elishah

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by elishah 3y ago
1. Completely broken with javascript disabled. Which is to say, completely broken. 2. When permitted javascript, it appears to use it to... intentionally fill in page contents slowly? It's hard to fully convey how obnoxious this is. 3.
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by elishah 3y ago
The second example is fraud _and_ speech. The first one would be more like perjury, _and_ also speech. That's the whole point: fraud, perjury, and several other harmful things are subcategories of speech.
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by elishah 3y ago
> Absolutely nothing you stated is legal now. Sure, I didn't mean to suggest that those things are legal. Just giving a few examples of speech that is harmful, rather than merely distasteful. > The government would not have to in
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by elishah 3y ago
> It's become quite rare for me to see people who defend speech they don't agree with ... I think framing this as being about speech with which one disagrees, or finds repugnant, is a bit disingenuous. It omits consideration of
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by elishah 3y ago
> Freedom of speech is literally the first thing in the Bill of Rights. Not necessarily talking about this injunction in particular, but I would like to address this argument. Yes, freedom of speech is very clearly expressed in the Const
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by elishah 3y ago
> Also nearly everyone who owns their own servers still runs VMs on them. This strikes me as at least as much of a leap as "everything has gone cloud." Containers are... kind of a thing. And while there certainly are use case
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by elishah 3y ago
I never want to disparage people's efforts, but it is a recurring theme for people to unknowingly reinvent mtr.
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by elishah 3y ago
> I just saw the stats from a medical school— I believe it was UCSF but correct me if I’m wrong— Given that affirmative action was banned at UC schools in 1996, I suspect that you're mistaken about at least the school in question. W
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by elishah 3y ago
For anyone else who, like me, was confused by the name: > Are you affiliated with the legendary Kagi shareware platform? > No. That Kagi went bankrupt in an unfortunate turn of events. We liked the name and acquired it when we got the
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by elishah 3y ago
Yeah, and as is usually the case, it's not Preview in particular doing it. Preview itself does almost nothing, it's just a wrapper around the standard file handling libraries that everything on the platform uses. So this is just a
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by elishah 3y ago
> So it basically shows the exact opposite of what he was trying to prove, which is that rules are unworkable. I did not interpret the creator's point to be that rules are unworkable, so much as that rules alone are insufficient. ie
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by elishah 3y ago
I think that it might make expectations about moderators' interpretations less vague. That still seems as if it adds some useful information. It's informing people ahead of time that moderators will probably not interpret "ra
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by elishah 3y ago
Better not bring in the deed to your house, either. That's clearly an investment vehicle.
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by elishah 3y ago
> It's a vehicle if it is transporting people, things, or itself (e.g., the R/C car). If transporting oneself counts, are all the people in the park vehicles? And all other animals, down to the microorganisms, that are capable
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by elishah 3y ago
"No politics" is not a useful or viable rule. Any time that two humans interact with one another, even indirectly, there are politics involved.