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by ponow 5y ago
You don't need to require more disclosure. Those products that want to deliver the real mccoy can just state it: "10% strawberries, by volume of ingredients before cooking", or something. You can even have a youtube video s
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by ponow 5y ago
I would argue that you shouldn't even need the license to state open source software to come with no commitments. There was no contract and no money changed hands, so I believe the uniform commercial code doesn't apply.
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by ponow 5y ago
The ingredients list says it has less than 2% of a group of items, including strawberries. That's not misrepresentation, that's wishful thinking on the plaintiff's part.
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by ponow 5y ago
It is not, however, the power to force the forgetting of secrets already disclosed.
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by ponow 5y ago
What about, "do no wrong"?
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by ponow 5y ago
... a caste originating as the most fit, no doubt
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by ponow 5y ago
Markets don't need exceptions, they adapt. With property/price/rent controls, it comes down to a committee of "experts" or it becomes effectively closer to community property with the tragedy of the commons. IMO,
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by ponow 5y ago
No, you choose a side when you choose a side. The fact that, conceivably, you could have an influence on an outcome does not mean you are picking a side. That oppressor you "should" have opposed is the one oppressing. Even if y
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by ponow 5y ago
Despite my half century and having repeatedly listened to and ruminated about "being judgemental", I can't fully fault "making judgements", for without judgement we have no comparison of worse vs better, and without
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by ponow 5y ago
Whether or not it made you feel like "poo" doesn't change that responsibility for a physical action lies with the people initiating it.
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by ponow 5y ago
"Protected" vs "unprotected" speech: The distinction itself is an abomination, papering over a more subjective reality.
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by ponow 5y ago
That's TeX for "l" with subscript infinity. It's a vector norm, and is equal to the element of the vector with maximal absolute value. It's also called the max-norm and sup-norm (for the infinite dimensional gener
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by ponow 5y ago
There are "personal values" and there is "exchange value". The latter shows up in GDP. Isn't the problem with search also similar to education? Its effect is indirect on the both the consumer of education and wit
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by ponow 5y ago
The speech utterances are not transgressions of rights; it is the physical actions: assaults, lynchings, unequal imprisonment for identical crimes, etc. So riling up a bunch of people about how "Trump is a Nazi" ought not be a cr
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by ponow 5y ago
The non-seriousness of Canadians about free speech is part of the reason I was happy to move to America. I used to defend hate speech laws (as in formal public debate), but in hindsight I was naive about putting the power to define hate sp
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by ponow 5y ago
No, those life essentials are not required _before_ getting the right to freedom-of-speech. Indeed, freedom of speech may be essential to discussing how to arrange a society to enable the procurement of those things. Holding off freedom o
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by ponow 5y ago
The right of people not engaged in violence to survive police encounters is a natural/inalienable right and a right to healthcare are not similar classes of rights. The former is a "negative right", or liberty, from harm by
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by ponow 5y ago
I don't think there should be any limitation on the right to freedom-of-speech except that strictly necessary to be compatible with other natural rights, like the right to your life. The classic ban on shouting "Fire!" in a
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by ponow 5y ago
Nicely put, thanks!
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by ponow 5y ago
I find it very easy to ignore the distinction between defending one's speech, and defending one's freedom-of-speech. ACLU's historical defense of freedom-of-speech is now regarded, very regrettably, as defense of the particu
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by ponow 5y ago
In other words, Schulenberg doesn't want nano to slide on a slippery slope towards emacs.
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by ponow 6y ago
We're getting into legal details here, but in principle one can construct a contract where software use plus onerous rules are exchanged for money. Thanks for the European perspective. Not a big fan of EULAs myself, especially ones wh
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by ponow 6y ago
Absa-bloody-lutely it's a way of solving the two language problem, because it provides a pathway from the current two-language setup (Python with C for the computationally intense portions) to a single language (Julia everywhere, becau
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by ponow 6y ago
Gotta admit that the words "legalizing gay marriage" in the title of the Medium piece really tick me off, as they slanderously suggest that that the creators of CK3 are somehow anti-gay.
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by ponow 6y ago
"Just" made a bad choice? It's clearly an historically accurate, and _simplifying_ assumption, which you dismiss. The fact that they include a scripting language needn't obligate them to broaden the scope of their proj
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by ponow 6y ago
But the time and effort put into writing that code was a significant part of their lives, and that code was only shared with those who agreed with their rules.
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by ponow 6y ago
Yeah, just like looking the gift horse in the mouth. Entitlement is so ugly.
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by ponow 6y ago
Free software is less about providing what users want ("free beer") than in not getting in their way by artificially restricting them in their dealing with the software ("freedom"). It's the difference between posi
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by ponow 6y ago
Why government intervention is necessary is unclear. At best one has an implicit contract during a pre-order, which was violated due to its bugs. That anyone could seriously believe that any complex software will be "bug free" s
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by ponow 6y ago
This is partly why the only legally mandated building codes ought to be ones without which people and property outside the private lot in question are put at negligent levels of risk. Any risk inside the lot is yours alone.

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