hsitz

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by hsitz 5y ago
Not really. I'm a lawyer so I have a decent grasp of this stuff. Mens rea is closely tied to intent, not really to whether it had anything to do with intending to break a law (ignorance of the law is generally not a defense). Think
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes, we've got to make sure we're talking about the same thing here. In general, we don't morally censure a person who does bad things with good intentions. For example, in criminal law there is usually a requirement of ill
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by hsitz 5y ago
Well, I would say that if you want to accuse them of misconduct then the main thing would be to ascertain intentions. Certainly, if there is no bad intention on the part of the actor, then it makes no sense to accuse them of misconduct. S
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes, of course, I agree. And it doesn't invalidate my point at all. I would say that you're pointing out the problem that people don't understand how important it is to avoid conflicts of interest, and that we need systems
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by hsitz 5y ago
> It's kind of a throwaway passage in the article but it feels like a crucial point. Maybe I'm wrong but "buying off" to me strongly suggests something along the lines of a bribe. We're going to give you this cas
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yep, Vim is the first thing to come to mind. I'm not sure there's any program with better undo-ability. I also am not quite sure what the post above means by "GUIs support undo". Yes, most apps,e g., on Windows, suppor
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by hsitz 5y ago
Or, since he says "pre-teen", it could just be that his parents sent him to a programming class at a local community college when he was twelve years old. That's the sense I get, actually. The number of people who start act
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by hsitz 5y ago
"I've been programming for a long, long time. Went to college for it when I was a pre-teen." Yet you don't tell us how old you are, so it's hard to get a grasp for how long you've been programming. As someone
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes. And that "only second to VB" must be in reference to sales. Delphi was way more advanced and usable than VB, from a technical point of view.
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes, you are correct. The people who say the "piano" comment was meant just as an observation, not as criticism are wrong. They're ignoring that this was made as an "observation" specifically about free software,
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes. Also, for a person with the requisite piano tuning/repair skills, a free piano can be a great thing. And this person can identify which free pianos are great things and which are likely to be unsalvageable. For someone who has n
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by hsitz 5y ago
The 9/11 attacks killed less than 3,000 people. Or if you want percentages, resulted in the deaths of about 0.0009% of the U.S. populace. Yet it sent our country to war and has had an impact on millions of people. It is in the very
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by hsitz 5y ago
??? In what economy do most people not have to pay just to live somewhere?
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by hsitz 5y ago
Yes, exactly. I would add, though, that the "Wuhan lab leak theory", in many people's minds, seems to be combined with a suspected intentional act by the Chinese government, to unleash a dangerous virus on the rest of the wo
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by hsitz 5y ago
Not following. The inspector is generally out of the picture after the inspection, however it goes. If they identify problems, specialized contractors (e.g., plumber, electrician, carpenter) will be contacted to get more detail on the pro
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by hsitz 5y ago
> "General rule of thumb: rent if strongly believe you'll be in a place for less than three years, and consider buying if staying longer." This is a valid rule of thumb only because transaction costs are generally much hig
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by hsitz 6y ago
Besides the idea that finance (i.e., ROI) is relevant at all to the decision to read a book, this doesn't even work as an ROI analogy. You're comparing the investment by one person (the person who writes the work) with the "
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by hsitz 6y ago
Note that the source you're using for California lists 'large hydro' as around 15%, but doesn't count it as a "renewable". Texas, by contrast, has close to zero 'large hydro'. It's not clear to
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by hsitz 6y ago
Jazz musician/educator Dave Frank did a Chick Corea "Masterclass" video in honor of Chick, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8V7iTWuzY A lot of it is technical, won't be compreh
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by hsitz 6y ago
> . . .also saves power consumption, time, and frustration for folks on M1 MacBook Pros. Did you mean to say ". . . for folks /not/ on M1 Macbook Pros"?
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by hsitz 6y ago
> What the best thing about Pascal (and its successor Delphi) was the blazing fast compilation time and I am not sure that freePascal has that. I'm not sure how FreePascal compares to Delphi in compilation speed, but I expect both a
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by hsitz 6y ago
I understand that. My Linux machine is a 2015 Asus UX305 laptop. Suspend/resume works under Ubuntu's desktop, but I use i3wm, which requires the user to enable features like that themselves. I never did get auto-suspend to work
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by hsitz 6y ago
I think that "extra" claim is actually false and misleading, if you read the Factcheck.org article I linked in my response to same post.
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by hsitz 6y ago
I'm not sure what post you're responding to said, but I do believe federal Medicare reimbursement is higher for covid-19 care than for similar care that doesn't involve covid-19. It seems there is an additional 20% payment
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by hsitz 6y ago
I'm not sure how. iPhone was available in June 2007. Android went into public beta in November 2007, and reached 1.0 and was first released in a commercial device in September 2008. [1] I guess Android, or what morphed into Android,
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by hsitz 6y ago
I've had same desire for a lightweight, fanless laptop for many years, also had (and still have and use) an Asus ux305, which I used for Linux development. My main use machine now and for last couple years has been a Google Pixelbook.
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by hsitz 6y ago
> When iPhone came out in 2007, Android was still an OS for BlackBerry like devices. When iPhone came out in 2007, Android did not even exist. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
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by hsitz 6y ago
Along with Evil, Emacs org-mode is the thing that eventually lures a number of people like you over from Vim. Evil makes editing in Emacs close enough (very close) to editing in Vim. Org-mode gives useful functionality that you can't
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by hsitz 6y ago
You should be able to see that Covid-19 is in fact a disease listed in the table on the wikipedia page you reference. You should also be able to see that the percentage required for herd immunity effect to begin (the 'herd immunity th
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by hsitz 6y ago
Thanks, yes, I would agree that a midi recording and a score to a large extent encode different types of information. The score has less of some of the kinds of information that are in fact present in midi. And the midi, of course, doesn&#

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