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by labster 3y ago
No, but the verdict could have cost an arm and a leg. @GP: Yes, but what does the law say about transhuman rights? At what point has one added/removed things that they’re no longer a natural person?
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by labster 3y ago
What if someone inserted the gene in a human embryo, but didn’t pay the royalty? Would the pregnancy have to be aborted to protect the IP, or would it be enough to cease and desist future distribution of the gene via castration? I mean it s
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by labster 3y ago
I never had to spend time in the old days debugging centering, I just used <center> and tables and it worked! Then I could spend the time saved by adding <font> tags everywhere and making images for my rounded corners.
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by labster 3y ago
Just remember that after a corporation does sunsetting the long, cold, dark night follows.
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by labster 3y ago
I wonder how much both the early 20th century and the current postmodern views on relations with the Neanderthals was influenced by the politics of the times. Back then people wanted justifications for colonialism and promoted social Darwin
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by labster 3y ago
Different use cases. A lot of the web only has only one or two interactive elements in a scope. The DOM being changed by any random piece of code is not a problem when all of the JavaScript fits on two screens. In fact, it’s a benefit her
457.
by labster 3y ago
At long last, humanity has discovered a more useless use of energy than Bitcoin.
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by labster 3y ago
Based on his tweets, Elon must have a degree in Uncivil Engineering.
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by labster 3y ago
Okay, I was able to progress, it's just a really small target to touch on screen. Though to be fair, probably a larger target than most advertising close X buttons. https://ibb.co/t4KjqtK
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by labster 3y ago
That depends on where you live. It’s definitely easier to dial 112 on a rotary phone than 911 or especially 999.
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by labster 3y ago
I couldn’t beat the tutorial on iPhone SE, the modal text covers where the game needs you to click
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by labster 3y ago
We don’t need to worry about Florida nonprofits holding land for generations because it will all be under water.
463.
by labster 3y ago
Not much longer until Search joins https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by labster 3y ago
Social class isn’t a new phenomenon. Teachers and professors have long been the poorest members of the upper class.
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by labster 3y ago
That’s really interesting. I do wonder if requiring jurors to write an opinion would have a similar effect, or would it just be like every group assignment in school where most jurors decide to coast off the work of the most diligent member
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by labster 3y ago
Sure, but what are those systems? Are they like Japan where they don’t charge as many cases, or are they like North Korea where you are executed with a missile (and therefore aren’t innocent in jail). Is it judges or sortition? All of the o
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by labster 3y ago
I eagerly await your proposed improvements to the criminal justice process that you didn’t post in your criticism of the current process.
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by labster 3y ago
Same here, but with Centrurion Rory Williams doing the explaining in Doctor Who.
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by labster 3y ago
Cooperation is essential to build a society that can reach space. Every spacefaring race should have cooperation genes like us (but also like us they may be occasionally genocidal). One of the reasons for human success is cross-species coop
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by labster 3y ago
That’s a ridiculous use case, only grandmas are on Facebook these days.
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by labster 3y ago
Do you have any evidence that us biologicals are not an outlier other than the anthropic principle? Maybe our solar system is in the machines’ nature preserve sector.
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by labster 3y ago
I would name that poem “The Ballad of REAL ID”
473.
by labster 3y ago
I don’t understand why this author completely writes off the possibility of not releasing weekly. Honestly in the era of streaming, who cares about releasing every week? Often I wait until a season is wrapped before watching any of it. As a
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by labster 3y ago
You shouldn’t have to accept the beliefs, just the virtues, if it’s a religion with a stated goal of making people virtuous (excluding some polytheistic faiths, for instance).
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by labster 3y ago
No. I’m saying the military didn’t lose the war, American and Afghani politicians did. And not because we decided to leave, but because there was no strong strategic reason to be there after the primary casus belli was accomplished: the eli
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by labster 3y ago
No that is absolutely not the definition. You win a war when you meet your political goals. The military didn’t lose, the grand strategy changed. This isn’t sophistry, war is just extension of politics by other means. The vast majority of u
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by labster 3y ago
The US military just spent 20 years in Afghanistan, a landlocked country on the other side of the world with little economic value, and only left because our politicians chose to leave. We could have afforded another 20 years easily with ha
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by labster 3y ago
“A fool and his money are soon parted” is a cliché because it’s true. And can be monetized.
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by labster 3y ago
Do people actually use modern versions of Fortran though? I learned it in university in 2004, and we used Fortran 90 because F95 was considered “too new”, and one still encountered a lot of Fortran 77.
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by labster 3y ago
The sea does lose salt to the atmosphere, just less than it does of water, so it doesn’t reduce salinity. Wave action releases enough salt to smell salt in the air, and a bit makes it up higher to provide cloud condensation nuclei.

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