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by olliej 2y ago
My feeling is that tax payer funded subsidies for businesses should come with a 100% tax rate. Any “profit” gained while receiving subsidies is literally just a redistribution of wealth from average tax payers to the wealthy. Ie another cas
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by olliej 2y ago
There is a huge overlap between the "I want tax dollars to fund my religious ideology" and the people who say "lgbt kids should be punished", "sex education must be banned", "teenagers [girls] who have sex
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by olliej 2y ago
they're a bunch of pro-child abuse bigots, so of course its hypocrisy.
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by olliej 2y ago
I love tax dollars funding religious indoctrination, by an untaxed organization that has billions, if not trillions, of dollars of wealth even though the first amendment explicitly prohibits it. I also love that these bigoted assholes claim
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by olliej 2y ago
1) in mice 2) autism like traits 3) plenty of other cases of “knock out one gene” lead to everything from allergies to neurological problems, to missing limbs and organs. It should not be surprising that someone could find a gene that cause
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by olliej 2y ago
Which includes the Enron version I love :)
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by olliej 2y ago
I'm not sure - trademark law is tricky - "The Container Store" is trademarked (and while you might say "App Store" is too generic, but I don't recall the term existing prior to "The App Store", so t
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by olliej 2y ago
#skynet? :D :D :D But yes, entirely human factors here (in this particular case it seems like whoever planned the route didn't consider clearance issues when crossing tracks :-/)
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by olliej 2y ago
It's weird when stuff is phrased like this as it puts the blame on the train rather than the cause of the accident (freight trains have stopping distances in the region of a mile of distance, and easily take more than a minute to do so
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by olliej 2y ago
I look at car channels on YouTube and there’s all this community around engine swaps and similar so it remains disappointing that there isn’t any real gas->EV equivalent market. I assume part of it is imply lack of secure space for the g
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by olliej 2y ago
OTOH the brushing close enough to plausibility to require actually reading it to check what was happening is an important part of satire, so they hit that nail on the head :D
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by olliej 2y ago
Huge if true :D
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by olliej 2y ago
I saw that too, but from the article the 19k fine is after they (seemingly proactively?) refunded the bets. It _sounds_ like the fine is a result of them failing to inform users of why the refund was issued (honestly it seems like saying &q
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by olliej 2y ago
> "I understand there are people who really need it in some countries, but in this country, we're subject to the rule of law, and if you're doing nothing wrong, you've got privacy because no one's looking at it,&
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by olliej 2y ago
This is not an ex post facto law - the question is purely "are the terms of your contract enforceable?". For example I can make a contract that has a term "all people of gender/race/age X must be paid no more that 5
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by olliej 2y ago
> Asking someone 10 times to approve full disk access for some random binary name that doesn't ring a bell isn't useful (as it doesn't really resonate with a normal user's intent) It's also super great when these
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by olliej 2y ago
Because that’s a solved problem, and isn’t relevant to this article - which I assume you also did not read
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by olliej 2y ago
I’m guessing from your question you did not bother reading the article before commenting. That said this is a solved problem - because plenty of people have arm based machines, and run x86 binaries on them (it obviously comes with a perf co
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by olliej 2y ago
Oh boo. They used to be one of my favourite review/benchmarking sites :(
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by olliej 2y ago
While I guess “crypto” makes the headlines, this seems to just be garden variety embezzlement, only I this case the embezzlement was to support an “investment” that was itself fraud. It’s not functionally any different from if the money was
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by olliej 2y ago
> The "free" Starlink service is calling 911. It is expected that mobile provider offers 911 service to everyone What? No one is saying "they'll charge for 911" they're saying - the satellite connection is w
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by olliej 2y ago
You’re missing the point. Musk has a track record of offering services to remove competitors and then reneging on that once it’s no longer necessary. (Similar to the hyperloop: the whole purpose was to divert funding from public transit pro
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by olliej 2y ago
It is essentially “don’t roll your own crypto”, but instead being screeds of complexity it just highlights a few very basic and simple things that seem “obviously fine” to folk that are unfamiliar (eg doesn’t touch on any complex reasons fo
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by olliej 2y ago
Seriously unions should just start requiring annual pay increases and bonus the match the equivalent for executives - if the company is making enough to double executive compensation it can afford to double the compensation of the people do
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by olliej 2y ago
This article is terrible: the title’s postscript seems to explicitly say this is about granted options, the article then _implies_ it’s about granted options, and finally the actual message seems to be about granting new options in comp pac
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by olliej 2y ago
The core problem with WeakMap in JS (from a regular developer point of view) is that it was originally intended to be what PLT folk call an Ephemeron Table, rather than what “weak map” means to everyone else :D The principle use case for th
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by olliej 2y ago
Oh I see, the claim is “we don’t do the result filtering ourselves so we don’t know what you’re looking for” but that is done by … taking your filters and broadcasting them to everybody? So they’ve removed the server from the filtering proc
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by olliej 2y ago
Yeah, sorry my phrasing was crappy - I was indeed meaning “I would like the victims of this to be so overtly innocent that people don’t defend the illegal acts by law enforcement”
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by olliej 2y ago
While this is nice, it seems to only be addressing “I was arrested and the police seized my stuff”. E.g it does nothing to stop “the police stopped me, stole my stuff, and then sent me on my way”. E.g the case where there is not even the ac
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by olliej 2y ago
We can only hope :-/ I do wish the cases would actually involve harm to people who are “gold star” - it’s really annoying when I see people going “this is letting people off on a technicality” rather than “the police violated the const

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