logfromblammo

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by logfromblammo 6y ago
The vast majority of software development work outside of startups and the FAANGs is cleaning up someone else's garbage, usually without enough budget allocated to be really thorough about it. It's a toss-up as to whether your man
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Also frustrating considering that Republicans set their asking price at unalloyed, unmitigated evil, and allow themselves to be haggled down to merely abhorrent. Then Democrats give it to them. It's like trying to sell a banana for $
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Please don't descend into strawman arguments and false dilemmas. It is not a binary choice between the militaristic, public-hostile police we have now, and no police at all. As it is, the police in schools frequently do inappropriate t
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
> "the new substance is crystalline, occurs in two-dimensional sheets, and could one day be useful in advanced electronics." > "the material itself remains unstable and it quickly dissolves when the heat and pressure
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Sounds like a good reason to show your receipt... at the returns counter.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Is that a rhetorical question? There is no reason to have police that don't follow the Peelian principles.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
The expectation of the public is that police should prioritize deterrence and investigation of property crimes above assembling a massive show of force to deprive peaceful protesters of their 1st amendment rights to free speech, to peaceabl
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
For those not familiar with why cobras were mentioned above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Long story shortened: 1. British are ruling India 2. Concern about cobras 3. Establish dead cobra bounty
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Unrecognized item in bagging area!
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
See also farmers' produce stands that are often completely unmanned and run 100% on the honor system. People take fruit and vegetables, and put the money in the box--or if the farmer is tech-savvy enough, through their phones. And eve
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Change of ownership happens at the point of sale. Toss them a cheery "no, thanks," and walk on by. They have no authority to detain you. Same with Fry's. Not the same with Costco; there, you're subject to the membersh
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
This has already been tried. I, personally, hated it so much that I just stopped using the self-checkouts whenever possible, because employee checkout was faster, even with the wait for customers queued before me. The weight check always
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Instacart also manages to "lose" the meat products out of our orders somewhere between store and front door. And all they do is refund the price of the items. So then you have to go out to the grocery store yourself anyway.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
This lobbying occurring after licensing talks with the incumbent manufacturers had failed.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
This is why I taught my kids to label units. ( 1 girl / 3 students at table L + 1 girl / 3 students at table R ) can't be added, because the denominators are different. To fix that, you can multiply by the factors ( 3 student
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
So, essentially, 230 was a gift by legislators to businesses running walled gardens at the expense of those being paid to patrol the bazaar.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
In which case the inventor of the technology would be remunerated according to the consumers' choices, and not by the choices of a handful of manufacturer gatekeepers. Perhaps at some point, shops that only use blade-stop safety saws w
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
And how much was the seat belt actually worth while it was patented? How much of that value should go to the inventor of the seat belt? Is 10% reasonable? Too much or too little? How much value should be captured by the consumers t
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
I can't really get behind incumbent manufacturers failing to pay the inventor of a technology a significant portion of its value, which is, at minimum, the cost of hundreds of severely injured or completely severed fingers. It isn&#x27
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
I would absolutely argue that it's immoral to have more money than 500 times the median individual income. That means anyone with individual wealth (after liquidating everything to cash) of more than about $33M is a selfish, exploitat
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
I don't think section 230 would be able to establish absolute immunity from liability that does not originate from moderation activity. If that were the case, it would be gamed to Hell and back with disparate legal entities and stra
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
A guy like that, you wonder how he can even poop, not having a gram of asshole in his whole body. Clearly, you don't need to be an asshole to be successful. But do you have to be near one? When Jobs was right there next to him, his bo
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
The pre-lithographic masks for chips are copyrighted (prior to algorithmic modifications for sub-wavelength interference features). The schematics for printed circuit boards are copyrighted. (But only to the extent that they were not prod
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
I stand corrected. Does taking a third of the revenues imply endorsement?
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Yes. They are partially liable if you went through them. Censorship of any content implies approval of all remaining content. One can't be protected from liability as a common carrier if one is curating. So if you have been provably
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
I think the sticking point is that this method of acquiring money is only available to those who are already have more money than any one person could ever spend, and the money that is acquired often comes from those who do not have enough
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Capturing other companies' profits is just step 1 in the plan to put as much of that money in your own pockets as possible. If you're willing to "steal" from other companies, why wouldn't you also "steal"
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
Noncitizens are protected by the Constitution. It's just that those who are blithely violating the rights of noncitizens simply don't care about obeying the laws themselves. A document without maintainers is dead.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
The weather in Indianapolis is tolerable most of the year. Their biggest problem is that they are on Eastern time, despite being way too far west for it, observe DST, and start public schools way too early. Also, they have developed traffic
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
It creates an incentive to establish legal domicile in a high-rent neighborhood and then always be somewhere else, "traveling", and taking care of all your business over the network. So you can own/lease a broom closet or pie

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