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by tal8d 6y ago
Because the "demonstrations" have devolved into riots where "asking" means firebombing. Combine that with local prosecutors refusing to pursue charges, and you've got a situation where the police a highly motivated
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by tal8d 6y ago
That is true of almost everybody, not just police. Petty tyrants are a dime a dozen, they just lack the ability to legally kidnap you. People are bad, so we need a government comprised of people are bad, so we... I already hear the cries of
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Whatever does this have to do with codes of conduct? Whatever does a rental property issue have to do with OpenZFS? What about political contributions? Are you genuinely unaware of all the crazy witchhunts, totally unrelated to the cod
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by tal8d 6y ago
Looks like the CoC mob has failed to run off a capable developer... for all we know that tenant might have one day contributed code - this is a gross violation of "applicable spaces" clause!
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by tal8d 6y ago
I'll be very surprised if things get much better anytime soon, certainly not before the end of the year. Maybe two years from now... but I wouldn't bet on it. I live in a city where some questionable calls were made with regard to
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by tal8d 6y ago
There are going to be a lot of people who share that hope, given the rapidly shifting window of permissible thought and deed - combined with technology's unblinking eye. I always thought that bit rot would act in such a manner, because
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by tal8d 6y ago
Is this being recieved positively by those that actually write code, who aren't gripped by a white savior complex? Because it strikes me as patronizing, among other things. Do yourself a favor, lookup the origin of the word "slave
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well I'm not seeing any mention of it here, so let me fill you in on a little secret: this symbol is commonly used in cartography to indicate a confirmed hazard. Anyone with any time in the military or emergency management (and maybe h
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by tal8d 6y ago
It seems pretty reasonable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley
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by tal8d 6y ago
There is a really obvious telegraphing of what is to come: outsourcing censorship to protected classes. It doesn't really matter if it is for political reasons or commercial (advertiser friendly padded cells), groups like the SPLC and
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by tal8d 6y ago
I was porting a diagnostic command the other day, which displayed SMT status for the IBM power processor - written by a programmer at IBM. It was essentially a directory walk strncmp loop over /proc. The overwhelming sadness compelled
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, either your reading comprehension is poor or your understanding of the '92 riots is... or both, I guess. That was a response to your question about what one could mean when saying "1992 will look like a joke", and I answ
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by tal8d 6y ago
Have you got an actual example? I don't even need to get into the race statistics with regard to police brutality, because the charges aren't even close to settling the matter - and you know it, you've already declared them m
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by tal8d 6y ago
A billion dollars of property damage and the targeted destruction of businesses operated by Korean immigrants, but multiplied by a factor that will ensure laughter at the memory of those killed in the '92 race riots? I don't know
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by tal8d 6y ago
There were 2174 incidents of murder/manslaughter in Germany that year... given that context, "85 bullets _total_" sounds like a massive orgy of violence on the part of German LEOs. There were 6 times that many murders in the
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by tal8d 6y ago
I absolutely agree that cops should be held to a higher standard, but that is a very different discussion. Imagine trying to steer the conversation similarly for any other class of crime: "You can't blame the school shooters... th
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by tal8d 6y ago
Ah justice. It is better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty escape. -- Bizzaro William Blackstone
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by tal8d 6y ago
If that was the first time you'd seen mention of that essay, then you'd be forgiven for not knowing that always precedes discussion of hand crafting vs brute force. I've never seen it be answered with a call for exotic comput
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by tal8d 6y ago
Wow, not even a quarter of the way through and I'm seeing what would most charitably described as "lies by omission". Also, I don't know if the writer would prefer I assume she is stupid, or that she conspired with her e
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by tal8d 6y ago
> We need to get back to looking at more creative models in both the software and hardware domains. That would be pretty foolish, given the fact that every hand crafted model eventually gets surpassed with brute force. A better use of ti
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by tal8d 6y ago
ppc is still a thing, my project computer is a power9. The only reason it isn't my daily driver is because I can't help but tinker with it. Being able to rewrite the supervisor chip code in order to get that fan curve just so, and
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by tal8d 6y ago
You want to go back to the network television gatekeeping model? I don't think that will go over too well, which is especially bad since they'd have to pare down the user base to a manageable size for their board of editors. The r
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by tal8d 6y ago
Because you can't selectively act as a publisher when it suits you while enjoying the legal protections afforded to a platform, you have to pick one. > This was clearly for the benefit of correcting mis-information To be clear, they
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by tal8d 6y ago
> ...small correction link appended (without modifying the original statement) 'A Twitter spokesman said Mr. Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots "contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have
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by tal8d 6y ago
> ..exact intended function of Section 230. Interesting, the deferral to the intent of the law's author - it kind of makes the whole argument about the second amendment seem silly. That would be a dangerous game to play in this case
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by tal8d 6y ago
This gets funnier everyday, the hamfisted editorializing. If you want to capitalize on user generated content, while also being shielded from the legal consequences of user generated content, you can't insert editor's notes.
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by tal8d 6y ago
The problem is one of the platforms' own making, because they want the legal protection of being a platform in addition to the commercial benefits of being a publisher. This has been allowed to happen despite the fact that such aggress
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Let's just say the 'fringes of free speech' took the upper hand... Luckily for you that blurry line between mainstream and "fringe" is rapidly shifting, and the list of permissible opinions continues to shrink.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> This is why the assumption that “open source code is more likely to be closely audited for vulnerabilities” is not true... That is a safe assumption, otherwise you'd have to believe that non-open source code is more closely audite
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by tal8d 6y ago
And I'm glad that you've illustrated my point perfectly. Having misinterpreted my statement to be homophobic, you've chanted the magic words to summon the specter of censorship.

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