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by pyre 9y ago
The argument is drawing parallels between slavery (currently not socially acceptable) and treatment of animals as livestock (currently socially acceptable). You're basically responding to this argument by regurgitating what current sta
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by pyre 9y ago
People coming from (e.g.) Peru on H-2A visas were treated poorly in the 1980's and the 1990's. Legislation was passed in 2001, which lead to some increases in living conditions, and pay, but it's not really enforced by the De
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by pyre 9y ago
Arguments are divided on what constitutes a "sentient being" though. There are plenty of science-fiction morality plays around at what points robots/ai should be considered sentient. At one point tribal cultures were seen as
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by pyre 9y ago
Well... feminism is something that has been around for a while. On the other hand, the "Men's Rights" banner (at least to me) seems much more recent, with most of the charges being led by the denizens of places like /r&#
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by pyre 9y ago
Well, most people that I've come across (online or otherwise) that wave that "Men's Rights" banner tend to be at the extreme end of the spectrum[0]. If they are the people that are the most vocal, they will be the ones t
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by pyre 9y ago
The problem with this is that things change from time to time. Replace "asshole" with "Japanese sympathizer" during/after World War 2, or "Communist sympathizer" during the reign of McCarthyism. Would you
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by pyre 9y ago
Same here. I signed up for Google Apps for Domains, and it keeps on chugging, even though that program is no longer.
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by pyre 9y ago
While demanding data isn't necessarily a bad thing, you can take it overboard. If you state that the world is round, and I demand that you back up your claim with data, am I not being a bit ridiculous?
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by pyre 9y ago
I'm not claiming that it's recent behaviour, but if I start dredging up old things, then people can claim "oh, well that was in that past, not now ."
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by pyre 9y ago
> If I had a friend doing even the above, I'd at LEAST ask "explain to me how this isn't you being a dick." Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounds like the "master of the house" (the one calling in t
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by pyre 9y ago
> have managed to piss off most of their neighbors (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, etc) Just like how the US is not pissing off its neighbours right now with treats to dissolve NAFTA? Or how the US wants to build a border wa
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by pyre 9y ago
> when China with a combination of technical sophistication, developed local economy, and sheer population reaches parity and then surpasses the US as the new leader of the world I don't think that this is a foregone conclusion. In
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by pyre 9y ago
> There are hundreds of thousands of people already living there, they've been living there for decades Detroit was a city of 2m at its peak. The budget crisis started when Detroit lost a bunch of Federal money when the 2004 census
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by pyre 9y ago
Additionally, the number of users that have flagged a story isn't user-visible (flagging a story doesn't count as a down-vote on the story's score).
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by pyre 9y ago
> Canary has developed into a standard term for warnings which are detecting the danger More succinctly, a canary is an early warning system.
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by pyre 9y ago
Right, but the existence of homomorphic encryption isn't something should prompt developers to start implementing it as a "best practice" now. (Even then, my understanding of homomorphic encryption is that it would not be gre
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by pyre 9y ago
If you cared about the Super Bowl that much, couldn't you just get a tv tuner card to use the OTA broadcast?
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by pyre 9y ago
The "un-enforceability" of the clause really depends on the judge you get if it goes to court (if it's not codified in law). By not being proactive, you are rolling the dice on how the judge will rule (and on all of the fees
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by pyre 9y ago
As is commonly the case, hardware vendors are more concerned with selling you the hardware and probably spend bottom-dollar for their software developers. I can't say that I've worked in such an environment, but my impression is t
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by pyre 9y ago
> Until there is some kind of law in place that makes companies financially responsible for this kind of blunder, it will proliferate. It will still be out there. For example, in a startup that's trying to get off the ground, going
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by pyre 9y ago
It's also hardening against malware basically doing the same thing that mitmproxy does though.
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by pyre 9y ago
> I wouldn't want to know a company when, how often and which doctors I consult for one. Depends. A lot of doctor's offices are in "medical parks," so it's entirely possible they don't know which doctor yo
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by pyre 9y ago
Just because there is no expectation of privacy does not mean that a reasonable person would assume that their every action is being recorded in precise detail to be stored away forever by a third party.
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by pyre 9y ago
Dirt/gravel roads still require maintenance, though. From the article, it almost sounded like he was saying that they would just stop doing anything to those roads. For example, I've come across dirt roads with potholes deep eno
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by pyre 9y ago
At the same time, when your project takes off past a certain point, don't you gain some amount of responsibility if you know that you have become an attack vector? If you don't want to take on that responsibility, then you could j
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by pyre 9y ago
Facebook and Twitter did not build the tools used to enact the shooting. The claim is that Facebook and Twitter allowed their platform to contain things that influenced the perpetrators. This is closer to blaming Charlie Hebdo for the ter
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by pyre 9y ago
... or when the Mongols brought about the end of the Golden Age of Islam. ;)
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by pyre 9y ago
> But if the health inspector never says he's the health inspector If you look up his Facebook profile, find out that he's a health inspector, and deny him on the basis that he is a health inspector, what then?
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by pyre 9y ago
> Your last paragraph is it. If you see someone that might be a cop and you hide your weapons, is that an additional crime? Technically the law breakers are the Uber drivers , no? If so, then Uber is aiding them avoiding the cops.
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by pyre 9y ago
> use your product fraudulently If a LEO lies to you during the course of an investigation, do you think that you will be able to successfully claim that as fraud?

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