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721.
by pc86 1y ago
I think every child should get a hot, nutritious breakfast and lunch at school at taxpayer expense. But I'm also [edit] s/smart/reasonable enough to know that people who disagree with that aren't "subhuman." Th
722.
by pc86 1y ago
I would submit this as product feedback if you haven't. One of my favorite things as a dev working on client-facing things is when I get negative feedback that presumably has a pretty easy fix to at least part of it ("add 'hr
723.
by pc86 1y ago
"Devs are doing SPAs wrong" is irrelevant when 90% of devs do SPAs that way. That it's wrong doesn't help the fact that most SPAs have garbage user experience.
724.
by pc86 1y ago
Yes but the maxim presupposes the existence of an injured party, and that's a little different in the context of civil claims (e.g. your example of the large corporation bringing a civil suit against someone) compared to the state brin
725.
by pc86 1y ago
I am genuinely interested in how you think that's the same thing, or how you even think that's what I'm arguing.
726.
by pc86 1y ago
Ran out of edit time but this is feature, not a bug, and it's not really something ideological like a lot of this kind of stuff can be. You don't want courts to be able to decide on Monday that you're going to trial on Tuesda
727.
by pc86 1y ago
"Upcoming criminal trial" implies that there is an upcoming criminal trial, which at this point there is not. The judge referred a criminal complaint for contempt against that witness. The office that received it (presumably some
728.
by pc86 1y ago
> Smaller states were granted disproportionate influence on federal policy This shows you're thinking about population which is irrelevant. Wyoming is a state and California is a state and as states they have equal weight in how
729.
by pc86 1y ago
Who are you referring to with "the original poster?" I follow from this comment the whole way up to the root of the thread and not a single comment even begins to suggest someone "knows what the world looks like if every marr
730.
by pc86 1y ago
Both of these comments show a pretty glaring ignorance of how the government worked prior to 17A, when Senators weren't elected by popular vote. Prior to that they were "elected" by state legislatures. Why is that important?
731.
by pc86 1y ago
Something can be both bad and not stigmatized. Divorce is a pretty good example here. It's not stigmatized, and to prove it's not say with a straight face it should be illegal and you won't be able to blink before the backlas
732.
by pc86 1y ago
Gerrymandering is at the state level. The electoral college is in the Constitution. What does "senate reform" mean other than filibuster reform, which if you ask anyone who has studied government will tell you is an intentional de
733.
by pc86 1y ago
I'm not implying that divorce should be stigmatized or prohibited or anything, but it is bad (necessary evil?) and most people would be much happier if they had never married that person in the first place rather than married them then
734.
by pc86 1y ago
This type of response is the quickest way for me to start verbally abusing the LLM.
735.
by pc86 1y ago
If it gets people to stop buying 1200 calorie starbucks drinks with 70g of sugar in them it will be worth it /s
736.
by pc86 1y ago
It should be pretty obvious to anyone who's spent more than about 45 seconds thinking about it that you can gather good information about a potential enemy by watching how they train. For military and intelligence operations you want l
737.
by pc86 1y ago
Has any serious person every suggested replacing teachers with chatbots? Seems like a non sequitur.
738.
by pc86 1y ago
We can either accept that there are incentives, but ultimately people are responsible for their [in]actions and should be lauded or punished accordingly, or what? We are but powerless automatons thrust into this System that requires us to..
739.
by pc86 1y ago
This sort of utilitarian "unit of suffering" metric has never made much sense to me. 1B people die in a given decade, each perceives or experiences some amount of suffering, so we have say 2B units of suffering, 2 units per person
740.
by pc86 1y ago
Sorry what does that have to do with anything?
741.
by pc86 1y ago
Judges already have the power to permanently revoke people's license to drive, the problem is they don't. It's a very simple problem with a very simple solution. If someone proves multiple times they won't follow the rul
742.
by pc86 1y ago
It's a much bigger leap to go from "punish people for speeding" to "physically prevent their car from going past a certain speed" than it is to go from "prevent this car from going past a certain speed" to
743.
by pc86 1y ago
100% - my friends who have only ever written code think it's a "hard" job in the objective sense. That among all possible jobs, it is on the difficult side of the spectrum. I've been an EMT, a line cook, a dishwasher, a
744.
by pc86 1y ago
The problem is even if you got the legislature to pass that privacy bill (they never would, at least not without 1,000 exemptions that every large company would qualify for multiple times over), it would just get repealed a year or two late
745.
by pc86 1y ago
Not sure how incarcerating people who are guilty of a crime is unconscionable but monitoring everyone all the time and eliminating the ability to move from Point A to Point B privately is totally fine and no problem whatsoever.
746.
by pc86 1y ago
That's certainly one interpretation of it, and a pretty reasonable one. However, I typically interpret it as "if the police think you've committed a crime, you are going to jail and almost nothing is going to stop that."
747.
by pc86 1y ago
Can you explain how this action reasonably leads to gunfire?
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by pc86 1y ago
I'm not saying it's never possible in any case, just that in cases where it's not you can't prove infringement.
749.
by pc86 1y ago
I like the thought of this but how does it work in practice? The company treats me well and preserves my job while I'm planning not to leave. Until they don't. Because once the transaction is more trouble than its worth - either f
750.
by pc86 1y ago
Who are you paying for a 400-year old font? Who deserves to get paid for a 400-year old font?

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