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by macksd 3y ago
> or at least what some Christians take from it > Doesn't matter what I do, Jesus will take care of me Well yes let's be clear that only a very selective reading of the New Testament allows you to conclude Jesus doesn't
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by macksd 3y ago
Yup. And I wish they'd make it clear. Not that I think people should be allowed to take the law into their own hands, but as courts are imperfect, I get why a good and loving parent might do this. There's a world of difference in
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by macksd 3y ago
In some places the system is overused and alerts get issued in custody disputes, claims of abuse, etc. It doesn't always mean abducted by a predator or stranger and that's part of the problem.
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by macksd 3y ago
Maybe it could help them when designing APIs for new products to be consistent with previous design choices. But perhaps it's too late for that.
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by macksd 3y ago
Do you mean freely available in a technical / security sense, or legal / financial sense?
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by macksd 3y ago
I'm sure that would be as effective as laws against exporting open-source cryptography software.
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by macksd 3y ago
And I can't say it's ever actually caused a problem, but something about Indian Standard Time being a half-hour offset from UTC has always bothered me so much... But now we're fully off-topic.
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by macksd 3y ago
Because there are technical nuances in what they're actually reproducing, where it came from and how it was shared with you. Are they actually reproducing content wholesale? If so, I would think copyright law would allow content produc
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by macksd 3y ago
"I may not agree with where you post your links, but I will depend to death your right to post them" -- Voltaire, probably
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by macksd 3y ago
I own land in this general vicinity, and part of the purchase process that the title insurance company covered when I bought it was ensuring that not only was I really purchasing what I thought I was purchasing, but that access to the land
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by macksd 3y ago
I think skrebbel was parodying prox's reply as a commentary on drive-by comments about a seemingly orthogonal technology.
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by macksd 3y ago
Agreed. One reason you can't "policy away" snark is another reason it's best to separate your sense of self from your work: what you hear as snark when you're feeling down, maybe wasn't even snark, it might hav
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by macksd 3y ago
I had a job where they gave training on how to constructively engage with the open source community, and one of the big points was, "you don't suck, the patch sucks". Oh you have a bug in the patch? No, there's a bug in
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by macksd 3y ago
I am wondering what qualifies as "complete", though. Any reasonable definition I can come up with is redundant with "representative" and "free of errors".
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by macksd 4y ago
Allegedly identifying AI written homework.
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by macksd 4y ago
> no more exciting than video cards Um... That seems like a pretty high bar to me, actually. Are you forgetting about how much they've done to speed up the training of quite a lot of deep-learning models? And really the only competi
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by macksd 4y ago
Much like cybersecurity, the safety of nuclear at this point pretty much comes down to people, and whether or not they choose to invest in the best practices or if they get too lax. Right after a nuclear accident, the math suddenly looks di
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by macksd 4y ago
I'm sure it's fine if you use James Mickens' Mossad / Not-Mossad threat model.
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by macksd 4y ago
Oh I see, that makes sense. Speaking of the upstream / downstream imagery, I suppose a fish ladder would actually make a pretty good analogy here...
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by macksd 4y ago
>> Why pick Ubuntu instead of (basically) upstream? "Upstream" for Ubuntu is more like Debian, which is the basis for MANY distros (much like Red Hat - founded around the same time as Debian - and the .rpm ecosystem is a sig
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by macksd 4y ago
She also works for media studios who would see themselves as the poor victims of digital piracy. Instead of dismissing her viewpoint based on her status, maybe try addressing the point that stealing a car is actually not at all the same as
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by macksd 4y ago
"You know what? I would steal a car. If it was as easy as, like, touching the car and then 30 seconds later I own the car. And like, I would steal a car if by stealing the car, the person who owned the car they got to keep the car. A
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by macksd 4y ago
That's a pretty snarky response. Between the popularity of dairy products (and whipped cream in particular), the problems caused by obesity, the environmental impact of dairy cattle, and a growing segment of the population that has a m
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by macksd 4y ago
So your own comments can be more informed, you're commenting on TFA where those HN discussions are aligned with what the actual Wikipedia contributors think. And those comments started after several very well-sourced articles on the Fo
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by macksd 4y ago
I think that's exactly why we have a republic with representatives, but I don't even think people are qualified to pick good representatives. A campaign can easily pander to people who are acting selfishly or stupidly. At the en
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by macksd 4y ago
And yet that's the same kind of distinction that you need to understand to be able to make decisions about household debt. If we're honestly at the point where this is considered too confusing for the masses, I think I've sto
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by macksd 4y ago
Losing jobs will eventually happen regardless for any business that loses money like they were. When the company has over-hired, layoffs at least mean they're taking corrective action now. Sucks for the people affected now, possibly i
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by macksd 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying "is it" to. If your insurance does not go up when living in an area with conditions like downtown SF right now, it's only because you're in a risk pool with other people not havi
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by macksd 4y ago
That's also why insurance gets so expensive. Insurance spreads out risk. It doesn't lower it.
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by macksd 4y ago
On my last 3-day business trip to San Francisco I stepped over multiple unconscious bodies on the sidewalk daily to get from my hotel to my office, walked into a pharmacy that had had shelves cleaned out minutes earlier, and saw a ton of ca

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