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by possibility 10y ago
Ha! "Term of art" is another good one.
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by possibility 10y ago
There are obviously evil characters, obviously good characters, and ambiguous characters. Mostly ambiguous.
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by possibility 10y ago
But before you do that, try pulling out functions.
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by possibility 10y ago
I think the claim is that demanding what is rightfully yours is greedy and selfish. I don't know whether I agree in this case (probably not), but there have been cases in my life where I do agree.
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by possibility 10y ago
That is what I learned from the censorship of the officer's statement.
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by possibility 10y ago
Why would I take the money? Because I've seen someone sue and win a lawsuit and I just wouldn't want to go through the stress of it. Even if I thought I was right and could win. Everyone has their price, maybe Jeremy would have
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by possibility 10y ago
And similarly I don't think YC would offer $4.5M if they knew they were (completely) in the right.
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by possibility 10y ago
This is trivial, but my favorite part of your post is the use of "a writing" as an expression.
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by possibility 10y ago
> After hearing the announcement, Guillory contacted Vogt to inquire about his share of the proceeds from the sale of Cruise to GM. Vogt responded that he was due nothing, but first offered $100,000, then $1 million, and then $1.5 millio
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by possibility 10y ago
I think "people from place" constitutes an ethnicity, but I'll concede that this isn't a common mindset.
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by possibility 10y ago
The irony is that the inhabitants of the "San Francisco Castro neighborhood" also form an ethnic group by virtue of living in the same place. Notably, it's a gay neighborhood. Takeaway? Gangs rob stores in gay villages. O
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by possibility 10y ago
Hmmm. How about "any thoughtful reader"? Works for me.
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by possibility 10y ago
I agree with you, but I'm going to quibble over: > any reader who doesn't already have racial prejudices because I don't believe these people exist.
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by possibility 10y ago
The only machine around here that I could totally walk into is an S/390, but oddly enough I don't have the key to its bedroom.
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by possibility 10y ago
Sam owns YC, YC owns HN, what does it matter? The whole purpose of HN is to make Sam (and the other partners, and investors, and YC startups) money. Mindshare is incredibly valuable. It's advertising that doesn't totally suck.
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by possibility 10y ago
On reflection, perhaps this pointless diversion yields the following maxim: You can walk into a house through an open door, but you can't walk into a computer.
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by possibility 10y ago
Oh, I was literally just arguing the other side about going through an open window because I didn't know for sure if it was burglary. (Common law says no, but that's probably updated, but maybe not in some places, but I didn&#x27
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by possibility 10y ago
Yes, but that's using force to open the door, which was in my original claim about no force on an open window. Reading that WP article again, turns out I was just considering the common law part. It later says: > The common law def
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by possibility 10y ago
Well, I didn't know, so I looked it up before posting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary > Although rarely listed as an element, the common law required that "entry occur as a consequence of the brea
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by possibility 10y ago
Picking the locks is breaking and entering, going through an open window is illegal trespass, assuming you don't have to move any parts of the window. At least where I live. It depends on whether or not you have to use even the sligh
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by possibility 10y ago
Bipolar depression rapidly gives way to mania if you try to treat it like unipolar depression with standard antidepressants. The chances of this happening are greatly increased if you've never been diagnosed as bipolar. It happened t
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by possibility 10y ago
Tying your two examples together, the GPL version of free/libre is way more complex than the simple BSD version.
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by possibility 10y ago
I think maybe you made a mistake, because the exchange reads like this: A: Knives are for eating. B: Eating is only a part of it. Knives are for handling food. A: You can handle food with a fork. Your claim is false. Specifically, "m
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by possibility 10y ago
I think that posting the pictures online like that is actually what's creepy. The matching almost has nothing to do with it. For instance, if he just had the subway photos, or he just had the profile pictures, it would give me a cree
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by possibility 10y ago
You can hire lawyers on a contingency basis, which means they don't get paid unless they win. Typically they want half of the settlement money. $7 million dollars is still a lot, and it could be more if there are damages. I know some