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10,239karma·2,402submissions·April 5, 2019
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I was responding to your note that it is peaceful, not that is or is not a riot. A gathering where someone dies because of the gathering it is no longer undisturbed by strife, turmoil, calm, and tr…
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There are multiple documented cases where emergency vehicles are blocked by "blocking a highway" as a "peaceful protest" that resulted in deaths. e.g., London (2022) - Mark Heap a…
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> The USSC recently decided that if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent . I cannot seem to find any supporting text in the SCOTUS text that merely being silent…
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> if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent. This is not my reading. For those who want to read the actual details: https://supreme.justia.com/cases…
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Interestingly this is an axiom of digital forensics uses in reverse of sort. In court, digital forensics investigators can attest what was performed on the devices, timeline, details, and such. But, …
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that is how I interpret the word "portrait" too, and the etyomology of it matches. https://www.etymonline.com/word/portrait …
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That bug is huge! It always fascinates me to learn that we know so little about our world, yet we pretend we are so contemptuously arrogant. The more I learn, the more I understand I am just barely …
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> However, while women did take up medical roles, they could undoubtedly face animosity and suspicion as a result. > ... without hindrance or disturbance from those people who might regard her w…
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indeed! At a high level I see convergence of styles, topics, behaviors to a generic form, both in "AI" and social media. Which to me suggest that the "AI" solutions are doing exac…
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I have been using LibreOffice for craft both personal and scholarly documents. I do not miss the current Microsoft Office.
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This is net-negative in my opinion. The only saving counter to this is that we, the people can also use AI to read and digest the AI-generated legislations and respond using an AI.
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> Nobody is going through the significant work of raising VC and then TRYING to fail. Unfortunately there are individuals who do almost this. Their names do travel in the VC circles. Their goal…
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If any of you interested in more details on compression, and in use, take a look at " Bit-mapped graphics " by Steve Rimmer and " The data compression book " by Mark Nelson.…
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Well done! Mental note, a commercial laptop of similar specs should never cost more than $4,673.81.
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I must have read it incorrectly: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/200... > As these opinions confirm, a presidential pardon removes…
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Just to be clear, a pardon does not expunge or erase one's criminal record. > life in prison was too harsh, but a full pardon is too lenient. I think you should compare it as: life in prison…
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Historically, to me it comes from trademark. During my time "Unix" trademark was owned by AT&T Bell, USL, and then Novell. They really did not like it when others used "Unix"…
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Nice, another beek! I have had a hive where I had queens that lived quite fine together. Weirdest hive as one of them was a caucasia and the other a cordovan . Never did get stung with those ladi…
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can you elucidate on if this was un- or intended consequence, and "harmful market distortion"?
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in the mid 80's i ran into something similar. Fast is relative. I had a lot of data, 640KB RAM, 64KB of heap, and 64KB of stack. I had hundreds of megabytes that I had to search extract data f…