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by justin66 2y ago
> I do worry that these 19-24 year olds, some of whom are known to HN for other achievements, are putting themselves in real legal jeopardy. I worry that the law will not hold them accountable.
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by justin66 2y ago
If you use the vouch feature much, eventually they take it away from you. Same with upvoting and downvoting, but it all happens silently so most people don't notice.
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by justin66 2y ago
> it's not evidence It’s boring to argue about the definitions of words, but you’re using English and in the countries where English is primarily spoken, testimony is considered evidence.
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Because why would you want to judge someone by the quality of their ideas?
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> none of its amazing technology took off The laser printer sure did. In his address to "startup school" at Stanford (marked private now in Youtube for some reason) Alan Kay pointed out that with the laser printer alone, money
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by justin66 2y ago
I expect the problems are similar in front of a judge. > Evidence is merely a collection of facts, how it was gathered does not alter its factual nature. That's obviously not true. The simplest counterexample is a witness report, wh
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Apple's storage pricing is INSANE Do this instead [video](youtube.com)
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by justin66 2y ago
You said in a separate comment that all your developers use it. You're in violation of the software's evaluation license.
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I wonder how well that can possibly work in practice. It can't go over great in front of a jury when someone who is going to be punished for violating the rules talks about the evidence they've obtained, advocating for its legitim
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> found the gun If any bullets were found and if the gun was shown to be a ballistic "match," the article neglected to mention it. > Perhaps there's some important principle of rights that's eluding me. The legal p
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“Google added that the Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.”
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by justin66 2y ago
> Approximately 99.999% of those complaints are uttered by people who 1) are not doing the work, 2) are not interested or capable of doing the work, and 3) do not understand or refuse to acknowledge that the Wayland and X developers are
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The value of that ordering scheme was lost when her father died, not when she reordered the records.
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by justin66 2y ago
Subaru's got an unusually complicated infotainment setup. If you'd like to do a more meaningful comparison, Mazda might be interesting, since they do focus on simplicity and use real buttons and switches.
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by justin66 2y ago
I remembered Howard Chu commenting on that paper... https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-devel@op... I'm pretty sure that's not where I originally saw his comments. I remember his critic
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by justin66 2y ago
GRRM procrastinates writing A Game of Thrones books by making A Game of Thrones TV shows. Patrick Rothfuss procrastinates by doing cheesy charity work (whose positive impact is dwarfed by what he could do by donating the money from a third
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by justin66 2y ago
> As for McCain, his words were "No Ma'am, he is not an Arab, he is a decent family man", which I suppose is addressing misinformation with a decisiveness Republicans wouldn't dream of today. To be precise: they'
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by justin66 2y ago
Maybe? If you're in the area - would it be fair to characterize entry level software development jobs in Des Moines as "easily exceeding six figures?" I took a quick and lazy peek at a job site and I didn't feel like the
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by justin66 2y ago
New "software" grads? Easily? Today? In flyover country? I'm not seeing it. Salaries got a nice bump over the last few years, but hiring has slowed down and new grads are the first to suffer. (and some of what you see when pe
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Aren't hardware salaries outside California basically shit even in the US?
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I'm sure 100% of the people who read that comment understood what it meant.
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> Another thing: why are they reporting speed in miles per hour, and altitude in feet? Surely anybody interested in space is familiar with SI units. The audience that matters most to them is Americans, and they're happy to accommoda
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by justin66 2y ago
Not much mention of the USDA or the relevant committees in the House and the Senate. They're awfully relevant. The department and committees who control agricultural subsidies and how much corn syrup gets spooged into American food als
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Eh. The relevant parties are largely incapable of feeling embarrassment.
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> Many of the mailing lists that dominated the discourse of the early Internet in the 1990s operated under a similar rule. What lists are you referring to? I don't remember this ever coming up.
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> Matt Mullenweg is in desperate need of an intervention. Seriously, the man should seek professional help. The generosity inherent in this sentiment is fundamentally a mistake. Mullenweg will keep dominating his domain if people cannot
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And the language is nevertheless recognized as one of the country's two official languages. I just don't think Finland is a great example of what the post was talking about (a mythic country where everything works because it is an
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by justin66 2y ago
> At this point, it feels like a matter of time before Rust replaces C/C++. I expect Rust's successor might have a shot at replacing C++. By the time C++ was as old as Rust, it had conquered the world. If Rust coulda, it woulda
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> Worth pointing out that Finland is one of the most ethnically homogeneous societies in Europe - only ~10% of the population is of foreign origin and background Meh. They've got two different official languages. It's not as et
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It's worth remembering, we're talking about the most expensive member of a pretty full product line. I have had a few "every room" applications (streaming music with some pretty inefficient software) for these things, an

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