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by rosser 7y ago
When you're stuck in your amygdala, you kinda necessarily can't be operating from your cortices.
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by rosser 7y ago
> No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be. Bullshit. Don't you dare presume to speak for people other than yourself, or people whose position on the subject has been explicitly disclosed to you. You do
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by rosser 7y ago
"Not as bad as", aka The Fallacy of Relative Privation, is a "red herring" fallacy. It is a distraction, a diversion, and, in so many words, whataboutism.
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by rosser 7y ago
Your right to make noise with your pie hole in no way obligates anyone else to listen to, or even hear you, let alone broadcast that noise to a larger audience than you would have had without their help. Full stop. There is absolutely a leg
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by rosser 7y ago
Re: your edit: The First Amendment doesn't guarantee you an audience. It only guarantees you that the State can't constrain your speech without a damned good reason. It is utterly orthogonal to conduct between private parties, a
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by rosser 7y ago
I think it's, for example, eminently possible to reconcile Twitter's right not to be obligated to carry "hate speech" (aside: please don't derail this discussion with an unnecessary diversion into whether that'
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by rosser 7y ago
I think you're reading my position rather uncharitably, and genuinely don't enjoy being likened to a bigot. I absolutely disagree with the notion that the social fictions we call "corporations" are people , but I'm
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by rosser 7y ago
That's not up to me; corporate personhood is, however consequentially or however much I might disagree with it, a settled matter.
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by rosser 7y ago
> And it gets blurry when the private parties are ISPs or phone companies. Not really. That's pretty much exactly what the changes to the verbiage in Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the FCC's 2015 classifi
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by rosser 7y ago
Your point is technically correct (the best kind of correct), but consider that in the US, the IRS's rules for 501(c)3 organizations, for example, allow those organizations to advocate for political policies without jeopardizing their
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by rosser 7y ago
Requiring private parties to convey speech they disagree with is, itself, a violation of their freedom of speech. EDIT: Otherwise, please explain to me how compelled speech is "less bad" than its restraint.
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by rosser 7y ago
Those cases are almost always dismissed summarily, unless the plaintiff can demonstrate fraud or other kinds of bad faith. The "Business Judgement Rule" [0] requires courts to give a very wide latitude to the officers of a corpora
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by rosser 8y ago
The definition of a criminal conspiracy requires intent and an agreement to act in furtherance of that intent, and only one of the conspirators to have committed overt acts. Everyone with mens rea is guilty of conspiring, not just the per
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by rosser 8y ago
A friend works for NIO. They're well past "slick websites showcasing vaporware".
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by rosser 8y ago
Polyamorous != promiscuous.
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Ongoing DNS Hijackings Target Gmail, PayPal, Netflix, Banks and More(arstechnica.com)
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by rosser 8y ago
Not the GP, but I'll share my story, as well. In early 2001, for the project I was working on then, we needed something like a SQLite-lite. (SQLite existed, but was less than a year old and was still way bigger than our needs.) One of
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by rosser 8y ago
SQL's null really isn't incomprehensible. It just means "unknown". It's broadly like "undefined" in js.
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Researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward(phys.org)
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by rosser 8y ago
If the program were set up as above, such that any accredited journalist could walk into any Apple Store at any time and do the thing, the logistical challenges in having custom, pre-compromized phones on-hand everywhere ("Why aren&#x2
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm finding product briefs for 4G and 5G basebands listing host DMA capabilities, so it's still enough of a thing to keep vendors offering it.
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by rosser 8y ago
You obviously know vastly more about security than I do, but I don't understand how a black box with DMA doesn't implicitly compromise the rest of the device, for people whose threat models might include state-level actors — and p
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by rosser 8y ago
A smartphone is already the wrong tool if you're in that job. The baseband is a de facto rootkit.
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by rosser 8y ago
I wish I had the time to chase down the ways our axioms and premises are preventing us from doing more than talking past one another here, but I don't, and I don't feel like fighting uphill against a "which is fantasy" k
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by rosser 8y ago
Shale oil is well-known to have significantly higher CO₂ costs than conventional crude. At least it's (generally) EROEI-positive, finally (though much of that is a result of burning the lower grade stuff to fractionally distill off the
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by rosser 8y ago
I think the position is that whatever fraction of that $3T that gets spent at the bottom of the economy will contribute more to the economy overall than it would have sitting in the bank accounts of whoever "paid" the tax, simply
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by rosser 8y ago
The money goes somewhere , too, though. That "tax hike" would almost all get spent, and probably pretty quickly, because the overwhelming majority of it would be going to people who live close enough to hand-to-mouth that the dif
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by rosser 8y ago
Thanks! By "can't find", I'd meant, "not in a place where I can take the time" because my build was about to finish, sorry. I think this SA article's title is a bit hyperbolic, frankly. The editor's n
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by rosser 8y ago
I've read, though can't find a citation right now, that we dump more radioactive gunk into the atmosphere every year, just from burning coal, than has been released in all the nuclear accidents in history, combined.
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by rosser 8y ago
The theory, as I understand it, is that without tenure or a mechanism like it people might not feel empowered to research controversial subjects, or draw conclusions which challenge conventions, for example.

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