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by zeveb 7y ago
At the time of the Founding, most (or all?) felonies were punishable by death ; I suspect that they would have considered release from prison with disenfrachisement to be quite merciful.
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by zeveb 7y ago
It's not a poll tax — it is apparently an element of the amendment Florida's voters passed, which requires that felons fulfill all elements of their sentences.
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Yea - I must have missed the "who have cleared any debts and fines outstanding" clause following the reinfranchisement of felons. Apparently they have to complete all terms of their sentences: > > No. 4 Constitutional A
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Otherwise malware authors could sue AV companies for infringement, which don’t seem to fit the intention of IP law. 'You may sue the AV company for $1 million; users who suffered from your malware will civilly sue for $100 billion
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The real estate industry was one of the most important constituencies supporting the development of the subway system in the early years. Developers enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the subway, which was extended into empty fields
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by zeveb 7y ago
It was a matter of one party being insufficiently SJWist for another party. SJWism is a continuum, not a binary. I've read elsewhere that if a radical lives long enough he'll eventually be chastised for being insufficiently radic
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The reason it does not bear the same penalty is pragmatic: if the punishment were the same then why should a rapist not kill the victim as well? The real reason is even more prosaic in the U.S.: the Supreme Court in Coker v. Georgia
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by zeveb 7y ago
It's not free software, which means users are not free to use it as they wish. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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Open offices are a dead end(nytimes.com)
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by zeveb 7y ago
Yipes, AGPL would have been preferable. Oh well, guess I'll wait until 2023 to use it.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I should probably mention that unlike grandparent, the above URL actually works …
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by zeveb 7y ago
https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happe...
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by zeveb 7y ago
Correction: any MacOS user is affected by Apple's decision not to update bash.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I suspect that from Apple's (and Google's, and to some extent Mozilla's) point of view this is all about the computer doing what its user tells it to do — 'its user,' unfortunately, being Apple, Google or Mozilla.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Back when I wrote a lot of Python, something I disliked was how one could easily reload a module, but existing instances of classes wouldn't get updated. You could implement the machinery to do so for your own stuff, but of course tha
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by zeveb 7y ago
My own nitpick is that 'humanity' is the condition of being humane — and a condition has neither ancestors nor skulls. The correct phrase IMHO would have been 'the skull of man's ancestor' or 'the skull of man
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by zeveb 7y ago
Note that Signal, everyone's favourite secure SMS replacement, also conflates phone numbers and identity!
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Having worked in both DevOps (or Ops as we called it in 2002), there really was a belief that the developers were stupid, and they'd burn the whole place down if we gave them any leeway. I've been on both sides of this divide
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by zeveb 7y ago
One issue is that with a tiling WM you have little choice about the window dimensions. I'd love for fingerprinting-resistant browsers to either lie, or scroll a viewport.
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by zeveb 7y ago
The HSM can get out, by being stolen.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Meat is remarkably easy to cook: apply heat to meat, done. Vegetables take preparation, require more-complex treatment, need to be managed well (I have no problem eating a quick meal of just a steak or chicken breast; I really would hate e
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by zeveb 7y ago
Yeah, but $35,000 from one's pension/401(k)/Social Security is still peanuts for California. That's got to be well below effective poverty level for someone living in San Francisco, LA or San Diego, even without rent.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Sure, but then they will vote against you, and you won't get your way, because they are more civically-active than you, or out-number you, or whatever. Do you want to be right, or do you want to get your way? There's also an issue
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by zeveb 7y ago
That’s a really low annual household income, particularly for California. But perhaps it's tweakable.
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by zeveb 7y ago
One way would be to buy people off: figure out the net economic benefit to the city, county or state of changing the rules, and as part of the rule change grant some fraction of those dollars to those who change in the way we want. I can se
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by zeveb 7y ago
Do any of the downvoters have a counterargument? I'm genuinely curious.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I'm reminded of modernist buildings, which looked nice and gleaming white the day they were built, and have looked old and shabby for decades since. How long until folks realise that the real world is not a pristine white cube?
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by zeveb 7y ago
> In contrast, the Senate is thoroughly anti-democratic, unsalvagably so. Why is that bad? The Senate represents the states , the other sovereign entities in our federal republic. I think that a) we should amend the Constitution to eli
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by zeveb 7y ago
The problem is that the purchasing power of gold isn't relatively constant: what you can buy with 1 oz. today and what you can buy with 1 oz. tomorrow are not necessarily the same — so you have much the same problem. Moreover, the re
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by zeveb 7y ago
> it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. You're confusing wants and needs. We need food, shelter and water; we want up-to-

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