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by rmc 9y ago
> Assange was basically, from his POV, defending his future freedom and poasibly his life, and still is. And I suspect, his reputation/good name. If he'd gone to trial, and lost, he'd be called a "convicted rapist&q
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by rmc 9y ago
Well if you cannot question the accused, it sort of limits what evidence you can collect...
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by rmc 9y ago
Yes there are about as many trans men as trans women, but trans women are at a higher risk of violence. Here's some more reading: https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgend... https://
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by rmc 9y ago
She's been in prison for ~7 years, and I'll bet it was a pretty strict prison. I'm prepared to let her recovery and heal first. She is under no obligation to be under the spotlight from tomorrow.
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by rmc 9y ago
Plenty of trans women are murdered around the world on a daily basis, and yes, including the USA.
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by rmc 9y ago
What if a whistleblower wants to communicate with their elected representative who will then raise and highlight an issue? Sometimes it's vital that people be able to communicate in private with their reps.
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by rmc 9y ago
It's called Moravec's paradox. Basically the AI things that we thought would be easy ("computer vision, pfft, give it a few months") turned out to be really really hard. And the AI/computer things that we thought wo
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by rmc 9y ago
It means the average person has no idea how copyright law works. It means lots of average people think there is nothing wrong with non-commerical usage of copyrighted works so long as you don't try to pass something off as your own. It
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by rmc 9y ago
As well as Bing, there is also aerial imagery from Mapbox. So this is another option for us, which is great. In many ways, aerial imagery is much better for OSM than data. Trying to conflatuate 2 data sources (DG & OSM) would be a massi
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by rmc 9y ago
The same thing happens in Ireland with those newspapers. For example, when Martin McGuinness died a few weeks ago, the newspapers had radically different front pages: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/201
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by rmc 9y ago
As far as I know, the ability to use direct debits is not given to everyone. You can't just start making direct debits just because you have a bank account.
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by rmc 10y ago
Ah I get you! You can't read past the end of an array, but you can get an error.
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by rmc 10y ago
> index out-of-bound issues You sure about that? You can still get Rust to panic if you try to index a vec past the end...
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by rmc 10y ago
Yes, in theory all programmes in all languages eventually run machine code. However some programming languages (e.g. Python) will do things that you can't get away from, like reference counting. So you'll be running extra machine
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by rmc 10y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a great philosophy book, but kinda rubbish as a motorcycle travel book. I recommend Jupiters Travels (from the same era) for an excellent motorcycle travel book.
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by rmc 10y ago
i.e. One, weaker, rule for popular apps, one stronger rule for the little people.
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by rmc 10y ago
The interesting bit with consent (for EU data protection stuff) is that it has be freely given (so you have to be able to say no), and it has to be informed, so you'd have to show that the person knew what they were signing up for. 2
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by rmc 10y ago
Or tech companies could put themselves under EU data protection law.
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by rmc 10y ago
That's an industry body from big advertisers, like Google. I'm pretty sure "Don't store user data" isn't included in that "standard"
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by rmc 10y ago
The UK (which is a EU member for the next ~22 months) has co-ops, and basically invented the modern legal co-op.
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by rmc 10y ago
Probably because the shares that most companies offer are worthless for setting company direction . Employee pool of options is 20%? So investors & founders can always out vote everyone.
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by rmc 10y ago
Making vendors liable has the problem when they spin up a new incorporated entity every year. The company who made it is now bust! Who is liable?
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by rmc 10y ago
You have a point with JS etc. But what can you do about a video? Only include a 320x260 video in 16 colours?
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by rmc 10y ago
> Experienced COBOL programmers can earn more than $100 an hour Only $100 ph??
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by rmc 10y ago
"I'm on antibiotics" is another excuse.
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by rmc 10y ago
Exactly, it's more socially acceptable in the USA.
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by rmc 10y ago
> I'm pretty sure that "banning Nazi's" is a catch all phrase meaning banning anyone whose opinions we do not agree with above a certain level / token candidates. The mastodon.social terms ban this stuff: >
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by rmc 10y ago
> If we use it, the nazis will come. Mastodon.social explicitly bans nazis: > The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service: > Sexual depictions of children > Con
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by rmc 10y ago
Depends. You can take free speech very seriously and hence not want to ban Nazis. For example the ACLU went to the US Supreme Court to support the National Socialist Party of America to march in USA https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by rmc 10y ago
Yes, but when Americans (e.g. college students) talk about "roommates" they mean they share a bedroom ! Literal room mates

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