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by jowea 2y ago
Question: where does the idea that democracy and republic are incompatible comes from? I keep hearing this am curious where it started. Is it because the Founding Fathers wanted aristocratic elements to keep popular will at bay? To me the U
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Surely those bad actors were motivated by profits? The shareholders might not have voted for a "profits over safety" motion but the entire system created the incentives that led to bad actors acquiring their positions and doing b
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That would only work if there was a one-to-one correlation of autism with having a selective diet and it being the same diet for all. And diagnosing selective diet by itself by just asking questions isn't that hard anyway, is it? If i
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by jowea 2y ago
Taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_tax
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Google is an American company, so how is that an attack vector the US government should be concerned about?
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The whole world is not hostile to the USA to the same level as USA/Russia, although if they're concerned about espionage yes they may need to. I'm actually a bit surprised the Snowden leaks didn't lead to a bigger push f
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Will overland routes ever be as cheap and used as sea routes? And I feel the better comparison is does "missile on aircraft on carrier outrange hostile missile?"
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by jowea 2y ago
I think that can be understood as "What does the Lord of the Flies opines about human nature"
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by jowea 2y ago
From what I remember the issue is similar to App Stores where average persons just can't know what the extension does. Or even worse, I remember multiple reports of devs of popular extensions getting shady offers to buy those extension
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by jowea 2y ago
So, there was a big failure of paperwork, but as the co-founder say, why is there a million dollar shortfall? Where did the money go? I wonder if having fdic.gov basically say "beware of fintechs" is going to negatively impact the
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by jowea 2y ago
Don't airdrops restrict US persons? I mean I don't know if it's as strict as the Binance or FTX restrictions but still, the SEC is going to get involved?
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by jowea 2y ago
I heard it's because they can't do Initial Coin Offerings and just sell the coins to fund the project anymore, but they still need to distribute their coin to try to get usage going. So instead they "airdrop" it around i
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by jowea 2y ago
Out of the top of my limited experience the only project I interacted with not on GitHub or similar is Linux.
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At least you managed to get through saying Open without doing so.
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Can't we just declare __alignof__(uint32_t) on the 'char b[4]' and then freely use bswap without all this madness? Or memcpy the chars into a uint32 array? https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignmen
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by jowea 2y ago
From what I heard the French can also have a laugh at the AF's attempts at language standardization.
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And I suspect this is only true because of frequent cultural contact. If there wasn't any the British wouldn't know the American English word for it.
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by jowea 2y ago
> The EMBAG law stipulates that all public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns. How big of a hole is this going to be? > One of the cri
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by jowea 2y ago
wait what?
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by jowea 2y ago
The torrentfreak article seems more informative and has links to the source video report https://torrentfreak.com/south-korean-isp-infected-torrentin... From what I understand of the autotranslation, the ISP planted the mal
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by jowea 2y ago
There's actually an ICC investigation into Afghanistan, not sure what they're looking into but I don't remember bombing of civilian infrastructure being a big part of that war? As for Iraq, seems like there really were attack
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by jowea 2y ago
It's interesting to note this is specifically about ordering attacks on power plants, deciding that such attacks are unjustified attacks on civilian infrastructure. The Putin arrest warrant came earlier because it was related to someth
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Should make it look like you're Russian too.
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Intersting. How long till we have universal translators and/or can figure out the Voynich manuscript?
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by jowea 2y ago
The real question to me was who would be fooled by an official pretending to be from a country that ceased existing a century ago.
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by jowea 2y ago
> Reminds me of an issue with another Paradox Interactive title, Victoria 3. They had to rework it because, basically, the upper-classes stood in the way of all the good laws and reforms. A bit generalizing but I don't see what&#x27
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by jowea 2y ago
You could make a special primary key column creation function that rejects static values.
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I could imagine some sort of static analysis saying that using a constant value instead of a function is a mistake for columns with unique set.
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Pentagon time I guess?
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Wait, how does Christianity makes sense if women have no souls? > Christianity swung between the Augustinian view that women had souls only to have Aquinas take up Aristotle’s position that women were incapable of reason and therefore ha

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