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There are already some places with 30 or even 45 minute offsets from UTC; they seem to manage alright. Though I generally agree that it isn't necessary to divide the time zones that finely. Local noon should always be within about 45 m
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To make it simpler, we could make 12 PM solar noon year-round, use 24 fixed-size hours per day, and just vary our schedules throughout the year so that work and school times make sense. In other words—leave the clocks alone! It's not t
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> It's entirely with regard for justice. That's the goal. Your ends may be laudable but your means are immoral. The ends do not justify the means. > You're concerned with conviction of something harmful. The harm they c
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Same thing. You're punishing people whom you haven't convicted of doing anything harmful just to make the police's job easier, without regard for justice or proportionality. That is how a police state operates.
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No theatrics, just facts.
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> The goal isn't to be accurate, the goal is to stop criminals. The prime identifying characteristic of a police state.
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That's if you're laundering money deliberately. There are many things which are legally classified as "money laundering" even when no actual (other) criminal activity is involved. It's a "prove your innocence&q
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> For example in Carroll v. United States, the judicial branch surrendered its authority to authorize searches to the executive branch. The judicial branch can choose not to enforce the Constitution, contrary to its duty and purpose, but
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This `never` type is the opposite of a null value, though. The "billion dollar mistake" (which is really the absence of non-nullable references, not merely the presence of null or undefined) adds a possible value to every refere
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> hence my point that Ukraine behaved irresponsibly with regards to avoid Russian agression Or in fewer words, your blaming of the victim. Don't act as if it wasn't entirely Russia's choice to invade, without any comparabl
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> … so I am convinced the war could have been stopped, but the West made absolutely no effort to do so. Conspiracy theories aside, avoiding war at all costs by capitulating to the aggressor's demands without a fight is not a sustain
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Not the same one, no. I was referring to a passage from chapter 4 of March to the Stars by David Weber and John Ringo[0] where the character Kosutic attempts to explain how a version of Satanism became the majority religion of his home pl
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> Do they really end up with less money if the person wouldn't purchase it otherwise? Frankly it doesn't matter whether the person would have purchased the item or not if they couldn't make their own copy. Going down that
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> Anti-theism is the assertion there is no god. The prefix "a" can mean "not" or "without." "anti" means "against", "opposite of." Anti-theism, read literally, seems more like t
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> If you don't want confusion you'd want to use atheism for belief no God exist and agnosticism to indicate you don't feel one way or another. Which I believe is what most people do. If you don't want confusion you sp
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Link-level CRCs don't protect against bit flips that happen during processing or while transitioning between links with different CRCs. For maximum end-to-end integrity you want to calculate the check value over the data in (ECC) RAM b
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> You'd want to have some kind of public awareness campaign so people (including potential patients) can see that they're not the asylums of years past. Play up the "spend the day playing checkers in the day room and getti
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There is at least one more category, (c) those who are temporarily or permanently homeless by choice . It's not common, but some do prefer the nomadic life and have no desire for a permanent address. We should take care not to assume
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> Depending on how you look at it using another's entity's cryptographic key to sign something that then "pretends" to have been produced by that entity might classify as forgery. Perhaps, if you were attempting to ma
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It's probably a bad idea to authenticate on a public machine to begin with. How can you possibly know what that machine might do with your account once you log in? But let's say you want to do it anyway. There is no need to memori
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"Rights with wiggle room" are not rights. When someone else gets to decide that your "right" will be curtailed because of some "edge case", that's known as a privilege , not a right. Likewise, your concep
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I'm saying both systems have the wrong end result—the EU one by design, and the American one due to defects in the courts. Being wrong by design is worse than having some implementation issues.
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It is a universal definition, as natural rights are universal. What it is not is a legal definition, but you are attempting to make a legal argument.
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> (I'd presume they learned from the US experience, where it was left to the courts to provide the "ok but there are obviously exceptions" relief valves to the Constitution.) If so, they learned exactly the wrong lesson. I
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> Appeal to authority is a fallacy Yes, but it isn't a fallacy which is occurring here. Provisionally accepting the reasoned opinion of a domain expert is a rational choice in situations where re-evaluating everything from first pri
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> what you understand under the term democracy You're the only one using the term "democracy". Even under an authoritarian dictatorship without any pretense of democracy, the consent (or at least acquiescence) of the popul
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Right, democracy is not nearly enough. It's more important to have a culture which values civil liberty—this is where Russia fails.
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> Links to other websites aren't the problem. Just wait until they find out about link prefetching.
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> Indications that you are specifically targeting people in Germany are if you use the German language or… How would you distinguish that from targeting people not in Germany who happen to speak German? That is a rather large group—in
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Most APIs can be extended. The problem is that when someone adds a new tunable parameter or resource that one might want to modify for a child process it doesn't automatically get added to posix_spawn()—that takes extra effort. Which i

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