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by throwaway373438 6y ago
They are suggesting lobbying to change the law, rather than struggling with current law in court.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Whenever discussing the US flag code it's important to mention that the statute is unconstitutional as determined in United States v. Eichman. What the flag code says about clothing is as irrelevant as any other hot take on the issue.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Why would you care about per-journey statistics? Surely all that's demonstrating is that cars are often used for very brief, non-highway travel. When the question is of how to travel between cities or states, why do you find the relati
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Others have commented that many of these are general shell or terminal quoting problems. Something that stood out for me is that the author did not mention ^V, which is very useful in quoting metacharacters. Take the tab example: The author
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
The answer to #4 is probably that the goal isn't to always have ice cream. The goal is to run a profitable business. Doubling the cost of the ice cream infrastructure to avoid a 25% downtime may not be a profitable venture -- especiall
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Ah, I see your point. Here's the catch: Large buffer sizes only increase efficiency for sequential reads. mmap() is still much faster for random access within a file. Doubly so, because we need to not just read() but also lseek() for e
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Yes, the overhead is per-syscall. The number of read() syscalls shrinks as the per-call buffer grows. With mmap() of course we only ever have one syscall to create the initial mapping. Everything else is a memory read. We can get read() dow
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Kind of. The real problem is that E2E means losing all server-side videoconferencing features - very few people actually want E2E. It's not an add-on feature. The ramifications are a completely different way of shuttling the data betwe
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Well, we generally do not prohibit abusive speech. What's prohibited is targeting people with speech who do not wish to participate (or who cannot, statutorily). Plenty of adults freely choose to engage in abusive relationships with on
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
I don't think the person you're replying to is being dishonest. You've simply listed reasons as to why this content isn't acceptable. Of course there are often reasons why content and beliefs might be rejected by mains
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Program identifiers use exact matches. The analogy works fine understanding this context. It's possible to extend any analogy in a way that doesn't make sense, which is what you've done. It seems like your complaint may be th
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
It sounds like the original analogy is apt, and your followup analogy isn't.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
What does "1 inch narrower" mean to you, in the context of this analogy? Are you suggesting the interfaces have different names? Different sized arguments? None of those things would work. Besides, creating minor differences do no
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
And this is why Google had to copy the interface -- otherwise their runtime would not operate with other existing products. As you can see given your example, the analogy is a perfect fit. Your argument that the copying is once-removed is u
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
The car's width is absolutely its interface with respect to roadway interoperability. We aren't talking about user interfaces here. This lawsuit does not involve UX. We are talking about interfaces between functional components. T
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Home depot will rent you a pickup for an hour for $20. And you can drive it to pick up at stores that aren't Home Depot. There's also the idea of making friends with someone who has a larger vehicle. Minivans work almost just as w
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Requiring employers to fund PPE purchases seems like a reasonable answer to this problem. $10/day/employee is a modest cost of doing business when compared with other labor expenses. We have made other mandated changes which have
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
It seems crazy we don't have cameras recording at all times on airplanes. Even cars have dashcams.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
The model used by https://lobste.rs/about#invitations seems to work well. Create a graph.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
"But the full-time drivers are the one stakeholder class that created much of Uber's value" This is not a true statement. Uber is not worth $55b because they have performed a lot of driving work. Uber is worth $55b because th
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
You may want to re-evaluate your opinion. The "tracking microchip" conspiracies mostly stem from tracking chips (dumb RFID) used to tag wildlife. These people don't know how the technology works, but they do know that we tag
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
It's already 54% for folks with a 7 figure income deriving their income from short term investments (say, stock options). This is almost always the case in tech. 37% federal 13.3% state 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax 54.1% total, befor
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
" you need a complete lack of labor rights." What on earth does a lack of labor rights have to do with capitalism? Labor can be -- and often is -- unprotected in all economic structures. A laborer in a communist state has historic
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
"If you manage to find a vulnerability in this system, I don't think I even mind, " Taking a quick photo doesn't illuminate the LED for long enough for a human to reliably notice. "because you've also broken ph
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
It's often hard to find anyone of any characteristic for many projects so it shouldn't be surprising that it's also hard to find people of a specific sub-group.
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
I agree that a business folding is a bad outcome. I think the goal is to have the business not fold at all, paying back the investment. Open question how many businesses will ultimately fold or survive -- no way to know yet, right?
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
It's true that bad debt isn't paid back, but in a bankruptcy the investors are wiped out so it would be disingenuous to frame those monies as "corporate bailouts." The funds will have gone to sustaining the business and
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
A debt purchase and unemployment are very different things. Unemployment is money given away to another. It's a permanent giveaway. A debt purchase is either money that was given to you, that you're now returning (Treasury securit
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
That's more or less correct. The relevant Kconfig is: if MACINTOSH_DRIVERS config ADB bool "Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) support" depends on MAC || (PPC_PMAC && PPC32) help Apple De
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by throwaway373438 6y ago
Every language in this category will have bindings to domain specific high performance modules. This is part of why performance doesn't matter all that much - we can always push hot operations into another language. Perl generally outp

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