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Is the transcript of the original court case available online somewhere? The oldest thing I'm seeing is

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-... ,

which is (I think...) the decision of the state supreme court on the appeal. There are several points where it seems like there is some dispute about what exactly the evidence is tying Williams to the murder, and where the original trial transcript might help clarify things.

So I guess I got that idea from this podcast:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...

which is entitled "Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate)".

In their list of the six policies, number 3 is: "Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people."

They surveyed a panel of five economists that (allegedly) span the political spectrum. And they all agreed, and said that most economists agree with, this policy.

So I'd be curious to hear what evidence you have for the claim that "many more think the opposite".

Don't most economists think that corporate profits should not be taxed? (When all else is held equal.) By that argument, the real problem is taxation of the profits of for-profit corporations...

I love SICP, but I will say this: there's a certain class of "great" textbooks that sometimes get recommended by experts, that aren't actually that great for someone learning something for the first time. They get the reputation as being "great" because they are great for people that already have a good basic grasp of the material: They are precise and pithy, and they contain insights that are deep and useful, but hard to appreciate if this is your first encounter with the material. (Kleppner & Kolenkow would be a good example of a freshman physics textbook in this category.) With all due respect, I would put SICP in this category. Which, of course, is a noble and important category, but maybe not the most important category if you're just starting out on a topic.

Modern versions of macOS also include the "Silom" Thai-language font, which uses Chicago for its Latin glyphs.

So can anyone help me understand why RedHat/Fedora has a containerized solution for desktop apps (flatpak), but nothing like that for CLI apps? It seems... odd.

Your original claim was that "slavery" means forced work without compensation, whereas "involuntary servitude" means forced work with or without compensation. Your citation doesn't justify this claim. It not just that there's a distinction, it's the nature of the distinction that I'm disputing.

> If I see forced unpaid laborers, I'm entirely comfortable deeming them slaves.

Yeah, you're comfortable with it because you've redefined "slavery" to mean whatever you want it to mean. But if you did a survey of native English speakers, and asked them if unpaid workers on a chain gang were slaves, how many do you think would say "yes", without qualification? I would be shocked if the answer were more than 20%.

> No. The distinction between the two is that involuntary servitude covers being forced to work while being paid or otherwise compensated; a slave, in contrast, doesn't get paid.

Do you have a citation for this claim?

> > If one was with a child, and the child saw a chain gang working, and the child asked "Are they slaves?", no sane person would say "yes" and leave it at that.

> Correct, because at a glance, you don't know if it's forced labor. Some states do voluntary work gangs; in some scenarios it's even considered a perk.

What if the adult in the scenario happens to know that the prisoners are not being paid? Then you think the correct answer to the child's question is "Yes, those are slaves"? With no further qualification necessary?

Because it pisses me off when people try to 'argue' by stretching the commonly-understood meanings of emotionally-charged words like "slavery". Argue the merits, don't attempt cheap rhetorical legerdemain.

See my response above. When people talk about slavery in the US, they mean chattel slavery. Forced prison labor is clearly not chattel slavery. To pretend otherwise is to be either silly or disingenuous, or both.

Forced prison labor is very clearly not chattel slavery. And chattel slavery is what 99.9% of people mean when they talk about slavery in the US.

And I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but it seems to me that "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" qualifies "involuntary servitude", not "slavery". And in any case, lawyers like to err on the side of ruling out any possible misinterpretation, no matter how ridiculous.

If one was with a child, and the child saw a chain gang working, and the child asked "Are they slaves?", no sane person would say "yes" and leave it at that. You're being either daft or disingenuous, or both.

Forced labor in prison is not "slavery", as that term is generally understood. It may be bad, and that labor benefiting private companies may be worse, but that doesn't mean it's "slavery". Also, people duly convicted of crimes lose many of their civil rights. This is not new, and there's nothing wrong with it per se. (It happens in every country.) Seriously people, you're not being clever or radical. You're just being foolish and/or dishonest. People who are against forced prison labor are trying to convince other people that it's "slavery" because they want to get rid of it (or pare it back, or stop private companies from benefiting from it, or whatever). It is very much an Orwellian tactic.

So I have Amazon Prime. If I bought a movie on Amazon Prime Video a year ago (one of the ones you have to pay a one-time fee to "buy"), and I go to watch it now, I'll see ads unless I shell out an extra 3 $/mo for Amazon Prime ad-free? Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Can someone who has watched the keynote tell me what this device is for?

I'm sure they've considered it, but have they considered it enough? I dunno, the back-and-forth over the extinction status of the ivory-billed woodpecker gave me pause about this sort of thing. It was considered extinct for many years, then was declared not-extinct based on a single video of a single bird flying away from the observer at a fair distance through the trees. (Or at least that was the only 'hard' evidence. There were also testimonials from expert ornithologists that they had seen it, and/or heard its call.) All of this made me think that the standard of evidence for these things is not all that high.

You don't need spikes to have computation. Deep networks don't have spikes.

Well, the 'canonical' action potential is mediated by sodium currents, so it's maybe not surprising that people concluded that C elegans don't have APs given that a) they don't have any genes for voltage-gated sodium channels, and b) when people had recorded from C elegans neurons (it's hard but not impossible), they had never seen action potentials. (So it's not like no one had looked, and then had concluded that they don't exist. They looked and didn't see them.) In the paper that originally reported APs in C elegans (Liu et al 2018), they were looking in a specific neuron (AWA), and they had to elicit a 'plateau potential' by depolarizing the cell for a while before the spikes were revealed, riding on top of the plateau.

The APs discovered by Liu et al (2018) are generated by calcium, not sodium currents, so one could even argue that they aren't action potentials in the strict sense. Also, they seem to be rather difficult to elicit, and it's still not clear whether neural computation in C elegans is mostly AP-mediated, or if APs are the exception rather than the rule.

Liu, Q., Kidd, P. B., Dobosiewicz, M. & Bargmann, C. I. C. elegans AWA olfactory neurons fire calcium-mediated all-or-none action potentials. Cell 175, 57–70 e17 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.018

This has not been my experience with Kubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. I have occasionally (like maybe once every six months?) had an issue that seemed likely to be Plasma-related, and was fixed by a reboot. And there was an issue with Plasma Search where if I let it search "Recent Files", it would hang the whole UI if I did a search that (I guess) was a match for some recent files. (Worked around that by unchecking "Recent files" in the list of things that Plasma Search searches...) So I mean not 100% issue-free, but nothing like what you describe. And certainly compares quite favorably to other Linux DEs I've tried (Gnome, Mate, XFCE, LXQt).

Seriously, just use KDE Plasma. Sure, it's not 'minimal', but on modern hardware it sings. It just works. It's a batteries-included desktop. It's built on a toolkit that people actually like using (Qt) and they don't change it constantly in backwards-incompatible ways just because the mood strikes them. It doesn't treat you like an infant with ADHD. They don't constantly fix things that aren't broken. Plus if you have a problem you have a decent chance of finding the solution via Google, unlike with a lot of the 'long tail' WMs/DEs people have mentioned.

I can't find it now, but I read somewhere that CalMaine had managed to mostly escape getting avian flu in its own birds. So it would make sense that their profits would dramatically increase if the price of eggs goes way up b/c of bird flu, but they can still sell the same number of eggs b/c their birds are not sick/dead. That explanation wouldn't require collusion, just normal supply and demand in a competitive market. (Cold comfort if you're poor and can't afford eggs anymore, though.) You could argue it's price-gouging, but, well, they're a public for-profit company. They're pretty much required by their shareholders to price-gouge when they can do so legally.

And of course it could be some of this (legal), but also some amount of collusion to fix prices (likely illegal).

If you want some salient imagery, take a look at the first image on the Wikipedia page for "Subsidence":

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

"Software subsidence"? "Digital subsidence"? The problem is that over time, the foundations upon which software is built decay, or need to be replaced...

Gnome keeps making big changes that hurt users and app developers, at least in the short term. (Presumably in pursuit of the Gnome developers' vision.) If you do that often enough, users and app developers find themselves basically in a continual state of pain, always adapting to the latest change. But the Gnome developers either don't recognize this or don't care (or care more about other things), because they keep doing it. Thus: "My way or the highway".

I got tired of it, and the relentless dumbing-down of everything, and switched to KDE (in the form of Kubuntu). It's nice! And the developers seem to understand that it mostly works OK, and they don't need to force a UI paradigm shift on you (and their third-party app developers) every few years.

Can someone ELI5 what problem this solves? I think of WebAssembly as being a tool for getting code written in <random language> to run in a web client. Can't I already run code written in <random language> on a server that I control? Heck, PG went on at some length in one of his early essays about how that was one of the great things about the Web: you could use any language you wanted on the server. Even Common Lisp...

"a bunch of debt"? PhD students in STEM fields, at least in the US, can usually get a PhD without taking on additional debt. Also, many programs that don't offer a master's degree program will still let you graduate with a master's if you're a few years into a PhD program and decide to bail.

The trouble I have with the Mate desktop these days is that most of the GTK applications out there are moving or have moved to GTK 3, and generally take 'advantage' of various GTK3-isms in their user interface. So you're going along using the app and them you hit some button and are confronted with a UI element that looks completely out of place, and often isn't styled properly.

So I gave up on it and switched to KDE. It's not as beautiful as Gnome 2 was (IMHO), but it's not bad, and it's still a platform that people write apps for. (To the extent that any Linux-based platform is a platform that people write apps for.)

This seems very overstated to me. How many people are using Facebook b/c they couldn’t pursue their serious hobby on their tablet? Some negligible fraction of Facebook users. Further, if you want to pursue your serious hobby, get a real computer.

This. One million times this.

Maybe add an abstract? I read part of this, then started skimming, and eventually read the conclusion, but I’m still not sure what point(s) are being made.

Also, questions should end with a question mark, even if they’re rhetorical.

Not sure where you're writing from, but it's very common in the US. This article (https://www.thekitchn.com/why-you-should-almost-never-use-th...) quotes someone who works for an appliance store in Cincinnati who says it's difficult to sell an oven without that feature. And as others have said, every oven I have every owned (or that my parents owned when I was around and capable of forming memories) has been self-cleaning.

Maybe it sounds fancier than it is? Is not like it has a little robot that cleans the oven. It's just a mode where the oven can get the internal temperature very high (up to 1000 degrees F according to that article) that just incinerates any organic material stuck to the oven walls.