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by vanusa 5y ago
For example - given the ample (and basically) record of U.S. authorities in regard to their treatment of so-called High Value Detainees -- and even of very low-value detainees at is borders, as we have seen in recent years -- the High Court
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by vanusa 5y ago
What matters here is rule of law (and the fact that we live in a time where it is being increasingly eroded) - not Assange's internal psychological machinations.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Actually, that article describes the islands' status as disputed.
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by vanusa 5y ago
For Matt Levine, there's always time to generate an archive link: https://archive.md/SO0gX
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by vanusa 5y ago
I would agree that the images are rather intriguing, but ... what does all this visual structure actually mean? I'm guessing some kind of overtone structure in these sounds (perhaps decipherable to cats, but not to us)? I await your in
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by vanusa 5y ago
Then don't do that. Just copy it to a different repo (or some non-respository stash), and explain that the Git history has been sanitized (because it is after all a sample, not a fully runnable app).
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah that's the thing - about half the time I set out to automate something, I wind up in that "Oh shit, this is taking longer than I thought -- so I'm just going to have to park it in a semi-finished state, and get back to
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by vanusa 5y ago
You should need to send "all" the code to establish your bona fides. Just a few representative branches and snippets, here and there.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Or "automating" it but wrong and/or with enough banana peels tucked away in the code to cause 60 hours of net frustration and refactoring effort, down the line. But hey, it passes CI so who's gonna know?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Independent of historical precedent - it's such a pat and facile line of reasoning. But if you want to live your life on the basis of such, that's your call.
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by vanusa 5y ago
From Wikipedia, on the Great Barrington Declaration: The World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous academic and public-health bodies have stated that the proposed strategy is dangerous and lacks a sound scientific basis.[8][9] They say
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/4TNGV
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Advocates Push for Nationwide Movement for Land to Return to Blacks(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by vanusa 5y ago|2 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
My point is that a 90+ percent solution is better than doing nothing.
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by vanusa 5y ago
If I don't do it, someone else will, and so nothing has changed in the world. Do you realize that this the exact same justification used by many defendants at the Nuremberg trials? For example, folks who were asked to work for this
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by vanusa 5y ago
Also, there is no such thing as "trickle down economics", Whether or not is is, or ever was a a thing -- it absolutely was the unquestioned gospel among U.S. conservatives (and most definitely a staple in the rhetoric of the Rea
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by vanusa 5y ago
It seems like a stretch to say that the existence of those images causes harm; Not a stretch at all; I'd recommend you so some reading into the stories of the many, many people whose lives have been permanently upended (or worse - th
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UK whistleblower details ‘chaotic’ and ‘dysfunctional’ Afghanistan evacuation(archive.md)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
It would need to be AI-generated deepfake imagery of course (I can't see any justification for using real imagery of minors). From a harm minimization standpoint, it's worth investigating at least (and I do believe I've hear
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by vanusa 5y ago
The point is that they're pretty easily findable if you're looking for them. And stolen or extorted images of late teens, in particular, are all over "amateur" porn sites even if you're not looking for them. "
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Best physical evidence of Roman crucifixion found in Cambridgeshire(theguardian.com)
2 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
That’s what capital productivity is all about. No, it's about investing money (and other resources) into endeavors that create actual goods and and services. The crypto world is (absent a few marginal use cases) almost entirely ab
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/tCPVV
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How the Supply Chain Crisis Unfolded(nytimes.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/ZOfBy
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How Can Something Be Racist but Not Racist at the Same Time?(nytimes.com)
4 points by vanusa 5y ago|3 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Previous posting about the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455852 Though the article does provide some additional commentary.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I agree - on one hand the findings were basically helpful, in that they incrementally help debunk the (harmful) urban legend and industry propaganda that "moderate" drinking has a minor longevity benefit. But on the other hand --
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‘He touched a nerve’: how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956(theguardian.com)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Please see my response to the sibling comment, in which I attempt to respond to both of these critiques at once.

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