tux1968

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by tux1968 6y ago
Maybe they've just recently managed to make the technology work and they're still operating at the edge of their capabilities. Earth is just the first zoo they've decided to visit before moving on to more important worlds.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Do you hear yourself? At All? There is evidence of government officials arresting people-- that is not in dispute. All that is in dispute is if it should be characterized as kidnapping or something akin to what is going on in HK with mas
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by tux1968 6y ago
No. The claim was that there is zero evidence that has happened to anyone in Portland. We're talking about how to characterize the arrests made in Portland, not US foreign policy.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Are you saying you're not a racist? Do you have any evidence to prove you're not secretly penning racist content across the web under a pseudonym? Prove that you're innocent. Or should people wait to judge you until there i
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by tux1968 6y ago
I'm saying i'm not going to get outraged by simply imagined transgressions, there's going to have to be some evidence. The irony is, i'm not a hard line law and order type. I believe there should be some resistance to
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by tux1968 6y ago
This is good information. Again, doesn't suggest that this is kidnapping at all or akin to what's going on in HK. You are addressing this issue the way it should be approached, rationally and with evidence.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Police are given the latitude, with some limitations, to arrest people legally even without charge. Importantly, they must release uncharged persons within a certain timeframe which seems to have been respected in this case. If ultimately
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by tux1968 6y ago
If you're claiming that people from Portland are being sent to Guantanamo Bay, you're going to have to offer some evidence.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Well I can't prove a negative, but i'm reasonably sure given history and the lack of any evidence otherwise. Do you have a link for any evidence I should know about?
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by tux1968 6y ago
I believe that our government and corporate culture is way too authoritarian and have been speaking out against it my whole life. That does not mean that we should depart from all sense of proportionality and reason. You do us no favour b
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by tux1968 6y ago
You were the one who tried to compare them as equally authoritarian, and they are not -- as much as you want to convict them of the same crimes. If anyone is being arrested off the street for free speech then I will stand shoulder to shoul
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by tux1968 6y ago
Oh please. People are not being abducted off the street by the US government never to be seen again, they are being arrested. They are not being tortured or sent to a reeducation camp. They get a phone call and access to a lawyer before
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by tux1968 6y ago
I think that people upset with the dominant narrative may be the reason Trump got elected in the first place. That same socially dominant sector has been railing against him non-stop for 4 years (as well as everything else they're do
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by tux1968 6y ago
What I meant to say was not that the technology was ready today, rather that when it becomes ready it's likely to be used. At least it was in the case of IKEA when the technology was able to meet their needs.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Well since the discussion is about what it will take to convince people it's safe to go back to work, any proposed strategy will have to deal with that tendency.
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by tux1968 6y ago
The November US election is going to be very interesting in that regard. If people are truly so upset with the current state of social discourse enough to hold their nose and vote for Trump again, it might just embolden some more vocal and
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by tux1968 6y ago
You know a lot more about this than me, but one potential counterpoint though is Ikea already using ~75% computer generated images in their catalogues. When the technology is mature enough, it provides a huge amount of flexibility compared
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Solar energy breakthrough creates electricity from invisible light(independent.co.uk)
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by tux1968 6y ago
Article appeared on another site without paywall: https://www.marketscreener.com/WALMART-INC-4841/news/The-Nex...
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by tux1968 6y ago
Just my own impression after lightly reading the RFC. It appears to be the idea that something akin to Microsoft's Active Directory is needed for the Internet instead of it essentially being reimplemented in many different contexts. Th
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by tux1968 6y ago
So elective rather than compulsory?
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by tux1968 6y ago
Not that it addresses paying for the infrastructure, but many of the creators I watch are now reading ad copy within their videos and are otherwise sponsored directly.
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Don't vaccines require that mechanism in order to be effective?
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by tux1968 6y ago
Of course we all have a personal responsibility to help shape a world worth living in. But there is a reason that every coup d'état also takes control of the media. It is a foundational building block of a cohesive society. If the m
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by tux1968 6y ago
> Was the mainstream media ever objective or impartial? There's a difference between having a bias in your reporting and being an activist. Of course every viewpoint is biased. At the very least, there was always a heavy American
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by tux1968 6y ago
Which suggests that parsing should be done while editing, supporting many other refactoring tools as well. The key feature enabling this facility is incremental parsing.
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by tux1968 6y ago
So if someone says their lived experience is pain and suffering from the existence of cancel culture, you fully embrace that and want to do everything you can to help them stamp out cancel culture? Or how about this one: what if someone say
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by tux1968 6y ago
Because our political opinions inform our life choices and overt public actions. They can be deduced without us posting our personal manifesto.
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by tux1968 6y ago
You're just saying that cuz you heard it somewhere.
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by tux1968 6y ago
The officers involved in the Rodney King beating were later convicted in federal court. The riots just happened too soon to let the case fully work through the justice system.

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