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by pdonis 2y ago
> I’ve had business accounts with almost every large US bank. Ok. I would suggest making that very clear up front in your article. I think that would considerably increase the article's impact.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> It's only a transitive dependency of sshd on Linux distributions that patch OpenSSH to include libsystemd which depends on xz. Ah, ok. Then my question should really be about the distros--did any of them spot the co-maintainer
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by pdonis 2y ago
> I'm more inclined to believe it's Chase-specific now, or at least more likely with Chase, esp. based on other anecdotes in this thread! The only reason anecdotes in this thread are about Chase is that Chase is the bank you
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by pdonis 2y ago
> the Bank may close your Accounts at any time...the Account Rules do not require the Bank to provide you with advance notice of the termination of the Accounts I assume most of the big banks probably have similar language, which would
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by pdonis 2y ago
I agree 1000% with this. One thing I don't see addressed in the article you reference, though, is whether any OpenSSH maintainers spotted the addition of a co-maintainer to xz utils and did any due diligence about it.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> The logic is sound in the case intrastate actions have interstate consequences. No, it isn't, because Article I, Section 8 does not say that Congress can regulate anything that might have "interstate consequences" for
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by pdonis 2y ago
> laws =/= amendments Then why did you say "the entire amendment process" in response to my question? > Think of laws as "anything goes, as long as it doesn't go against the constitution". No, that&#x
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Obviously the vast majority of legal experts, lawmakers and those knowledgeable on the subject believe Congress has this authority. The same vast majority of legal experts, lawmakers, and those knowledgeable on the subject also belie
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by pdonis 2y ago
That assumes that employment counts as "commerce", which, as another subthread elsewhere in this discussion will show you, is not an assumption that I think you can just help yourself to.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> don't pretend we know what the Founders intended with every little nuance of language to justify your own preferred interpretation I wasn't doing this, so whatever you are arguing against, it isn't me. > Every othe
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Why should we be bound to the unverifiable world view of dead men? The Constitution is the supreme law of the land in the US. The way to update it to take changes in the world into account is to amend it, which has already happened t
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by pdonis 2y ago
> corporations as we know them did not exist. Yes, they did. Corporations existed in the British Empire in the 1600s. The Founders were quite familiar with the concept. > the type of employment we have now and that most people expe
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by pdonis 2y ago
> the catch all that is usually used is the Commerce clause Ok. I am posting in another discussion downthread on whether "commerce" includes employment.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> This power of Congress is implied by the powers that are explicitly written in the Constution. Which ones, and how?
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by pdonis 2y ago
> the entire amendment process? How do you think federal minimum wage was implemented? Are you saying there was a Constitutional amendment empowering Congress to impose a minimum wage? Which one?
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Depends on who your employees are. If this is correct, then on the assumption that employment is commerce, Congress cannot possibly have the power to regulate employment in general under the Commerce Clause; it could only regulate em
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by pdonis 2y ago
Does "commerce" include employment? Of course, with our current jurisprudence (someone else downthread mentioned Wickard v. Filburn), the Commerce Clause has been expanded out of all recognition. But I'm not sure the Founders
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Congress absolutely has the right to regulate employment. On what basis? What provision in the Constitution gives Congress that power?
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by pdonis 2y ago
The overall design of "controls" for something as complicated as a ship (or submarine) is of course going to be complex, and would not be expected to cater to the intuitions of a naive user. But if you're talking about the ba
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by pdonis 2y ago
So whisper is 6 years old and this supposed UI expert never noticed this issue? Or, for that matter, never considered that maybe trying to dynamically calculate font size--instead of just using standard CSS sizes like, oh, I dunno, "10
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by pdonis 2y ago
I'm not sure since we don't have any good way of quantifying "amount of mental reflection". But that doesn't mean there isn't a large difference between dogs and humans in this regard.
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by pdonis 2y ago
Are there any articles on PLOS that I can't find on arxiv.org?
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Having 2 physical levers positioned differently would not make it more obvious to someone already unaware of this. Yes, it would, because it's so much easier to see. Remember that everybody on that bridge, which includes the C
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by pdonis 2y ago
> For officers, much of their training is done on the ship via self study in their spare time instead of in a classroom The problem here isn't "instead of in a classroom", it's "self study in their spare time&q
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by pdonis 2y ago
Hm. Someone whose entire article is about bad UI design makes it impossible for me to make the way-too-large fonts on the page smaller by using the controls my browser has specifically for that purpose. I haven't even read the article
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by pdonis 2y ago
The preprints on arxiv are read, and responded to, by plenty of peers. The question was what value Elsevier adds; I think the primary value added is just making papers available to anyone who wants to read them. Arxiv does that. (What&#
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Your use of the word rudimentary implies some sort of spectrum Yes, it does. See my reply to abainbridge downthread.
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by pdonis 2y ago
It already is: arxiv.org.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> "I acted in a way that displeased my owner, next time I will not act that way" This kind of conditioning can take place without any mental reflection--we know this because humans can be conditioned this way without even b
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by pdonis 2y ago
> When I walk into a room containing my dog and the poo it did on the carpet two hours earlier, it is sorry about what it did. This shows that the dog knows it did something you didn't want it to do, yes. I'm not sure it show

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