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by krisoft 2y ago
> you (and all the other commenters here) accept this rule like sheeps What do you mean "accept this rule like sheeps"? Do you expect violent resistance? Do you want to sue someone because a security guy poked their head in the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Use your imaginator. I use my imagination. The most likely answer is that there was a check and they haven't noticed because they were out and about.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I neither agree with him I don't agree with him either! Or rather I don't have an opinon. I neither agree nor disagree with him. It's just that I can understand his argument without having to form an opinion about it. &g
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by krisoft 2y ago
> What's the difference between these two statements? One describes the policy. Which is what they want to achieve. They want to achieve that a hotel employee checks on every room every 24 hour. The other describes that they don&#x2
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by krisoft 2y ago
Also, the demands of competition will require formalisation of judging. Instead of just dancing your hearth out, there will be elements, and point values, and combos and judging criteria. Whereas previously a set of moves would have been &q
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by krisoft 2y ago
> And really, if that's his argument, then he needs to take it up with the World DanceSport Federation. He is taking it up with the whole world. Wrote an article to do it.
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by krisoft 2y ago
The argument is that it is not a sport, but an artistic expression. It is not that someone shouldn't have been there, or that the judges got something wrong. It argues that the whole endeavour is misguided. The article lists a long lis
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by krisoft 2y ago
> It’s none of our business. Thank you for your opinion. I will decide what is my business and what is not.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I see for this is legal liability for the company if they end up unable to provide for their customer, That is not the only legal liability. If EE has a contract with DEFCON saying that they will give DEFCON the firmware and the rights
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by krisoft 2y ago
The Stern–Gerlach experiment is famous for many things. One of them is that the only reason the silver deposits could be seen were because the experimenters smoked cheap cigars with sulfur in them, which turned the deposited silver to black
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Entropic was basically on a Time and Materials (T&M) contract. What is your source for this?
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by krisoft 2y ago
I’m aware of that claim. I can’t verify it of course. But even if I take it as true, doesn’t mean that DEFCON couldn’t have believed he was subcontracting for EE. Similarly if it was DEFCON who introduced the firmware author to EE, EE might
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I do slightly favour defcon in this mess I do favour Entropic slightly. Simply because DEFCON being the larger entity has more power in the situation to dictate terms, and also because the end result favours DEFCON. They have their bad
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don’t understand what is confusing about that part. If he wasn’t paid for it then what he says is true. If he was paid then it is not true. Clearly DEFCON thinks they contracted EE to write the fimware. If that is true, and they have a co
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by krisoft 2y ago
As per usual nobody comes out of these things looking good. To really understand who is right and who is wrong here we would need to read the letter of the agreements between these entities, and cross reference them with facts. Of course n
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by krisoft 2y ago
Does not appear to be the case? If not for him we would not know that there is a dispute between EE and DEFCON. DEFCON would be still pissed with EE that they went overbudget, and EE would be pissed that they were not paid what they think a
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by krisoft 2y ago
> This dude, as a PAID contractor-for-hire Could you please tell us your source on that? Specifically that he was paid for developing the software.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> NASA is sorta playing the role of a systems integrator here That used to be the case. For example with the Space Shuttles that is how it went. With the Commercial Crew Program the idea is that they find commercial providers who take th
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by krisoft 2y ago
Similar to in Hungary. In hungarian milk bar is called "tejivó". There is a popular chain nowadays running under the name. This is what they say on their website about the history of the name: "The milk bar ("tejivó&quot
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by krisoft 2y ago
So they are suing the advertisers in the hopes that the advertisers start paying them again? That doesn't sound wise.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Have you examined the logic of this position? Yes. > You legitimately see an entire country as a "comic book villain? Not an entire country. The leadership of the country, yes. > And this seems rational and is a justified re
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don’t understand your argument. > A nuke detonated for this purpose would kill no one... directly. Yes. I’m aware of that fact. And that is why I fear an EMP less than the alternatives. Don’t get me wrong. It would suck. But it would s
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by krisoft 2y ago
> This is honestly the thing I am most scared about someone trying in a WW3 scenario Interesting. The most scared I'm in that situation is suffering 3rd degree burns at the same time everyone else does in a few tens of kilometer rad
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by krisoft 2y ago
> but there are shockingly few companies that build planes. Because the ones who try go bankrupt twice before they manage to certify their planes? If ever.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> a world which prioritizes people being paid to create art! The horror... You misunderstand. Creating art is hard. Putting oil paint on a canvas is easy. So if you pay money for paint on canvas without any other checks you will get the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> In fact, I have never made my pickles and hot sauce because I am now irrationally and deathly terrified of botulism. Don't be. Read up the facts, and make sure to prepare things right. This is the point of the warning. Botulism is
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by krisoft 2y ago
> possibly through tax credits or other benefits for depositing source code or playable copies with national archives. How would that work in practice? You could play your game yesterday, but you can't play it tomorrow because the c
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by krisoft 2y ago
What is the scale you are talking about here? Because at any significant scale the hard part is not where and how you spray the water but how you get the water there. Are you imagining a robot with a tank? How much water can that carry?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> As we saw in 2020, over indexing on efficiency can lead to cascading failures that put individuals at risk I don’t know what you mean here. By 2020 I assume you mean the covid-19 pandemic? I agree that the pandemic itself put people at
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Heck, I've even left a couple of dancefloors in clubs that I heavily suspected were firing actual lasers at the people, wonder how many of those were actual lasers vs light pointers and how many people got unknowingly injured, but

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