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by sobkas 3y ago
> For this comparison to make sense, the slave would have to sell themselves. Which is a very different conversation from what is commonly understood as slavery. Slavery is when human beings are property, I don't know from where you
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by sobkas 3y ago
I have seen how fast any past progress can be reversed by sufficiently determined populist conservatives. Don't take it for granted when every liberty you have can be disappeared with one election.
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by sobkas 3y ago
> He's so close to making the final leap. Now, the $1,000,000.00 question, how do we make these awful people to be terrified of the populace so they behave even remotely respectably...? > The audience is waiting with baited breat
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by sobkas 3y ago
And then we have X11 in the middle of everything. It's not getting younger, there are no volunteers to make releases but 'fortunately' there is not much development going on to make it a problem. Maybe FreeBSD(and other *BSD)
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by sobkas 3y ago
> This isn't a meaningful tautology. "The system is unjust because it is unjust and therefore must always be unjust." > We can and should improve society. We should, but what makes you think that we can?
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by sobkas 3y ago
> The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me. For me owned was as in "CIA owned Crypto AG" not "netrunner owned the Chrome " no
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by sobkas 3y ago
> Yeah, don't depend on a permanent global conspiracy for your security. Someone always defects and accidents often happen long before that. But then we still also have things like Crypto AG.
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by sobkas 3y ago
> It was a genius idea - you cannot install Windows 11 on an old computer. So you need to buy a new one. > Monopoly practice hidden as security. Actually you can, it's only checked by installer, if you modify it there is nothing
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by sobkas 3y ago
> IANAL, but for a contract to be legal, at least in the US, it requires consideration from both sides, which means both sides have to give up something. What consideration is given from the free user? What "free" user? Didn&#x
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by sobkas 3y ago
> you’ve never made a mistake in your future predictions? youve never committed to something you couldnt deliver? > i understand the outrage but remember the people on the other side of that screen are just humans too. many things don
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by sobkas 3y ago
For me HPE ProLiant MicroServer G10+ is better solution but I couldn't find wireless pcie card that reliable could be used as AP. I have QNAP QWA-AC2600 bought in Europe but Linux driver is crippled and sets regulatory region to US be
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by sobkas 3y ago
> I hope she is aware of this surveillance and agreed to it? Or how easy this footage could be sold or leaked?
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by sobkas 3y ago
> This story is not incompatible with a more-basic one where inflation debases the currency, so when a company starts exploring price hikes for whatever reason they unsurprisingly realize greater profits (since they were implicitly lower
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by sobkas 3y ago
> Seems relevant to note that these charges failed.. As USA lives in post law age it only means that relevant corporations carpet bombed regulator with lawyers, paid politicians, lobbyists, job offers for key bureaucrats(after they retir
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by sobkas 3y ago
> In the case of the Boston cleaner, that seems to indicate the living costs can also drive salary. If nobody applies to work somewhere, the wages either go up or the job goes unfilled. When one job salary doesn't cover living costs
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by sobkas 3y ago
Rich and powerful no longer fear prosecution and jail. You can destroy economy, do wage theft in billions, war criminals go free without even a tap on the wrist. People see this and such disregard for law trickle down on them. Including law
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by sobkas 3y ago
And then X11 was ported to it and everything went downhill. I can't imagine worse graphics subsystem to use.
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by sobkas 3y ago
> We understand it now, 2 + 2 = 5 "if someone says 2+2=5, the correct response is, ‘What are your definitions and axioms?’ not a rant about the decline of Western civilization". From Wikipedia because math is hard, let's g
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by sobkas 3y ago
> So many shows are unavailable or different because of ridiculous licensing rules around music. Scrubs has several different versions of music, The Drew Carey Show is basically impossible to find because of music. If Congress wanted to
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I don't think you need to be that paranoid about India. It's a very safe and free country to live in. Not everyone wants to get out looking for work. But with a large population like India, there ought to be some problems tha
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Work is just the shit you do for other people to stay alive. If a robot is doing that thing, I'll do something else. If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Europeans routinely about gypsies). Sad part is that we as Europeans worked/working really really hard to make it impossible for them to find a place in our communities/societies. And before that we did similar things with J
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Obama got a reception like he was the Pope on his first European trip. It spans more than just the Nobel committee. First not being Bush wrote a lot of checks he couldn't cash. People believed for some reason that he was leftist,
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by sobkas 4y ago
> > rather the way of thinking about the world. > As an American who has lived in the US my whole life, it can be tough to see outside the box, so to speak. What parts of the US worldview are being exported? How does it differ with
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Do people really think AI will go haywire like in the Hollywood movies? No, it will just make every inequality even harder to fight. Because computer algorithm can't be biased so every decision it makes will be objective. And beca
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Phones exist everywhere. Why would Americans be more affected? Because with advent of SUVs you can't actually see most of the things that you normally would see through your car window. Because SUVs are bigger people believe they
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I don't think it's nearly that simple. Do you want the same for other techniques? If someone says in good faith that a fingerprint matches and it turns out it was a false positive it should be slander? Shoeprints? DNA? Every
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by sobkas 4y ago
> The modding/custom server situation with Minecraft is so exhausting. I can't believe after all these years there is still no official modding or plugin API. > So now we have Folia, which is a fork of Paper, which is a fork
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Do you think that the Sackler family has had a positive impact on overdoses in the US? It's better to use prescription drugs than mystery substance available on the streets. At least you know what you are taking.
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by sobkas 4y ago
> That’s sneaky. Ironically more like a computer virus than the classical viruses. Taking over the host and modifying its boot partition so that it permanently gets produced by the system. More like infecting compiler so every applicatio

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