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by wredcoll 1y ago
You are arguing against a claim I did not make. I am not claiming that biden, and the democrats in general, are perfect people who do no wrongs. I'm arguing that, over the last 30+ years of american history, they have consistently done
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Like I said, you can use whatever definitions you want, but this is what everyone else means. You can disagree with reality all you want, but you won't become correct.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
You keep attempting to shift terms to mean something they do not. > Anyways, rights exist a priori, regardless of the capacity for any power to enforce said rights. Negative rights don't actually require enforcement because they are
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Everyone else has already jumped on this post but I cannot stress enough how toxic the mentality "everyone does it" is. Not everyone does it, and people certainly don't do it to the same degree, and when we vote we can actual
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Because we have elections that affect the government. Very broadly speaking, we do that by electing republicans or democrats. Republicans consistently do things like censor government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats do not.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Isn't that true for, uh, every prediction? I suppose not for biblical prophecies.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Were people "fear-mongering" when they said we should probably update the 2digit date storage during 1999? Like, sometimes people say there will be an issue and then people actually take action to fix it before we all die.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
What? Donald Trump regularly accepts bribes, he did it before during and after his presidency. He was elected anyways. People just don't care.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> But under a loser definition, it's fairly obvious that an entity which takes part of the results of your labor under the threat of violence at least partially owns you, and thus it's reasonable to consider tax payers as slave
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Is that a windows11 thing? It sounds awful, I have a windows10 razer that is very snappy and I am dreading being forced to change to 11.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Isn't it everyone using multiple cloud providers nowadays? Why are they affected by single cloud provider outage? No? I very much doubt anyone is doing that.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Yes, they shouted that they would commit fraud and accept bribes. Apparently people are fine with that and voted for it.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Positive rights of course directly imply slavery so it makes sense people wish to frame them as negative rights. I think you're probably a better person than this.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Having only two choices isn't notably better, especially if both options are equally bad. This is getting pointlessly non-specific. The world rarely has two equally bad choices and that description absolutely does not apply to ame
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It genuinely never ocurred to me that you use emacs somewhere outside the terminal.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is such a minor concern in the grand scheme of things but the solution is empowering nurses and doctors.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Why do you say this? The foundation of all of computer science is formal logic and symbolic logic. Yes, but also it has to deal with "the real world" which is only logical if you can encode a near infinite number of variables
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It seems wildly paranoid, even for securitt researchers.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Are you going to judge whether or not he was using the right kind of speech?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> To put it more simply, most journalists are trying to change the world to see things their way. This is a good thing. Aside from the bit where it's always been like this anyways, we, as modern humans, don't have the time to
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> high quality writing is going other places. Where is that again?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
honestly its a large factor for me personally when I look at buying a new tv!
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Maybe a better metric is some kind of yearly median, i.e what you would actually experience living year by year.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> In general, if I don’t have to pay someone to produce something I can provide a better experience to my customers Amazon theoretically makes money with which they pay people to make the user experience good. Pirates have... a few nerds
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by wredcoll 1y ago
You're (probably) not wrong about the abuse thing, but it sure is nice to just not care about that when you have fixed hardware. I find trying to guess which of the 200 aws services is the cheapest kinda stressful.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I mean, yes, but also I get "3 nines" uptime by running a website on a box connected to my isp in my house. (it would easily be 4 or 5 nines if I also had a stable power grid...) There's a lot, a lot of websites where downt
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by wredcoll 1y ago
If "cloud" took zero time, then sure. It actually takes a lot of time.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Because I don't own a kindle nor am I willing to use their app. I'm either old and stubborn or principled, but I want to use my current phone and "system" I've been using to read ebooks for the last 15 years. (It&#x
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I personally have bought many fewer books over the last couple of years, from amazon, as they've made it harder and harder to, you know, read the books I've paid for. Pirating books is not hard. They're probably the smallest
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I mean, it depends if the amount is $10billion or $10, but generally they start by sending you a letter at wherever they think you live saying "hello, please write us a check for $x, thanks". Then they do that... again. At some po

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