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by sobkas 3y ago
> Without laws, you have anarchy. Laws create the institutions necessary to have an economy capable of creating wealth. Without laws you don't have anarchy, you just have rule of strongest. Anarchy can have laws but no authority tha
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by sobkas 3y ago
> We've tried it multiple times and it's had disastrous consequences every time. But let's do it again! We also tried not doing it and it had even worse consequences so I don't see what you are trying to say.
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by sobkas 3y ago
> On the subject of FBI/NSA/CIA insincerity, that makes me think of various post-9/11 debates often involving "ticking bomb" Hollywood scenarios. It would be appropriate if we could reverse "ticking bomb&quo
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by sobkas 3y ago
> They're ubiquitous, but few prefer them over the convenience of delivery to the doorstep. Buyers are never responsible for missing packages so there's little incentive to use lockers unless you're buying a secret gift or
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by sobkas 3y ago
> Republicans were a couple decades too late when they said single payer or Obamacare would bring death panels. We already have death panels wifh medicare, medicaid, and workplace insurance. > It'd just be changed to a federal-go
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by sobkas 3y ago
> > > Law enforcement is basically allowed to lie to you > > Is this pretty universal or is it an American thing? > In court: You: They lied to me about my right to a lawyer Cop: No we didn't, also he admitted during
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by sobkas 3y ago
> > Law enforcement is basically allowed to lie to you > Is this pretty universal or is it an American thing? In court: You: They lied to me about my right to a lawyer Cop: No we didn't, also he admitted during this talk to be
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by sobkas 3y ago
> How could they tell if you withheld anything or genuinely forgot? It's a stressful situation. I'm not sure if I'll remember even my mother's name in such situation. You are not giving them password so you are withho
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by sobkas 3y ago
> "Ignorantia juris non excusat" is precedent for any democratic state. It's there for long time. And it could end your freedom any time if your are not encyclopedia of all current laws, regulations and restrictions of cou
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by sobkas 3y ago
> Living in South Texas it sure feels like something changed this year; I've never seen so many trees die. > If we are unable to determine the point of no return, then perhaps that would be good reason to stop changing the carbon
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by sobkas 3y ago
> DMCA? Does Mazda think we're going to start downloading cars because of this? Or do something even worse, have functionality we didn't paid Mazda to have.
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by sobkas 3y ago
> She doesn't have to tell anyone She doesn't because there is an app on her work machine that gathers all kinds of useful data on usage of such computer. Sooner or later someone will notice and there will be consequences for d
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by sobkas 3y ago
> That said: 15 years of activity is a lot of work to unpack in "specific terms", so "unspecified terminology" that still provides a rough overview it is. How about list of open firmware(preferably consumer grade, big
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by sobkas 3y ago
> Government has legislature and litigation focused on big tech right now on multiple fronts. If corporation gets a fine that's lower than their profits from breaking the law, then it's not a punishment but government getting i
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by sobkas 3y ago
> I’m baffled by your comment. This wouldn’t benefit the government at all. They just want their money and wouldn’t want to collapse a major American enterprise over money they will collect by any means necessary. Ah America the land of
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by sobkas 3y ago
I dream of library for example named libcpu that have backends compiled from Verilog/VHDLl(or even get traction under something better)so people could play with existing CPUs by implementing them and/or creating something complete
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by sobkas 3y ago
It's similar problem to drugs. We have populist solutions that don't work and solutions that work but will make you unelectable. Guess what solutions will get implemented? Also it doesn't matter how much money is spent per ch
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by sobkas 3y ago
> >The philosophical issue is charter schools use public resources yet are not accountable to the public. > They absolutely are accountable to the public in their school district, who can choose to send their kids not to that schoo
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by sobkas 3y ago
I might be a bit paranoid, but don't provide some random website on the internet intimate information about your family. Someone might learn about your ancestry at the worst possible moment...
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by sobkas 3y ago
> > A history of doing the right thing doesn't matter in the slightest > If we all thought this way, certainly there'd be no incentive for anyone to do the right thing at all? A good track record should be rewarded, up un
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by sobkas 3y ago
I believe RISC-V will recreate balkanization and UNIX wars of the past. There will be just to much incentive for corporations to introduce closed/proprietary extension to distinguish themselves from their competitors. So either users w
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by sobkas 3y ago
If you start with framework you might not learn enough to solve problems later, but using it later to simplify your config should be ok. For example ergoemacs http://ergoemacs.github.io/ is a nice way to make Emacs more erg
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by sobkas 3y ago
When using gamepad(PS3, Xbox 360)or steam deck I'm loosing feeling in my hands while playing, but mice(vertical) and keyboard (FPS and programming) doesn't cause such problems. I'm thinking if there are more ergonomic gamepa
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by sobkas 3y ago
Then my life is a left-wing talking point. Without socialised medicine, without public schools, without a lot of help from either government or NGO-s I wouldn't be alive today. And I see how much unnecessary cruelty today is pointed to
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by sobkas 3y ago
> This is part of what I’m talking about. Part of it is a mob justice thing where people get attacked for not being pro left enough. Give me a break and stop pounding on people for not touting the line. I don’t want to get on anyone’s si
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by sobkas 3y ago
Then civil forfeiture every dollar and every thing they own. For some reason police can do it to the poor, why not do the same for corporations and people making decisions there? Maybe executives are "not guilty", but their posses
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by sobkas 3y ago
Then there should be consequences for destroying environment and making earth inhabitable for humans. Oil industry knew that burning fossil fuels will lead to global warming. Plastic industry knew that recycling is a total sham, and most of
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by sobkas 3y ago
And you believe that MEGA-TEAM won't get bailed out? Because otherwise bloated corpse of MEGA-TEAM will smother football as we know it?
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by sobkas 3y ago
Yes, just like it prevents the prosecution from bringing in a cop that will testify against you to the court. Yes, just like it prevents the prosecution from bringing in a hair expert that will testify to the court that your hair was on the
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by sobkas 3y ago
They were imprisoned because there was political/economic will to throw book at them. It's only illegal if you get caught and there is someone willing to prosecute(and sentence) you.

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