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by sjy 7y ago
It’s a big assumption that you wouldn’t have purchased the product anyway. Sure, it’s often true, but there are clearly many people who dislike DRM and subscription fees who would nonetheless accept them if the alternative was to forego cop
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by sjy 7y ago
It’s not just enforcement challenges. There is no law that gives you the right to prevent someone from ‘improperly’ listening to your concert, because restricting that freedom is not seen as a necessary condition for the continued existence
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by sjy 7y ago
> The founding fathers warned against that, because if one generation offloads its debt to the next, then it effectively enslaves the next against its will (deprives it of property, and taxes it without representation, among other things
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by sjy 7y ago
> Ideally you would just use plain old US dollars. But since it's crypto, you can't. Because unbanked cryptocurrency exchanges are essentially in the business of money laundering. A service that facilitates illegal transactions
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by sjy 7y ago
Is it a constitutional principle that no secrets may be kept from the President? Or is it just that the “security clearance” system is currently based on executive orders that the President issues, rather than Congress exercising its power
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by sjy 7y ago
If all of those things are “inheritance,” I’m talking about something more specific – the legal process of reassigning the property rights of deceased people. The state is necessarily involved in this, since it defines and enforces property
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by sjy 7y ago
It’s strange that people seem to have assumed that I want to confiscate all inheritances. I just think inheritance taxes should form some part of an efficient and fair tax system, as they do in many countries, but not mine. Do you feel tha
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by sjy 7y ago
I am struggling to think of any part of my formal education, some of which occurred more than 20 years ago, which has been rendered obsolete by technical disruption. I don’t think technology is changing society that quickly.
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by sjy 7y ago
Australia is an interesting example of the politics of inheritance taxes. We used to have them until a conservative state government abolished them in 1978, which triggered a race to the bottom – abolition in all other states. It’s easier t
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by sjy 7y ago
As a human, this doesn’t resonate with me at all. I know that many people disagree with inheritance taxes, but I would prefer if my views weren’t characterised as inhuman, since they are motivated by a desire to help people who inherit noth
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by sjy 7y ago
This article is great. I particularly liked this part: > Some management experts advocate strict limits to the number of people reporting to a common superior—generally five to seven. But if one has capable people who require but a few m
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by sjy 7y ago
The Ubiquiti EdgeRouters can run a third-party WireGuard module [1] and include entry-level devices under $100. [1] https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard
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by sjy 7y ago
> Indemnity is a wonderful thing. Indemnity is why we have open source. What do you mean by this? I don't see any necessary connection between open source and indemnities. Professional developers might want to release free software
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by sjy 7y ago
I'm worried about that too, but you can deal with it by making the system that automates your backups also test your memory of the password (while still creating a non-interactive backup even if you ignore the prompt). Alternatively, r
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by sjy 7y ago
You accept that honesty could plausibly be a social norm in some countries, yet you think it's laughable that the law might play a role in establishing and upholding that norm?
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by sjy 7y ago
In addition to the point made by the sibling comment, these facts are consistent with an attack on Joe Biden for having an apparent conflict of interest, even if there was no evidence that he intentionally, corruptly used his power to benef
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by sjy 7y ago
Media regulations do exist, and are more robust outside the United States. Usually the answer to your question about bloggers and YouTube personalities is that they are ignored by the regulators of the professional media, but may attract po
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by sjy 7y ago
> What prevents this centralized body from making politically motivated decisions? An established institutional culture of apolitical service, reinforced by respect for those who uphold it and consequences for those who violate it. The k
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by sjy 7y ago
Why would you expect someone calling for tighter regulation of the media to give a free pass to CNN? I would expect regulators to be a thorn in the side of any commercial television network. They're in the business of selling entertain
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by sjy 7y ago
May I ask how you use the "search everything on my iPad" feature? Do you depend on iCloud to store the master copy of all your files on all your devices? I don't, and I assume that's why I've never been able to get
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by sjy 7y ago
That sucks. Do you know of any way to fix it, other than backing up the data in each app separately using means other than iTunes/iCloud backup, and then restoring the iPad to factory state, which would take hours? What did you use to
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by sjy 7y ago
I disagree that "the iPad ... has failed to capture any market share in any of the skilled tasks that people use desktop computers for" because of "modern Apple's design approach of allocating resources based on how popu
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by sjy 7y ago
My "pro" use case is to allow people to read a bookshelf worth of paper without having to lug around the bookshelf or download it over a slow internet connection. It is a consumption use case! But since what is being consumed is a
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by sjy 7y ago
> iPadOS, as distinct from iOS, is fairly new software Isn’t this just marketing bullshit from Apple? The number of new features in iPadOS that aren’t supported on all iOS devices is comparable to previous major iOS releases. I have foun
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by sjy 7y ago
I got super excited about the USB drive support and started telling everyone who would listen about how it would solve all our work-related problems with transferring gigabytes of documents onto iPads securely. Then I tried using it with ab
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by sjy 7y ago
That article seems to be about the Mac App Store, not the iPad. Don’t you think the fact that an iPad has a maximum screen size of 13”, and is designed to be used with your fingers, might be at least as significant a reason why it hasn’t re
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by sjy 7y ago
> I'm not sure anyone could ever accuse anything related to the internet of being 'designed'. Even being standardised is a stretch. I think you are talking about the ecosystem surrounding JavaScript, which was created in 1
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by sjy 7y ago
Breaking up documents into arbitrary (but specified) fixed size increments is a useful way to refer to parts of a large document. Sure, it'd be better if everything was hyperlinked with semantic anchors, but until the trends identified
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by sjy 7y ago
When I first started out I was using free web hosts that didn't support server-side includes or PHP, so I ended up building my own JavaScript front end framework. Unfortunately, I didn't actually know any JavaScript, so I wrapped
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by sjy 7y ago
Yes, I’ve been using it almost every day for a decade, so I know where everything is by this point – but even when it was released I liked it almost immediately, because it surfaced useful style, paragraph spacing and table editing function

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