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by rcoveson 4y ago
Modifications to new editions aren't a new thing. What's new is the way that concept interacts with DRM-protected streamable content. If the Forces of Order got their way and copyright was fully enforced, changes to a show release
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They could switch from UTF-8 to UTF-16 to decrease their BOM by 33%.
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In California, being a millionaire at "grandma" age is no more privileged than average.
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> You should perhaps read more before just pretending it's a primarily religious position. By your own link, it's an overwhelmingly religious position. If you look at the issue globally it becomes even more obvious just how rel
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> Sorry, I vehemently disagree. I remember my parents explaining abortion to me as a child, and I thought it was pretty barbaric. My parents are less 'pro-life' than I am. I'm not saying children aren't inclined to be
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I agree with you about the debate within a debate thing. It's genuinely hard to have a conversation about late-term abortion law in the current US context, where the really important laws being made are criminalizing abortions at the v
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The problem is we've already gotten too philosophical. Nobody has any prepubescent moral instincts about fertilized human eggs. Nobody has any empathy for fertilized human eggs. Deciding that an ethically-burdensome life begins at eg
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> Can you find a single example of an abortion being done at 32 weeks? > it's hard to imagine there's a significant number of mothers of sound mind who would deliberately abandon their child such that it has no chance of sur
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That is indeed a very limited responsibility, but I think the salient point is that it's still a responsibility of the parent and that the law protects the child from harm and neglect even though it compels the parents to act at their
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I'm not talking about sperm and eggs dividing independently, I'm talking about a mixture of sperm and eggs in a uterus. That mixture is on its path to life, and it looks every bit as lifelike to the naked eye and (largely by ext
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Why isn't it like parenting? If you wanted to give a child up for adoption, and no agency in your state could take on the child for three weeks, you couldn't just stop taking care of it. Parents have a unique responsibility to the
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Sperm are floating around in the vicinity of eggs before fertilization. If left undisturbed, fertilization will occur. Many methods of birth control disrupt that sperm/egg interaction. It's not all that dissimilar from disrupting
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I think you're being sarcastic, but it wouldn't suprise me if Erik Naggum once said this and meant it.
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This how HN talks about basically every administration of every country. No bigotry here (in GP's comment), just skepticism, cynicism, and distrust for authority.
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> This really disturbs me. Oh save it, it's a disturbing hypothetical. > You have no problem when someone decides to kill someone and thinks the laws doesn't apply to them. This is the most dramatic mischaracterization I&#x2
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> I would never criticise someone for making the decision to pull the lever. I understand that decision, I really do. I only said I wouldn't do it and explained why. And I wouldn't critcise someone for not pulling the lever..
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Yes, people are shitty utilitarians. I can think of a thousand equally egregious examples that we're both guilty of. Doesn't mean we wouldn't be good people when presented with a social situation that our culture and instinct
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> I don't think it's an option for me to overrule what millions of people have decided on over the course of a couple of centuries. Especially if I only have a couple of seconds to think about all the implications of my action.
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I don't see how that trivializes the problem. With that additional consideration, the options are: 1. Let 5 people die and 1 live, and you probably don't have any legal consequences. 2. Save 5 people, cause the death of 1, and you
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The word "black" is a thousand times more important to speech than the two syllables that make the word "niggardly" problematic. White and black, light and darkness, yang and yin, on and off, one and zero. I'll bet
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> Because it's not really relevant—the laws making it illegal are making it illegal across the board, no matter how early. This doesn't make any sense. Since the recent SCOTUS decision, laws are surely being drafted in many sta
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I'm outraged because nobody in this thread is as interested in drawing a line somewhere between "postcoital contraception" and "aborting a nearly-viable fetus" as they are in holding the line on either side of &quot
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The purpose of a search engine is to help people find what they're searching for, full stop. We can't go around transforming every class of tool into some kind of galaxy-brained universal-utility-maximizer. Things, meaning not-peo
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The data have nothing to do with the hypothetical where the air filters process 10% of the air in the room. They also have nothing to do with the air filters in the thought experiment, which are simplified, ideal filters that have the exa
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The future is still looking pretty bright relative to the rest of human history, unless the subset of people who are very concerned about the future choose not to have kids, in which case not so much.
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How much descriptor-space would you say lies between "boring" and "the most fulfilling part of your life"?
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You started this subthread with the comment: > The idea that the difference between 0.9005 and 0.90005 is "small" is … weird. When you use the author's numbers, 0.9005 and 0.90005, the implication is that you're takin
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Well, the ability to read text clearly is important and missing. That holds back a lot of productivity use cases.
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The only point the author was making with the 0.9005 vs 0.90005 example was that if you're only processing 10% of the air, then the efficiency of your filter doesn't matter. The entire section honestly would have been better w
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Yes, the numbers are from a toy example, one that the author used to make one uncontroversial point in one section of the post. Those are the numbers we are discussing in this subthread, which began with: > The idea that the difference b

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