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by sjwright 6y ago
For those who don’t know, Tom Holman is the TH in THX. He was also involved with the inception of Audyssey Labs and their room calibration technology. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson_Holman
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by sjwright 6y ago
Your opinion makes a lot of sense now that you've analogised rape situations to a lucid, rules-based sparring competition. If I were to grant that rather weird analogy as valid, you would be completely right and I would most certainly
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your overall point, but when you say “weak” are you still speaking in the physical sense? Obviously I was not—otherwise I would have been entertaining a direct logical contradiction. I am speaking i
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by sjwright 6y ago
Did I say that slavery was the only reason? No. Did I say racism is only historical? No. Having words put in one's mouth makes conversation deeply uninteresting. Thus I shall end my contributions here.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Men are, as a statistical average, physically stronger. Men are statistically far more likely to rape a woman than the other way around. Setting aside any legal/criminal consequences, rape has substantially higher risk of long term, li
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Poverty amplifies the problem of racism. But racism is what caused that poverty in the first place. I partly agree, but I’d argue that it’s less complicated. I would rephrase thusly: Poverty IS the problem. And historical racism is th
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by sjwright 6y ago
Indeed, though in some instances that’s as it should be. There are objectively rational reasons why women should have optional access to male-free spaces. There no objectively rational reasons for the converse. (That said, I’m all for makin
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by sjwright 6y ago
Historical racism, especially slavery.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Completely agree. Most racism in the USA can be explained by poverty—of which "POC" are disproportionately represented. America's systemic racism is better described as systemic poverty combined abuse of the poor.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You can dismantle privilege by tearing down existing systems or by building greater inclusivity into them. "Dismantling the systems of white privilege" is too vague to disambiguate this semantic dispute. By analogy, you can force
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by sjwright 6y ago
There was no quantification in the signal chain, so no.
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This is false, albeit depending on how broadly you define “personal information”. Regardless, the effect of the law has been clear.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Effective privacy protection means that app developers need strong incentives to follow strict rules. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach of enforcing strict rules is a choice available to me as a consumer.
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Apple apps don’t do what Apple is restricting other developers from doing here, so any claim that these restrictions aren’t applied to their own apps is moot.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That makes no sense. Apple is guilty for doing the right thing? If you want to demonstrate market dominance, write a clear definition into the law and enact it.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Apple sees privacy as a marketable point of differentiation to its competitors. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach is a choice available to me as a consumer. Meanwhile, the arc of Google’s Android platform has been steadily bending
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by sjwright 6y ago
"Regulation" mandated stupid cookie consent overlays on every damn European website. Thanks, regulation.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's the AGPL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
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by sjwright 6y ago
What is the "fair share" payment for ElasticSearch under its Apache license? I'm not a lawyer but it appears to be $0. Meanwhile, how come everyone showing sympathy for Elastic's position doesn't seem to be showin
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by sjwright 6y ago
Other people have chosen to license their own work with the license of their choice. The license is being complied with by AWS in fact and in spirit. If you don't agree with the spirit of the Apache license terms, that's fine. You
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by sjwright 6y ago
Just because something was designed for a specific purpose a few hundred years ago doesn't mean it serves that same purpose today. Situations change. The Constitution was designed to be amended.
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> , it just shows a childish attitude So that you can understand how your contribution is being consumed by others: when I came to that sentence fragment I stopped reading and down-voted your post. The remainder of your contribution migh
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by sjwright 6y ago
This is both correct and incorrect. This is correct if you refer to how early versions of the Mac OS X installer was packaged. The Classic environment framework was always installed but a copy of Mac OS 9 was also required to be installed o
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by sjwright 6y ago
Increases compliance rate, reduces losses from non-compliance, improves monitoring/statistics around non-compliance.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Perhaps you could make it mandatory for a voucher good for 1 year of license to be sold alongside every TV. You can then credit that voucher to your household account. (If you bought more than one new TV per year, your TV license account wo
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by sjwright 6y ago
> FWIW, advertising and to a larger extent advocacy in 1988 and what is today are entirety different animals. There certainly are more forms and techniques of advertising, but if you teach the fundamentals sufficiently well, the critical
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by sjwright 6y ago
College degrees are not a relevant metric. What percentage of the population are being taught fundamental critical thinking skills? How many are taught how to evaluate the quality of data and the quality of sources? How many people have a g
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by sjwright 6y ago
Given that Apple has explicitly stated this benefit and given that Apple has explicitly utilised these exact benefits in the real world on multiple occasions, it's rather bold to propose that it might not be factually true. Obviously i
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by sjwright 6y ago
Based entirely on their MX-30 car design, I'd believe it. It's a fairly stupid design that slavishly mimics many aspects of the much and controversial older BMW i3.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Flaky network stacks aren't rare. I've experienced plenty of consumer-facing operating systems that will freeze on boot for 10 to 60 seconds if the network interface is up but DHCP is unreachable.

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