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by jariel 6y ago
Some companies build their entire brand off of these kinds of things. When I was in my 20's I would have told people they were crazy if someone were to have told me this, but we should be about that cynical. They are systems mostly des
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by jariel 6y ago
It would seem to me that copyright might be the issue here. I don't see why telling the story of a similar incident requires that anyone be compensated. Unless they want to use real names.
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by jariel 6y ago
The notion that we can just arbitrarily control inflation in the context of UBI-like spending is not responsible, it's simply not true.
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by jariel 6y ago
I suggest that 5 of them would be back on the streets within months, and another 5 would only be doing 'ok'. Many people on the streets are really broken and have a lot of extremely negatively reinforcing habits, to the point wher
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by jariel 6y ago
Coding can be all of those things if you're doing it right.
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by jariel 6y ago
"and "ND" for asian males - "Negative Diversity"." Wow, that just feels kind of offensive, and like a big lawsuit waiting to happen.
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by jariel 6y ago
So his apologies are genuine while others are not? He's been caught several times in Blackface and when asked directly about other possible incidents he would not reply . Does that seem transparent and heartfelt? Everyone who gets
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by jariel 6y ago
That's a good point, and I wonder if someone studying pop culture seriously would endeavour to actually do broad, data-driven analysis of this stuff to identify what the actual impetuses of it all are. I think that public opinion is ba
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, but he's hyper woke, so it's 'ok'. The hypocrisy on that one is spectacular. Basically any other politician in North America would be completely destroyed and cancelled forever. Ironically, I think public reaction w
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by jariel 6y ago
"clearly racist and also sexist but it seems like these definitions are only selectively applied." No, they are not 'selectively applied' - in their view. In 'their version' of 'racist' - they cannot
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by jariel 6y ago
If official authorities in any country are able to voice concerns about a controversial subject, that's a good thing. In Canada, they would lose their jobs immediately. I'm not sure who is right in all of this, but I do think that
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a Monty Python Skit come to life.
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, that's fundamental to it. And so many things.
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't think it's to do with salvation so much as the cultural views towards people. Hearty, independent farmers, strong communitarian values, some degree of independence, faith and fealty are to be admired as virtuous, a form of
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by jariel 6y ago
In those situations, the average person is definitely thinking 'overthrow the government' because everything is crumbling around it. This is what causes they hyper sensitivity, authoritarianism, and 'blame America for Everyth
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by jariel 6y ago
Not at all. It may not be optimal for certain reasons to use USD, and they'd lose some advantages, but there are others to be gained that might make it worth it. To the extent there are no real capital controls on USD anywhere - and -
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by jariel 6y ago
"Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance." Yes they are. It's really upside down that you'd point out that 'governments can just print money to pay people!' as somehow being an advantage of go
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by jariel 6y ago
" This is (IMO) the most important point about digital currency - the promise of providing consumers in unstable economies the chance to convert to a more stable currency without government intrusion. " This was never the promise
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by jariel 6y ago
" Currency of my country lost 250% of its value over last 7 years. " The problem is not your Central Bank, it's almost assuredly a total dysfunction of government and the civil services - which will have effects more far reac
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by jariel 6y ago
"It's a place open to the public, so it is a public performance. " No, that's not a rational inference. Care to take a moment and search the case law for this? Given that millions of people play music in public every day
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by jariel 6y ago
So that's a good point - however, in some recent benchmarks I've run V8 vs. JS code in GraalVM JS module, it seems that V8 does move to that optimal state fairly quickly, and 3-4 runs for a specific line of code is usually a small
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by jariel 6y ago
"predictable performance for numeric-heavy, legacy" You mean all that 'legacy' C++ meant for the web? Yes, I see what someone might mean, i.e Autocad able to re-use a lot of code, but those are small use cases. And as fo
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by jariel 6y ago
It'd be interesting to get a true measure of the performance opportunities from WASM. Every app has performance opportunities, but they usually not quite related to the raw performance of the language, usually, it's loading and ba
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by jariel 6y ago
Thankfully nobody will ever fight a war of pollution externalizations. Over resources, yes, pollution, no. Economic calamity if pollution directly affects some nation, possibly. Not even as part of an escalation. A war requires a lot of ves
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by jariel 6y ago
A cop, playing music for himself and one other person, most certainly is not in violation of anything. The person making the video 'without critique or educational purpose' is probably in violation, hence the take down. A label wo
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a good point, and very sad. I think the DCMA people may want to change their tune on this (pun intended). Playing music among a small group even if they are disparate, is probably actually legal, or it should be.
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by jariel 6y ago
"Documenting police activities with video is a good way to improve accountability. " Where is the evidece of this? Documenting deadly encounters with police probably is a good thing. But 99.99% of encounters with police are not th
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by jariel 6y ago
That he is on duty is irrelevant. If he's playing music for himself - even one other person, it's not a public performance. The arguments being made here are infantile, and embarrassing. Because people 'hate cops' (shame
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by jariel 6y ago
? Playing music to yourself is not a 'public performance'. It's completely unambiguous.
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by jariel 6y ago
? The filming and distribution of someone listening to music is literally the breach of copyright, not anything the cop is doing, i.e. playing music to himself, which is obviously legal in every sense.

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