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by jack9 8y ago
> a few companies are making a HUGE PILE OF MONEY, and I think everyone can agree that's unquestionably a good thing. Unquestionably? No, it's a bad thing for the monopolies to maintain through capitalism's achille's
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by jack9 8y ago
> those are libertarian values As a libertarian voter, in the USA, I find this kind of position to be juvenile. They are conservative values, that happen to overlap with libertarian goals. Libertarian values are neither fundamental (old
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by jack9 8y ago
> kids are more depressed and lonely > No its not Yes it is. More is not "largely different", regardless of study rigor.
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by jack9 8y ago
> Get dangerous people -- perhaps with little to lose if they are already facing serious charges -- off the street faster How does bail achieve that? If they are too dangerous to release, then it's no bail. If they are possibly dang
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by jack9 8y ago
The vast majority of america does not have such a bias toward location. It's makes a good heuristic, in america. It's not surprising when there's exceptions.
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by jack9 8y ago
In pony, floating point behaves 1.0/0.0 the way you might expect.
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by jack9 8y ago
> If you have a program that's performing divide-by-zeroes, that's almost surely something you did not intend for It's such a common case to consider, I don't think that's compelling. Knowing that a division by
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by jack9 8y ago
> Toxicity is learned and reinforced (or not) behavior. Not solely in a single game. That's some hubris.
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by jack9 8y ago
> systemd's job is to start daemons But that's not all it does and the dependencies of systemd alongside making systemd a dependency, results in a very different observable reality.
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by jack9 8y ago
Chinese v Singaporean, Spanish v Mexican, it goes on. The belief that abuse occurs is intolerable (no compromise) is just lowering the bar as to who controls what is said and how.
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by jack9 8y ago
> in fact it seems that safe spaces are one of the few things that counter infantilization of Western culture How is that fact? De facto pronouncing adults unable to deal with reality and/or speech wherein they need to be protected
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by jack9 8y ago
> The words on Twitter do sometimes include slander and threats which would make them illegal. The idea of a nebulous "illegality" is simplistic and wrong, in the US. They might open an individual to civil liability, but they
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by jack9 8y ago
Ironically, the executive regulatory bodies also have mandates that aren't followed (across their existence), so I'm not sure that's a compelling reasoning.
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by jack9 8y ago
With predictable outcomes. Liars avoid prosecution and weasel out of consequence, even with dedicated decisioning.
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by jack9 8y ago
The futility of trying to equivocate truth was illustrated by the Clinton trial, or taking any community college philosophy class.
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by jack9 8y ago
> They're meant for the public to provide new, unique perspectives Citation?
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by jack9 8y ago
> FCC does nothing that citizens need or want done. Keeping emergency bands clear is something the general populace wants done and frankly, needs done.
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by jack9 8y ago
TEACHERS? Teacher's Unions (as well as various other service workers...like the Department of Water and Power) are notorious. Their authoritarian and misappropriation has been the top story in California off-and-on for decades. This is
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by jack9 8y ago
Both sides are criminalized in the US
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by jack9 8y ago
> Landlords are only making a profit because of the exceptional last couple of years in California That's a particularly pointless bit of misinformation. Holding property isn't free, in general. Land is quite the liability in C
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by jack9 8y ago
> I started questioning what was even real. The votes aren't real and they don't matter. This is true for FB likes or whatever else you can imagine. Reddit goes to a LOT of trouble to counter bad actors, but if you're in s
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by jack9 8y ago
Quite slow compared to what? PHP was popular when it had MySQL bindings that were always up to date with MySQL changes and apache PHP setup was simplistic. Thus the LAMP stack, right? It has always been rather fast, in the larger ecosystem
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by jack9 8y ago
> letting internal exceptions define external behavior is perhaps a bad idea In practice, I've preferred it for years.
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by jack9 8y ago
I really don't understand how criticisms get so much attention, when it's nothing close to a constructive study. It's just some unhappy employee's porthole and it seems to be too successful to dismiss.
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by jack9 8y ago
> as businesses interests have succeeded at undermining and destroying unions Unions largely have done that to themselves, as they organized into the same structures they purport to combat and act accordingly, with a capitalistic bend.
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by jack9 8y ago
This is like a horoscope. Everything in that article can be attributed to nearly every western nation (at any time since he said it). Ok, there's an ideological war...which there has always been. There's always been a conflict bet
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by jack9 8y ago
> eBay is worth $37 billion today > extremely profitable corporation Yup, layoffs look like a classic pump and dump to fiddle with the numbers for a sale.
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by jack9 8y ago
It's likely the superset of some transmutations. Categories or not, one precedes the other (for anything that we understand).
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by jack9 8y ago
Why not? We started atomic transmutation with fire.
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by jack9 8y ago
> There's a lot of scientific evidence I would like to see this. Do you have a link to a peer reviewed study?

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