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by yokaze 6y ago
You don't have to understand the democrats, you just have to understand the Supreme Court ruling. It's clearly spelled out in the constitution that it should be an accurate count of all people. People not eligible to vote (non-cit
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Then you have a different understanding on what "works" means. In many languages, standardisation means that the language actually survives because without it loses its utility and will replaced by a dominant language. Not an expe
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> I'm not interested in what my doctor thinks of Biden, I just want to get rid of the damn foot fungus. You are free to ignore what your doctor thinks of Biden, but if the other partly has or plans to enact laws which will impede y
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Why would you trust someone hyping a stock if they don't stand to benefit from any price rise? Because they wouldn't be _hyping_ a stock? If someone owns stock, they benefit from a price rise, so any evaluation is a reflectio
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by yokaze 6y ago
> I'm sorry but I have a hard time reconciling Laplacian determinism with quantum physics, I'd like to see more details. As I understand it, it's not really Laplacian determinism. We still have the chaos and quantum random
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Not if the drug costs US$2000-$3000 per treatment.
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> I never believed the whole "change the world" SV nonsense, and always knew it was nothing more than cynical marketing. It certainly is. But I like to believe, there is an underlying reasonable philosophy behind it. Every comp
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What I understand from what you are saying, and with what I can agree is, that not everything you do, has to be or should be a political statement. But the point I trying to make is, that "apolitical" is not the absence of politic
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With that, I can more easily agree. I am then not sure how it devolved (in my opinion) into being "apolitical". I definitely see the point of keeping a company focused on its task, though probably we have then the same discussion
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Exactly: Being "apolitical" is a political decision. In this case: Don't question what we are doing (in the larger picture) or what our impact is.
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From entering "define political" in Google: 1. relating to the government or public affairs of a country. Not the one the parent probably means: 2. (DEROGATORY) done or acting in the interests of status or power within an organiza
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by yokaze 6y ago
I see it the other way around. (Almost) everything is political. The mission of the company is not disjoint from the society it is embedded in. Things have become divisive by being able to ignore and blend out the opposing views. By not tal
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The point is, at a certain scale you _are_ unable to secure your perimeter. Are you surprised that a handful of likely thousands external facing application can be hacked? Especially, if most of your colleagues never have to bother with sec
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by yokaze 6y ago
Great, hard-shell/soft-centre. If anyone asks, why you should go to all the effort to secure the software in your internal-network, that's why.
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by yokaze 6y ago
Not sure, if I am terrible more experienced, but it aligns from what I've heard. But another point I would add to OpenGL: Legacy. Yes, with later versions, there was a way to migrate away from legacies like stippled line, but the very
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Racism used to mean that there was a belief [...] Yes, the key word is "used". And the point why it isn't is because we pay now more attention to the target of racism than the perpetrator. > You need to look at if th
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by yokaze 6y ago
You are right, there is a distinction between a murderer and bring accused of it. Still the point of the grandparent stands: being accused of a crime is not a protected class. People are ostracized when not even having to face court, or bei
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Troubled people use drugs, including cannabis. Troubled people are prone to crime. Crime spreads and creates unsustainable living conditions for everyone. And that's not mentioning the destructive effect on culture and social inte
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> Because to have systemic racism, by definition you have to observe something happening on a large scale. Systemic only means "relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part". If you and practical most people
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> In 20 years of living there, I have not only not interacted, but not seen a single black person. And I expect that would be the same case for majority of people. Any racism would likely be more personal or based off silly stereotypes r
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by yokaze 6y ago
Well, he can claim, that he is there evidence, that it isn't so bad (assuming her comes though fine) And that he doesn't put the population through anything he himself did experience.
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> We know what colors human faces have, so we can nail those Um, do we really?
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The scrutiny happens due to the merger upcoming merger. It requires permission of the European Commission, which raises those questions.
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There are already a bunch of existing apps open sourced. Pick one: https://github.com/opentrace-community https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-android-ch https://github.com/corona-warn-app
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by yokaze 6y ago
If you say, a politician should only judged by ones public affairs and policies, and the press should not dig into private matters, I would generally agree. But that is a major change, and to my knowledge never been the case in the US. Pub
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That depends on the public interest. Are we talking about random John Does taxes which has a total of X dollars income/wealth? X alone might be large enough warranting some public interest, on top of that, it isn't random Joe, it
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Quite a different thing though if you are head of government which is supposed to collect taxes from people like you, and you see no need to change that.
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One should not leave out the important part "pilot study". As said by the authors in the conclusions themselves, it still requires a larger one to give definite answer.
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by yokaze 6y ago
CVE-2020-24215. Full administrative access with hard-coded password: https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabili... Commonly known as backdoor.
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by yokaze 6y ago
To my knowledge, the US government has wide ranging powers to prevent and break up monopolies. Thanks to standard oil and at&t. The acquisition needed approval: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings&#x2F

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