goodrubyist

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by goodrubyist 1mo ago
This assumes that people only (or at least) mostly depend on Amazon's search results' ordering to decide which products to buy. This is not true, at least not for everyone. I, e.g., visit review websites like Wirecutter to decide.
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
Wikipedia and a few other sites I saw say otherwise for the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service Wouldn't make much sense otherwise.
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
All of it, if it was presented for me to accept when signing up for this account. Don't remember explicitly. As I said to others, most of it is boilerplate, so you just learn to skim and see the stuff that's really different.
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
They're usually not that complicated. And most of them say usually almost the same things with some edits thrown here and there. E.g. compare the disclaimer of warranty/liability sections of two different EULAs. E.g. this kind of
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
I skim or read all the time, and so should people -- but ultimately they're adults and if they want to agree to them without reading, it's their choice (they shouldn't expect to later say they didn't read - this doesn&#x
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
I'm an average person and I read them all the time. It's not usually 400 pages long. More like 3-4 pages. If a person genuinely can't understand, they should not use the service. That's not sarcasm, I, myself, do not lik
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by goodrubyist 2mo ago
Agreeing to terms and contracts without reading or at least skimming them is not responsible adult behavior and should not be used as a model for legislation, no matter how many people do it. I agree that we do have a culture where private
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by goodrubyist 6mo ago
it's basically the American mindset vs the European one (or anyone not in the US?).
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by goodrubyist 8mo ago
He's very likely being defensive.
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by goodrubyist 9mo ago
I approve every command myself, and no, it's still much faster than doing it myself.
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by goodrubyist 1y ago
But I like the general fallacy behind this that people fall for all the time: taking the past value of a variable as a complete predictor of its future value (applies to other stuff like investment returns e.g.)
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by goodrubyist 2y ago
yes, it's the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy
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by goodrubyist 2y ago
If you're using a heuristic, it can be fine, but only if you also know that it's only a heuristic, instead of thinking that it's truth and lambasting anyone who suggests otherwise.
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by goodrubyist 2y ago
They really don't have any money.
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
Yes, and he is not a president.
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
*typo, I meant SSRN.
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
That's not the argument for textualism. You can read law review articles and papers on SSRI to find more.
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
You should really look into how judges interpret laws (rules, basically). There are two schools I know of: purposivism and textualism (I agree with the latter and it doesn't take into account intentions. That's the basis of how th
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
so many butts!
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
Were those startups that went out of business did so because of their stacks/architecture, or are you confusing correlation with causation? And, there is a good reason people shy away from PHP, and it has nothing to do with trying to b
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by goodrubyist 3y ago
Do you have any evidence that "Most people who word things that way don't use the term "males" in a similar way". I think it's highly likely that you do not have enough (anecdotal) data to legitimately make a c
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What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang on to Workers(nytimes.com)
4 points by goodrubyist 4y ago|1 comments
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by goodrubyist 4y ago
Trying to influence the racial make-up of a class is, let's admit it, loathsome racial engineering.
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by goodrubyist 4y ago
That's not how it works at least in the US, but I don't know about Germany. SCOTUS claims that the judicial system is not for reviewing all the acts passed for constitutionality, but (as per Article III) only addressing specific h
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
It’s AngularJS being killed, not Angular, which is the framework that’s current.
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
I, for one, love the people who would be proudly installing this because they have "nothing to hide" while chiding those who are (appropriately) concerned.
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
Yes it has been around, but it's quite jarring to see anyone actually use it.
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
I also think it's broken in the way you describe, but also find it amazing that it can remain broken for so long given the costs associated with it.
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
But, how are you qualified to make that determination (as in whether a person is decent enough to work with)? Isn't it likely that you either get a skewed impression of this from an interview or that you are biased yourself? The person
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by goodrubyist 5y ago
Exactly, this heuristic doesn't work all (or even most?) of the times. A more accurate approach is to rely on the terms you agree to when you buy/use software (if you don't want to read them, then you can depend on faulty sho

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