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by notJim 5y ago
Not sure a tiny island that’s 6-7’ above sea level is such a genius investment these days.
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by notJim 5y ago
Well... the price was reasonable, something around $26 for 150 ml bottle including shipping to Pennsylvania (USA), and I am not Anish Kapoor so I decided to give the paint a try. Since many of us are amused by the Anish Kapoor s
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by notJim 5y ago
I think your baseline assumption about the US "justice system" should be that it is a horror show from top to bottom. If you expect any kind of rationality, fairness or common sense idea of justice, you will not find it.
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by notJim 5y ago
Whenever I see the pay rates for writing on the internet, I'm amazed more articles don't sound like this.
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by notJim 5y ago
Sure, of course. But suppose you're standing on the precipice of WW2 or the Black Plague and you can clearly see them coming, even if there's some uncertainty about when, and what exactly will happen. Wouldn't you try to prev
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by notJim 5y ago
The idea that the service is a neutral 3rd party who hosts any video is a political idea , in other words it is a choice made by platforms that both influences and is influenced by politics . Note, because people get confused on here, t
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by notJim 5y ago
The pseudonymous alt is the way to go for this, unless you're mostly using twitter for things related to work. I bet some of your colleagues have alts :)
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by notJim 5y ago
Seconding Ruhlman's Twenty, it's the book that really taught me how to cook . By focusing on techniques, it allows you to understand that when a recipe says "saute onions on medium-high heat", it really means to sweat t
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by notJim 5y ago
This isn't really true IME. The best contractors will understand the goals and motivations for your project, and make suggestions based on their vastly greater experience of ways to improve upon the project.
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by notJim 5y ago
Most places in the US do not have functioning governments, to be fair, including at the national level.
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by notJim 5y ago
The Gulf of Mexico is also on fire due to a pipeline leak https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1411075158006284290 ! Don't worry though, the predicted hurricane doesn't look like its path intersects wi
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by notJim 5y ago
I think you have a massive free-rider problem with your proposal though. The Noun Project requires that you pay them or put attributions on the work. They would not be able to do this without IP protections, so most companies would use the
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by notJim 5y ago
I think munificent gives a good justification for IP here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27716935 > I do not derive consumer value from the IP itself (evidence: it's easy to pirate music, why would I when I h
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by notJim 5y ago
> Criminal impersonation, fraud, forgery, it's someone assuming your identity for financial gain. It's similar to selling a car you don't own or someone else's real estate property through title fraud. It doesn't
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by notJim 5y ago
Obviously you would raise an army to invade Random House and force them to recognize your claim. If you yourself don't have the funds to hire a sufficient number of mercenaries, what you'd have to do is find a local patron and con
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by notJim 5y ago
I actually like it. I'm in the habit of checking my email regularly, so this allows me to consume the content I subscribe to without needing to build a new habit/ritual. Not saying everyone has to do things my way, just saying why
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by notJim 5y ago
I don't think it required a utopia, he's simply describing warlordism, which was the way of the world for thousands of years before the liberal revolutions. Why we would want to go back to that is a mystery to me, however.
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by notJim 5y ago
Okay, this is at least honest. Yes, we could certainly effectively return to a form of feudalism/warlordism. I don't think it's a very good idea though. These authors comment on the idea that war being expensive would be a ba
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by notJim 5y ago
So the utopian vision is that whoever has the bigger or better army gets the rewards?
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by notJim 5y ago
Sure, maybe you'd be into it, but the thousands (?) of companies making money off the current system would not be. Being that we're talking about a capitalist system, that seems like something that needs to reckoned with. It goes
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by notJim 5y ago
That would work if there's a contract in place, but if IP rights are abolished entirely, what is there to arbitrate? I got a hold of your song and you don't like it? Well it was never "yours" in the first place.
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by notJim 5y ago
This seems like classic libertarian confusion about where "property" comes from. > As we oppose all government intervention in the marketplace, we favor the repeal of intellectual property laws. Disputes between inventors, crea
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by notJim 5y ago
Any chance you could summarize the argument?
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by notJim 5y ago
This feels like a tangential point about JS dev culture or engineering skill level rather than a point about the technical merits of React vs Svelte or whatever. > As someone who has written fiddly DOM manipulation code, no its not my pr
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by notJim 5y ago
This feels like FTC territory. USDS is more about provisioning services AFAIK. However, new regulations would be required, and I don't really see that happening.
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by notJim 5y ago
How often was that bug actually hit in production? How many people are allocating arrays of size 2*31? A bug is less likely to be caught if it's not exploitable.
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by notJim 5y ago
The top 10 stablecoins together have a total market cap of around $100 billion. Of that, $62 billion is tether, and the next largest is USDC at $26 billion, then BUSD at $10 billion. It is interesting that these exploits still happen.
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by notJim 5y ago
This, but unironically.
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by notJim 5y ago
I think Adrian Schoolcraft [1] is another good example. He was a cop who reported abuses and corruption in the NYPD. For his efforts, the NYPD rewarded him with harassment and intimidation, which resulted in a $600,000 settlement when he su
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by notJim 5y ago
The thing that I find so frustrating about this is that I agree with like 80-90% of what this person is arguing for, but it seems ridiculous to me to present this as "abolish the police", and to think that if we did all the things

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