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jessant··on Did HAL Commit Murder?
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/Animal_trial

jessant··on Did HAL Commit Murder?
> 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 be asserted as a type of intervening cause, the lack of which would have avoided the cause or diminished the result of liability (e.g., but for the earthquake, the old, poorly constructed building would be standing). However, foreseeable results of unforeseeable causes may still raise liability. For example, a bolt of lightning strikes a ship carrying volatile compressed gas, resulting in the expected explosion. Liability may be found if the carrier did not use reasonable care to protect against sparks—regardless of their origins. Similarly, strict liability could defeat a defense for an act of God where the defendant has created the conditions under which any accident would result in harm. For example, a long-haul truck driver takes a shortcut on a back road and the load is lost when the road is destroyed in an unforeseen flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God

jessant··on Hacker News Classics (2018)
Arhives for those 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20170910220313/http://www.lhup.e...

https://web.archive.org/web/20121216101917/http://www.yorkto...

jessant··on The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
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://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/Legal_Sy...

Somali Customary Law

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...

See also Neutral Moresnet

https://mises.org/library/anarchy-aachen

jessant··on Linus: Don't Use ZFS
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.com/item?id=14909843

jessant··on Linus: Don't Use ZFS
Seems pretty reliable these days. Are you commenting based upon personal experience? If so, when was it that you used btrfs?
jessant··on Linus: Don't Use ZFS
Snapshots don't seem to be done yet.
jessant··on Linus: Don't Use ZFS
Does btrfs met your requirements?
jessant··on For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests
What about people who lose their jobs or don't get hired in the first place?
jessant··on How to Exit Vim
command W <nop>

cabbrev w <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'w')<CR>

cabbrev q <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'q')<CR>

cabbrev q! <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'q!')<CR>

cabbrev wq <c-r>=(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'wq')<CR>

jessant··on 13.3" full color ePaper display
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.
jessant··on AMD launches new entry-level mobile ‘Dali’ processors
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.
jessant··on AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue
Off topic, but Sony really needs to get better with naming their products.
jessant··on How to Exit Vim
command wq <nop> command w <nop> command q <nop>
jessant··on Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy
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.

jessant··on Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
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/buzzfeed-n...

jessant··on The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
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

jessant··on The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
What is considered sufficiently far future may change with life extension technology.
jessant··on For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.
jessant··on For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
Nothing stopping people from doing that.
jessant··on The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
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

jessant··on The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
Thank you personally for allowing corporations to exist.
jessant··on The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
Most people seem to prefer lower prices to higher quality. That is why airlines have responded that way.
jessant··on Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google Stadia Port Issues
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.

https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/2018/#fixed

jessant··on Cultural Context of “Death to America” Chants
Is this a counter argument?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

jessant··on Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into
It works as storage just like a traditional SSD. It does not work as a caching solution for memory.
jessant··on Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google Stadia Port Issues
Surprise me, how many people in the developed world don't even have access to this?
jessant··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
I think there are some similarities because libinput can be used on X as well as with Wayland.
jessant··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
Valve is working on using deep learning to catch cheaters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc

jessant··on 100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
Flouting laws is American tradition dating back to the British Navigation Acts. It is what the country was founded on.
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