Gunax

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by Gunax 1mo ago
After reading your comment, I am very concerned. This is a very general law. Saying something is 'injurious to public health, safety, morals, or welfare' is such a broad category. Let's remember what we started with. It'
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by Gunax 2mo ago
The worst curse put upon us is XNA games engine, which was unable to distinguish primary from secondary clicks. So players who swapped mouse buttons at the OS level were out of luck. Most developers assumed that left click = primary click,
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by Gunax 6mo ago
There is a comment somewhere on HN where a person described implementing ads for a small, hobby website. Users complaied about the price to go ad-free (something like $25 per year). The commenter revealed that the actual revenue from ads
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by Gunax 6mo ago
I just don't believe that can be effective. Cameras are legal and too useful to ban. Facial recognition is just software. And it's getting easier to make. There are open source solutions for facial recognition.
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by Gunax 6mo ago
Does Google get money for directing traffic to sites (barring sites that pay for ad placement, that is)? If I search for 'astronomy', Google doesnt earn any money whether i go to the Wikipedia page for astronomy, or Joe's ast
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by Gunax 6mo ago
It's sad how the snall web became invisible. I used to use all sorts of small websites in 2005. But by 2015 I used only about 10 large ones. Like many changes, I cannot pinpoint exactly when this happened. It just occurred to me someda
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by Gunax 6mo ago
I am not sure about the legal implications. But, I do see the concern. Someone else mentioned the analogy of patients preferring physicians of a given sex. I would not be surprised if they find a way around this by just having riders '
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by Gunax 8mo ago
From the article comments: > Add to this fatuous criminal charge the sad reality that the process is often the punishment. Even after Mr. Left's innocence gets determined by a jury, there's the strong possibility that he'l
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by Gunax 9mo ago
There have been _3_ rabies transmissions in the IS in 50 years? The writer suggests this likes it is rare. But organ donation is rare. And rabies is even rarer. That it has happened _three times_ seems surprising to me.
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by Gunax 10mo ago
I always thought this was applied to all celebrities as a way to feel superior. But, I am not really sure. Normal people despise being lectured by celebrities about social or political issues.
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by Gunax 10mo ago
Hmm, having read that, I am starting to sympathize with Google if they are going to be punished for being open. No one seems to care that Apple has never allowed freedom on their devices. Even the comments here don't seem to mention it
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by Gunax 10mo ago
We definitely are straining the rules. I think we actually want a federal government like this. The reality on the ground is that most people want things like FDA and FCC at the federal level. Maybe we just need to change the constitution
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by Gunax 10mo ago
Hmm, I've never heard of this. My initial gut reaction is that this sounds good but the definition of 'single subject' is dubious. With enough leeway and creativity, anything can be a single subject. But if it works, then m
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by Gunax 10mo ago
Yes, that's a really good point!
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by Gunax 10mo ago
This is going to be controversial because it steps into the shutdown blame game. I think I am more interested in the mechanics of how this happens. Why do we need to attach riders / sneak in legislation? What changes could we make to t
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by Gunax 11mo ago
I just want to thank you for this nuanced comment. I had never considered #3. It seems to me that there are many conflicting interests. We want simple taxes but we also want special protections and carve-outs.
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by Gunax 1y ago
Well we could just limit the _amount_ people gamble instead (say $1000 per year). I have no idea if this is feasible.
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by Gunax 1y ago
I just don't think those are good analogies. For one, we are just discussing financial ruin. Not deaths by guns or cars. And it does not impact you. Or else you would need to just regulate poor spending habits. At worse. I think in pr
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by Gunax 1y ago
Yes. I know it's incredibly selfish to push your laws on my body because you don't have self control. How do you sleep at night, knowing you're a nosy fascist?
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by Gunax 1y ago
I happen to enjoy sports gambling and would be sad to see it disappear. I'm writing this because I want you to know what you're depriving me of. Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from e
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by Gunax 1y ago
I don't even know where to _begin_ writing an operating system. If i wanted to learn just so i have a concept of what an os does, what would you recommend? I'm not trying to write operating systems per se. I'm trying to becom
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by Gunax 1y ago
Internally, do contraint solvers just do brute force? It's interesting how powerful contraint solvers are (Ive never used one). But actually all of these problems are fairly simple if we allow brute force solutions. They just become st
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by Gunax 1y ago
8T isnt really that much for America, especially over 24 years. And it's not like China does not spend on defense. I would be cautious applying broad statements and simple causes. Often we take these opportunities to connect it with wh
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by Gunax 1y ago
And yet, people keep buying i Phones. They have a choice. And they are opting in to a closed platform. Likewise with PlayStations and Wiis versus computer games. Consumers largely don't care and are not interested in esoteric concepts
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by Gunax 1y ago
I have some old crates, including the oroginal 'Weapons crate'. But looking at the steam store, it's only worth about $100 usd. Is there a more valuable one?
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by Gunax 1y ago
Im also chiming in to say i remember these servers. Frankly, i never liked the mod very much and only advanced a few levels. But i distinctly remember trying to kill enemies with some sort of lighting bolt move.
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by Gunax 1y ago
We will all live long, safe, and boring lives
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by Gunax 1y ago
It's just information. Data. Bytes. We need a proper George Orwell for the digital age. The internet used to be a bastion of freedom. That era ended around 2005.
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by Gunax 1y ago
Well, afaik caller id is actually unauthenticated and can be trivially impersonated.
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by Gunax 1y ago
There definitely some hypocrisy, but it might work differently in the law. As devs, we might claim that 'code is the law' but my guess is that the law does not care. That is, one cannot overwrite property laws by a few lines of co

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