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by patrec 4y ago
It's so nice of you to grant people posthumous permission to have been cynical about Hitler's promises of peace or Nazi ideology in general, provided they were deeply committed to making Nazism actually awesome. You seem blind to
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by patrec 4y ago
The main job of prisons is enhancing public safety. Firstly by holding dangerous people behind bars and secondly by bettering those that can be bettered and preparing them for a successful post-prison life. They might not do a very good jo
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by patrec 4y ago
Would I also be expected to feel sorry for her had she taken up sex work and drug dealing to afford different luxury goods, a Porsche Carrera say? The Porsche's lower price tag and resale value would have arguably made it a more pruden
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by patrec 4y ago
Now this seems an infinitely better issue to get upset about (and attempt to rectify) than anything mentioned in the original article.
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by patrec 4y ago
> So, you're addicted, maybe not even because of your own fault Yeah, my heart goes out for all those underprivileged Harvard/Cornell/Rutgers students with loaded parents, who at some point in their ivy league degree and d
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by patrec 4y ago
It's worse than that; was a massive setback for the *world-wide* eradication of Polio which appeared to be close to accomplished, since Pakistan and Afghanistan were (and remain) the last countries with endemic Polio. It also feeds int
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by patrec 4y ago
Do you have a good example of a pre-digital private everyday transaction where people would use "buy" to refer to entering in some complex licensing arrangement which did not grant any transferable rights? What you write is true a
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by patrec 4y ago
Uhm, you are aware that the Kindle license is limited by your death, right? (Outside of Delaware, and maybe a few other places which have passed explicit legislation overriding this to allow for inheritance of ebooks). How is this differe
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by patrec 4y ago
It seems much easier to build an AI that helps less bright people to scam others than one that helps them to not get scammed. One needs to provide clear instructions for a single good scam when explicitly asked to do so, the other would nee
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by patrec 4y ago
Leases can be and not uncommonly are of unlimited or extremely long duration (e.g. till the leasee's death or exceeding a single human life span).
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by patrec 4y ago
You seem to imply that technological advances have made new forms of contractual agreements about property possible that are not covered well by existing concepts such as "buy" and "lease" and that therefore to extend th
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by patrec 4y ago
Incomprehensible to me that not a single country's courts put a stop to this. By now this “straight up commercial fraud” has become established industry practice and the corrupted meaning of “buy” (for “lease”) looks set to not only st
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by patrec 4y ago
I agree that vim is one of the best editors available and use both vim and vim keybindings in other editors/IDEs. But that doesn't mean that Canon-cat didn't have some very interesting ideas not present in vim (or pretty much
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by patrec 4y ago
> I'm sad to say it, but it's more dangerous than ever to be old or naive It will get orders of magnitude worse once all this can be fully automated by AI (including a completely realistic video or voice call by the grandson wh
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by patrec 4y ago
Well, you could try mentioning that Turkey managed to leak the personal data of more or less its entire adult population (50M people or so; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/04/database-...
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by patrec 4y ago
Well, I take it you are not a vim user? :) There is no other reason to put Escape there. If I didn't use vim, I'd use the CapsLock key just for Control and not also for Escape.
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by patrec 4y ago
That's like saying DOS is very similar to the linux commandline. It's not "very similar", because out of the box search in vi is hot garbage. It's modal, non-incremental (excremental, as Raskin would have it), has v
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by patrec 4y ago
Does this allow overloading capslocks to both control (as modifier) and esc (when pressed in isolation)?
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by patrec 4y ago
Indeed. And you can do the same thing with AutoHotKey on Windows and xcape or interception-tools on linux. Interception-tools has the big advantage that it doesn't just work under X (but also the console and wayland).
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by patrec 4y ago
Your ambitions are not stupid but perfectly sensible and laudable. Unless there is something you didn't tell us you just have been really unlucky. So although your current situation sucks and must be very stressful, try not to lose hea
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by patrec 4y ago
> As a gift, they will pay me a months salary. Have you got a signed contract? In which case them paying you is not a "gift" but something you are most likely legally entitled to, and you should find out how much they are requi
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by patrec 4y ago
Neither in mine, but that hardly matters, does it? And nevertheless, I think that if polio gets eradicated despite Obama, the world will own Bill Gates a debt of gratitude. Don't you?
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by patrec 4y ago
Both Bill Gates (IT robber baron) and Mike Tyson (wife beater, ear biter and convicted rapist) seem to enjoy pretty good reputations these days. Musk's reputational problem is chiefly due to looking quite incompetent at the moment, not
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by patrec 4y ago
If Elon feels sore about having burned $44B on Twitter now, I wonder how he'll feel once he realizes that it's actually Gab/Parler he's bought. And discovers the hard way that Twitter's ex-leadership could afford to
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by patrec 4y ago
PR-wise, this might actually be a pretty clever (partial) recovery from banning and threatening to sue Jack Sweeney. The world's second richest man legally going after a pimply college kid, after bragging about how he won't even b
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by patrec 4y ago
But plugged, at times.
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by patrec 4y ago
The observable difference I'd expect to see is that an impulsive guy not surrounded by "yes men" will still periodically commit avoidable errors, but not engage in a sequence of related blunders because someone will bring it
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by patrec 4y ago
That's the impression I'm getting as well. Whatever one thinks about Musk's failings and failures, I find it hard to believe that he can't come up with something better than a series of unforced own goals like the Elon J
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by patrec 4y ago
Actually, the new policy against live-tweeting people's whereabouts (with the obvious exceptions) and enforcement of a 24h delay would have been pretty easy to defend, had it preceded the account suspension rather than the other way ar
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by patrec 4y ago
It has, but I wonder if that's enough to effectively neutralize the perceived legal risks right now (I'm pretty optimistic it will sooner or later).

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