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by vageli 6y ago
> Phones systems are information transportation systems that handle information requests. > Phones systems are are not platforms to host speech - i.e. CC laws can't force me to play your phone recording in my private home when so
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by vageli 6y ago
The ability to transact anonymously online shouldn't be understated.
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by vageli 6y ago
It is common to open accounts and make them appear relatively benign only to pivot to malicious use after some time on the platform. Not to mention the secondary market where people sell aged accounts to bad actors.
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by vageli 6y ago
> It's right on target if you consider the goal is to sink the political issue by equating it with something similar but essentially frivolous, a trolling technique known as forum sliding. Forgive me for this aside, but do you know
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by vageli 6y ago
I'm not sure the point you're making. Are you saying that if you would accept an organ transplant you must also be willing to donate your organs upon death? What percentage of people refuse free money?
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by vageli 6y ago
> I think you can make an argument that people should have the 'right' (is there such a thing as a right held by a nonliving person?) to make an informed choice about their organs but this is certainly an ambiguous situation as
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by vageli 6y ago
> Notion employees are only allowed to access your workspace data with your written consent. We are also only allowed to do this in order to facilitate an improved user experience for you (e.g. debug problems you have asked support about
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by vageli 6y ago
I figured as much with regards to civil suit, was just curious about public enforcement of private regulations when the lines appear blurred. Further, I wonder by what authority they can even set monetary fines? Like, why stop at $X for a f
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by vageli 6y ago
> >...but either way this is unlikely to be company policy > Perhaps you haven't seen the article because it's behind an Apple News link. There's a screenshot of a message stating company policy as follows: > &quo
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by vageli 6y ago
> The main purpose of government is providing infrastructure like roads and bridges > Roads and bridges being a government function is a somewhat recent notion that we've grown accustomed to. > Historically in the United State
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by vageli 6y ago
This seems like the author of the service has complete access to your code.
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by vageli 6y ago
> Yeah, for all the complaining we do about the various app stores, shitty devs like Adobe really forced the platform vendors' hands on this. Users and devs can't be trusted with that capability, the platform vendor needs to be
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by vageli 6y ago
You would bet money that the insurance would cover it instead of finding a way out of it? What makes you so sure about that? There are examples of homeowner's insurance not covering issues caused by renting on AirBnB, so I would be sur
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by vageli 6y ago
> Right, good point there. People without kids definitely have way more time and energy to devote to work than those with. Definitely? I have no kids and live with and fully support my father who had a brain tumor the size of a walnut in
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by vageli 6y ago
Goodness, it seems your speech becomes more inflammatory with every edit. I'm sorry if I offended you—I think talking about the disasters are important in engineering—it's part of the process. In the same vein that FAA regulations
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by vageli 6y ago
I think your interpretation is more telling of your own worldview than the parent. It had never occurred to me that such a failure mode could happen, and I thought it was a good story to share. It seems like something that may have been cau
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by vageli 6y ago
> Perhaps even more paradoxically, the US court declared that Grams couldn't be distributed not only in the United States, but globally. Why? Because, it said, a US citizen might find some way of accessing the TON platform after it
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by vageli 6y ago
> Just wait until governments actually start attacking cryptocurrencies. > eventually market forces will always win. How is government intervention an example of market forces winning out?
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by vageli 6y ago
I was surprised to read California, as I thought the state provides pretty strong worker protections. This site [0] seems to say that you are owed the vacation time upon separation in CA. IANAL and all that. [0]: https://www.nolo
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by vageli 6y ago
> This has about as much truth to it as people who say "perks are just to make you stay at the office longer!". > i.e. it's typically not a problem and can be very beneficial to the worker. Many states require payout of
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by vageli 6y ago
In the same way that people can read words and have their minds blown, people can read words and have epiphanies. Zen koans are examples of this.
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by vageli 6y ago
> Well, no state has been stronger on this issue than California, who sets fuel efficiency goals that are the most stringent. The same cannot be said of Texas and Nevada; if anything the opposite is true. These are states where people ta
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by vageli 6y ago
> The open core model is also ethically-poor. Can you speak more to this?
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by vageli 6y ago
> It feels like we are on a space ship, drifting through time, but basking in peace and solitude. This comment reminded me of this video by CGP Grey which I think you may enjoy if you haven't yet seen it. https://youtu.be
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by vageli 6y ago
Isn't this exactly survivorship bias?
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by vageli 6y ago
> I'm not an expert on laws, GDPR, when consent is needed, by whom, etc. > This is a side project that just started gaining a little bit of traction, and I'll certainly look into all the above. You are selling a product with
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by vageli 6y ago
> That is a great idea. I really want my email hosted some place and that I could write my own "post arrival" simple business logic. You can do this in gmail with filters, unless I'm missing something about the use case.
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by vageli 6y ago
> He was trying to explain why most card players weren't gambling seriously and I think he was right about structured activities providing a social lubricant analogous to alcohol. I don't have any research to support this but I
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by vageli 6y ago
They have the information (note that they did not contest that point), the script would presumably allow them to surface that information more quickly.
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by vageli 6y ago
I never said "lower middle class". From this article [0], ~$50k doesn't seem like a stretch for middle class. [0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-income-us-city-...

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