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by javagram 7y ago
It depends on whether the federal government has decided to preempt or not. In this case I don’t think there is a national privacy law that preempts CA, but companies are lobbying now for one to be created. I think it would be a good idea,
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by javagram 7y ago
Just block your website from being accessed in any country where you aren’t sure you can comply with their laws. A lot of sites are doing that for GDPR.
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by javagram 7y ago
In cases where the Feds have decided there should be a uniform standard, states can’t make their own law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption
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by javagram 7y ago
“six in 10 gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides” This is part of a trend in “deaths of despair” in the last few decades. People are killing themselves more with guns, alcohol, and (especially) drug overdoses. https://www.jec.senat
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by javagram 7y ago
I’m also curious about this. They might be planning to meet these targets by switching enough of the fleet to hybrids or electric?
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by javagram 7y ago
To be fair, if a “parent corporation” is a thing, then logically it has children and can be a corporate family.
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by javagram 7y ago
The “rise of mass shootings” is mostly a media phenomenon. They are still extremely rare events. Gun laws haven’t gotten laxer in the last couple decades either - many states have strengthened them. There isn’t a clear connection between we
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by javagram 7y ago
RMS hasn’t had a paid job as a programmer for 40 years as far as I know. People say he was homeless and living in his office at MIT while working on GNU in the 80s. Isn’t he basically a speaker and advocate nowadays? That career is unlikely
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by javagram 7y ago
considering according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20991909 he apparently was homeless and lived out of his office for a while, yeah that's probably the definition of unprofessional.
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by javagram 7y ago
> If Minsky were tried in US, he would be convicted. Ignorance is not a defense. This is correct, at least for many US states (22, according to Wikipedia’s article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(c
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by javagram 7y ago
I am not sure we differ in any more than degree. I agree even in the 20th century the media made mistakes and there were even outright frauds that went on for a while within my memory (Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, and so on). I mainly wante
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by javagram 7y ago
The allegation against Minsky were made in a deposition in 2016 though, and I believe that deposition was only unsealed this year, hence making the news this year (leading to the recent resignations at MIT). I don’t think Minsky had a chanc
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by javagram 7y ago
I knew he no longer works on GCC and many other projects but I thought he still contributed to emacs. Looking at the recent commits on GitHub, it appears I was wrong about that. Did he have mainly a supervisory role at the FSF or was he jus
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by javagram 7y ago
OK. At least, as your link shows, they eventually admitted they were wrong once the Cold War ended and the records became available. In my experience outlets like the NYT do issue corrections - e.g. just over this weekend, they published a
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by javagram 7y ago
There is a mailing list thread that was copied and sent to VICE. Note, the headline and article body of this post contain lies to make the story more clickable, but if you scroll to the bottom there is a widget that contains the 20 page mai
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by javagram 7y ago
A good comparison by another poster today here between RMS’ statements on the mailing list and the lies the news media published about them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990426 I wonder what this means for the infl
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by javagram 7y ago
That’s why I said the 20th century, the “yellow press” I mentioned was the 19th century papers you’re talking about. They did anything to sell a headline - in the 20th century, ethical standards for media were better for a while, although o
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by javagram 7y ago
Online media outlets are well known to lie and often do in cases such as these. They are the yellow press of our day. Unlike 20th century newspapers, they don’t have ombudsmen or public editors who care more about truth than headlines (A tr
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by javagram 7y ago
You appear to be confusing Minsky, who was dead before any of this hit the news and was never charged with any crime, and Epstein.
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by javagram 7y ago
Isn’t iOS 13 not out yet? I don’t have such issues on iOS 12 and my SE. Of course “light usage” may be different between us...
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by javagram 7y ago
> Yet they never reverse course. The “trash can” Mac Pro would like a word...
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by javagram 7y ago
That’s open borders and it isn’t a popular policy with the country, which is why it hasn’t happened. (I don’t think any first world country has such a policy, the USA is hardly alone here) People are worried that a dramatic rise in immigran
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by javagram 7y ago
Trump won both the primary and the general even though he spent significantly less than his opponents in both. Money talks, but it isn’t everything and can’t buy elections in the USA right now.
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by javagram 7y ago
AoE2 HD on steam. It has new official expansions and supports modern resolutions, but doesn’t yet have remastered graphics otherwise. The remastered edition (“Definitive Edition”) of AoE2 is coming out in November.
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by javagram 7y ago
I’ve seen it pointed out in the case of Tesla’s OTAs, for instance, drivers may get used to the behavior of Autopilot for their car in a certain segment of road and then have an OTA change that behavior without much warning. (Of course, the
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by javagram 7y ago
People illegally present in the US cannot work legally. That means they work under the table and are subject to all sorts of abuse, and their presence promotes gray market/black market economies. While I think it is unfair to deport pe
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by javagram 7y ago
The article warns that the products contain salt, fat, and sugar. Sugar is undoubtedly a health risk but salt and fat aren’t necessarily bad for you. I think the medical consensus on recommended salt levels is still subject to debate. Many
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by javagram 7y ago
Isn’t the SE screen size the same as a 2x assistive size on the larger phone? So by developing apps compatible with the SE, it’s also helping the visually impaired.
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by javagram 7y ago
Came here to make the same comment. I don’t think Apple has confirmed any EOL for the SE. It’s not sold in the USA anymore, but isn’t it still produced in India for that market (maybe ending now that the 11 is announced, I’m not sure)?
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by javagram 7y ago
Even on luxury housing the profit margin isn’t great. It isn’t really possible to “invest” in affordable housing without significant government subsidies. After all the difference between a normal apartment building and a luxury one is what

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