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by nycticorax 2y ago
Is the transcript of the original court case available online somewhere? The oldest thing I'm seeing is https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-... , which is (I think...) the d
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by nycticorax 2y ago
So I guess I got that idea from this podcast: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-... which is entitled "Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate)".
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by nycticorax 2y ago
Don't most economists think that corporate profits should not be taxed? (When all else is held equal.) By that argument, the real problem is taxation of the profits of for-profit corporations...
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by nycticorax 2y ago
I love SICP, but I will say this: there's a certain class of "great" textbooks that sometimes get recommended by experts, that aren't actually that great for someone learning something for the first time. They get the re
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Modern versions of macOS also include the "Silom" Thai-language font, which uses Chicago for its Latin glyphs.
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by nycticorax 3y ago
So can anyone help me understand why RedHat/Fedora has a containerized solution for desktop apps (flatpak), but nothing like that for CLI apps? It seems... odd.
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Your original claim was that "slavery" means forced work without compensation, whereas "involuntary servitude" means forced work with or without compensation. Your citation doesn't justify this claim. It not just
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by nycticorax 3y ago
> No. The distinction between the two is that involuntary servitude covers being forced to work while being paid or otherwise compensated; a slave, in contrast, doesn't get paid. Do you have a citation for this claim? > > If o
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Because it pisses me off when people try to 'argue' by stretching the commonly-understood meanings of emotionally-charged words like "slavery". Argue the merits, don't attempt cheap rhetorical legerdemain.
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by nycticorax 3y ago
See my response above. When people talk about slavery in the US, they mean chattel slavery. Forced prison labor is clearly not chattel slavery. To pretend otherwise is to be either silly or disingenuous, or both.
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Forced prison labor is very clearly not chattel slavery. And chattel slavery is what 99.9% of people mean when they talk about slavery in the US. And I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but it seems to me that "except as a punishm
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Forced labor in prison is not "slavery", as that term is generally understood. It may be bad, and that labor benefiting private companies may be worse, but that doesn't mean it's "slavery". Also, people duly
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by nycticorax 3y ago
So I have Amazon Prime. If I bought a movie on Amazon Prime Video a year ago (one of the ones you have to pay a one-time fee to "buy"), and I go to watch it now, I'll see ads unless I shell out an extra 3 $/mo for Amazo
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Can someone who has watched the keynote tell me what this device is for?
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by nycticorax 3y ago
I'm sure they've considered it, but have they considered it enough ? I dunno, the back-and-forth over the extinction status of the ivory-billed woodpecker gave me pause about this sort of thing. It was considered extinct for ma
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by nycticorax 3y ago
You don't need spikes to have computation. Deep networks don't have spikes.
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Well, the 'canonical' action potential is mediated by sodium currents, so it's maybe not surprising that people concluded that C elegans don't have APs given that a) they don't have any genes for voltage-gated sodiu
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by nycticorax 3y ago
This has not been my experience with Kubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. I have occasionally (like maybe once every six months?) had an issue that seemed likely to be Plasma-related, and was fixed by a reboot. And there was an issue with Plasma Searc
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by nycticorax 3y ago
Seriously, just use KDE Plasma. Sure, it's not 'minimal', but on modern hardware it sings. It just works. It's a batteries-included desktop. It's built on a toolkit that people actually like using (Qt) and they
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by nycticorax 4y ago
I can't find it now, but I read somewhere that CalMaine had managed to mostly escape getting avian flu in its own birds. So it would make sense that their profits would dramatically increase if the price of eggs goes way up b/c o
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by nycticorax 4y ago
If you want some salient imagery, take a look at the first image on the Wikipedia page for "Subsidence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence
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by nycticorax 4y ago
"Software subsidence"? "Digital subsidence"? The problem is that over time, the foundations upon which software is built decay, or need to be replaced...
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by nycticorax 4y ago
Gnome keeps making big changes that hurt users and app developers, at least in the short term. (Presumably in pursuit of the Gnome developers' vision.) If you do that often enough, users and app developers find themselves basically i
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by nycticorax 4y ago
Can someone ELI5 what problem this solves? I think of WebAssembly as being a tool for getting code written in <random language> to run in a web client. Can't I already run code written in <random language> on a server tha
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by nycticorax 4y ago
"a bunch of debt"? PhD students in STEM fields, at least in the US, can usually get a PhD without taking on additional debt. Also, many programs that don't offer a master's degree program will still let you graduate wi
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by nycticorax 5y ago
The trouble I have with the Mate desktop these days is that most of the GTK applications out there are moving or have moved to GTK 3, and generally take 'advantage' of various GTK3-isms in their user interface. So you're goi
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by nycticorax 5y ago
This seems very overstated to me. How many people are using Facebook b/c they couldn’t pursue their serious hobby on their tablet? Some negligible fraction of Facebook users. Further, if you want to pursue your serious hobby, get a
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by nycticorax 6y ago
This. One million times this.
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Maybe add an abstract? I read part of this, then started skimming, and eventually read the conclusion, but I’m still not sure what point(s) are being made. Also, questions should end with a question mark, even if they’re rhetorical.
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Not sure where you're writing from, but it's very common in the US. This article ( https://www.thekitchn.com/why-you-should-almost-never-use-th... ) quotes someone who works for an appliance store in Cincinnati who

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