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by epakai 5y ago
Governments are the source of the biggest [substitute many things here]. They're going to be powerful no matter what. It's silly to say in a blanket statement that "more power" is going to end poorly. Many groups with co
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by epakai 5y ago
Anti-natalists are against childbearing, but I'm not sure if they ever argue for forced abortions. They might actively encourage abortions whereas many pro-choice advocates would want to reduce abortions while keeping them available.
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by epakai 5y ago
> Telling brown kids that society is systemically racist against them when it isn’t true does harm. Is it also harmful to tell them society isn't systematically racist when it is true? I'm not sure 2nd grade is the place for th
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by epakai 5y ago
For alternative assessments of the above: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundatio... https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Ju... https://www.sourcewatch.o
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by epakai 5y ago
They have gone through most of the FDA approval process. 3 phase clinical trials have been completed. Applications have been submitted for the two mRNA vaccines, and the ~6 month rolling review process has started. They also have been appro
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by epakai 5y ago
If you have a thunderbolt 3 port then the apple adapters are reasonable second-hand, but you need a tb3->tb2, and tb2->firewire adapters. They work fine in Windows and Linux. OWC used to make TB docks with firewire, but they're r
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by epakai 5y ago
Bezos was well aware and a part of this growth. He was there personally when the company I worked for was acquired. He offered a silly anecdote about a breakfast octopus to the then CEO. In some ways the company has lived on past the CEOs d
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by epakai 5y ago
I did nothing. Mom's email was broken (@verizon via aol). The web mail is working. So what, the imap/smtp server is down. Tell her the server is broken. If she has immediate need just use webmail for now. It'll probably work
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by epakai 5y ago
I wrote hbr (handbrake runner) [0]. It takes a global config, a per-file config, and individual outfile sections then calls HandBrakeCLI to encode video. I use it to encode movies/series from optical media. Additionally there is hbscan
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by epakai 5y ago
Extra context: Here's the current policy page https://freenode.net/policies Things of consequence that have been removed: * conduct expectations page * channel policies that allowed channel operator discretio
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Freenode is IRC – commit to update Freenode policies(git.freenode.net)
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I think it's a bit much to characterize this as appeasing the CCP. The article is clear about using evidence for curtailing national security risks instead of blanket bans. Recently he has extended bans on investing in Chinese surveill
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by epakai 5y ago
They probably just don't want a repeat of the mis-steps that characterized early covid response. Early information changed a lot and resulted in distrust, and poor adherence to recommended measures. Rolling back precautionary measures
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by epakai 5y ago
Voter ID laws disproportionately affect racial minorities to this day, and are tantamount to a poll tax until the State bears the burden of providing ID. https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...
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by epakai 5y ago
What if a certain group of laws (say drug laws) was created specifically so police could target certain minorities? There isn't any particular motivation in the law to arrest more black people for marijuana use, but despite similar usa
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Repeat offenders are often given longer sentences. Mandatory minimum sentencing plays a big part in this. I assume that's what they're trying to control for.
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by epakai 5y ago
This list shares a lot in common with these sources for a youtuber's racial policing videos: https://www.the1janitor.com/sources Is there a meta-source you got your list from?
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by epakai 5y ago
OK, I see the similarity in the word "steal". It mostly ends there though. Hillary points out a number of events that affected how the public perceived her with a belief that those perceptions were based on untrue things. This doe
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by epakai 5y ago
People are not so immune to propaganda campaigns. Yes, I believe many are stupid. I also believe they should be allowed to judge for themselves. Not everything is worth considering or even being exposed to though. Part of knowing is being a
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by epakai 5y ago
> Just like members of another political party did 4 years earlier What were those lies? There was a foreign influence campaign. There was a bipartisan confirmation of that fact in the Senate. There were suggestions of vote manipulation
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There are reasons why I would mask in a vehicle: expecting passengers, returning from shared spaces and want to prevent hand-face contact. I've puzzled about outdoor use, but I'm not getting off my bike to ask anybody. Best guess
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by epakai 5y ago
Duty is a bit strong. I think maximizing vaccination is the best course for our situation, but it is still an optional individual action that each person has to weigh and decide themselves. Unfortunately the table has been set, and it looks
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by epakai 5y ago
USPS post quarterly delivery statistics. Look under Mailing Services Measurement Results: https://about.usps.com/what/performance/service-performance/ Each table for a service type has ~10 years worth of nati
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by epakai 6y ago
Here's the quote I see from articles alleging the NY Times reported and spread a false story: "Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overto
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by epakai 6y ago
I've been on a cowon J3, and their S9 (but its slider/switches wear out) before that. Both are discontinued. The SanDisk Clip series is alright as a spare device but they just don't have the battery capacity so I consider the
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by epakai 6y ago
Surprising people are still building dedicated players without real track control buttons. Capacitive buttons are hard to operate from a pocket. This feels like an updated clone of Cowon's iAudio 9.
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by epakai 6y ago
Why? The patent space around e ink is dominated by e ink corp over the last two decades. They're working on better driving methods, color displays, and new material compositions. Anybody entering this field is looking at licensing (exp
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by epakai 6y ago
I use yadm ( https://yadm.io/ ), and like it for dealing with multiple systems because of it's alternates system ( https://yadm.io/docs/alternates# ). It's git based, and works on various systems
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by epakai 6y ago
GNU project contributions generally require copyright attribution to the FSF. This gives them standing to enforce any GPL violations, but it also makes them rather hard to replace when it comes to GPL enforcement. https://www.gnu
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by epakai 6y ago
I see Chris Siebenmann ( https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ ) blog about Prometheus ( https://prometheus.io/ ) often. It seems quite capable of this and a lot more complex alerts.

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