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by wang_li 7y ago
>Paper ballot tied to a voter Nope. Ballots need to be anonymous. Otherwise you can be coerced into voting a particular way.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>but the law is written to allow tax evasion. Avoidance. There's no natural tax system so suggesting the law is setup to allow tax evasion is illogical.
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by wang_li 7y ago
They promised X mbps between the customer and the customer's provider's network.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>appropriate pipes to get to where their customers want to go. This idea is nonsensical. What if I want to go to somewhere that is three times removed from my ISP. Comcast has zero capability to force some South Korean ISP that is provid
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by wang_li 7y ago
But they're not six-figure salaries.According to [1] average base pay is $25,000. Bigger companies do pay more, into the $200,000 range, but it's not like failed CEOs are asked to join boards of huge companies. 1. https:/&#x
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Really? When has that happened? If you're talking on the scale of a non-founder CEO who is making $15 million per year, it happens all the time. There just aren't that many public companies that pay that much. The headline in
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by wang_li 7y ago
I hope they had "permission" from both sides of the conversations that they recorded in states that require two-party/all-party consent. Otherwise, this is more than just a privacy issue, it's criminal.
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by wang_li 7y ago
This headline only applies to the largest 350 companies in the US. According to BLS data there are 200,000+ people in the US with the job title CEO and the average salary is around $180,000. EPI is constantly publishing updated versions of
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by wang_li 7y ago
Opting into transcription is not the same thing as Facebook recording your conversation and storing it for later training data, human verification of the transcription, etc. Nor does it give Facebook the right to record audio when people ar
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by wang_li 7y ago
Escalators in Incheon airport start when you approach and stop when you exit.
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by wang_li 7y ago
If your sudo is configured correctly it will have an administrator defined PATH. However if you have sudo price to run apt-get, anything that could manipulate your rc files can just run sudo apt-get on its own. No need to trick you.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Fat Free Mass Index - the technical term for having a lot of muscle and low fat for your body size FFMI has nothing to do with having low body fat. It's literally the exclusion of fat from the index. You can have a high FFMI and a
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by wang_li 7y ago
I'm glad this person has an opinion, but it would be nice to know if this opinion is based on how things are today, or two years ago. Note to bloggers: put dates in your damned posts.
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by wang_li 7y ago
It will make them fat if they eat it. Which is the very assertion you were disputing. The reasons why they might eat it have nothing to do with whether over eating makes you fat or not.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Yet, weirdly enough, if a food item had all of those qualities except being calorically dense it wouldn't make people fat. Everyone one of those factors are things that lead to over eating, when paired with calorically dense you end up
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by wang_li 7y ago
> but it's more complicated than how many calories you eat. It is and it isn't. It's how many calories your body is able to metabolize. Usually those two numbers are similar, but the only way you're going to not get f
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by wang_li 7y ago
At a certain point people are voluntarily choosing to take on certain responsibilities and workloads. Why is society supposed to care that people are choosing a particular labor intensive standard of living?
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by wang_li 7y ago
Did they divest the fund of all monies that ultimately originated with oil or did they just switch some of their foreign investments? Because if they went ahead and kept all that money, this is the classic "I've got mine" the
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's weird to compare unlike things. (the only attribute of apple that is 5% of US GDP is market cap.)
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by wang_li 7y ago
Seems odd that their advertising is “with the rise of consumer tasers used for home defense...” who exactly are their intended customers? Home invaders? Also is it really smart to take away the police’s nonlethal tools in a premeditated fas
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by wang_li 7y ago
If you look at his further posts, his positions are fabricated worst case scenario. For example he suggests that there is no point in planting trees because you're going to drive there in your SUV and then come home and run your AC. Th
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by wang_li 7y ago
I think it works out that Google spends more time ensuring that the content they import into the US and redistribute is something they can legally import and redistribute.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> so what's everybody else doing? Based on the thread from yesterday, they're pushing for carbon taxes because that will solve everything. /s It always astonishes me how central government control is the only possible solu
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by wang_li 7y ago
Given that the DMCA is not a fundamental property of the universe, rather it's legislation. That legislation was written in a way to give both copyright holders, people who want to put content on the internet, and service providers a f
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by wang_li 7y ago
If the creator has deep enough pockets to fund a lawsuit, a tortious interference claim could be filed if someone falsely asserts a copyright violation and messes with your monetization.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Along with some other reasons, the fact that they have implemented a system which effectively strips DMCA protections from content uploaders should result in there being no safe harbor provisions in effect for them.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> a way to get all the content without having to pay lots of individual companies Ironic, as a decade ago the complaint was that we need a la cart pricing. Now that it's happening everyone is complaining about it being too expensive
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by wang_li 7y ago
Are they a direct competitor in this space? From the quotes he seems to be asking why they have chosen not to be a competitor.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Aren't PCIe lanes shared? Why would I need to remove the USB 3.0 chip rather than just hooking right to the pins on the device where it's soldered in place? E: Apparently it's the PCI bus that is shared, not PCI Express lanes
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by wang_li 7y ago
> The government (at various levels) should certainly have a role in ensuring a healthy population. Lifestyle choices are not a function of government even if those choices result in shortened lifespans, poor health, poverty, or other &q

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