stallmanite

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by stallmanite 6y ago
If I’m a “criminal” who sells weed, and my sister is raped and killed, I don’t think prosecution is the “root of all evil”. I’m not sure your point makes sense unless breaking one law makes you oppose all laws somehow. I mean it’s illegal
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by stallmanite 6y ago
If having this information advantage is so important to national security why let the DEA be involved at all? Either the national security angle is bs or they care more about enforcing drug laws than protecting our country.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Any linguistic information experts here that can comment as to whether there is some informational advantage to having random nouns assigned “genders” like German, French, etc. do? As in, if we were considering a programming language woul
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Would you rather abandon the rule of law entirely rather than admit prohibition was a massive mistake and/or not done in good faith? (Not directed at you specifically because I assume your comment was fecetious, just posing the quest
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Great point. When the IRS phone call scam first came around it scared the crap out of me for a second but a quick search revealed the truth.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
How are the wildly successful and impressive accomplishments of SpaceX comparable to the cave submarine or nonexistent level5 self-driving? One of these things is not like the others.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
You are not I assure you.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
This is my strategy as well. If I want something I initiate a search. Incoming sales attempts do not exist in my universe.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I rue the day they remove audio jacks from desktop motherboards. Presumably to improve water resistance.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Yeah read my comments a little more carefully. I have stated that I 100% agree that women need a separate league to compete in. I was advising the poster I replied to originally that he will get a lot better results stating the facts with
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by stallmanite 6y ago
The whole thing of just needing to say you identify as a woman is 1000% bullshit and in fact the pushback against such stupid things is causing a lot of problems for “real” transpeople. When I speak of transwomen I’m referring to people who
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I agree 100%. Unfortunately you severely undermine your argument by referring to transwomen as “men who can’t compete with other men and want to take home a few trophies.” I am frankly irritated by identity politics but your approach of mi
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by stallmanite 6y ago
You’re comfortable asserting that transgender women are “men who can’t compete with other men” and that there are individuals for whom the whole point of undergoing sexual reassignment surgery is to “take home trophies”? That’s quite a de
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by stallmanite 6y ago
As a native English speaker and US citizen / resident I think you are 100% correct in your observation.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Imagine a headline writer who wrote like this. I would click the dang story just out of respect and with the idea that an author like that is worth reading generally. If the headline is that informative how great would the content be?
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Chiming in to join the chorus of praise for Permutation City and also call attention to Egan’s technical notes / FAQ for the same. Really mind-bending reading https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Permutation City the tv series? Yes please!
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I think you’re right but I’d love to see them try to argue that pro-scarcity point to its conclusion. Why would we need jobs if the point of jobs is to get money and the point of money is to get scarce goods. The replicator would make the
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I have had the same experience as you of thoughtlessly doing things that benefit others and had the same objection as you to his statement. For what it’s worth I think you are correct.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Very good point. People suspected of far less serious crimes based on far more tenuous “evidence” get their door kicked in, their kids rooms flashbanged, dogs shot, etc.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
So if I manufacture boulders and some dumbass stores one at the top of a steep incline it’s my fault if that boulder rolls into town and crushes people? That doesn’t make sense to me.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I’d be really curious to hear about a case where prosecutorial misconduct was punished. Don’t they have something akin to the “qualified immunity” that the police enjoy?
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Cabrini Green definitely comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes
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by stallmanite 6y ago
Infinite drive space you say? Eat your heart out Stacker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I 100% agree with you. What can a voter do until the EFF fields a candidate? There are copyright and surveillance maximalists running both parties apparently. The DMCA, the Patriot Act, and the all the other BS seems to the type of stuf
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I’m pretty sure the parent is pointing out that the chemical combustion in eg a caveman’s campfire required many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2, oxygen included.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I was really surprised to hear about alcohol bans in eg South Africa for this reason. It’s a terrible idea and dangerous for no real gain that I can discern.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
How would filtering out potential developers benefit a platform’s viability? My imagination isn’t sufficient to envision a market situation where this could ever make sense. Can anyone here describe a hypothetical scenario where as a comp
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by stallmanite 6y ago
This is a great analogy, finally “clicked” for me after trying to understand this concept for a while. Thank you.
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by stallmanite 6y ago
I agree 100% but it clearly wasn’t computers or quantization that caused the shitward turn. I love Rick Beato as well but I think he’s conflating two different issues on this one.

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