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by usea 4y ago
I'm talking about whether or not parents have ultimate authority over their children. Why do you think murder is a special case that isn't included in "ultimate?" Many parents truly believe it is their right to kill thei
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It's not a strawman. If the state disallows you from murdering your child, they have authority over you. There are court cases every year where parents who kill their kids get convicted and sent to jail. Who had authority? The people w
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by usea 4y ago
> The question is who gets the final say in how the child is cared for - if the parent thinks that something is harmful to the child, and the state says it's mandatory, who gets final say? The state gets final say. On most parenting
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by usea 4y ago
Either parents should be allowed to kill their children on a whim without consequence, or parents are not the ultimate authority over their children. They are mutually exclusive beliefs. Children aren't property. They're human bei
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by usea 4y ago
That's true. If you're already in the business of hurting people, then it's a good way of identifying those you're trying to hurt. I pass no judgment here. I only mean to admit my incorrect assumption.
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There is no reason to block them, and doing so hurts people.
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HN is not in "the field," and if it's trivially researchable then you can include links to it yourself. It's not constructive to demand other people are read up on research before interacting with you here.
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> Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff? Linus Tech Tips posted their youtube revenue just the other day[0]. For posterity, it's about 4.6 million, an
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by usea 4y ago
It's still a violation of privacy even if you inform them that you're going to do the violating.
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It's not reasonable to demand people do legwork if they want to reply to your naked claims. This is not a forum exclusively for people who are well-versed in the research you're familiar with.
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Even in that scenario, the people making that threat are not actually in control. The ones with control are choosing to do this, rather than lose money. These people are not forced to make more money at the expense of others. It's th
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by usea 4y ago
Being uninformed does not mean one deserves crimes committed against them. The fault lies with those doing the stealing, not the victims of theft.
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by usea 4y ago
Scope and feature creep has nothing to do with customers. It happens in all creative endeavors, most of which do not have anything like customers. It happens in art, music, hobby programming, event planning, etc etc. Everything. If you sit
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by usea 4y ago
You're trying to place blame on drivers of certain types of vehicles, and make a distinction between the behavior of those drivers and the "rest of us", putting them in an "other" category. This is misguided and ine
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by usea 4y ago
Most people drive at a speed that they deem to be safe. Conditions such as road shape and size, and traffic, are the biggest factors that influence this. If you want people to drive more slowly, you should first figure out why you want that
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by usea 4y ago
I also hate spotify's applications, but apple should not have any say in what software users can run on their devices.
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by usea 4y ago
Rendering things (~textures) already happens entirely locally. It has never been any other way. Also, intelligently rendering things at different resolutions in different scenarios is ancient technology at this point [0]. Roughly speaking,
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by usea 4y ago
Lying to people in order for them to send you money is fraud. Duped users are victims of fraud.
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by usea 4y ago
I also enjoyed the square dollars example. A type system is merely a tool to encode information to help better model things. If you want to prevent multiplying dollars together, types can help you do that. If you want to enable multiplying
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A type error.
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by usea 4y ago
A relative of mine has applied to work there. He told me in all seriousness that he wanted a place where women couldn't get away from him. Thankfully, he was not selected.
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by usea 4y ago
Losing a second factor is an underappreciated threat. Adding 2fa can definitely increase the risk of losing an account, and a responsible person will weigh the costs and risks of doing so. You can reduce that risk, e.g. by keeping a piece o
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by usea 4y ago
Here's a sequence of events that led to me quitting a job: - The owner/CEO of my company met with another local business owner and sold them on us doing some custom software work for them. He gave them an estimate during the meeti
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by usea 4y ago
Vote for candidates that support stronger consumer protection and data privacy laws. Do not give your personal information to companies that do not directly need it for the service you're engaging in. Delete your facebook accounts yest
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by usea 4y ago
> an older designer should have a rolladex full of people who they worked below, beside, and above over the course of their career As a non-traditional professional in a lot of ways, I've found these kinds of assumptions at the core
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by usea 4y ago
My formative years all have tracked music as their soundtrack, and I still listen to them regularly. Many of the people whose music I enjoyed back then are still making new music as recently as this week, including several you mentioned. Ma
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by usea 5y ago
> Please read the articles before commenting on them: You don't have to read an article before commenting. Trying to make up rules and hold other people to them is neither kind nor constructive. Your interpretation of their post is
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by usea 5y ago
I genuinely don't understand this quiz. The very first question starts out by saying that cults have leaders, and then asking "Is your leader the ultimate authority of your group?" What leader? What group? How do I answer &qu
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Yes, it's okay. No, it's not petty and spoiled. You don't need anybody's permission to reject a job for any reason. Don't let people pressure you into serious commitments. If you don't want to work with Teams f
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by usea 5y ago
How can I use this without a phone or phone number at all? If I am concerned about privacy, why would I give them that access and information when it's not necessary for the service? Surely they are only trying to gather information on

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