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by wang_li 7y ago
> convenience plays a big role No government regulation should be imposed on the country as a whole so that some people can find things more convenient. If people can't be bothered to put some effort into being healthy, I'm not
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by wang_li 7y ago
> How many ordinary people would be more likely to carry out attacks or harbour resentment towards the USA because of policies like these? Someone who hoards beheading videos is not ordinary and it's perfectly in line with the inter
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by wang_li 7y ago
In the US that is exactly how taxes are paid. But because most people are shit at record keeping it’s all bundled under what’s called the Standard Deduction. Though you can itemize if you like.
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by wang_li 7y ago
If the excuse to raise the gas tax is to reduce driving, then using the money collected to reduce the pain of the gas tax is in direct conflict with the excuse in the first place and it turns into straight redistribution of wealth. Nice bit
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by wang_li 7y ago
The kind in which FBI agents show up at the homes of executives, board members, and senior management at 5:00am in the morning with guns and warrants.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Which is why one of several things should happen. The first option is that there be legal requirements to adhere to public standards if you are a content distributor. And that any standards compliant client side software be allowed to use t
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by wang_li 7y ago
Xsunclock. http://www.fourmilab.ch/xsunclock/
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by wang_li 7y ago
>You can’t just stop taking SSRIs if you’re on them, insulin if you’re diabetic, antibiotics in the middle of a regimen, immunosuppressants if you’ve had an organ transplant... These do not constitute such a large portion of the populati
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by wang_li 7y ago
> ... looked like the nurses or receptionists or Dr Marks himself. That would be because Dr Marks can't see himself. The difference between a high functioning, long term heroin addict and everyone else is that the heroin addicts req
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by wang_li 7y ago
> Let's say it would cost about $1,500 per month to provide them with basic lodging and basic needs. You can say that, but it's very, very incorrect. Seattle spends $1 billion on services, clean up, housing, and etc. for a home
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by wang_li 7y ago
The apps don't have to deal with it. It's a read error. Presumably something they already deal with. There's no operational difference for the end user between a block that can't be read and a block than can be read but
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by wang_li 7y ago
Unless everyone can spend money drawn from the corporate account, and everyone can fire anyone else, the structure isn't flat. It's just that management is choosing not to manage. There is a difference.
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by wang_li 7y ago
From a user perspective it's effectively a zero cost feature. Apple should add it in.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> There is a clear and definite trend of taking DNS out of the user's control, see all the hype with DNS over HTTPS etc etc. It seems absurd that these companies are blurring the line between software and malware. Software vendors a
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by wang_li 7y ago
Are you prepared to pay your employees a significant premium for the requirement that they engage in fisticuffs with random strangers who may try to tailgate into the building? Tailgating is a problem for your physical security staff, not y
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by wang_li 7y ago
Me. Obviously.
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by wang_li 7y ago
I was just responding to the proposal put forward upstream with a number of points enumerated. Things can be dictatorial but fair. And realistically I think most western countries can maintain their current standard of living while reducin
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by wang_li 7y ago
If the proposal is mandatory restrictions on CO2 emissions then giving every citizen an equal share of the allowed emissions vastly beats giving those to industry or taxing people. Doing this also creates awareness about CO2 usage among the
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by wang_li 7y ago
Would be much better to give every citizen their share of the CO2 budget and then require them to spend them as they buy goods and services. This way you don't end up with bureaucrats giving favored, e.g. the company that promised said
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Right, but then the US should have a higher life expectancy in exchange for the cost. For plenty of maladies the US has the best care as measured by things like five year cancer survival rates for particular cancers. >Instead it gets
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by wang_li 7y ago
You can supply your own 64 GB SD/eMMC card and set the bios to boot from that.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>mostly because healthcare systems over there better tackle preventable deaths, This is not a chart of life expectancy as a result of medical care. When you remove fatalities from car accidents and murders, the US life expectancy is in l
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by wang_li 7y ago
Add an out of band channel to ssh and your favorite ssh client/terminal emulator. Teach it that information in the out of band channel is used to render html, jupyter notebooks, or whatever. On the remote side, have your sshd set an en
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by wang_li 7y ago
> You don't have to set a date for action to be taken... that still isn't amnesty. I clearly stated "effective amnesty" in my original post. If the day of action can be indefinitely put off, then it's effective a
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by wang_li 7y ago
> Maybe. Or maybe they'll be just like regular tractors with a side module for your AI of choosing. We can't even get interop between instant messaging platforms, and video calling platforms. Why would we anticipate that compan
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by wang_li 7y ago
> DACA was differed action, it was not amnesty. When was action going to be taken? Under DACA participants can renew every two years with no limit on how many renewals they can do. That's amnesty. Regardless, there is nothing in the
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by wang_li 7y ago
Consider DACA. It is not legislation It is an executive order by a prior president ordering ICE to create a system in which people who meet certain criteria are given effective amnesty. Obama had no authority to do this beyond simple prosec
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by wang_li 7y ago
>This isn't "rape" by any standard definition. Yes it is. He engaged in sex with partners without their consent. That is the definition of rape.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Gorsuch's approach is the better one. We have a legislature for a reason. Letting judges interpret the law so that a given end is achieved leads to chaos as no one can know what the law means until you've personally been subjected
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by wang_li 7y ago
That's why I said worst rather than lowest or highest. Depending on the nature of the trade the price to use may be the lowest price in the window or the highest price in the window.

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