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by richbell 4y ago
I agree, but I do not think "it's more convenient for the prison" is a legitimate reason, which is seemingly the case here.
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by richbell 4y ago
Apparently in South Korea everyone is "1" at birth. https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-age-all-about-age-in-kore...
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by richbell 4y ago
> If you are in prison and have a serious tooth infection (and that can be fatal though rarely) then yes, the state can absolutely force you to have a root canal. This isn't really comparable; it would be like the prison forcibly re
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by richbell 4y ago
> They are wards of the state which means the state is legally required to care for them to the best of it's ability. The prisons aren't caring for them to the best of their ability — that's the whole problem. See also:
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by richbell 4y ago
> I'm surprised that you feel that strongly on induction of labor which is routine, very safe and used frequently. My wife was induced to help reduce the need for emergency c section. Presumably because it's being done without
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by richbell 4y ago
This is nonsense. He spilled tea on the papers — whether they had cream and sugar is widely debated.
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by richbell 4y ago
He'd attempted suicide mere weeks prior to his death. He was also an extemely high-procile inmate facing serious charges.
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by richbell 4y ago
I think the closest you'd get is Larry David, Kevin O'Leary, and Tom Brady. Wealthy but definitely not anyone of serious power or consequence.
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by richbell 4y ago
Yeah, it's far from perfect but it does get a lot right. It's painful watching all these new package management tools like pip and npm completely ignore what came before them. I think Go's approach is interesting, though it d
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by richbell 4y ago
> There are tons of dangerous criminals He was one of, if not, the most high-profile inmates. > he was on suicide watch until he wasn’t Why was he taken off suicide watch when he was known to be suicidal?
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by richbell 4y ago
Lol, I knew you were mostly joking — but you also weren't wrong. At the same time, some people genuinely shit on Maven Central and think that it's inferior to other registries.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Maven doesn't have this problem because maven central is too obtuse for hackers to use I have many gripes with Sonatype but Maven Central isn't really one of them. The fact you can publish a packages to the likes of PyPI, npm
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by richbell 4y ago
That's a third-party dependency, not a part of the standard library.
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by richbell 4y ago
> What would you say is the main difference with Maven/Java vs NPM? Maven doesn't allow execution of arbitrary code at install-time, which curbs a large number of potential supply-chain attacks. Because of the JVM and JARs bein
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by richbell 4y ago
> Like I said, class doesn't define everything, it's one of many factors. > I'd encourage you to broaden your world view to more than just economic status. It's easy not to think about the importance of your econom
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by richbell 4y ago
So you're saying they should be ashamed... of not promoting it sooner? ;)
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by richbell 4y ago
One of the most soulless companies in Canada has a special department you can contact for any complaints or questions and they will do everything in their power to make things right or answer your questions in a timely manner. The trick is
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by richbell 4y ago
> Only if you view the world as a first year poly sci major with a penchant for Marx > The world is way more complex than just "class". You don't have to be a Marxist to recognize that class is one of the most important
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by richbell 4y ago
The word of the day is "Regulatory Capture". (Yes, I know that's two words, "don't @ me" as the youths would say.)
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by richbell 4y ago
True — though even if the people directly responsible for the theft aren't savory individuals, the people they sell to might be struggling to buy diapers all the same. There's apparently an entire black market around this stuff. &
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by richbell 4y ago
Many companies even use third-party support staff, per ProPublica. It's outsourcing and penny-pinching all the way down, and the people getting screwed are the customers and the employees. https://www.propublica.org/ar
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by richbell 4y ago
> This is kind of a bizarre article that tries to view the world through some sort of class struggle. What exactly is bizarre about it? The world is a class struggle.
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by richbell 4y ago
> people steal stuff so freely because they don't get prosecuted or punished. > and they do it in the first place because they can sell the stuff and buy meth. they 100% aren't worried about gentrification issues or the loca
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by richbell 4y ago
> It only concludes that a YAML may execute code. This is *intentional* - this is why people use YAML (otherwise they may use JSON) ... > 100% of the application which use SnakeYAML do not parse data from untrusted sources. Wow, what
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by richbell 4y ago
At a company I worked at, one of the VPs secured his son a "Senior Developer" role fresh out of a boot camp. His son was assigned to a high-visibility project that had been in development for several months and immediately started
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by richbell 4y ago
> Yet another whiner complaining about well-known problems that advanced users are aware of doesn't add anything and nothing in this article is new thing to any advanced user. "Well-known problems that advanced users are aware
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by richbell 4y ago
From what I've heard about its difficulty, I'd be far more impressed if you were proficient at Go.
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by richbell 4y ago
> That's a lot of words for a language you don't like and don't want to use. I agree, I'm glad the author wrote up such thoughtful constructive criticism. They clearly care about software development and want everyone
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by richbell 4y ago
It absolutely is abusive behaviour, and it's unfortunately pervasive across industries. Bethesda is infamous for withholding payment to smaller companies to force an acquisition of IP. And (not to get political) big-shot celebrities
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by richbell 4y ago
"How about we vindictively hold onto OpenOffice and then gift it as a white elephant to the Apache Software Foundation instead?" — Larry Ellison, probably

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