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by philwelch 8mo ago
Just out of curiosity, what country manufactured the device you typed that comment on? There’s a lot of room for relations to get more hostile.
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by philwelch 8mo ago
So you have to buy twice as many Apple products, brilliant marketing strategy
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by philwelch 8mo ago
That’s never been the standard for riot control, but frankly I would be skeptical of anyone who was in the middle of a rioting mob who claimed they were minding their own business and playing candy crush on their phone.
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by philwelch 8mo ago
Please actually read the link I shared before responding. For your convenience, I’ve shared it again. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipedia-whitewashe...
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by philwelch 8mo ago
The thing is, there’s really no good way to check a lot of the numbers you see in sources like the World Factbook. Take population estimates for instance. Much of the world either doesn’t have the state capacity or can’t be trusted to maint
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by philwelch 8mo ago
The accusations weren’t particularly credible and similar slander campaigns against people like Joe Biden aren’t nearly as prominent. Even notorious dictators like Mao Zedong get treated with kid gloves as long as they’re on the left: http
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by philwelch 8mo ago
> We're in a topic about tear gas being used to attack protestors. You say protestors, I say rioters and organized physical resistance to legitimate law enforcement. If you think that’s a “tall claim” you’re the one in a media bubbl
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by philwelch 8mo ago
> government jackboots suppressing lawful first amendment activity If that was actually happening, I would be opposed to it. The only people suppressing lawful first amendment activity were Don Lemon and his friends invading a church, in
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by philwelch 8mo ago
Excellent point, and I think those bombings are not as well remembered as they should be. However, none of those bombings happened at the encouragement of and with the tacit cooperation of state government authorities.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
The reality is that tear gas is not an effective riot control tool. It works fine against spontaneous mobs of sports fans after their team loses, but it's not especially effective against prepared insurrectionists. The last time the US
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by philwelch 9mo ago
Tesla isn't speeding either (probably; if FSD is speeding that's another issue), they're just manufacturing cars and leasing them to people in the UK. In most US states, auto registration and auto titles are two separate thin
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by philwelch 9mo ago
I've never seen you before either.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
Automated systems are fine, they would just be a lot better if they were used to dispatch patrol vehicles in real time rather than mailing letters to auto manufacturers.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
If they stopped arresting people for mean tweets I'm sure they could more than make up the manpower shortfall.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
That’s a horrible system. Britain used to be famous for the professionalism of their police and now they can’t be bothered to make a traffic stop and give people speeding tickets face to face.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
If there was a new taxi every other year that could handle twice as many fares, they might. That’s not how taxis work but that is how chips work.
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by philwelch 9mo ago
Equip your entire family with pocketknives.
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by philwelch 10mo ago
Logical choice if you hate America and oppose the idea of defending it.
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by philwelch 10mo ago
Why stop there? You should also boycott the investment firms behind these tech companies, like Y Combinator, and their Internet forums like Hacker News.
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by philwelch 10mo ago
That’s fine. Prison guards, like all public employees, shouldn’t be unionized and prison labor should be earmarked either for restitution or public use (picking up highway litter, manual construction labor for roads and government buildings
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by philwelch 10mo ago
The executives likely would, the SEC already does this.
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by philwelch 10mo ago
Criminals need to be isolated from peaceful society anyway, and if we’re going to the expense of warehousing them, the least we can expect is for them to contribute something back. The ethical justification for prison labor is obvious and t
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by philwelch 10mo ago
I think the natural expectation is that someone named George is a human being.
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by philwelch 10mo ago
But EU5 has been out for over a month now
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by philwelch 10mo ago
> If you do find yourself in a situation where you can't upgrade a core library like e.g. SQLAlchemy or Spring, or the underlying Python/Java/Go/etc runtime, without requiring updates to every service, you are back in
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by philwelch 10mo ago
If there’s any shared library across all your services, even a third party library, if that library has a security patch you now need to update that shared library across your entire service fleet. Maybe you don’t have that; maybe each serv
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by philwelch 11mo ago
I’m very much a Linus defender; the kernel is more important than people’s feelings and his approach has maintained a high level of quality.
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Gitlab is much better
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by philwelch 11mo ago
Yeah, that didn’t last. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=...
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by philwelch 11mo ago
I mean we did make Western Europe decolonize and stopped the Anglo-French intervention in the Suez Crisis, and both of those turned out to be mistakes, but we also spent basically the entire twentieth century liberating, rebuilding, and def

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