db48x

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by db48x 3d ago
You object to other people deciding how to spend their own money? In that case I object to how you’re spending your money. I now obligate you to donate $50 a month of your own money to GNOME. You can afford it, so you cannot object.
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by db48x 3d ago
I can see that you’ve never designed a language. The design and implementation of Rust took many years. Over that time people’s ideas and priorities changed. Even the people changed. In the early days of the language design sigils were very
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by db48x 4d ago
It has nothing to do with what they can afford. Just because someone can afford an expense does not mean that they are obligated to spend the money. They simply decided not to donate to GNOME any more.
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by db48x 4d ago
I know, that’s why I said that cubesats don’t count. There are already lots of cubesats with telescopes in orbit, but they don’t count because you couldn’t do good astronomy with them.
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by db48x 4d ago
This is beside the point. Starlink exists and provides excellent service to customers who have no alternatives.
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by db48x 5d ago
No, I mean globally most of their customers are rural. Starlink is limited primarily by customer density rather than by absolute numbers. They can provide service to just so many people per square mile before the speed drops below the custo
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by db48x 5d ago
Pretty sure we achieved that level of coverage here in the US a decade or more earlier than that. A lot of those same rural customers still rely on the telephone system for Internet access. They might be able to get DSL now, but the speeds
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by db48x 5d ago
Upgrades are overrated. Stick your telescope in sun–synchronous orbit and leave it there. Launch a better one every year or three. After a few launches your undergrads will still be excited to use that first telescope, your PhD students wil
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by db48x 5d ago
Sure, sure. The endowment generates revenue which is then spent on stuff. Harvard spends billions every year on stuff. A small slice of that spending over the last decade could have gotten them a huge scientific and prestige boon: the first
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by db48x 5d ago
I wonder what they taste like.
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by db48x 5d ago
Most of Starlink’s customers are simply rural people who want Internet access at decent speeds. There are wide swathes of the US where Starlink’s best competition is measured in kilobytes per second.
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by db48x 5d ago
Sure, that sounds scary. But the USPS’s criteria are all about the barcode, the envelope, etc. If the state cannot print envelopes that the USPS’s sorting machine can read then it will reject them. And if the very first one in a carton of m
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by db48x 5d ago
There is nothing remotely racist or fascist about that. He’s talking about behavior, not race. And deportation is merely a tool that both fascists and non–fascists alike can use. Frankly the historical examples of fascism did very little ac
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by db48x 6d ago
> …a flawed federal voter verification system guesses the voters are illegitimate. FWIW, the states don’t even know who is a citizen without verifying the registered voter’s information with the federal government. The federal government
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by db48x 6d ago
Under the proposed rules, only the states would be able to determine who is eligible to vote. The postal service would not have discretion over which ones to deliver. If they failed to deliver any ballots then the tracking information for t
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by db48x 6d ago
> …deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays, all of which risked ballots having incorrect postmarks or otherwise arriving late to election officials, which could lead to their rejection. This is one reason wh
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by db48x 7d ago
That’s not a very useful point. Of course if people don’t want the Omarchy experience they can just use something else. That includes you. If it would annoy you then just don’t use it.
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by db48x 8d ago
Surely it is better to correct course than to avoid fixing the problem just because it would be hard. I do think that specific fix will be a hard sell, but you shouldn’t mock them just for considering it. And to characterize it as a “disast
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by db48x 8d ago
No, no! Corporations are _groups_ of people. _Donating_ money is speech.
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by db48x 8d ago
Take heart in the fact that spending more money does not guarantee a win. The Harris campaign spent over a billion dollars in 2024 and she lost badly. She spent more than 2.5× as much as Trump.
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by db48x 8d ago
People in the USA have both the right speak as they wish and to associate amongst themselves freely for any lawful purpose. A corporation is nothing more than a group of people who are associating with each other. If one person acting alone
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by db48x 8d ago
I don’t like it, but you’re probably right. It is evident that many commenters have treated this story as a catastrophe that proves that the government is out to get them rather than a temporary setback for the plaintiffs and the obvious co
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by db48x 9d ago
You’re hopeless. And do you not understand the process? The plaintiff brings a lawsuit arguing that the defendant did a bad thing. They make multiple claims about laws that were broken. The judge may throw out any or all of those claims. Mo
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by db48x 9d ago
Surely you would expect the rate of change to drop off after a time, right? The Constitution is not a very long document, so it cannot contain an infinite number of errors. At some point they’ll all be fixed and then no more evolution will
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by db48x 9d ago
Oh no, they can end your life too. But only after due process. Thus a death sentence requires a trial and appeals and so on and so forth and takes ages to actually get to the execution. Just keep in mind that chronic lead poisoning does not
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by db48x 9d ago
Sure, but that doesn’t apply. The Plaintiffs are not alleging that the government is executing people without due process, only that the water is less safe than advertised. Nobody has actually died, therefore nobody has been deprived of lif
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by db48x 9d ago
No, it really isn’t. Yes, the constitution promises life. But it does not promise a safe life, or a secure life, or even an unpoisoned life. Exposure to low levels of lead in drinking water will not kill anyone so the Constitution just does
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by db48x 9d ago
Our Constitution can evolve. This whole case is about an amendment to the Constitution! We don't evolve it by reinterpreting the text but by amending the text.
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by db48x 9d ago
While I agree with most of that, this judgement does not absolve the government of anything. As the judgement explicitly states, the plaintiffs do still have legal claims against their local government even though they do not have a Constit
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by db48x 9d ago
You literally just did.

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