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I like to look at inverses.

Give me an example of something that is moral and unethical, and example of something that is immoral and ethical. Once you do that, we can get to the real difference.

This misses the fact that Truth Social users fit a single exploitable demographic that's highly loyal to their in-group and susceptible to persuasion.

Yes, I got a call from them. They asked about a small project that I never worked on, but I knew someone who did.

No idea how they got my info, and couldn't get any answers from the sales rep who called me. It was very off putting.

Agreed. If there's any new holiday, it should be a voting holiday in November.

Not awkward at all. I'm sure the family was touched that you still thought about him after all those years.

I'm not a lawyer, but I imagine something like deceptive advertising regulations could serve as a starting point.

Yes. The answer is a "config.d" directory, this has been known to linux package managers for a long time. It is the only way for multiple packages to contribute to configuration without fighting over ownership of the one true config file.

Okay, if someone cannot be "rehabilitated" where is the value to society or to that person in punishing them to make them suffer more on top of separating them from the public?

To me, that is like printing out an document and scanning it later to send to someone. It happened a lot in the early days of email.

Why should prisons be about punishment rather than rehabilitation?

Are there any channels that do this type of analysis for software failures?

And what are your thoughts on police body cams?

Maybe Disney and the record labels shouldn't be claiming so much of public culture as their own.

You might be right, and thank you for doing that.

I remember hearing that the number of software engineers doubles every 5 years, meaning that most software engineers will always have less than 5 years of experience. I think it was Bob Martin.

The alternative is that software engineers are resolved of responsibility for only following orders.

Also, I don't understand why so many software engineers are willing to write code that is clearly adverse to users so their managers can get their performance bonuses. What's the upside? Narrowly escape the next round of layoffs so you can do it all over again?

The tech companies are not our friends any more than they are the users friends, they collude against us and treat us as disposable. This will continue as long as engineers do not take a stand.

What is the fix are are you referring to?

Ukraine made me rethink some of my Iraq and Afghanistan era views, only to have the GOP change stance without reason. Where I thought there was actually room for coming to a common understanding, even that had become divisive. Meanwhile everyone on the right and left has lost any semblance of nuance on isreal-gaza.

The polarization we've seen over the last 20 years is only getting worse, and will be fueled be worsening global economics. It's hard to see what will reverse this trend short of a world war.

But Apple sure did market iMusic as a legitimate replacement for owned physical media while never mentioning the the fact you don't own it and it may disappear at any time. That fact is only mentioned buried somewhere in the EULA, and only popularized by people like the EFF and the victims.

The vast majority of combatants are male, so women and children are typically viewed as non-combatants by default.

But if I walk into a franchise restaurant with a camera recording, they'll kick me out while happily recording and selling data with their own cameras.

The thing that stands out to me is the described proof of BQP-completeness where they say they prove any quantum system can be similarities as balls and springs, but later they say you may need an exponential number of springs for a classical simulation. That sounds like the BQP reduction would be exponential, guess I'll have to read the paper to see what I'm missing.

Link to the shirt?

Posting just a link is lazy. Give us some context if you want to convey real meaning.

The ways we have to deal with corruption are often insufficient.

I had that thought too, but that case involved Google reimplementing a published API. This case is about using an unpublished API.

Is this related at all to "Assembly Theory" that was discussed recently?

An open question also means people are more likely to check back for an update. Once the question is closed, there's less value for further reporting.

And here we are in 2023, you can be a contract food courier for the Uber cartel.

I heard somewhere it was common practice to reuse tablets. It was easier to scrape the surface clean than to make a new tablet.

You'd save any tablets you have, and might wait until you need it to scrape it clean.

In Mesopotamia there was a period where it was fashionable to use a more rare softer red clay on top of the white clay. Your stylus would cut through the top layer leaving nice white letters on a red background. It made it easier to scrape clean and reuse, but much less durable over time.

No, you think I said that "a person who doesn't want the job is best for the job."

(Not want) implies (Qualified)

What I said was "there is a best qualified person for the job, and that person does not want it."

(Qualified) implies (Not Want)

Presumably, because they understand what the job entails and have better things to do.