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by teakettle42 4y ago
> So, step forward, the insurer of last resort: my grandchildren! We’re the grandchildren of the eco-ideologists that spent the last forty years dumping coal and gas pollution into the atmosphere because they were afraid of nuclear power
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Doesn’t this assume the existence of a strong fourth estate and/or an executive branch, able and willing to investigate leaks? There are ways to at least partially inoculate against leaks; regulatory capture and elimination of accounta
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by teakettle42 4y ago
You could legally own a machine gun in 1962. Plenty of options were available, including the AR-15 — with full auto, which is no longer available today. Here’s a 1964 ad for a commercial AR-15 model: https://www.ebay.com/i
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It was enacted in 1994. There wasn’t a mass shooting epidemic before 1994, either. Also, the police are not outgunned (see Boulder). The police response in Uvalde was an incredible leadership failure and nothing else. > No one needs a lo
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Do you have a better suggestion that’s less partisan and less prone to abuse? Humans will always bring bias, but I can’t think of anything better than “interpret as it was plainly written and would have been understood by the people who wro
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Which is why “textualism” is the only appropriate interpretation an unelected court should be using. It’s not their job to write laws or advance policy, it’s their job to enforce the constitution as written.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
You are advocating behavior that is highly corrosive and fundamentally antithetical to the effective functioning of a healthy democracy. Weimar Germany wasn’t fertile political soil for extremism because there weren’t enough people punching
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Frankly I thought the opposite. It was a cogent breakdown of the flawed reasoning upon which then original author’s premise lies.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> So a few bad apples has ruined the whole idea in your mind? It’s not a few. They’re primarily a tool for bad actors to secure institutional power. However, even if we take the surface-level arguments for a code of conduct in good faith
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Whereas your use of “a group of people from multiple ethnicities, genders, sexualities and creeds” is code for: > People who agree with my political ideology. A woman of color that held heretical beliefs contrary to your orthodoxy would
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The best response? “No”. The code of conduct push was a transparent game of social aggression — an attempt to shift open source power dynamics in favor of: (1) Allowing social activists, who could not acquire institutional power on the basi
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Who cares? Anyone who believes that plagiarism is wrong. Not to mention anyone that believes in respecting other people’s licensing terms when they’ve provided their code to the world for free.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It’s neither a semantic formality nor incorrect. The Supreme Court returned the question to the legislative branch. That’s it. I happen to think abortion should be legal. I also think it’s pretty clear that, when one side believes abortion
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Yes, it does. Weed has non-acute negative effects on cognition for 7 hours to 3 weeks after use, dropping off most significantly after 72 hours of abstinence. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Video games don’t make you lethargic, less productive, and significantly less intelligent for days after playing them.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> What constitutes as plagiarism and what doesn't, outside of what the law says, yes. It’s pretty clear what it is. The definition of plagiarism hasn’t changed since you were in grade school and were taught not to copy sentences int
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> I strongly believe you're not a developer. > You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem There’s a very high chance you posted your comment from a device using code I wrote. Glueing together plagiarized code copi
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Well if it isn't a legal but an ethical concept, then that's just your opinion Plagiarism being unethical is just my opinion? > Are you going to attribute that every time you use Math.pow? Does a simple 2-ary function ca
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> It is just mimicing what usual devs do which is to copy-paste code from StackOverflow/github for many mundane types of codes like for loops, mongo find queries, callback func definitions etc for JS devs for eg. I’m genuinely distu
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Explaining a fundamental ethical concept you should have learned in primary school when writing your first book reports is not arguing in bad faith. SO’s license requires attribution. If you don’t want to be a plagiarist, you either need to
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It’s literally plagiarism by definition.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Plagiarism isn’t a legal concept, it’s an ethical one. You need to either attribute the source, or rewrite it in entirely your own words — just like when writing a paper. Confirming to the license is also required; iirc, SO requires attribu
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Ok, then there doesn't exist a single reputable company with a tech division and we're all unethical. Have a nice unethical day. I’m deeply disturbed that you think this form of plagiarism is universal — I can assure you that
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Code plagiarization is not a thing by all practical purposes Of course it is. Plagiarism is “the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.” It’s unethical and it will get you fired at
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> … and instead instead come up with your own completely independent solution after the fact? Yes, I’m not a plagiarist. If you’re literally copying and pasting code snippets without attribution, you’re plagiarizing. You’re also probably
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Technically, programmers search, copy and modify code all the time. When following the license terms, preserving the original copyright, etc, sure. However, honest, ethical people (including programmers) do not plagiarize. Copying and
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Sometimes I truly wonder how people can genuinely be upset about things like this. Tell me you regularly plagiarize without telling me you regularly plagiarize.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
My code is shared under a license (MIT) that mandates attribution. That’s all I ask — if you use my code, give me credit. Stealing my code to train your bot — which will replicate portions verbatim! — is no different whatsoever than the cas
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Giving your child a gradual introduction to the real world is giving them an advantage. Coddling them through a perpetual adolescence isn’t doing them any favors; it’s setting them up for exactly the kinds of failures you’re referring to.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The “scare” quotes make it clear that the phrasing is quoted from the original title, which, given the necessity of summarizing the title to fit within the limits, is still, in fact, entirely correct.

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