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by rosser 7y ago
We get DMCA claims all the time — most often from our customers' own counsel. Even so, the explicit, as automated as can be policy is to pull the content, and let the lawyers sort it out amongst themselves. It is very much a joke, and
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by rosser 7y ago
Submitter, or a moderator, please edit the title to re-add the word "How". That's done automatically, but sometimes it's wrong. It's especially so here. Also, this remains as fantastic an article on PostgreSQL'
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by rosser 7y ago
So do I. I learned a long damned time ago how counterproductive it usually was to butt into conversations to, "Well, actually..." at people.
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by rosser 7y ago
Oh, the jumping jacks thing was supposed to have been taken as an actual argument? Because my response to that was, "I wouldn't go there."
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by rosser 7y ago
You know what, dude? I really, really hope it is just an allegation. I want desperately for it not to be the case that Minsky got sucked into Epstein's shitty web. But the deposition we've seen so far is just that: the only one
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by rosser 7y ago
It's not that simple. There are plenty of places where the sets "things that are legal" and "things that are moral" don't intersect. Those are some of the most interesting, challenging questions we will face. E
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by rosser 7y ago
Really? You're going to make a moral comparison between a minor traffic violation (not even a primary offense!) and having sex with a coerced child ?
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by rosser 7y ago
I find the volume of the noise being made over whether or not the "entirely willing" bit was quoted out of context by the media for sensationalist purposes — which it 100% was — quite curious. To me, the place Stallman screwed up
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by rosser 7y ago
Please remember that Purdue were the ones who marketed Oxycontin on the premise of one dose for 12-hour pain relief. When they learned doctors were prescribing it for eight hours, they tried to "re-train" them to use the "pro
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by rosser 7y ago
Fine, since people seem to feel the need to read whatever shallow interpretation of my point they want, let me be "See Spot run. Run, Spot, run." clear: I'm talking about not going all aspy-monologue, "well, actually ..
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by rosser 7y ago
I have personally spoken with three women who have stated that they will not attend conferences where rms is also attending, or speaking, specifically because he won't leave them alone (by which I mean "keeps coming onto them&qu
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by rosser 7y ago
Did I really need to explicitly, preemptively disclaim that the approach I was describing is more appropriate to daily life type interpersonal stuff, than it is to fucking Nazis ?
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by rosser 7y ago
I think the very fact that so many of us look at talking with people as something that can be "won" is the preponderance of the problem. It doesn't have to be a competition. Speaking as someone who has learned this the hard
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by rosser 7y ago
I'm very glad to see Stallman can learn to appreciate the nuance of these questions and acknowledge that he had previously thought incorrectly, but the subject of this thread, and the subject of The Fine Article remain cases where he j
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by rosser 7y ago
O...kay? So, how about all of the not -California parts of the US that have the same kinds of problems (which is, last I checked, more or less "all of them")? Because, the thing is, only one of my examples was, you know, from Ca
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by rosser 7y ago
The trope that wait times are materially worse in single-payer systems is precisely that: a trope. You do not have to dig hard to find examples of wait-times measured in months to get diagnostic procedures scheduled, and where I live —
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by rosser 7y ago
You might be having trouble wrapping your head around the thing, because the thing you're trying to wrap your head around is completely different from what I said. To be clear, then: I did not downvote your experience. (I'm no
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by rosser 7y ago
Okay, then. Why is "disparaging" such a terrible word to have picked? Let's start there, and we'll our way 'round to logical "downward spirals"...
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by rosser 7y ago
So the part where I actually agree with many of the concerns about the man and his administration is ... what? Noise? Doesn't matter, because I didn't use the "right" word? Real talk: we haven't even begun unpacki
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by rosser 7y ago
To be clear, I downvoted both your and your parent's comments, not for saying disparaging things about Obama, his record, his hawkishness (many of which criticisms I quite eagree with), or anything otherwise negative about him , but r
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by rosser 7y ago
If you're referring to Brexit, I don't think it's meaningfully comparable. A significant enough fraction of people were deluded into voting for it or did so on a lark, legitimately believing it was never going to pass, that
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by rosser 7y ago
> So only those oppressed by brutal dictatorships deserve self determination? No, everyone deserves it. It's just that people not under brutal dictatorships observably more often already have it .
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by rosser 7y ago
Per another comment in another thread [0] it's not only not a ridiculous statement, but a little bit how things actually work , at least in the US. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20915781
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by rosser 7y ago
I'm well aware of which questions I should be asking about this situation. They aren't those. Thanks for your time. I don't see further discussion going anywhere new.
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by rosser 7y ago
How about: 3. Normalization of people who commit transgressive acts. Once again, for the nosebleed seats: this whole argument is about how the Media Lab's taking Epstein's money, and welcoming him on the premises, conveys the me
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by rosser 7y ago
Please take some effort to improve your understanding of the notion of "social norms", how they're enforced, and how they evolve. I promise you, a person in a position of prestige or power openly, willingly associating with —
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by rosser 7y ago
> ...doesn't mean one condone the practice... Ohai, goalpost. I thought we were talking about normalizing things, not condoning them.
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by rosser 7y ago
There is precisely zero need for assumption here. The only way Epstein's behavior could have been more in the open is if he were advertising screenings of the "home movies" he made with these girls. When you continue to ass
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by rosser 7y ago
Disk IO is far from the only bottleneck, or necessarily even the most common one. Source: My day job has been as a DBA for ~15 years.
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by rosser 7y ago
(Aside: your comment was dead, probably because it spent a while just saying "Test post". I've vouched for it, but I have plans for the evening and will be stepping away, not having read your revision.)

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