Every team I’ve worked on that maintains a backlog, got most of their backlog from customers. And it’s not so easy as “find out what will make your customers lives better and make that your next feature”. What
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by efitz 3y ago
Producing new things is happening faster every year. Literally a book can be written in a day, published electronically the same day and published overnight. 30 years longer than the term when the country was founded. Surely the term shoul
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by efitz 3y ago
I hope the future of copyright is the dustbin of history.
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by efitz 3y ago
Thank you for the link. I’m glad other people are thinking this way, and with more formalism.
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I don’t think it should have been called “CAP” theorem. I think of it as “CAL” (consistency–availability-latency). It has always struck me that the P in CAP is different than the other two characteristics. C and A are continuous values, bu
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No, I disagree. There is no principle of the universe or across human civilizations that says that you have a right to eat because you produced a creative work. The way societies work is that the members of the society contribute and benef

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