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by rcoveson 7y ago
Mexico has had, for many years, stricter laws regarding gun ownership than America. They also rank extremely poorly in press freedom. I think part of what you're arguing is that freedom to do dangerous stuff (publish newspapers, own we
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by rcoveson 7y ago
What causes you to say that guns make less sense today than they did when the second amendment was written? Their effectiveness in guerrilla warfare continues to be proven, and their negative impact as an instrument of homicide has trended
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> Law enforcement not being able to access encrypted data severely limits our ability to prosecute and convict criminals who use these secure communications to conduct their business, and brings the creeping threat of social decay ever c
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I hope I'm not misinterpreted as claiming that a balance must be struck between strong encryption and backdoored encryption. I was talking about a higher level balance, of which encryption is only one issue. We agree that the strength
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by rcoveson 7y ago
There's a balance that must be struck between the efficiency of law enforcement and the freedom of citizens. Personally, I lean heavily towards the latter, and I think this is the reason: My life and the lives of those I know are affec
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Is that including some mechanical latency? If that’s all software/electrical latency it’s unbelievably bad.
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I don't think you got my point. I recognize that neither problem is unavoidable. We agree that both can be solved, and even that we should look to others who don't have such problems to find solutions. However, calling "simpl
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by rcoveson 7y ago
It’s a lesson in the inevitable consequences of loving something fiercely, be that your own intellect, your spouse, or a child. You may lose any of these things before you die, and the pain will probably be proportional to the love you felt
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Nobody's disagreeing with the statistics, they're disagreeing that statistical likelihood of success is a good criteria for determining whether to congratulate somebody on something or not. I suspect that if we used that criteria,
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by rcoveson 7y ago
There was never any conundrum. "Sorry" can be correctly used in both an apology or in expressing sorrow. In saying, "I'm sorry for your loss," the context makes it clear that the speaker is not penitent, but sympath
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Having experiences that suggest that an achievement is likely very minor should not be a cause for withholding congratulations, or any other social pleasantry. For example, in my experience, just being accepted to college at all is really n
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I don't think you understand marriage if you don't think it's an achievement. If you give the people in question the benefit of the doubt, you would assume that they understand the gravity of the interpersonal and legal commi
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> We have the capability, collectively, to choose whether or not to pursue something. This is the coordination problem to end all coordination problems. Is there an example in history of civilization turning its collective back on some s
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I went and read _Men and Women and Marriage_. It didn't strike me as a hate piece. It's the kind of thing that I could see some version of myself writing as an angsty teenager with a Mormon upbringing that was extremely focused on
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Why is this attitude so prevalent? You make an extreme and unsubstantiated statement denying any merit to one side of a contentious issue. Somebody predictable comes along and argues that there is demonstrated merit on that side and it must
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> I totally agree that if you care about security you should be running in the opposite direction of k8s. The parts of k8s that are sticky and hard to change are the API abstractions like Services, Deployments, and Nodes. That's als
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by rcoveson 7y ago
This comment is deeply insulting to everybody in history who has lived in a society that has in fact completely failed. Respect your relative paradise. I guarantee you won't discover anything superior to "the west" unless you
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by rcoveson 7y ago
If Apple Lightning ever does get replaced by USB-C, it will be a huge loss. I can't articulate all of the reasons why, but it is a delight to use compared to USB-C. Plugging in a Lightning cable is the only thing that feels half as goo
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> If we foster hate speech, many people will eventually die. True, if we collectively foster it. Let's definitely not do that. > where is that status derived from? It's just agreed upon, or not. The extent to which free spee
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I don't think that follows so clearly. We defend many rights that could lead to disaster. You could try to drum up a following to amend the constitution and make the country into whatever you wanted it to be, and you could do so legall
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> ...people are programmable. This particular cynicism justifies far too much. A liberal (as in liberty) society must trust the super-majority of its population to agree on and uphold its ethical foundations. Policing hate speech weakens
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Clever, but beside the point. "Content isn't free" is still not a reason to plead that others "consume the ads." Google doesn't offer Go on the _condition_ that you consume ads, nor does this podcast or intervi
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Go is both free as in freedom _and_ free as in beer. Binaries and source are available for use or modification to anybody, free of charge. No ads either.
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What an ironic comment on an article whose subject is a massive, free, open-source piece of "content."
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"Assume good faith" and "avoid ad hominem" are not "naive." They are necessary. You simply cannot have a fruitful discussion without both parties agreeing on those rules. Even if you are convinced that your opp
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I don't think you're understanding the gist of what I'm saying. Of course it's _possible_ to recreate the exact _audio_ experience of vinyl with a higher fidelity medium like a CD. But it's not about just the audio.
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> Objectively inferior capability to reproduce sounds. Maybe when it comes to something like music, that's not the most important thing. In fact, most music listeners would say it's not really important at all. Vinyls have grea
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by rcoveson 7y ago
This is exactly the reason that peer-to-peer services never work. Tor, BitTorrent, cryptocurrency: Failures, all. Each of their users threatened individually by US law enforcement until the service died.
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> They had the technology to create a monster, but don’t have the technology to stop it. At first I was going to argue that they could stop it and that they did have the "technology" to do so, but the more I thought about it th
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Consistent enforcement is an essential element of the rule of law. It's hard to balance against privacy concerns; it's definitely not obvious which is worse: A police force that can fine almost anybody on the road at any time beca

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