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by lawpoop 10y ago
No but I'm not running Vista.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Not in a minimum wage scenario.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
FWIW, I don't believe we're going to have 60% unemployment in the future due to automation (or any other factor), but I do think that unemployment, underemployment, and plain old poverty wages are a real problem now. My living qua
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think you misunderstand market economics. There might be things to do, but the owners would not be willing to pay people a living wage to do them. People without a living wage can't afford housing, groceries, etc. etc. etc. Like how
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, poor budgeting, mental illness I come from a middle class background and I know a number of people, in my extended family and in my middle-class community, who have made the same choices (BTW ment
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, poor budgeting, mental illness I come from a middle class background and I know a number of people, in my extended family and in my middle-class community, who have made the same choices (BTW ment
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, poor budgeting, mental illness I come from a middle class background and I know a number of people, in my extended family and in my middle-class community, who have made the same choices (BTW ment
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by lawpoop 10y ago
War crimes, for the most part, aren't some battle-frenzy or blood-lust, they are either a deliberate tactic or lack of discipline. Nanking wasn't soldiers gone crazy from war, it was deliberate punishment and demoralization of the
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by lawpoop 10y ago
You're saying a force with robot soldiers would have robot soldiers alone, with no human soldiers who would follow up, come in, and commit war crimes?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
It would be great if war gets to some point where human lives aren't threatened, but for the forseeable future, robot soldiers are going to be killing humans. Forces who can afford them aren't going to be squaring off anytime soon
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by lawpoop 10y ago
"That we don't know what the hell we're talking about."
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by lawpoop 10y ago
How much would it cost, roughly, to manufacture helium from one of these? From what I understand, we are running out of our natural stock.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Not an expert, but you actually focusing on a pixel is your brain doing image processing, not a function of your eyeball. Your field of vision (and focus) is much bigger than 1 degree, so any part of the image that you are "looking at&
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Alternatively, maybe not everywhere, forever, but in tiny, microscopic niches across the globe, not accessible to modern bacteria how would devour them in an instant. What are our chances of finding any of them?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Extinction is only a macro-phenomenon?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think in Johns Hopkins studies they were using amphetamines, and also they recruited people who were hallucinogenic-naive.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think that once all the people of my generation are dead, and all the people I can relate to, who had the same formative experiences I had are gone, I won't want to live much longer. I think even if we engineer away death, you will s
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by lawpoop 10y ago
When specifically was CSS explicitly and officially said to be for layout? As I remember, it began as styling, and people started using it for layout, and that became the best practice, though not official. I don't recall the announcem
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by lawpoop 10y ago
To be technical, css isn't broken-- it's just for styling. Using css for layout was a fundamentally bad idea, but it was the best hack around at the time. And now it's enshrined :/
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by lawpoop 10y ago
There's no reason they won't cave. McConnell even put forth Garland as a nominee they'd like to see from Obama, even though "he'd never nominate him". I was going to say this is the devil they know, but in this
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by lawpoop 10y ago
First, Supreme Court Justices are pretty much inscrutable as far as their jurisprudence before they join the bench (see: just about any justice in modern history). Knowing anything about the president's political leanings tells us next
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by lawpoop 10y ago
... _self-parsing_?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
And you won't care if they summarily shut down your app in their country, then, of course?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> has no presence in Brazil. If they have no presence in Brazil, how did they get shut down in Brazil? I don't mean to be glib, but I don't see how the two concepts jive with each other. On a purely practical level, if they wer
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by lawpoop 10y ago
It's not that the state writes a law that gives the unions leverage. They write laws to /take away/ leverage from a union. There's nothing to guarantee any kind of break from work for an employee, unless it's a law
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by lawpoop 10y ago
It allows them some leverage over their constituents. For instance, in Michigan, a big union state, there is no state law mandating lunch or other breaks. That way, unions can say to employees, "Without a union, your employer can deny
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by lawpoop 10y ago
But the people "on UBI" will be everyone. It seems like you're thinking of "the people on UBI" as only those who don't have a steady job, live at their parent's house, etc. I think of the average person I
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think a solution would be to move to a system of professional jurors. As it stands, the current jury system seems to be a horrible mess of people who can't get out of going to jury duty, relying not on understanding of the law or leg
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think the general take-away is that Scalia is skeptical of "Big Goverment" and state power. Scale ruled that police needed warrants to put tracking devices on vehicles: http://jalopnik.com/antonin-scalia-the-tiny
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I personally doubt it, but that remains to be seen. I'm open to being convinced otherwise. I think more people would take a "staycation" for a while, then get bored, and go into new endeavors, like starting a new business, wr

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