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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Assuage your guilt?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> A PDF document can be dated and versioned So can an HTML page. > you download a report from April 2010 and you can keep that as a document... Archiving a dynamic web page is a lot harder. Right click, save page as... Am I missing so
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Then I support legislation to regulate you. As opposed to simply not using those services? What gives you the right to determine what comments people are allowed to have on their posts?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Nitpick: you’re → your.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Every single user-hostile bit of spyware... was put there on purpose... specifically to enrich Microsoft. You don’t really believe that, do you?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
I think it depends on the context. In video games, easter eggs are mostly fine. In utilities and tools, easter eggs are a potential source of harmful behavior and security issues.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
I don’t think the claim is exceptional, but I’d love to see more studies on this. Check out the Centipede Game ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_game ): “Parco, Rapoport and Stein (2002) illustrated that the le
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
I'm a bit puzzled. Are you saying smallpox shouldn't have been eradicated?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What makes you think government is immune to these concerns? If anything, they can be more susceptible to certain kinds of adverse effects.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Is this trolling?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Good luck predicting complex, real-world systems by their subatomic constituents.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
(1) is addressed by the article. As for (2), well... do you have any evidence this outweighs all the downsides of the patent system?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Yes?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Personally I think... I recommend you first familiarize yourself with the subject. People are generally misinformed about this subject but feel obligated to opine on it before doing due dilligence, for some reason.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
You’re painting all universities with the same brush. The universities that engage in debate are, unsurprisingly, not the ones that restrict such debate. So what are you even trying to argue here?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What do you mean by “race to the bottom”?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> worshipping a corpse nailed to a cross Hmm... I’m not Christian but your comment doesn’t make sense. Jesus on the cross is presumably a symbol of sacrifice and unconditional love. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#x
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> GDPR is good GDPR is bad. See what I did?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Maybe the key here is that strength ratio != odds, under most intuitive definitions of strength. If someone is twice as strong as you, they're arguably much more than twice as likely to defeat you. If someone has twice the number o
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
One could make an argument (and it has been made) that the victim in such situations is the perpetrator themselves . More specifically, that their "sense of virtue" and/or psychological well-being is being corroded by such a
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
This behavior wouldn’t necessarily transfer to the real world because the real world has costs (e.g. energy utilization and hardware damage, both very important in nature) which are not always accurately reflected in these simulations. It b
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Are those statements wrong?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Why should you demonize pedophilia? Presumably the GP is referring to the correct definition (a person who is sexually attracted to children), as opposed to the incorrect definition (a person who sexually abuses children).
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
IANAL, does the term “actual minor” here refer to depicting a specific real-world person, or to “realism”?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> The "safe speech" side believe... This process of improvement occurs through debate, thought, learning and reflection. This is free speech, not “safe” speech.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
“Extort”?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> selling lower than the cost for retailers to kill all attempt of competition Which specific law are you referring to?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> It creates value for individuals at a bigger cost to society - a classic negative externality. In what way? > Making drug dealing easier is immensely profitable and that's where all blockchain profits eventually come from Do yo
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
It depends on their relationship with the Party. Ultrasurf, for instance, was developed by Chinese dissidents.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
If it is pointless, why do people use it?

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