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by tangent128 9y ago
A universal income increase is not a universal net income increase, if taxes on non-UBI income become more progressive at the same time.
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by tangent128 9y ago
Rational discourse is only possible in an environment where people can agree on what (at least most of) the facts are, and we don't have that today. I don't have a solution.
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by tangent128 9y ago
From my point of view, the religion-proxy-based travel ban, the abandonment of the Paris agreement, the attempt to dismantle the ACA, the (so-far attempted) banning of transgender soldiers, the refusal of the Census office to collect LGBT+
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by tangent128 9y ago
Knowing myself, if I kept a separate reading list, I would never revisit it. Leaving a tab open means I'll actually stumble across the page again.
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by tangent128 9y ago
> A final condition is that there be appropriate community-based rules and procedures in place with built-in incentives for responsible use and punishments for overuse. This is just a government by another name.
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by tangent128 9y ago
It's fairly common for commentary to be added to a reblog via tags rather than after the quoted post, so even reblogs without commentary may need saving.
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by tangent128 9y ago
You don't have to maintain a pressure differential on Venus- oxygen is a lifting gas in the comfortable sections of Venus's atmosphere. Hot air balloons are a well-understood technology.
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by tangent128 9y ago
The rationale: we aren't a fundamentally different country now, and won't be fundamentally different after Trump's term is over. Thus, no matter how progressive or good-neighborly future administration policies are, allies
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by tangent128 9y ago
However, if it's the oppressed's responsibility to educate every person they interact with, it becomes trivial to DoS them through willful ignorance. There can't be a social expectation that the privileged are entitled to cog
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by tangent128 9y ago
The vanilla "secure pastebin" is simply an insecure pastebin served over HTTPS. Better, actually-trying-to-be-secure pastebin implementations will encrypt the data with JS before sending it to the server, and later decrypt it with
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by tangent128 9y ago
If you access hardbin through your own, local, IPFS gateway, then you don't have to trust a third-party server. I assume if you used a third-party Tahoe-LAFS gateway instead of running your own, you would have the same security risks.
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by tangent128 9y ago
That law can be repealed if Europeans aren't vigilant; nothing makes the EU naturally immune to right-wing, pro-corporate swings.
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by tangent128 9y ago
If it succeeds in America, ISPs in other countries will try to replicate the policy.
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by tangent128 9y ago
Is that an "ought" or "is" type of "reasonable"? Current conflict-of-interest laws appear toothless against a President who doesn't voluntarily follow their spirit.
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by tangent128 9y ago
Do I think he should be considered as President? No, running a corporate empire and surveillance network (no matter how benignly or maliciously exploited) does not involve the same skills and temperament that are desirable in leading an o
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by tangent128 10y ago
Everybody's already allowed to own robots; the sticking point, especially for the unemployed, is affordability.
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by tangent128 10y ago
What metric do you use to say it "beats" a human judge?
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by tangent128 10y ago
You still need to walk the tree, so you don't know which pages you need immediately- but since the root pages for the indexes should be well-distributed in the swarm, it shouldn't take very long to figure out which leaves you need
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by tangent128 10y ago
I haven't touched PHP in years, but I am hearing it's supporting stricter type checking, which is promising.
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by tangent128 10y ago
"every possible use case" is a bit of hyperbole; there are plenty of non-load-balancer use-cases for nginx. Serving static files, relaying RTMP streams, and running OpenResty applications, for example. But if load balancing is y
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by tangent128 10y ago
100 years ago, manual labor was still a dominant slice of the economy; a sixteen-year-old who uncritically followed the advice of their parents would probably not be screwing over their career. And if they could attend college 100 years a
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Administration Omits LGBTQ People from 2020 Census and American Community Survey(thetaskforce.org)
2 points by tangent128 10y ago|0 comments
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by tangent128 10y ago
At the time TCP/UDP were invented, keeping packet size small was very important. A string or GUID as addressing information would have been out of the question. (If there wasn't a need to distinguish multiple clients on the same m
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by tangent128 10y ago
They presumably mean in the literal sense of "seizing as territory / spoils of war".
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by tangent128 10y ago
Despite not including any country that has actually exported terrorism to American soil in the past couple decades?
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by tangent128 10y ago
The Constitution explicitly grants the President the power to issue pardons. (And states similarly grant that power to governors, typically.) The President in in charge of federal law enforcement; the risk of non-enforcement is already grea
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by tangent128 10y ago
The "logic" probably goes that somebody with internet access is well-off enough to not need food assistance. (Internet access still being seen as a luxury rather than a necessity to participate in modern society/economy.)
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by tangent128 10y ago
How do you solve these problems? 1. I do not wish to consent to the contracts of your community. However, I was born here, and lack the resources to leave, or any goodwill that may assist me in doing so. Perhaps I am LGBT in the deep south.
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by tangent128 10y ago
Literacy tests were not about literacy; the questions were often intentionally ambiguous (Think "What is the last letter of the first word?" or "Write backwards forwards."), allowing the instructor full discretion in pas
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by tangent128 10y ago
They grew out of Jim Crow laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State... (In addition, imagine an interest group instituting a "we'll pay your poll tax for you!" campaign, but only

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