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by mr_luc 11y ago
Right. But the point is that laws exist that do apply to your scenario; the law would have to demonstrate that it's aiding in criminal enterprise and use legal methods (maybe even an injunction). However, newspapers let people place pe
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It's not in the same way at all. Google Fiber is real internet; 'free internet basics' are an attempt to turn the internet into a walled garden.
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I agree that it's more possible now to switch/choose alignment than it ever was. And being 'more possible' means that it must be happening more. But "why people choose the communities they align with" doesn&#x2
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To make that greater risk concrete, and play Devil's Advocate to my own query by thinking of the societal benefits of the current system: would that make it much riskier to sue, say, Big Tobacco? I understand that the American legal sy
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I found this to be the most informative and relevant response to the questions posed. Of course, it's frustrating to see the aspects of this situation that are (practically) unsolvable. But one item jumped out that I'd be interest
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I think a lot of people are enamored with something more specific, like a "digital backpacker," someone who acts like a backpacking college kid, and then wonders why months of bus travel, hostel living and camping aren't con
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by mr_luc 11y ago
A well-researched post elsewhere[1] on this page makes the claims of soldiers being killed out to be pretty suspect. ---- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712211
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by mr_luc 11y ago
> The results showed that men were rated higher for construction quality. Right, but "quality of first construction by untrained person" does not, due to the manufacturing effect, necessarily mean anything to IKEA.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
The IKEA person may have stated the claim in a broad way, but as a thought experiment, is it possible that they're correct despite this study? > on average, men tend to outperform women on spatial skills, which you'd expect wo
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Don't forget car title loans -- usually capped by law at 300% interest (!). Those aren't good enough for car-title loan companies, like TitleMax, so they try to up-sell/roll-over from the car-title loan to a "Consumer Fi
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by mr_luc 11y ago
"We've always been here" is true, in that even in countries that enjoy relatively good justice systems have people who fall through the cracks ... and people with power at every level for whom the theoretical good functioni
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While that obviously works out to a surprising amount from each individual, if the author really spent two months putting the course together, well ... it wouldn't be particularly well-paid client work for a contractor in the Bay Area.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Wow! To some people, that article is going to seem like nit-picking, and insofar as it affects most people, it may be. But my feeling on reading this article is gratitude. Thanks for writing it. It's good for Udemy. If their business p
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Yeah, I really think this is all that's needed. For instance, it's enormously helpful, in the aggregate, that people have repos that are simply "example of an application that uses Foo with a Bar adapter."
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Another point is that in disrupting cheap performance shortboards, you're now in competition with the used market on craigslist. Surfers making a conscientious effort to improve their performance -- bigger waves, steeper drops -- are
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Surfer here, spent 7 years in remote coastal south america surfing fairly regularly. It's not that they're made overseas -- it's that the basic method of manufacture he mentioned, "pop-out", in the industry implies
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by mr_luc 11y ago
You provided that solution -- "lawsuits with a risk of criminal prosecution." That's your invention, so feel free to knock it down. I'm simply observing a truth, and was in the original comment: the enormous legal reso
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Fewer convicts == fewer prosecutors is irrelevant. Why? Because the number of prosecutors isn't the limiting factor in whether or not we can safely do a better job of punishing bad prosecutors! As you yourself stated, it's the leg
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by mr_luc 11y ago
The system doesn't have enough capacity to deal with the frivolous appeals and habeas corpus petitions? Gee, that's too bad. If only there was something the justice system could do to reduce the number of people going into this pi
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Convox and Otto are occupying similar spaces (with Empire being vaguely similar). Otto has the immutable infrastructure powers of Terraform to fall back on, (not to mention Consul, Vault and Packer), and at v0.0.1 already supports deploying
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by mr_luc 11y ago
In case HN is wondering about the reception: it's great by default, but I had some hardware mounted in inaccessible places, which could still have issues with reception. So I replaced the middle antenna with a WL-ANT-157 from Asus, and
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Oh, wow -- it's crazy to see an article on Hacker News about Pile (the village that the weaver in the article is from). I have a house 4 minutes from Pile and have some good friends from there. I spent the past 7 years in those exact v
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by mr_luc 11y ago
A thousand times this. One example is efficiency. "Why," say the optimists, "would corporations continue to employ more people than they strictly need to?" Implicit in the question is a characterization of the corporatio
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I don't know about "slam-dunk" in the sense of 'silver bullet'. But I don't find your argument convincing at all. Why would you think that large companies, entrenched in their ways, would be capable of switchin
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Had it not been for MAD, we'd be on about WWIV right now.
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I'm unfamiliar with this domain, but this stuck out to me: "By talent, we refer to an innate ability or proclivity to learn in a particular domain ." Is this redefining "talent" to include people's taste ? Ie
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Interesting. I think, boiled down, that it's purely the exalted tone at TED talks that really grates on me (and it seems a good number of others). Intellectual talks may not have always been cool, but they rarely used to sound like pre
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I absolutely loved one critique from the article: > middlebrow megachurch infotainment This hits the nail on the head on so many levels. (And maybe that's enough; maybe the college-educated need their megachurches as well). Like meg
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I'm sorry -- but Putin employs professional trolls to comment, often in teams of 2 or 3, often speaking amongst themselves to first divert and then control the conversation, on forums just like this one: https://news.ycombin
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I think that this article could end up being cited a lot. It has a very believable thesis. I'd like to see it put to the test, and then condensed down and hopefully inform news reporting a bit. If we accept that, as a member of the sup

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