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by robonerd 4y ago
They're both at fault. Fault isn't zero-sum.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I'm not quite sure what part of the constitution covers abortion, and I'm familiar with the ruling. You don't seem to be asking, but for Roe vs Wade it's the 14th Amendment. Whether or not you agree with it, if
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by robonerd 4y ago
Yes, it would be best if privacy is protected by law. We should strive for that outcome, but still be prepared for less favorable outcomes.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Civil war seems far-fetched; states have a lot less autonomy today than they did before the last civil war, specifically because of that civil war. The ability of a state to successfully wage war against others has been largely scrutinized
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by robonerd 4y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sure, I don't mean to suggest that Roe vs Wade was actually about encryption. But Roe v Wade makes the privacy angle of the pro-choice position pretty clear; that privacy between a woman and her doctor is relevant to the discussion.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Maybe SpaceX could survive as a satellite launch company using Falcon 9, but if we accept the premise of Elon Musk funding this company to go to Mars, would he continue to provide that funding if plans for the Mars missions go up in smoke
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by robonerd 4y ago
Roe vs Wade was based on a privacy argument, so finding a connection between the pro-choice position and encryption seems natural.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Paycheck induced blindness to the premise of not writing spyware.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Are all of the unconstitutional ratchet laws that were passed during the Roe era political grandstanding? Or do you think their authors and legislators passed them hoping for changes in the judicial branch that would render them “good
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by robonerd 4y ago
That doesn't sound unprecedented..
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's weird to me that so many Musk critics (not all mind, not myself..) seem so confident in the Raptor 2 / Starship program, seemingly for little reason other than 'believe the opposite of everything Elon says' The wa
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by robonerd 4y ago
They put some serious effort into making a nuclear powered airplane, but the reactor + shielding (for the crew) weighed too much.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It's a train, because there's exploration to be done around what happens on a journey that is both linear and fixed. Eh, they could have done that with a shelter built in a tunnel or something like that. But that would hav
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Trains usually go on rails Usually indeed. Besides accidental derailments, there was a time in the late 90s when a town in Canada intentionally derailed a diesel-electric locomotive and drove it down the street half a mile under its
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by robonerd 4y ago
Hydrophobia is a common (albeit bit archaic?) name for the disease generally, inspired by the symptom.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Separation into female and male leagues were installed partially because of sex (so that it's fairer), but initially mainly because of gender (women must not do the same fun things we do). I don't know all the history of it
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by robonerd 4y ago
Yes. That's an example of discrimination that society has mostly concluded to be constructive.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It means "non-player character". The line between "non-player" to "non-human" is very thin, since it means precisely that in video game contexts.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Mental illness probably isn't the right word for it, but hydrophobia is indisputably a disease of the brain. The virus travels from the bite wound up your CNS; when it reaches your brain you die in agony.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Varies greatly from country to country.
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by robonerd 4y ago
From: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/decriminalizing-pro... > According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 19 percent of all trans people, and 47 percent of black trans women, have engaged in
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's the difference between being the censor, and being the censored. Both sides in the dispute want to be the censor, neither wants to be the censored.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Ah, I had no idea that existed. Seems like a bad idea though; the train already crashed.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I agree with your points. Right or wrong, it seems plainly evident that the reputation of a company will rub off on the workers. It's logically in the interests of workers to protest against company decisions that will harm their own
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by robonerd 4y ago
Yes.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If you are an employee and this is original content, your name is forever linked to it and so you should be able to have a say in it. If it was purchased content, maybe you could say you weren't involved. Like working for a toba
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by robonerd 4y ago
Netflix is a business. Their interest is art they can profit from. Art that drives a lot of people away probably isn't going to make the cut (unless they think it might draw in more people than it pushes away.)
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Snowpiercer: Gave up after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting). What do you mean by this? The "geo-engineering backfired and made the world too cold" setting o
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by robonerd 4y ago
No more alcohol consumption in movies then? Romcom heros can't enjoy champagne at their wedding in the end of the movie, because that doesn't accommodate recovering alcoholics who suffer in the mainstream culture of drinking dur

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