laughing_man

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by laughing_man 1mo ago
You don't go to jail for possession of weed in most US states. You won't even go to jail for dealing unless you've been busted multiple times or you're moving heavy weight. When you see statistics about people incarcera
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
Most Asian countries are pretty serious about keeping drugs out of their countries. In Japan's case it's a little easier since they're an island nation. You can get a life sentence there for first offense import or manufactu
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
I did not, in fact, lose track of that point. I was merely pointing out it's not a solution. I'm sure the guy in the topic article thought he had things figured out, too. You know how they say ignorance of the law is no excuse?
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
Ah, I see where you've gone wrong. You're expecting to apply common sense and reason to the law. That kind of thinking has landed a whole lot of people in prison.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
I'm a bit mystified why anyone would bring an electronic device over an international border with anything that could be construed, fairly or not, as evidence of criminal behavior.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
The last time I tried to do that on a trip to Germany, admittedly many years ago, I found I could not get phone service without a local address.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
They can hold you for a few hours while they investigate, but they can't just arbitrarily detain you without a legal basis.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
I wouldn't assume that to be the case. It's illegal under federal law to destroy evidence of a crime. Just what the government needs to do to show that you've destroyed evidence of a crime and not just the sexting you did w
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
>Much of this happens in agricultural settings, where any work done by children under 12 is counted as child labor, even if it is light and non-hazardous. >Imagine an 11-year-old helping on a family farm in sub-Saharan Africa. He feed
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
It's really difficult to see what technologies will be enablers of state power. IMO, the techs ushering in 1984-levels of control are wifi, cheap cameras, and LLMs. The three technologies on their own are beneficial, but taken togeth
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
It does happen, though, and if this were to occur I think it would happen.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
That's the key point here. You won't be able to sue a judge who does that, but he could still be impeached. And probably would be. You would probably have a really good shot at an appeal, too.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
When I was younger I was really excited about procedural generation, because it seemed like a way to give games replayability. And it does do that for certain types of strategy and builder games, e.g. MOO2 or Factorio. But, so far at least
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
Because things that won't get you into trouble today will get you into trouble tomorrow when they change the rules. I'd prefer to have the government know as little as possible about my doings.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
By default I use Leo, and I do specify the distro. I tried to qualify by version, but when I do that I lose out on a lot of correct information for things that haven't changed in awhile.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
I've run into major problems with LLMs as I maintain my home Linux systems. If I just copied commands they list, I would have a near 100% failure rate, as most of the information they have has been gleaned from forum posts that are ye
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
There are different types of writing. If we depend on people writing because it's enjoyable at some level, we're going to lose writing that's important but also a bit tedious.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
That isn't true. This is settle law -- states can not prevent people from going to other states to have abortions.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Corporations can't arrest and jail me. The most they can do is file a lawsuit.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Nuclear's top 3 problems: 1. Plant construction is very expensive, and not in small part because people who don't actually understand the technology take every opportunity to tie up construction in the courts and regulatory agenc
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Which makes sense. The US is a net oil exporter -- in a strategic emergency the US will still have access to oil. China will want to have a much larger buffer, since its economy requires oil from other countries.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Nuclear waste isn't a problem. It takes up a tiny amount of space, and can be reprocessed if necessary.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Heh. Oddly, just like cold pizza, it tastes better to me after a day in the fridge.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
As the topic article points out, the 2-4 companies in the beef industry are losing money at current prices. If they didn't actually compete with each other you definitely wouldn't see that.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
You don't have to eat everything in one sitting. There's a burrito place near my house I go to occasionally, and every order there is two meals for me.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
The entire life cycle of a pig raised for pork is around six months, so pork producers can scale up quickly if the demand is there.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
There are certainly people who are insensitive to beef prices, but a lot of people aren't. I stopped buying ground beef when it went over $10/lb at my local supermarket. Pork and chicken haven't gone up nearly as much.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Part of the problem during Covid in the US was US lumber mills are set up to do trees of a certain size. If the trees are harvested late they're too big, so we had to send a lot of lumber to Canada where it could be processed.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
My dad did 20 in the USAF. We would ask him about his work and he would just shrug. He wasn't allowed to say anything. Eventually we stopped asking -- what would be the point? Decades later I found out he felt like nobody cared abou
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Writing code to do a thing is easy. Writing code that's logical and easy to follow, that can be extended in several likely dimensions without major plumbing work, and that doesn't contain "gotchas" for the maintainer, is

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