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by jessant 7y ago
The Proescution and Punishment of Animals and Lifeless Things in the Middle Ages and Modern Times https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima
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by jessant 7y ago
> In legal usage throughout the English-speaking world, an act of God is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, for which no person can be held responsible. > In the law of torts, an act of God may b
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by jessant 7y ago
Arhives for those 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20170910220313/http://www.lhup.e... https://web.archive.org/web/20121216101917/http://www.yorkto...
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by jessant 7y ago
David Friedman (Milton Friedman's son), has written about how saga era Iceland could be considered libertarian. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/Iceland.html His piece on the Amish http:/&
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by jessant 7y ago
re Redhat deprecating btrfs: > People are making a bigger deal of this than it is. Since I left Red Hat in 2012 there hasn't been another engineer to pick up the work, and it is _a lot_ of work. https://news.ycombinator.c
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by jessant 7y ago
Seems pretty reliable these days. Are you commenting based upon personal experience? If so, when was it that you used btrfs?
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by jessant 7y ago
Snapshots don't seem to be done yet.
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by jessant 7y ago
Does btrfs met your requirements?
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by jessant 7y ago
What about people who lose their jobs or don't get hired in the first place?
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by jessant 7y ago
command W <nop> cabbrev w <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'w')<CR> cabbrev q <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : &#x
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by jessant 7y ago
Game Tools on Samsung devices have this feature. For apps that aren't games you need to add them in Game Launcher so the Game Tools button appears in those apps.
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by jessant 7y ago
At the low end, in Chromebooks, I think Arm processors are a better way to go. These days Chromebooks run Android apps and Android on x86 hasn't been great.
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by jessant 7y ago
Off topic, but Sony really needs to get better with naming their products.
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by jessant 7y ago
command wq <nop> command w <nop> command q <nop>
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by jessant 7y ago
That is what the author says in the next paragraph. > I don't know. I rather suspect that there's no way to actually reach that hypothetical universe.
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by jessant 7y ago
They published a report that alleged Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. Mueller had to break silence to issue a denial about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/business/media/buzz
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by jessant 7y ago
Judging by the paper[1], I would say any or all of Inria, Nanyang Technological University, and Temasek Laboratories. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf
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by jessant 7y ago
What is considered sufficiently far future may change with life extension technology.
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by jessant 7y ago
I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.
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by jessant 7y ago
Nothing stopping people from doing that.
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by jessant 7y ago
Do you know what Citizens United actually was about or allowed for? This video on campaign finance might surprise you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpy1uzOvrY
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by jessant 7y ago
Thank you personally for allowing corporations to exist.
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by jessant 7y ago
Most people seem to prefer lower prices to higher quality. That is why airlines have responded that way.
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by jessant 7y ago
To pick a state as an example, Iowa speed tests had a mean download speed of 71.39 Mbps in 2018. That is twice what Google says is the requirement for 4k Stadia. So even if prime time speeds are lower, there is still a healthy margin. http
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by jessant 7y ago
Is this a counter argument? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...
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by jessant 7y ago
It works as storage just like a traditional SSD. It does not work as a caching solution for memory.
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by jessant 7y ago
Surprise me, how many people in the developed world don't even have access to this?
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by jessant 7y ago
I think there are some similarities because libinput can be used on X as well as with Wayland.
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by jessant 7y ago
Valve is working on using deep learning to catch cheaters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc
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by jessant 7y ago
Flouting laws is American tradition dating back to the British Navigation Acts. It is what the country was founded on.

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