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seoaeu
6y ago
Legality under international law doesn't depend on genetics or where you were born. That is kind of the whole point...
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6y ago
The idea that Hamas' ongoing efforts to murder Israeli civilians adheres to their obligations under international law is laughable. Ignoring the ceasefires they've signed which require them to, well, cease firing rockets, they don
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seoaeu
6y ago
$300 is not cheap for a lot of people. It is more than I've ever spent on a computer monitor, and I use those every day!
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6y ago
How would you know they provided a complete list of viruses they were working on? Couldn't they just leave off anything incriminating?
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6y ago
The human cost of having too little food is literally orders of magnitude worse than the cost of having too much. (Having too much necessarily implying having to waste/throw some of it away). To give a sense from past famines, take the
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seoaeu
6y ago
> However, I have zero sympathy for the authorities struggling to get people to take them seriously about masks after they started off by lying about it. This is a common argument, but it is honestly kind of ridiculous. Like how can you
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seoaeu
6y ago
What alternative are you proposing? A planned economy that tries to grow exactly the right amount of food, and results in widespread famine if crop yields are lower than expected? Millions of people would die. "Wasting" some amoun
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seoaeu
6y ago
Wait, are you talking about a general strike where all workers in an entire industry go on strike? In the US, strikes are usually limited to a single employer/workplace. So you might see all the employees of Bob's Software Shack s
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seoaeu
6y ago
Yeah, they intentionally include a safety margin in the amount of fuel to bring. Doesn't make it OK just to miscalculate the payload weight and assume the margin will save you.
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6y ago
I'm not sure it would be considered a union if the people involved aren't being paid. However, there is already a public, collective, confrontational approach to dealing with an open source project with problematic leadership: for
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6y ago
> The best police officer and the best teacher in the entire United States are paid identically to the worst, most abusive ones. The idea that all teachers and police officers in the US are paid exactly the same is wildly untrue. The pay
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seoaeu
6y ago
Um, because those engineers don't have commit access to the repository? You can't just hire an engineering team and take over any open source project you want.
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seoaeu
6y ago
I think the challenge for Uber is that (despite being illegal) it still makes way more sense for a driver to pass up a $10 fare than spend 15 minutes in close proximity to an animal they're allergic to followed by however long it would
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seoaeu
6y ago
But also thankfully it seems that drivers being independent contractors doesn't absolve Uber of following the ADA.
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seoaeu
6y ago
By your definition, large companies are undergoing major initiatives constantly.
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seoaeu
6y ago
It seems weird that in a blog post about a new format for tokens, there isn't a single example of what a GitHub token now looks like.
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seoaeu
6y ago
> That's a pretty nice piece of leverage to have in hand while negotiating a settlement. Isn't that how things usually work? If one party does something illegal, then the other can offer a settlement using the threat of other l
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seoaeu
6y ago
Cutting workers' pay as retaliation for unionizing is illegal.
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seoaeu
6y ago
> The issue is the way unions work (or at least my understanding, correct me if wrong) is that in many places once a union has taken hold, they actually get the right to prevent a non-unionized worker for working. Lots of states don'
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seoaeu
6y ago
Neither is legal, I'm not sure what your point is?
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seoaeu
6y ago
Um, yes? Same way that libel laws supersede first amendment rights. None of the rights in the constitution are absolute, especially when they conflict with each other
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seoaeu
6y ago
Some of the paths are included in the binary for printing backtraces and such, which `strip` doesn't remove.
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6y ago
The problem wasn't ignored. If you read the issue discussion on GitHub [edit: for the first linked issue], you can see that there's back and forth with the compiler developers about how certain information can easily be stripped a
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seoaeu
6y ago
I'd very much not want to be in an airplane whose landing strategy was "automatically apply the brakes". Navigating to an airport, lining up with the runway, and gently bringing down the plane seems significantly harder than
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seoaeu
6y ago
Taking an alternate route to avoid CO2 emissions is basically the opposite of virtue signaling: it actually has a real world impact, and doesn't "signal" to anybody because no one else on the road can even tell whether you&#x
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6y ago
Deflation can be devastating to those in debt. If you take out a loan for a house or a tractor, then subsequently discovering that you have to pay back substantially more than you borrowed (before even factoring in interest!) could be quite
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seoaeu
6y ago
I mean 10k requests/second seems quite achievable for a single server. And I'd totally believe that 12 seconds of compute (per year!) wouldn't use much energy. In reality those requests would be intermixed with millions more
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6y ago
> I also grew up in a Christian house and am now atheist--I never understood how people could reconcile "church shopping" for a community that aligns with their views (e.g. not homophobic) with the notion that the core religiou
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6y ago
I would imagine that essentially all of the people in charge who've delayed/limited information to the investigation have absolutely no clue whether there's even anything to hide. Just consider how much the downsides they
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seoaeu
6y ago
There's plenty of cases where they spliced footage to purposely be deceptive. For instance [1], though Google has many more [1]: https://entertainment.time.com/2011/03/13/the-twisty-bent-tr...
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