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by ghoward 5y ago
I trained as a school bus driver, and when we got drug tested, a lot of over the counter stuff could show up. We were also not allowed to drive under the influence of any drugs that had not been cleared, even prescription. And clearing a dr
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Drivers of school buses, semi trucks, and similar have federally mandated drug testing, non-CDL delivery drivers don't. False, at least where I am. I learned to drive school bus, and they drug tested my class before we were allowe
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by ghoward 5y ago
I've learned how to drive school buses, and I absolutely agree with your opinion. My first day on the job was my last (well, I drove a bit the next day before refusing to drive in a situation I was not comfortable in); it was just way
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by ghoward 5y ago
Good catch. I'll take the L for being too cautious on that one.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Did the user create the OS, libraries, or the transistors? By the user's actions, their files were created. They own that data. We should expose it to them. The other things, they probably did not create. We don't need to expose t
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by ghoward 5y ago
> So what? Nobody is argue that computers don’t store data in files. Only that web pages are not files. You conceded that all data (modulo a little) is stored in files, so you seem to be arguing for hiding that fact from users. To me, hi
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by ghoward 5y ago
No, I have not shipped any, but I've used plenty, and I hate how such software treats users. Also, I said that it should make it easy, which I understood to mean that there will still be some people for whom it won't help becaus
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by ghoward 5y ago
What's your point? Consumers still own their files. Claiming that consumer-oriented software should "own" the files created by the software is the same as claiming that consumers are too stupid for their own good. Personally,
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by ghoward 5y ago
>> Which are generated from files. > No they are not. An indexed data store is still some file or files on a filesystem. Databases are not exempt from creating files unless they are working with raw disk. > This is simply untrue
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by ghoward 5y ago
>> The web uses files extensively. > Not these days. > Almost all web content is dynamically generated from one kind of indexed data store or another. Which are generated from files. >> Any page is a file. > This isn’t
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by ghoward 5y ago
> As a software author, they are "my files" as long as I am responsible for them. As a software author, you are only responsible for those files insofar as the user allows you to be. The user still owns those files and can do w
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Benefits of Dependencies in Software Projects as a Function of Effort (2017)(eli.thegreenplace.net)
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by ghoward 5y ago
> wearing a mask,[...] which [is] scientifically corroborated actions in the midst of a global pandemic Sure, it supposedly is, but there is also evidence saying it's bad. [1] As for vaccination, it should be a risk-based analysis,
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by ghoward 5y ago
I think this is a good idea. I'm also designing a language, and I have the rationale sort of written, but scattered amongst many design documents. I should put it all in one place like you.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I wonder if this could be set up at some kind of conference. I think that would be fun, especially to be the game master and throw the players for a loop. :D
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by ghoward 5y ago
Wasn't it Karl Marx himself that said that Socialism is a pit stop on the road to Communism?
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by ghoward 5y ago
> At this point my patience with the vaccine "hesitant" is gone. Unless you have a valid medical reason, if you are refusing to get vaccinated, you are actively inviting great harm on the health of your community, and that need
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by ghoward 5y ago
Before I listen to that, answer me this: did you read my blog post?
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by ghoward 5y ago
> It's unbelievably well tested. Not long term. Sorry, but you simply are not going to convince me on this one. It's heavily tested, but not well tested. There is a difference. > Wrong. The supply is already created. It&#x
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by ghoward 5y ago
You're about as wrong as me. > The vaccine is safe. How can we know that without long-term studies? > It works. Yet its effectiveness is decreasing with each new variant. > And it's the only tool that will end the pandemi
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by ghoward 5y ago
> I do not likely share much in common with you culturally, but I sincerely delight in seeing an independently-minded thinker boldly taking the conversation to places they probably need to go. Thank you. :) I think the most important cul
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Amazing what indoctrination can do in a few months. I agree, but I never thought that it could be so effective myself until now. And I'm sorry you had longcovid. That sucks.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I am running as an independent, not a Republican. I suggest not adding words without checking the veracity of your claim.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I am one of the unvaccinated. My decision was based on possible effects to myself from the vaccine versus how dangerous the vaccine was to me. [1] I'll make you a deal: if I get sick, I won't hospitalize myself, even if I need to,
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The only way this “hardly” kills is if you twist the definition of hardly so badly that nothing meets that bar How about ratio of cases to deaths? That's what I meant. Obesity hardly kills by my definition, but kills a lot by your
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by ghoward 5y ago
> I do not believe that people who are taking drugs are making bad cost/benefit analyses, so I do not agree with your conclusion about the War on Drugs because I reject the premise. And I reject the premise that I made a bad cost-be
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by ghoward 5y ago
> ...and this is a problem for society that should be fixed. Yikes! So you now refer to people you disagree with as problems that society must fix? What about if I get the vaccine and then suffer an adverse reaction that must be paid for
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by ghoward 5y ago
To be frank, I think that it is more important to be safe from a government, which can decide what is legal for them to do to you, than it is to be safe from a virus that does not discriminate.
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by ghoward 5y ago
> That is - they are taking as a given that people are being too risk-averse, especially in regards to COVID-19, and that public health officials are unable to consider tradeoffs (as opposed to having considered them and reached a differ
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by ghoward 5y ago
Scott Atlas had a video taken down. [1] An interview with Karol Sikora was taken down. [2] An interview with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi was taken down. [3] I found all of those just by searching DDG with the text of each item in the list I gave, a

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