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by pseudo0 6y ago
"Declaring code" is a specific term of art used in this case. For an example of what they consider declaring code vs. implementation code, see page 38 of the decision which has a handy diagram and example. > That's nonsens
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by pseudo0 6y ago
> Thomas seems confused here. An API (declaring code) is not a computer program. A computer cannot execute declaring code - by definition - because it is missing the implementation. This standard doesn't really make sense, and the l
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by pseudo0 6y ago
> There's also alllll the times that military appropriations have been a political football. A lot of DoD folks have had to report to work unpaid multiple times over the past couple years. Many of them later got backpay when a budge
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by pseudo0 6y ago
> And you must be laughably far right to call The Economist left wing. Marine Le Pen would call it a right wing paper. I'd consider The Economist neoliberal rather than right-wing, as they have a pretty clear editorial bias in favor
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by pseudo0 6y ago
The "research" underpinning this article was published almost a year ago, Ars must be really hurting for content to repackage this as fresh news.
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by pseudo0 6y ago
First world countries have just figured out that brown paper envelopes are gauche. Instead, you arrange a no-show job as a board member or consultant for a member of the politician's immediate family. All nice and squeaky clean!
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Per your own source, it depends on how you define a mass shooting. Lankford used an incredibly restrictive definition to get a result that portrayed the US in a negative light and generated a lot of media attention: > Using the four-pers
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Remember the softwood lumber dispute (billions of dollars and years of legal wrangling) or the flak Chretien caught from the US for keeping Canada out of Iraq? I think you're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses.
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Amusing that Husky is still up, a fork of Tusky that has support for some additional Pleroma features and lacks Tusky's blacklist of certain "naughty" instances. https://github.com/fwgs/husky
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Baltimore City has the 5th highest per-student funding out of the 100 largest school districts in the country, with $15,793 per student per year [0]. The issue is that no amount of school funding can substitute for involved parents and a st
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Making the study about bitcoin in particular seems like a clickbaity way of getting attention, when the core issue seems to be dirty power generation. Bitcoin makes up a tiny fraction of non-essential American power usage, so focusing on it
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Wasn't it the NYT, the model for online subscription funded journalism, that released that incorrect story accusing Marc Andreessen of saying the word "retard" on Clubhouse? That seems about as bottom of the barrel as it gets
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Would switching to say, Protected Unless Open have a negative performance impact? Otherwise, it seems like a kind of obvious oversight not to use a more restrictive data protection class. I'd be curious to know the Signal team's r
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Ignoring a societal problem and mandating that the press boycott reporting on it sounds like a very ineffective strategy for actually improving the situation.
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Funny how the people NPR was excoriating as torturers and incompetents a decade ago for their role in the Iraq War are now considered trustworthy intelligence experts. Even trustworthy enough to advise on how to prosecute a campaign against
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Yeah, I doubt it'll be solved anytime soon, given how Democrats see it as a way to gain future votes, and corporate Republicans use it to privatize gains and socialize costs. Paying someone under minimum wage while they collect far mor
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Sounds like the real issue is the pull factor of lax immigration enforcement and widespread under the table employment in the US. We should be emulating the Australian model which has saved thousands of lives by effectively deterring danger
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Hedge funds are only allowed to manage the money of accredited investors, people with over $1 million in assets and sophisticated financial knowledge and experience. So when a hedge fund screws up, its investors might have to put off gettin
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by pseudo0 6y ago
And that turned into a significant diplomatic incident precisely because of the way diplomatic immunity was exercised in that case... In serious situations like that between friendly countries with fair judicial systems, diplomatic immunity
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by pseudo0 6y ago
NATO and the UN generally have their own classes of visas that do not grant diplomatic privileges. In the US for example, there are NATO visas for NATO representatives, and G visas for members of international organizations [0] (although th
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Compare and contrast the ACLU in 2017 [0] and the ACLU in 1977 [1]. [0] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/charlottesville-violence... [1] - https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rig
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Yeah, the NRA still does some useful stuff at the local level (hunter education, NRA ranges, etc) but they really need new leadership. For the moment, GOA seems like the best alternative for advocacy efforts.
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Typically, that results in the responsible officers facing civil or criminal consequences and being replaced by new leadership. In this case however, the New York attorney general is seeking to dissolve the organization entirely, an extreme
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by pseudo0 6y ago
The OP mentioned the technology industry, which tends to be pretty informal. At least personally, the vast majority of my correspondence uses first names rather than honorifics. I agree that it can be a bit stilted, but it's better tha
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by pseudo0 6y ago
If you're not sure, you can always just use the person's given name instead of a pronoun. This works 100% of the time, while pronouns in a signature block aren't very helpful if you're referring to someone who got CCed b
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by pseudo0 6y ago
And no one foresaw that a literal government-funded propaganda outlet would become subject to partisan squabbling once it became able to influence the US population directly? The structural problem here appears to be letting VOA target the
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by pseudo0 6y ago
There is some rather deep irony in whistleblowers accusing Pack of trying to propagandize Voice of America. To provide some context, it was founded during WW2 as a "counter-propaganda" broadcaster. It continued this role during th
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Why do you think it isn't a Nash equilibrium? Any actor unilaterally choosing to transmit at lower power is going to experience worse signal quality, even if it's only marginally worse in some cases.
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by pseudo0 6y ago
Nah, they're back in Santa Barbara, California. Vancouver Island is a beautiful area, but it's pretty far from the nexus of the entertainment industry. The UK and Canada are quite culturally similar though. I could see CANZUK work
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by pseudo0 6y ago
The Mozilla Foundation minus Firefox doesn't seem like a good use of charitable funds compared to say, the EFF. For example, they funded this hit piece on P2P technology [0] and a browser extension to solicit complaints about YouTube r

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