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by i_am_jl 3y ago
That seems a bit confused, no? I mean, I'm not arguing with the usefulness of a big, bright beacon that says "DANGER". I'm just sort of shocked that... that's it? No positive confirmation that it's actually saf
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm more curious about this "Don't approach a plane until the beacon light turns off" system. Is this standardized or widely used? Because it sounds like a terrible design. If you've got one signal light to signal t
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Locking people in a box is incarceration. Locking people in a box and compelling them to perform labor from which the incarcerator profits is slavery. The fact that imprisoning people costs a lot of money is one of the few things keeping th
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
More specific than that. You could describe blackmail like that. The key characteristic of astroturfing is that it attempts to influence public opinion by presenting a false picture of the current public opinion. It's both of those thi
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Less about the technique and more about the optics. Astroturfing is about building the perception of popular support. Bots pretending to be people can be astroturfing, but so can people putting up signs, people writing legislators, writing
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
To be clear, that's exactly what I mean. Every perverse incentive that nudges for-profit prisons towards manufacturing prisoners is magnified by turning individual prisoners into revenue streams.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Oh no, we did a slavery! EDIT: Allowing prisons to profit from the labor of prisoners creates a perverse incentive for the companies running prisons to keep prisons full. Maybe it works in places where prisons aren't run for profit.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I think you nailed it. >This toolkit is the means to reopen it. I'm not, and likely won't ever be, in the market for a gaming PC. I can't justify the purchase. I think there's a segment of Mac users who own Windows ma
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The municipality giving the tax breaks doesn't want people to work from home. They want people to go to the office so they buy gas and eat at restaurants and drive up office rent. But the real issue is what happens when the lease runs
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Really cool place. Wasn't expecting the love for the Fallout franchise.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>Today, clever students can share books, buy used, share electronic copies, or skip the book entirely if they don't think it's necessary. I went back to college in the early 2010s. Even then it wasn't uncommon for a text b
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
It's still 10x the national average deposit rate, that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't/isn't an abnormally high or unsustainable rate (as the comment I replied to implies). I'm not making a value judgeme
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
It's not that high of a savings yield (compared to other offerings, it's crazy-high compared to the past few years). CIT is offering 4.8% APY with $5,000 minimum balance. SoFi is offering 4.2%, zero minimum, $250 bonus for direct
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
If that person is currently living on the street, spending their day smashing car windows to get drugs, it's absolutely still worth it.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
> might be wise to have the option to disable in some situations Snow and gravel are the only valid situations where ABS can increase braking distance. However, disabling ABS is still a really poor idea. ABS increases braking distance in
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
For what it's worth, I think you're misunderstanding the sentiment here. The argument isn't that a human is better at avoiding accidents than an automated system, the argument is that, as an average human, I'm good enoug
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
A commodity is fungible. Unless you're arguing that GIMP and Photoshop are treated as identical software by the market, image editing software can not be a commodity.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think this would be protected in the US. In the US, graffiti artists' rights have only been upheld under VARA if their work was permitted by the property owner. The artists suing the developers wh
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The Sun article mentions the council having the ability to make some sort of preservation order? Ostensibly this is to protect historic properties, but it seems like an overreach to apply that to a mural painted without the property owner&#
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Unlikely. Those solutions are generally undertaken at the state level. There's no way to piss off voters quite like moving homeless people out of a city into their suburbs, and if those suburbs are in your state, those people can vote
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>I stopped by Centralia on a road trip, it's a bit of a "tourist destination" in the atlas-obscura sense. Word is that old Rt 61 was covered with dirt during early 2020 to stop people going out there during Covid. AFAIK th
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>I do not use MAC/OS, but to get your application in the MAC store, do you need to pay a fee or give a cut if you sell it ? I suspect you do, or where else would Microsoft get their Ideas from. Buying a product from the manufacturer
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
"Alpha gal" is the short name for a sugar that occurs in most mammals, but not primates. Cannibalistic experimentation wasn't necessary.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I don't know that EU members aren't doing the same thing. I'm sure the US isn't the only place this happens.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>So each state has a small enough scale to solve its issues The problem is that states are choosing to address this problem by bussing homeless to other states. This is the primary issue with federalized states, solutions are crafted in
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>okay so clearly you don't know what you're talking about because they do use existing standards/DNS as the primary way to validate domain ownership. I'm not going to speak for the commenter you're replying to, b
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
This is the third or fourth time I've heard this sentiment lately and I don't understand it. Why would the ability to sideload apps impact the ability of Apple to curate app quality in their app store? Given that I can sideload An
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by i_am_jl 4y ago
>maybe by jabbing two or three side-of-head hardware button combos, wait 30s, pair again, grr, now repeat x2 for the kids. That would be frustrating. If only the headphones came with some sort of companion device with a touchscreen that
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by i_am_jl 4y ago
Dude's account is 9 years old with >5k karma. I'm concerned he's having a stroke.
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by i_am_jl 4y ago
No, it's the biggest rocket. Normal launch precautions for big rockets would have been a good place to start.

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