pluto9

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by pluto9 8y ago
Because what we really need in the White House is more corporatism and more identity politics.
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I understand your point perfectly. My point is that that's only true by the most literal, pedantic, and irrelevant definition of "unnecessary".
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That seems like a bit of a stretch, unless you were actively using Google's services as a tool of your wrongdoing. The EU would be forcing an unrelated private company to act as an arm of law enforcement. It would be like the local pol
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It's necessary for you when the other side has decided to engage in it against you. The fact that it was technically "unnecessary" for them to start the war in the first place is rather irrelevant when they're marchi
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> Bayou’s job is then to fill these holes with code in a way that will, hopefully, match the programmer’s intent. This seems like it would actually increase the cognitive load of programming. It generally takes more effort to read and un
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by pluto9 8y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is exactly how employers abuse the H1B system. Give an employer absolute power over an immigrant worker with no connections, support network, or other job options and their residency s
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I had something similar happen a few years ago when I bought a ReSharper license and had to call the bank to reassure them that JetBrains is a reputable company. I found it odd that they blocked the transaction based on location (Czech Repu
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by pluto9 8y ago
Your ability to twist my words into the argument you wish I was making instead of the one I'm actually making is impressive. Infuriating, but impressive. I will try to make this as simple as possible. Facebook owns its platform (code,
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by pluto9 8y ago
> The US does You and I must have a very different idea of what sovereignty means in the context of governments. Owning property does not make me, Facebook, or anyone else a sovereign government .
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I picked that definition because it's precise , whereas yours was vague. Not all definitions are of equal quality, and choosing a good one over a poor one is not "cherry picking". Specifically, Facebook is not managed by a &
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by pluto9 8y ago
Ah, there it is. The old "I don't like $rightWingPolitician, so they're Literally Hitler (TM)" argument. Pretty much what I expected. If your understanding of politics and history is so comically simplistic, then we have
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by pluto9 8y ago
That's called property rights. They have the same authority over their platform and its members that I have over my house and anyone who wants to use it. Owning property does not make me or anyone else "sovereign" in any mean
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> They have a standing military to enforce (lawyers in the countries of presence). In other words, they have to use the legal authority of the actual government to enforce anything because they have none of their own. This seems to me to
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by pluto9 8y ago
That's a curious association to make. The only thing Barbara Bush and Adolf Hitler's mother have in common is that they were both related to important political figures. However, Klara Polzl was not politically influential or impo
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by pluto9 8y ago
It's hard for anyone on the outside (like us) to say, but that doesn't mean there isn't any. What benefit did Than Shwe receive by stepping down as Prime Minister of Burma? That act pretty much ended the military dictatorship
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by pluto9 8y ago
It's a gross over simplification of what they mean. I don't see how pointing that out is "pointless pedantry".
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> That definition includes exactly all of the relevant features to this discussion. Groups of people with leadership. How they relate to each other. Which is not what a government is. > Focus on the material of the discussion, and per
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You quoted that dictionary definition in another comment: >Government: the governing body of a nation, state, or community. Just because something purports to be a dictionary doesn't mean its definitions are useful or correct. That&
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By that definition, every conceivable grouping of human beings that has any sort of leadership has a government, but that definition is so broad as to be useless. An after-work football club is governed by its rules, organizers, customs, et
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> Train lots and lots of physicists, chemists, engineers, programmers, materials scientists, biologists, mathematicians. [...] Employ them on promising ideas, and on impossible ideas. The scientifically minded are not the ones who will b
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by pluto9 8y ago
This is quite an impressive display of hubris for most of these people to claim to have "built the internet". And of the fraction of them who have built anything at all, most built things that were intentionally designed to do t
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> To say it's propelled by a gas turbine is a little misleading and implied it's a jet tank of some sort. No it's not, unless you think it's also misleading to say a car is propelled by a piston engine. Is a car prope
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> Then I've heard stories of parents donating $2M to get their legacy (child) in to an Ivy League with below average grades. I had a friend who got into Notre Dame that way. His wealthy alumni grandfather took him and the dean out t
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by pluto9 8y ago
Exactly. I once had a manager who tried to incentivize my team to work overtime for two months to hit an unrealistic deadline set by the sales department. The incentive was that we would have a pizza party IF we hit the deadline. Monetary c
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> I don't care how free the food is I tend to see perks like "free food" as a red flag when I'm job hunting. In my experience, employers that go way above and beyond to make an office comfortable are doing it because
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> Having to be scanned to get on a plane seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have to do. Even if that scan does little or nothing to actually improve your safety [1]? If I'm going to have my privacy taken away, I want somethi
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Maybe made up languages are interesting in their own right because they're made up, and are therefore a totally different endeavor than a "real" language. Maybe people like to occasionally do things just for fun instead of
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Obviously not. Did you read to the end of the article?
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Well, really, they'll choose a few qualified people from amongst themselves to hold the builders to account, because the whole town can't be asked show up to inspect their work every Tuesday. Eventually they might even make it off
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> Look at open source software, there's no state in control of practices there yet engineers tend to do just fine. A very large fraction of open source software is crap. Fortunately we get to choose which OSS programs we use. Not so

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