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by jimz 4y ago
And the stack is still used today by plenty of people around the world, what's the problem?
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by jimz 4y ago
Haha my goodness. Yes, if you're the state, all that is theoretically true, but the catch is of course the problem of legibility. The state is well aware of that, as you noted, but so many transactions themselves are untrackable, some
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by jimz 4y ago
My decision to at least exclude family law, beyond the divorce of my parents when I was a teenager being fairly ugly (although now with a larger sample size I've observed, relatively tame), was cemented by sitting through a whole sessi
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by jimz 4y ago
State-run lotteries are ALWAYS about the transfer of wealth and property from the poor and marginalized to the wealthy and connected. This was true during colonial times, this was the manner by which the state of Georgia divvied up land sto
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by jimz 4y ago
Also, reddit, due to the way it encourages specific niche subreddits to proliferate, inadvertently also showcases, albeit from the tag side instead of the tagged-content side, one use-case where community tagging is both necessary and canon
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by jimz 4y ago
Italy as a polity, regardless of how real the polity actually existed as a coherent and cohesive governing state, pretty much existed continuously from Rome until entirely left out by the Congress of Vienna in 1805 though. By the time 1848
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by jimz 4y ago
It's not 100% undisputed but most historians would agree that until conquered by the Persians in 525 BC, Egyptian history consists of 26 dynastic changes and 8 major distinct periods. Each dynasty of course usually had more than one ru
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by jimz 5y ago
Oh god I hope law enforcement doesn't decide to jump in on this as a cost-cutting measure (that they don't need) that would result in evidentiary and potentially constitutional issues. Most LE departments have arrangements that gi
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by jimz 5y ago
While almost everyone in China who can get out of the country is essentially "laundering" money by attempting to evade the ridiculous currency controls? The Russians arguably have more faith in the Yuan than the wealthy Chinese at
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by jimz 5y ago
I find the comparison really odd as someone in the opposite position - I had formal classical piano training from 8 years old until I gave it up during college, and later learned how to code entirely through copying other people's code
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by jimz 5y ago
I'm sure in some social circles or professions it is, but after college I've lived in Seattle, Boston, Brooklyn, and Las Vegas, and outside of the context where the existence of my degree is a necessity by virtue of state law in o
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by jimz 5y ago
Eliot himself explains in no uncertain terms in his seminal essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" that what he intended to accomplish, and views as essential to the poetic form, resides in the referential nature of poetry to
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by jimz 5y ago
Are you sure? PH's official line has always been "share with people you know but no bots/asking for upvotes/manipulation" or something akin to that. It's still in their community guidelines, albeit with languag
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by jimz 5y ago
I should note that the government does a lot of stuff. If you have a cause you feel strongly about, whichever side, it's worth taking some time to understand which ones you can actually (at least theoretically) have a direct impact ove
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by jimz 5y ago
I understand why lawmakers would want to enact such measures, and I'm quite familiar with the result of impaired driving of any kind, having represented those accused of such charges in court. However, it should be noted that the drunk
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by jimz 6y ago
Articles of Confederation. It was in force for 6 years before the founders dumped it and drafted the Constitution. The main problems were the inability for congress to levy taxes, regulate trade international and interstate, and congress wo
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by jimz 6y ago
If it's a civil rights case and there's merit to your claims, you might be able to find public interest lawyers to help out for much less than that. Call around, there are firms in most large cities.
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by jimz 6y ago
They, alongside the Second Amendment Foundation, have actually had some success fighting states for discriminatory laws that deny 2nd Amendment rights to specific populations. After all, the Constitution wouldn't work if it doesn'
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by jimz 6y ago
The system is set up under the assumption that the institutions themselves cannot have systemic issues and all problems are really the work of individual employees acting outside of what they're supposed to do, and so you're suppo
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by jimz 6y ago
Alternatively, call a god damn lawyer and have them deal with this. This is no time for amateur hour crowdsourced solutions.
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by jimz 6y ago
Federal agents, while technically only possessing something akin to an even less accessible version of qualified immunity under the Bivens doctrine, in reality are basically never going to be held responsible in any sort of substantive way
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by jimz 6y ago
The problem is that both forms are treated identically by law, at least in the United States. You can be charged additionally for profiting from piracy but not profiting or not taking credit and mere distribution does not absolve you of the
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by jimz 6y ago
* From the consumers: Piracy doesn't matter. Pirates were never going to buy anyway.* Really? Maybe times have really changed but I know a lot of people, myself included, who pirated software - starting in the mid 90s for me - because
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by jimz 6y ago
I don't know why you'd assume you're the outlier. Never mind the differences between physical and psychological dependence and problem use (which can happen without dependence, and one can be dependent but not using problemat
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by jimz 6y ago
Prosecutors aren't necessarily blessed with bigger budgets in a lot of places, they simply have a separately-funded (and very well funded at that) investigative body that is the police or sheriff's office doing the really expensiv
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by jimz 6y ago
Depends on what you mean by repercussions. Since there is at least informal and sometimes fairly open scorekeeping happening at prosecutor's offices there's some hurt pride if your conviction is overturned later. Everything else e
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by jimz 6y ago
It's interesting and sad to see the forced assimilative process of erasing written Cantonese. I remember HK in the late 90s still had newspapers that published in written Cantonese. Just across the border in Shenzhen, without the Briti
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by jimz 6y ago
Deepl seems to have a bit of an issue with uncommon street suffixes in Chinese. For example: 江苏省苏州市姑苏区东中市374号槔桥头 Google: Bridge Head, No. 374, Dongzhong City, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province Deepl: Pulley Bridge, No. 374, Dongz
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by jimz 6y ago
I basically have something similar to your use-case. While I'm on the free tier for all my domains, the supplemental agreement, at least in the US version, removes the specific limitation to serve primarily html/text content if yo
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by jimz 6y ago
Um, in countries where the government can play the ultimate arbiter of truth in speech they also get to determine what due process is, which usually is exactly what suits them. Private companies reflect the values of their shareholders and

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