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by eganist 3y ago
[because lobbyists and legislators pushed for regulation that gutted two generations'ability to affordably get an education]
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by eganist 3y ago
I see where the confusion is coming from. Other hadiths in the same book seem to suggest this is moreso because blood itself is considered unclean. For instance: > Sahih al-Bukhari 325 (Book 6, Hadith 30) #322 > Narrated 'Aisha:
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by eganist 3y ago
> By the way, I'm in my period, I'm impure. I can't Eid Mubarak :( Hey, I'm having a hard time finding a reference for this. Can you source this claim that someone on their period can't celebrate Eid al-Fitr?
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by eganist 3y ago
Please don't use scarequotes to demean a religion and its adherents. Being welcoming of others with varied backgrounds is wonderful and something I'm hopeful more of us can do on HN; it's a great way to give broader perspecti
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by eganist 3y ago
There was a time when Rosslyn was a great stop, even if it was for just one reason, the Newseum. ...back when the Newseum was there anyway, before their poorly-decided move to DC and subsequent closure.
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by eganist 4y ago
> Oh, and cut them off from international banking. How do you propose?
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by eganist 4y ago
Is the next step reticulating splines once we're able to detect them?
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by eganist 4y ago
Do you have other charity or non-profit recommendations aside from your own personal one? Only asking because I have no measure[1] of how effective yours has been, and I figure in your capacity, you likely don't mind who the intermedia
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by eganist 4y ago
For now, up until the models can effectively maintain themselves, and then the money goes to whichever AI companies said engineers helped entrench unless there's a new taxation scheme on AI based on displaced labor. So, if you do it an
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by eganist 4y ago
Matt, we had this conversation in person at a bsimm conference years ago when we were talking about how best to focus energy during threat modeling exercises. And while your position has become more nuanced, it still reconciles with our ori
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by eganist 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't communicate my point well. Agencies, the ones you'd care about, don't spare expenses. If your threat model includes agencies, making an operation expensive isn't your goal because money might as well be i
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by eganist 4y ago
> Key transparency makes standard MITM much more detectable, and so it will significantly dissuade agencies and private actors from investing in those capabilities. Just the private actors. Agencies would just spend more on it, or invest
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by eganist 4y ago
As I understand it, this doesn't factor in whether the response contains a payload that'll force the client to churn through power. Given the current rate at which we're outsourcing calculation to e.g web browsers etc., it so
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by eganist 4y ago
Checks and balances failed. People phoned in the work. I can imagine it.
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by eganist 4y ago
Seems you're commenting more on the feasibility of surgical taxes rather than the effectiveness of them. Which is fine; no disagreement there from me. But I'd also posit that government spending on the administrivia is a positive
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by eganist 4y ago
> Inflation was already high when the last large spending package passed and succeeded in over stimulating the economy. The others answered you pretty well. My comment speaks instead to this recital, which is incorrect and thus undermine
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by eganist 4y ago
> The Fed is limited in their toolset, so in order to do that they can raise the federal funds rate basically causing any loans given to have a minimum APR The Fed is limited much the way a surgeon would be limited if they had to manage
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by eganist 4y ago
parts
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by eganist 4y ago
> This sounds like a desirable group of features, but might this tread a bit too closely to making Brave a money-transmission service and put them under the scrutiny of far more complex regulations? If it can be made clear that you'
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by eganist 4y ago
> The race of Workman seems to bear no relation to the story itself, so why the callout? I imagine the relation and relevance are apparent from the title of the article and submission: "Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former w
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by eganist 4y ago
Not sure where they got that figure; I just spot-checked a few rural homes in reservations and got back the same 120 figure you did. Fingers crossed something exists for you though.
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by eganist 4y ago
Microsoft has a habit of flipping settings back to stock, but so far as I know, this has never happened for group policy. I've been using GPOs to reliably flip things off in Windows 10 Can't speak to 11 but I imagine it's the
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by eganist 4y ago
The issue is that you're not debating this topic in good faith. This act exempts all information relevant to the act from disclosure, and unlike taxes of individuals, everything that this act would be concerned with is a potential ri
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by eganist 4y ago
I go into more detail on my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35363138 The context in the thread is modestly useful.
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by eganist 4y ago
The language exempts everything pertaining to this act. If there's intel informing a ban, that's one thing. But everything, even unclassified information? That's too much.
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by eganist 4y ago
> (2) Inapplicability of FOIA.— > Any information submitted to the Federal Government by a party to a covered transaction in accordance with this Act, as well as any information the Federal Government may create relating to the review
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by eganist 4y ago
Speaking at least with my background: Foreign adversaries have learned exactly how to weaponize our free and open internet against our own people. Regardless of the fact that our kids are most vulnerable, China's seemingly made a point
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by eganist 4y ago
In fairness, I think the allure of an app is to act as a forcing function for actually reading the content before it disappears.
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by eganist 4y ago
> 1. Why doesn't every company try to hire contractors then? Making firing employees expensive beyond reason, always seems to significantly increase unemployment rate (Eg France)/drastically increase informal employment (Japan
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by eganist 4y ago
Another comment talked about the need for legislative controls, but mostly to account for the risk of societal breakdown. I have the same comment but a different domain: > After that, focus should then shift to dealing with the obsolete

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