kylebyproxy

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by kylebyproxy 3y ago
> "It's private because we fear bad people" I wonder if the thought process even goes that far. Oftentimes, the motive seems more like self-conscious social pressures, e.g., fear of embarrassment.
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by kylebyproxy 3y ago
> applies to a member of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development who is carried in the womb with embryonic or fetal cardiac activity The text of the Georgia statute you cited only uses detectable human heartbeat as an exampl
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by kylebyproxy 3y ago
I think the point is that if the vehicle's software can't figure out how to cope with something as simple as a cone on its hood, it's woefully unprepared for real driving conditions and a liability to everyone
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by kylebyproxy 3y ago
> they are cheaper Time will tell, but I suspect it'll be economically unviable once the lawsuits start flowing
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by kylebyproxy 3y ago
I don't understand why this part isn't talked about more. Seems like an elephant in the room to me. Have most people just not encountered confusing road conditions? A couple weeks ago, I was in West Virginia bobbing up and down hi
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Don't take that for granted
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
The recognition of harmful speech. See e.g., German restrictions on Nazi symbolism.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
> YOU are an idiot, if you buy into racism Unfortunately, idiots can carry guns and have a propensity for acting on said racism. Refusal to confront that problem in the name of some free speech ideological purity is tempting history to r
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
I'm all for reading labels, but don't go around spreading misinfo. None of those are on the packaging[1]. [1]: https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
By the same token, bigger government allows more room for oversight and principled actors to dilute the effects of the unscrupulous ones. As others here have alluded to, our problem is quality, not quantity.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
You could just say "Generally don't run a red light"
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Yubikey in a lockbox?
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Once you've fired the first 80%, 80% of the work will get done by 20% of the remaining 20%, so it's safe to fire another 80%, and so forth. Ultimately, each company should employ exactly one engineer.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
I suspect there's some element of obedience or group belonging at play in ad consumption. Ads are so tightly-woven into the fabric of our world that any rejection of them elicits a feeling of rejection/separation/alienation f
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
So glad to see others calling-out the Permanent Apportionment Act. Maybe it made sense in a world without communications technology, but today we're able to scale to the numbers needed to support that ratio of representatives:constitue
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
> If the US was a low trust society due to it's gun ownership... I think you have the causality backward here > America is very high trust... We're as polarized as ever, virtually no one approves of our leadership, and every
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
> who gets to pick and choose? Generally, that's the role of a legislature. We could, for instance, exempt restaurants unable to afford renovations from that burden. Unfortunately, there are sticklers like you that would rather thos
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Adding a degree to uniqueness would describe the delta between it and its nearest relative. Hence, "very unique" would mean something closer to exceptional or "off-the-charts" and is a perfectly reasonable construction.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
The very notion of intentionally handicapping one's own vocabulary is just plain bizarre
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
_Electric_ sheep, even!
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
I'm just amazed ads work at all. Anytime I receive an ad I didn't explicitly request, I boycott that company. I'd have hoped enough likeminded people in the world would naturally defeat the ad sector, but evidently I'm a
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
I feel like this point gets overblown. Subscribing to an "invalidations" message queue seems pretty straightforward. What am I missing?
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Yes please. Can I have my touchpad buttons back already?
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
> forgetting some stuff running beyond the free-tier limit Weird, they banned my account for that. Tried AWS when it was brand new and assumed they'd just drop the instance when the free tier expired.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Maybe I'm crazy, but I remember when I was little red delicious were crisp and sweet and juicy and perfect in every way. Then over the years, they became more and more hit-or-miss, until they became the mealy, flavorless kind you'
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
Same, I lose my place every time moving from the bottom of a column to the top of the next.
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by kylebyproxy 4y ago
I always pictured FOSS funding coming from the NEA or perhaps a brand new endowment for technology
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
I've been thinking about it like we're located in some pocket of reality whose local conditions generate the nature we know and love, but outside of which might be unrecognizable. Whatever the Big Bang event was, I'm assuming
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
> darawk Nice word. Does it have a definition?
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
I appreciate the good faith engagement (cue side glare sigstoat), and I'm in agreement with everything but the use of "never" in the your closing sentence. > There was never room for any non-deterministic thing to magic it

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