mLuby

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by mLuby 6y ago
> Present-day Western society would have looked like the literal garden of Eden to the average human from 2000 BC In some ways. Sanitation and education are undeniably better. I'm almost sure physiological (food, temperature), saf
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by mLuby 6y ago
Since both you and sibling comment did it: "Canon" is what's considered truth in a mythos (also a musical form and an electronics company). "Cannon" is a type of gun.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Semi-intentional compartmentalization could explain it. Ads: we could increase revenue if we had access to WhatsApp data, but that's Product and Legal's call. Product: Ads asked us to access WhatsApp data, but we're ju
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by mLuby 6y ago
Thanks (and to parent comment); I did not know this is how it worked. So then this appears to be the difference between the Manning/Assange and Snowden/Greenwald cases: both Manning and Snowden held security clearances and violate
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by mLuby 6y ago
Controversially, courts have upheld that citizens can sign away their right to a trial by jury; it's called binding arbitration. Also normal (non-government) NDAs let you sign away your right not to be punished for speaking about certa
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by mLuby 6y ago
If it's illegal to know a thing ("it's classified") then you're kind of stuck, right? Governments hold a monopoly on Force, not a monopoly on Truth.
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by mLuby 6y ago
The practice of naming software or start-ups after real, useful terms from other industries is super annoying to me. And it's especially unconscionable for web devs, who should be more wary than most about global namespace collision (l
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by mLuby 6y ago
Is it always the same person? How do you build up the trust to let them mess with your bills/tickets/money?
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by mLuby 6y ago
[US]: "Stop the surprise prices!" [Hospitals]: "Okay, here's our menu of services: Saline $300, Specialist Consultation (20min) $1K, Ambulance Ride $15K." [Health Insurers]: "If you join our club and pay dues,
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by mLuby 6y ago
Endless Sky is FOSS and replicates Escape Velocity perfectly. Highly recommend it. http://endless-sky.github.io
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by mLuby 6y ago
In AGL, or above ground level, it's still 0.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Also "you can only ever tie the altitude record for lowest flight."
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by mLuby 6y ago
> angered by the pace of a lawsuit he had filed in my court. > In my case, Roy Den Hollander, a New York lawyer who had filed a suit against the male-only military draft, harbored deadly grudges. On July 11, 2020, he killed a lawyer i
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by mLuby 6y ago
Before/after screenshots help too, if there's a visual change.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Right, the groups you mentioned increasingly want to censor speech from the groups I mentioned. The original question boiled down to "can we reduce the incidents of censor-worthy speech via education?" to which I say yes, but via
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by mLuby 6y ago
Poverty leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to censorship. When people feel (economically) insecure, they become selfish and sometimes lash out at the Other as the cause of their troubles. For 1930s Germans g
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by mLuby 6y ago
> Instead, I would like to see a policy where your access to social safety nets is taken away when you're a user. You want to risk it all to get high? Go for it but don't leave us with the bill and having to wring our hands tha
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by mLuby 6y ago
So permanently abandon a vulnerable creature because GP's spouse can't take Claritin for a few hours? I'm being hyperbolic, but still the "pets (or kids) are a choice" argument falls apart after a moment's scru
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by mLuby 6y ago
That was fun! Wish there were non-violent ways to deal with the inhabitants. And also that the movement links didn't move out from under my cursor.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Let's look not at all death rates over the past 10 years, but at deaths from COVID-19[1]: Norway [locked down]: 6.17 deaths/100K people Sweden [no lockdown]: 65.61 deaths/100K people [1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu
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by mLuby 6y ago
(American-oriented post) Having a right doesn't mean you must exercise it; that would be an obligation. Some rights can be exercised selfishly. You may have a right to party so hard that you need an ambulance ride to the emergency room
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by mLuby 6y ago
Nit: companies fine people quite often.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Ah, then we agree.
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by mLuby 6y ago
1. Enough armor can reduce space radiation to Earth levels, or even lower. And protect against space junk. It's just currently expensive to launch. 2. Spinning habitats create artificial gravity (though astronauts on the ISS do okay in
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by mLuby 6y ago
Why not both? Luddites always whine about the resources "wasted" on space exploration, science, and now the beginnings of industry, but they don't appreciate how in so many ways the fruits of our efforts in space end up benef
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by mLuby 6y ago
"No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on [me]." Selfishness is a bit too strong a word, but I'd
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by mLuby 6y ago
> They serve no purpose other than to Come on, you know that's not true. Prisons exist primarily to control threats from society. And secondarily to punish people for getting caught breaking rules, partially for vengeance and partia
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by mLuby 6y ago
- 16GB RAM - 1TB SSD - 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 - 2 Thunderbolt - 2 USB B - Headphone jack - MagSafe power - HDMI - SD Card Reader - Physical function keys row MacBook design peaked in 2015.
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by mLuby 6y ago
If you used optically switchable film (seen in https://youtu.be/3OTjTBt6lBY?t=32 ) you should be able to make the wormhole appear only when active, and transparent otherwise. Beautiful work!
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by mLuby 6y ago
Same with the ISS. It looks relatively unkempt.

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