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by jevoten 5y ago
But it would be an innovative business opportunity to flash that sign when near the car manufacturer's trusted partners in the restaurant and convenience store businesses.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> 2020’s racial justice protests [..] Proud Boys is a far-right group with a reputation for street violence and with several members — including one from South King County — who have been charged with terrorism for alleged actions relate
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by jevoten 5y ago
As of 2017, 69 percent of Google’s workforce was male, compared to 70 percent in 2014, and 91 percent was white or Asian, a percentage that’s barely changed over three years. - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2&#
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by jevoten 5y ago
Also covered by the Verge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803183
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He said that Pluton will also prevent people from running software that has been modified without the permission of developers. [1] Left unsaid is that Pluton could be made to securely allow the owner full control, but that would defeat
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by jevoten 5y ago
Are borders unjust? Is it illegitimate for nations to decide who is part of them? To set limits who they will share their country with, who they will allow to decide the nation's future via voting?
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> Right now, elected sheriffs openly promote resistance to federal authority. And mayors and governors too - they even passed laws mandating it, and in one case it was even done through "unilateral executive action of a non-elected
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by jevoten 5y ago
You're making a legal argument, about how things are , not how they should be . If we're talking about "how copyright works", 100 years ago it worked very differently from today.
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> All of those studies of people in Trump Country USA who were shocked, shocked, that the kind man next door who is a good father and a great neighbor and a real part of the community was dragged away by ICE? Don't enforce the borde
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by jevoten 5y ago
Look at it this way - without government-funded journalism, the only voices are corporate ones. I think it's good to have both, even if neither is fully independent.
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by jevoten 5y ago
Ok, lets pretend IP never reverts to the public domain. Before you write the first word, pay a license to the heir of whoever invented written language. And spoken, for that matter. And invented paper, and the pen. Then to the heirs of all
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And therefore we are all the same above the neck.
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The key difference with the bank robbing example is that that is a crime in both countries A and B, and it didn't take any pressure of country B onto A to make it a crime in A as well.
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by jevoten 5y ago
The Arms Export Control Act is a US law, and his friend was neither American nor in America. As a non-American myself, I don't like it one bit when I see US law reach into what should be sovereign countries. And then have that dismisse
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by jevoten 5y ago
And yet fossil fuels are still funded, and even subsidized, instead of nuclear. By all means try and get 100% of power from wind and solar, but we're not there yet. And until we are, and they can provide the required baseload power, it
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by jevoten 5y ago
> didn't apply to greenhouses I guess the logic was that plants in greenhouses are pollinated manually, without any help from bees. /s
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by jevoten 5y ago
How about instead of "radiation bad", we look at more objective metrics, like deaths/CO2 per kWh: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy And instead of comparing nuclear to a magical zero-polluti
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by jevoten 5y ago
You may be able to block the install app prompt using a uBlock filter or similar. An ability you wouldn't have in their app.
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by jevoten 5y ago
Just like fair use, these kinds of rights will disappear once enforcement is automated.
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Can they stop you from speeding? Breaking quarantine? Driving without a license? Violating parole? Driving onto a private road? Violating curfew? Once you open the door to mandating that "our" possessions disobey us, there's
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by jevoten 5y ago
> If people of color are more concerned about climate change than white people, why is the interest in climate anxiety so white? I'm confused. Non-whites are more concerned about climate change (in the US - the poll cited only surve
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by jevoten 5y ago
> Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor That's unusually candid. Usually it's phrased as some variation of "Black, Latino, Native American, Indian, Pacific Islander, or other m
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by jevoten 5y ago
That's like an inverse heckler's veto, isn't it? Anything that gets popular with the "wrong" crowd gets censored, through no fault of the speaker's.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> IP theft If the code is covered by patents, extracting it doesn't give you anything that reading the public patent wouldn't (if the patent was written as it should have been, to inform, and not obfuscated or ran through incom
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by jevoten 5y ago
How were they blocked? When you sent a message containing "www.blocked-domain.com", what did the sender and recipient get? An (honest?) error message, or silent failure?
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I think the more salient factor is which facts they choose to check. Better to leave some stories un-checked, so they can be dismissed as only reported by right-wing sources. In one instance, PolitiFact requested NewsBusters to prove a ch
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by jevoten 5y ago
So the countries that are net energy exporters, colored in a friendly blue - they don't receive any compensation for that energy? They're just giving it away? And that is why that energy shouldn't count towards their greenhou
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by jevoten 5y ago
> I don't quite know why they hate me so much, but whenever I try to be nice to movie companies and purchase their stuff, they treat me like shit. It's called "paying the Danegeld".
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That's why I phrased it as only taking effect after a legally-valid notification/warning (or maybe a couple). That way honest mistakes or ignorance of the law doesn't get you in trouble, and penalties can slowly escalate. T
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by jevoten 5y ago
The screenshot shows an email from no-reply@amazon.com - how did the scammers fake the sender this way? And how can one tell that it's faked.

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