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by vageli 7y ago
> The argument you are making is basically identical to the old "guns don't kill people" argument which actually has been proven completely false. Similarly, minimal suicide prevention measures (like fences on bridges, or
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by vageli 7y ago
That does not contest the point of earth not having infinite resources. Put another way, "one man's trash is another's treasure" meaning anything can be viewed as a resource if it can provide some kind of value. It does
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by vageli 7y ago
> IYDMMA, what's the illness and what's the cure? I am a "temporary staff" member at a state-run hospital entity, but because I'm not "full-time" (which makes no sense because I work 40 hours a week) I&
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by vageli 7y ago
> Why should a bank, which does not have physical locations, get around KYC regulations? > Or asked differently: How do they handle that? The same way the IRS handles it when you mail your taxes, they collect your social and some iden
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by vageli 7y ago
> > And all the U.S. had to do is make drugs illegal, and it would disappear. (Or not.) > Well, yeah. Making drugs illegal makes them disappear. From legal sources. The illegal sources share a similar set of problems as noted. Am I
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by vageli 7y ago
Why are we going after the platform and not the party posting the deceitful ads?
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by vageli 7y ago
> You can voice control volume on Android. Goodness, controlling something like volume by voice sounds _excruciating_. I rarely know where I want the knob to be and thus fiddle to the left and right until the desired level is reached. I
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by vageli 7y ago
It has nothing to do with the odds of beating it in court. If I have 1000 tickets and opt to contest them all, good luck scheduling any other case (especially if I bring photos, testimony, etc for each case). Further, it is not "strict
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by vageli 7y ago
> > Personally, I'd love to simply find a way to make "mass transit" more workable. > It's very workable already. Give it priority and separate lanes where possible, consider giving them exclusive use of roads i
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by vageli 7y ago
> I didn't read anything in the article to suggest he's talking about trains here. It looks like a reference to dedicated lanes, etc, for autonomous cars. The parent likely means that the modifications required are the trapping
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by vageli 7y ago
> And the second solution is make the penalties on trucks meaningful. Have the fine amounts escalate with every violation within a certain period, with no cap (so that a ticket could eventually cost tens of thousands of dollars for a par
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by vageli 7y ago
> Yup. A particularly egregious case: > https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/12232742945/ninth... . > The Ninth Circuit: > "We recognize that the allegation of any theft by police office
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by vageli 7y ago
The sentence was: > The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun. Owning guns is dangerous. Occasionally for some people it will turn out to be a positive, but in general, owning a gun is a negative.
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by vageli 7y ago
> That site can't even render HTML properly, and verbal means using words. That's the primary definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/verbal There exists separate legal dictionaries precisely because
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by vageli 7y ago
> >Aren't they confident that the union isn't going to come in and say, "Yeah, actually you guys are pretty good, carry on?" If not, why not? > Because the point of a union isn't to do what's fair but
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by vageli 7y ago
> Article doesn't mention who the FATF is, what makes them or their assessments legitimate, or who is using the FATF to apply leverage against Iceland, and why. > It would be funny if in 100 years we looked back on the cause of s
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by vageli 7y ago
> As someone who is at least somewhat well-informed, I literally never heard this. How would you expect investors to know that? Wouldn't it be better to just live under a system of laws that prevents insanity like this? And then you
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by vageli 7y ago
I meant the distinction between majority and worst. What is "worst" in this context? And by what measure?
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by vageli 7y ago
> You know FB owns Instagram though right? Why do they care if you spend money there or on FB proper? Because the audiences are different?
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by vageli 7y ago
> > California requires consent from all present who have vibrated the air while you record the air vibrations > One-party recording laws enable us to catch bad actors. Otherwise, you can't do things like record Rob Ford smoki
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by vageli 7y ago
> I'm not sure that's universally true. Even where it is, that doesn't mean the recording will be admissable as evidence in a legal proceeding. Unless the recording was made by police, illegally-obtained evidence is often
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by vageli 7y ago
> All smartphones, Apple and Android, use dedicated audio processors which are always listening for the command word by saving recent audio to a buffer and analyzing it before discarding it. Not all Android phones have Google Assistant.
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by vageli 7y ago
Yeah but then using a barter system is probably outlawed in those societies, which would have a chilling effect because you don't know if someone is safe to ask about the alternative method for fear of being reported. A casual interact
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by vageli 7y ago
Seems blocked outside of the EU.
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by vageli 7y ago
Can you link to a source? As I understand it, lack of knowledge of age is not a defense against statutory rape.
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by vageli 7y ago
> > I imagine that the majority of CSE imagery shared on the internet uses something more robust than OnionShare > The majority is shared on normal social media and Bittorrent, although the worst is shared on dark web sites of the
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by vageli 7y ago
Is there any way to block the creation of policies containing specific permissions or resources? I know this can be trivially circumvented but if this tool is used in ci/cd it can be a good gate.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Websites that publish child sexual exploitation material are getting heavily censored in the U.S. too. Think through what uncensorable implies. To me, it implies that things you agree with and things you don't agree with cannot be
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by vageli 7y ago
> On my computer I host HTTP (with Apache), SMTP (with Exim), NNTP (with sqlnetnews), QOTD (TCP only, no UDP), and Gopher. I might add others later, too (e.g. IRC, Viewdata, Telnet, Finger, etc). And on the HTTP server I host several Fos
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by vageli 7y ago
> Toasters do not all "work well enough". Shout if you have a toaster that you bought less than 5 years ago, that is still working. I think they're supposed to start failing after a year or two. > [Edit: if it's ol

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