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by wang_li 7y ago
They're apparently asking for something on the order of $60,000 for not being able to go into a cafe and get a cup of coffee. That seems quite far beyond the damages incurred. sounds predatory to me.
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by wang_li 7y ago
These threads are always so binary in their world view. Everything is either striking it lucky and being a multimillionaire by the time a person is twenty-five or they missed out on luck and they're permanently homeless and drug addict
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by wang_li 7y ago
> Julian Assange has been intentionally psychologically tortured by Sweden, Britain, Ecuador and the U.S. The only thing the US has done is try to get him extradited to prosecute him. I suppose the argument can be made that he's not
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by wang_li 7y ago
Claiming you’re being tortured because you’re going to have to face trial for crimes is like claiming to be tortured by people who post opinions that disagree. Absurd on its face.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> For at least 60 years, USA military has made every situation they've ever touched worse. This is objectively wrong. Operation unified response in Haiti in 2010, Operation Continuing Promise in the Caribbean and Latin America in 20
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by wang_li 7y ago
Does LVM maintain a bitmap of used blocks that is updated by upper level filesystems sending TRIM/DISCARD?
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by wang_li 7y ago
When I was a child my parents would give me $20 to go to the movies. I would go purchase the ticket from the cashier. I was literally the ticket buyer, but I was not the ticket payer.
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by wang_li 7y ago
We don't live in a post scarcity society. As such it's not possible to support every kid to a high standard of living unless you limit the number of kids. I also want to point out that they don't pay taxes to their city, coun
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by wang_li 7y ago
>For example if you end up needing to live in a rest home and your family can't afford or refuses to take care of you, why should my tax dollars go to help you out? Your tax dollars shouldn't. I would have to be a real asshole
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by wang_li 7y ago
>You make it sound like there’s an infinite loop of childbirth which will eventually use up every last dollar in the world, It's not infinite, but we cannot provide every child in the world with the same standard of living as that
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by wang_li 7y ago
You cannot rationally hold the belief that people can be allowed to have as many children anytime they want and that all children will be provided for regardless of the ability of their individual parents to provide for them. Such parents h
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by wang_li 7y ago
Nuclear has huge hurdles and long implementation times because of hysterical anti-nuclear activists. It's not inherent in the engineering. If we care about climate change, it needs to be acknowledged that the activists created artifici
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Simply stating that your network configuration prevents access isn't the best answer. Right. The network should actually be configured to prevent access.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Get some window screen from your local home improvement big box store.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Is it unstable? I thought the problem was that they didn't want to require retraining so they built in a flight control system that made it seem like the previous generation plane from a flight dynamics pov. That system would only take
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by wang_li 7y ago
In 2000 the Independent was telling us that "snowfalls were a thing of the past" in England. https://web.archive.org/web/20150912124604/http://www.indepe...
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by wang_li 7y ago
I wonder if they take into account the carbon related to them using their customer's computers to distribute patches and send "telemetry" back to microsoft?
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's industry trade organizations that limit the number of slots at medical schools and residencies. A punitive tax on the members of the organization that has artificially limited the number of practitioners seems perfectly targeted.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> That’s like taxing teachers for overcrowded classrooms to induce them to lobby teaching schools. If the NEA restricted the number of teachers the same way the medical industry limits the number of doctors I'd say yes, this is a p
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by wang_li 7y ago
Having waited several months to get an appointment with a urologist in the PNW, I thought of a solution to this problem. Anytime the waiting time to see a practitioner of a particular specialty exceeds some predetermined time, the top margi
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by wang_li 7y ago
The NSA is a US agency. It has nothing to do with being a good country, their job is to protect the US.
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by wang_li 7y ago
And: https://www.econtalk.org/adam-cifu-on-ending-medical-reversa... https://www.econtalk.org/adam-cifu-on-the-case-for-being-a-m... Both with one of the authors of the linked paper, Adam Cifu.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> iMessage, Hangouts, Messenger, Slack, and all the rest use their own proprietary interfaces. For a certain core level of functionality, there should be regulations and laws in place that these apps all support a public and open protoco
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by wang_li 7y ago
Surveys have revealed that 30% of student loan borrowers use some portion of their loans to travel for spring break partying.
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's great on small disks, using ZFS root on solaris 11 in my day job, I can tell you it makes management a lot easier. Patching and rollbacks are like eating a nice dessert.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> Employers have also heavily utilized violence. According to Wikipedia (not definitive I know) anti-union violence ended in the 1950s. Justifying current day violence with cites to events 70 years ago is absurd.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Also the historical union attitude towards scab labour is another way to prevent this. You mean violence? This is one of the reasons many people don't like unions.
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by wang_li 7y ago
If you want to do business in, or travel to, the EU, then you obey their laws. You’re free to ignore the GDPR but don’t be surprised if they arrest you if you ever visit.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> Yeah, no chance of abuse there. The author having to file a lawsuit against you is a much higher hurdle to get over than an anti-fan falsely flagging the authors work and costing them money. The common idea that people should be able t
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's a different kind of regulatory capture. Same thing has happened to the EPA.

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