elcaminocomplex

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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Judges have minimal training in the procedures of the court. Some are attorneys which gives them more familiarity with law and process, but as far as I know that’s not a requirement. The jury selection process has nothing to do with qualifi
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
> The point is pharmacists have 0 legal training. Sounds a lot like 1/12th of a jury.
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Discussed at length yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665984
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
I remember this very well. I was living close enough to the commotion to hear whatever it was that was getting set off (smoke bombs?) in an attempt to disrupt the protests at night. I recall pulling off the highway only to see an army Jeep
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
To be reunited with the woman I married who had a mental health crisis and divorced me in the throes of it. She could have ended up dead or homeless but somehow managed to stay safe enough that when police intervened and called her family s
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
The great thing about CoC is that they tend to be self-reinforcing, keeping out exactly the people who are bound to conduct themselves in ways that are inconsistent with the principles behind them.
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
> The GPL does not on its own have the power to "infect" the rest of your codebase. The reason some people specifically want to avoid enhancing GPLed software is because they want to be able to modify software without the condi
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Specifically in what way are proprietary licenses deadly? Lock-in can certainly be problematic but with more open interchange formats that’s becoming less of an issue. Saying proprietary licenses are deadly without explanation seems more li
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
> This is going to hurt Google Possibly. > in the public eye I seriously doubt that. People are busy and have a lot of things to be concerned about. The general perception of SV employees doesn't seem to be very favorable from w
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
> It seems odd that you don't dispute that companies change, yet seem to dislike people trying to make a company change. I don’t “dislike” people trying to make a company change. There are ways to change companies from within, discr
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
> Google created a culture and set of values and recruited based on that. Company culture changes. Companies change. The fact that you were told one thing or a company had a particular reputation when you joined doesn’t mean that thing w
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Fr-coq.ogg
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Translating: "People with little experience have ill-formed opinions and thus when you point out the holes in their arguments they cave, whereas experienced people have well-formed opinions which makes it difficult for you when you hav
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Younger people don't have fewer opinions from my own experience. They often have plenty of opinions, and with that comes less experience to back them up. As I've gotten older I've become far less likely to express opinions un
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
I feel the same way about Bloomberg, and am consistently surprised by the number of Bloomberg links posted here on HN because clicking through any of them results in “Sorry, but you read your free article, time to pay up!” Forbes is also ef
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
TLA+ and similar tools are certainly interesting but hardly something I could recommend as an early step to take for someone wanting to learn more about CS. If you want to prove protocols correct, sure, but for someone wanting to move from
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
Can you cite any references about this? I don’t recall anything like this at all unless perhaps it’s specific to FENV_ACCESS and non-default rounding modes.
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
This same author posts almost daily click-baity hit-pieces about Apple on Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/#2805a79a1089
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by elcaminocomplex 7y ago
It’s clear that you disagree with the judge’s decision here, but it’s not clear what specific ideology you think influenced the decision.