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by lsiebert 8y ago
This makes me happy too. Anytime anyone or anything we thought was dead is found alive, that's a cause for celebration.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I understand there may be a need for compelled labor by the government, in a time of war or national emergency. Am I okay with it? I think that depends on whether it's a defensive war or a real national emergency. China invades, or ye
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by lsiebert 8y ago
If you mean unpaid labor, then that's not how drafts work, but I'll assume you mean forced labor. I've seen the same argument used regarding taxation. I'd argue that people have duties and obligations to their government
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Female warriors in a variety of cultures fought alongside with men, or lead people in battle. Some have disguised themselves as men (such as during the US civil war), whereas others have served openly. There were certainly some bad ass wom
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I suppose the draft doesn't necessarily have to be for military service for a war with other countries. For example, if we learned that something large was on a collision course for the earth, we might have years to prepare to deflect
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Still in existence, and willing to litigate about it's historical portrayal. https://thenerdy.com/red-dead-redemption-pinkerton-lawsuit/
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by lsiebert 8y ago
lsof was written by vic abell, who also wrote a graphical java gui for it, glsof. http://glsof.sourceforge.net/
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by lsiebert 8y ago
This can be installed using homebrew with: brew cask install sloth
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by lsiebert 8y ago
There's a perverse incentive to having publishers compete for user engagement, in that it undermines real journalism. The former is how you get listicles and meaningless interviews with people who share publicists with someone more fa
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by lsiebert 8y ago
FWIW, git is actively being developed. I see both pull requests and traffic on the git mailing list pretty much every day.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
So the companion bill to HR 420 introduced last month, but in the Republican controlled Senate? Not really much newsworthy here.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
The new android mobile news app is missing features I cared about in ways that are hostile to the user: 1. The ability to have any search term be a topic. I used to be able to have my own searches appear as a topic heading and auto populat
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Someone should write a scifi story about alien ethics dumping.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
UC Berkeley was the subject of a Justice Department investigation which stated they weren't in compliance with the law, but never actually sued or subject to a court order to take down anything. They made a unilateral decision. They d
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I may have written too much. TLDR: This is typing english letters with hand gestures for each letter, not sign language translation which is HARD. There have been devices like this since the 80s, because it basically does hand shapes, not
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by lsiebert 8y ago
On the one hand, I get what Apple is doing. On the other hand, the walled garden's walls are showing. I'm curious what the TOS actually says, is there a link?
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Per quora, area code 308 probably has the smallest population of any area code, so getting a phone number based there and screening for 308 numbers would probably work well. Honestly if google voice had a captcha system I could implement fo
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I believe you are supposed to register a complaint with the EEOC, after which any adverse actions taken against you including firing without cause could count as illegal retaliation (which isn't the case for just threatening legal acti
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I'd note that whey protein is from milk, not meat. It's often separated in the cheese making process.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Loving my decision to switch to firefox this year more and more.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
"But there are countless other examples of people being conquered too, all over the world, and not just by Europeans." An example of the relatively rare Tu Quoque logical fallacy in the wild! Or maybe you weren't arguing that
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I mean, how familiar are you with the MeToo movement? Did you see female friends and colleagues post on Facebook about their experiences? Read tweets? Or are you hearing about it through the news? Because it's not about men as an enemy
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by lsiebert 8y ago
"Such pleas seem impudent coming from the highest-paid teachers in the nation, with an average annual salary of $68,000" Those monsters.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
21st Century C gives you a fair bit of support in terms of tools that a book that just teaches the language may lack. Knowing how to use makefiles and valgrind and other tools is extremely beneficial, IMHO.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
The national average is 66%, and presumably living in TN doesn't make one more likely to be fraudulent.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I appreciate that HN is more cosmopolitan then people think :-). People from different countries often bring great perspective to things that I wouldn't have come up with on my own. Another argument for the benefit of diversity, I&#x27
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I don't think you can just add the Sahmsa data, as they may be separate questions. I looked for, and couldn't find the original report. https://nationalhomeless.org/about-homelessness/ lists housing and pove
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by lsiebert 8y ago
What statistics are those? Can you cite your sources? Because I've never seen anything that suggests that a majority of homeless people have addiction/mental illness problems. A higher percentage of such issues then the housed p
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I mean, the War on Drugs wasn't incidentally racist. It was intentionally racist. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-dru... And nominally fair is correct. It's not fair now, but pe
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Yelling fire(falsely) in a theater wasn't an example of breach of contract that is prohibited by a private agreement, but an understanding that the government has the right to prohibit speech made with the specific intent to create cri

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