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by throwaway8581 6y ago
I think one useful metric is what percent of the population falls inside of the overton window that makes you unemployable in any upper middle class job (ie jobs that make it possible for you to acquire power). Jared Taylor, for example, w
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
No need to cut heads off. It’s less messy and more palatable to take someone’s entire livelihood away. Any real threat to power comes from the middle class. Make it so their precarious status depends on loyalty to your ideology and you have
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
I don’t agree. You are suggesting that liberalism was just a mirage for a different underlying ideology. But I don’t think that’s what was happening. People really believed in liberalism. Live and let live is not a very profound philosophy—
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The 50s and 60s. It was in full swing by the 70s. If I had to point to one iconic development, it would be the Warren court, and in particular its free speech cases. Those marked the decisive defeat of traditional conservatism, which never
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
That attitude is catching on in America. The censorship and consent apparatus is more privatized and not officially backed by state power (but see threats from politicians to tech companies to remove “disinformation” “or else”) but most peo
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Most of the time, liability for defective software should be civil liability in tort or contract. In most cases where something bad has occurred involving software, it’s going to be hard for the developers of the software to have the sort o
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Civil law codes are often just as ambiguous as common law systems. The only difference is that in a civil law system, you can’t firmly rely on precedent, so a judge can interpret the law against you just because he doesn’t like you, even in
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
It’s not the software makers who are committing the crimes. It’s the people abdicating responsibility to software. You can’t wipe your hands of releasing a prisoner on schedule by delegation that to software. The software can help you with
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The vaccine could have been rolled out to the most vulnerable groups much sooner than it was. If you vaccinate only those groups (and the vaccine works), you prevent the vast majority deaths. > When we talk about this as a natural proces
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The author’s point is that by now, something at least 50% of the US population has had the virus and 15% have had the vaccine. And that for some reason, the official sources are just putting their hands on their ears and saying “LALALALALAL
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Great men with great passions are rarely the ultra-careful, calculating people that are allowed to succeed today. Teddy Roosevelt was smart and brave but also brash and crude. He LIVED, in the way Nietzsche would approve of. People like him
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
It means that it can address 40-bits of address space worth of physical memory, but that virtual memory addresses can use 48 bits. Physical addresses are just your RAM bytes numbered 1 through whatever. Virtual address space is the address
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
That's almost right.[1] I think an example might help explain the abstract statement in the UCC comments. Say you order a truckload of USDA Choice tenderloin. Meat quality is continuous, so really, USDA Choice refers to a range of qual
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
This is wrong. See my other comment. The "average" language in the UCC provision is referring to a specific notion for a particular kind of situation.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
In this case, I think it'd be better to leave the "average" language out of it altogether. It doesn't really capture any useful intuitive notion for the reader and instead engenders misunderstanding, as shown by this thr
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
The article doesn't really get it right. This is what the UCC actually says: (2) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as: (a) Pass without objection in the trade under the contract description; and (b) In the case of fungibl