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by haroldp 3y ago
Hard drugs can be extremely harmful. So you make them illegal. Now you have two problems. Most of the problems that you associate with drug abuse are exacerbated or wholly created by the prohibition rather than the addiction that it purp
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He asked if there were countries, "where integration between widly[sic] different cultures worked on the long term," and I answered that there were. And it was easy as there are many such examples. This was not a claim that Sing
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by haroldp 3y ago
The United States. Singapore.
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by haroldp 3y ago
That was AvE of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
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by haroldp 3y ago
Also there is a Code of Conduct associated with it that's much more restrictive than, "We'll comply with law enforcement requests if you are doing something illegal with the (sub)domain." Nope.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Pretty good! :) Besides what was mentioned by others, there are two more mistakes in the SOA and one in each NS.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Can you help me find the mistake in my zone file? $ORIGIN example.net. $TTL 900 @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. hostmaster@example.com. ( 20230728001 1800 300 3600 172800 ) @ IN
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by haroldp 3y ago
This is the way many public universities without legacy admissions actually function as well. They have a high published tuition, but if you are a half decent student, there are many discounts and scholarships that can reduce it significan
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by haroldp 3y ago
Nevada is a single-party consent state.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Return to office. Ending work from home.
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by haroldp 3y ago
> China is not a third world country any longer. You miss the point. A 50 cent army is feasible when you are paying third world wages. If Chinese wage increases price them out of the market, then you can just hire people from somewhere
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by haroldp 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230613194612/https://www.nytim...
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by haroldp 3y ago
This doesn't work well. How do you pay the $2? With a credit card? Tens of thousands of accounts all with the same one? Tens of thousands of credit cards? In a 50 army, one individual can be paid a third world wage to register free
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by haroldp 3y ago
You are still doing it. North Africa is included in Diamond's Mediterranean exchange zone. And that zone extends out of Europe to the Fertile Crescent, at the very least, and arguably to India and China as well. Africa's two zon
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by haroldp 3y ago
> maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences Just charging $2 might be a huge improvement over reddit because it makes sock puppets cost too much to scale. Paying out for upvotes, I fear will incentivize lowest-common
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by haroldp 3y ago
You are being very silly. North Africa is oriented East-West in a way that allowed it to participate in the easy exchange of flora, fauna, culture and technology with the greater East-West zone that extends from Portugal to China. Saharan
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by haroldp 3y ago
> https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes... This is an article for an AU government-funded policy think-tank, written by a China-hawk who is also a fellow at America's government-funded, w
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by haroldp 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...
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by haroldp 3y ago
I think I got a free copy with WebSTAR back in the mid-90s and switched from SimpleText for coding. Nothing compares!
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And could an enterprising Soviet get rich by creating parking lots and garages where spaces were especially in demand?
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Think of it as the federal government codifying a basic property right, in the same way the first amendment codifies basic speech rights, and it makes more sense.
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I love every word in this story. Remember when hacking was joyful ?
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by haroldp 4y ago
You can set up a VOIP phone number that accepts SMS for about $2/mo + $0.01/minute.
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by haroldp 4y ago
> How about rips of blu-rays you own, which you solely use and do not intend to share? Is that pirating or using your legally owned product on a different medium? This is protected fair use. But distributing software to decrypt DVD DRM
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by haroldp 4y ago
Check out iOS "Shortcuts" if you have an iPhone. It's... visual-ish programming, a bit buggy, very incomplete, poorly supported by third party apps, slow, evolving quickly and lots of fun. Control Apple's core apps, ba
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by haroldp 4y ago
I've self-hosted email and error reporting for decades.
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Yeah, I didn't think you'd opt for that.
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> I'm a consequentialist. That's how I lean too. I'm maybe just more leery of the long term consequences of censorship and proscribed ideas. I think they are ultimately poisonous. > If it was up to me, I would not all
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by haroldp 4y ago
> it's publishing information that would be trivial to use to hurt specific individuals But so do a lot of organizations. It's legal for kiwifarms' users and it's legal for the phone company, the federal election com
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> But if I found out that something I own actually helps Nazis, then yes, I'd do my best to stop that from happening. But the internet helps nazis. Telephones help nazis. I would argue that censorship helps nazis. The real nazis

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