throwaway8581

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by throwaway8581 6y ago
You literally go from thread to thread posting the same pro-Rust anti-C drivel, derailing every thread. Sorry to be crude, but can you people take this self-righteous bs elsewhere? Not every thread needs to be about the superiority of Rust
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The demographic overlap of Covid longhaulers with people who have other largely psychosomatic fake diseases like long-Lyme disease and fibromyalgia is telling. It’s also the same demographic of which 1/4 take anti-anxiety medicine: you
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Yes. By contrast, for example, diabetics have a 30 times higher risk of needing amputations than the general population, 30000% percent higher. Getting a flu is a risk that most people don't take any precautions for. Meanwhile we are s
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
University-run health care systems are the absolute worst in terms of getting a non-emergency appointment within a reasonable time period. They also have a condescending attitude toward patients in general. Very European style of health car
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
A rare case of the CNN article, despite the equally deceptive headline, being better https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/06/health/covid-neurological-psy... > They observed that those with Covid-19 had a 44%
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Yeah it's too bad that the press misses a lot of very important legal developments.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
What an awful article. Multiple paragraphs before it even starts to talk about the court's decision in anything but completely useless broad strokes.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Yes that’s my whole point. The norms being enforced now aren’t those of “general society” but of a tiny elite. That’s what’s different.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
You missed my whole point, which is that the norms being viciously enforced aren’t even widely held.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The real question is why every single major company in America is vigorously enforcing social norms that significant portions of the population, often a majority, don’t even agree with. This is very different than other eras.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Individual tax evasion exists either way. Repeat over and over?
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The only reason we have a "corporate tax" is because it sounds nice to voters who have no clue what's actually going on. And the average journalist is just as clueless but easily twice as malicious. If you "cut taxes on
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The Economist is extremely moralizing. It represents the point of view of a city dweller with a high paying job who buys into liberal sensibilities but smugly thinks himself wiser and more prudent than the radicals on the streets. He is a m
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Exactly. That argument would never fly in a court. I’m always amused when software people think they have some legal checkmate like “any digital work is somewhere in the infinite digits of pi therefore cannot be copyrighted.” That’s not how
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
An API design is plenty creative. The bar for what is creative enough to get copyright protection is extremely low, basically zero. An alphabetized phone book is literally the example people have to use for something that isn't. There&
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Yes, but neither is an API signature a formula. I was assuming the logic of the person I was responding to, to show that it could not be right.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The interesting question is how broad this fair use ruling is. According to the Supreme Court's other fair use cases, fair use is highly fact-specific and therefore case-specific. What kinds of actions and motivations by Google could h
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
An API design is also a creative and highly stylistic work. Anyone who has ever designed a large API, or suffered a poorly designed one, can attest to that. A bad design can work just as well as a good design. Also, you are distorting the a
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
You are just totally wrong, the majority did not issue a ruling on copyrightability. It just said that even if the API is copyrightable Google's actions were "fair use," which is a legal doctrine allowing some use of copyri
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
It is uncontested that Oracle cloning RHEL is allowed by the license that RHEL is released under. They don't need a fair use ruling from the Supreme Court because they literally have a license that allows exactly what they did. The sam
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
This is not a persuasive argument because, by your logic, function implementations are also mathematical formulas and everyone agrees that they are copyrightable.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
If you need any good control of page layout and design, DOS-era word processing is going to be worthless or unusable. Sure, old word processors are perfectly fine for writing a stream of unformatted prose, but so is wordpad, and that’s not
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
To be fair, I don't think an intro level compiler class needs anything that's changed since 2002. Almost any software class that did a competent job teaching you about the state of the art circa 1995, you'd be in great shap
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
One nugget of wisdom is that if you are decently intelligent, most of your failure to understand “complex” topics is really due to poor quality explanations from other people. Few engineers are clear writers. Buy books, sort though universi
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
I'd look at the definitions closely, especially for what counts as rape by intoxication. What ordinary women think of as too drunk to consent and what sexual assault activists think is very different.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
This kind of analysis is basically worthless because you don’t know whether they are operating at multiple levels of deception by, e.g., making you think they are a stupid script kiddie and that you successfully wiped them out.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
“The lived experiences ...” is what sanctimonious rich liberals say to sound profound when they don’t have anything intelligent to say.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
If you can't make the decision to spend your government food stamps card to buy food to eat, then I don't know what society can do for you. What do you want? Prepared food delivered to the home of everyone who lacks the "ener
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Believe it or not, America is a welfare state and while not as generous as Europe, no one is lacking for $3 to buy food unless they are blowing their government money on something they shouldn't be.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Eggs – $1.61 per 2,000 calories Spaghetti – $1.49 per 2,000 calories Pinto beans – $1.39 per 2,000 calories Whole milk – $1.37 per 2,000 calories Peanut butter – $1.25 per 2,000 calories White rice – $0.41 per 2,000 calories Top ramen (beef

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