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Waterfall··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
Why? It's one of the only things that you can get in trouble for without even knowing it was there. You could have taken them yourself or your children, did, it's seen in your house and they assume it's yours, now you can have a big lawsuit. With the quality of cameras and common usage of them I see a huge problem looming. It's used to plant investigations on innocent people. It's turned innocent people into jobless hated people for something they didn't do or simply were accused of.

I don't think it is a black and white issue as much of a tool of entrapment. I am not pro possession of it, but the laws are clearly entrapping innocent people. Romeo and Juliet laws exist for underaged people, should a similar law exist if you make it yourself so you don't get labeled a sex offender for making a video of yourself?

During his time it was about not legislating everything. Dworkin who was anti pornography debated a conservative judge, who saw no difference of exploitation of children as of women. Here she debates a conservative judge on wanting to make it illegal. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zt8KVB8AunQ

Waterfall··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
What do you find him wrong about?
Waterfall··on I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
A lot of people don't understand your point about your business not being yours. You stated that they solely depended on apple, and that is the point. That is why many are multiplatform. The function of the apps are also different, you want enough functionality to be different but not to rule breaking, or a sandbox environment. Lots of games are multiplatform now, software may not be but they usually don't depend on one piece of software. They did not keep a web page, even though I'm almost sure they made it in HTML.

That is the point, they relied on one thing only too much. It seems a job of passion too.

Waterfall··on I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
Not only that, but apple depends on the 3rd party apps and makes tools just for them. Don't depends solely on apple is actionable.
Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
How can you remember something you forgot could be rephrased as how can you forget something if you remembered! My experience is the same, the dreams are like a story a kaleidoscope of things that happened and ideas rather than visual memories
Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
Are you interested in changing it? I don't know if there is a PM option here, but I had good success with using tACS for other reasons and it had the side effect of restoring my mental vision for a few things. I haven't used it in a while so it's possible that it is temporary.
Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
"laws are complex for the purpose of gaming them"

Would saying simpler laws that everyone can understand and obey be better? That was the thing I agreed with but my friend, doing tax tricks and making more money when unemployed, as well as lawyers who get people off serious crimes are adept at finding loopholes because law is confusing.

If you aren't smart you aren't going to get good legal advice you have to understand the implications. It is clear that is what happens in courts to many people. If there is a simple Wikipedia for people to use, why is there no simple laws for those who aren't lawyers to understand?

Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
It is mostly trusted. It is not perfect but most people have not been screwed by it, it it a zero sum game so sometimes they side with one more, usually the buyer. There are more buyers than sellers.
Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
Not him but maybe as a uni student he was driving a crappy car that had problems before, more bad things happen to people without reliable hardware.
Waterfall··on Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
This is the kind of comment I enjoy on here. Thank you for sharing your human experience. I am not sure when the idea of nature/nurture will be put to rest, I have accepted it but it also has very strange philosophical ideas, like the idea of how laws are made making assumptions about humans, but what if the humans are not knowledgeable or understand what they are doing, or have different values? We already have laws for disabled or other classes of humans, and also temporarily insane. This brings up very interesting points on how equality is not equal, how laws are complex for the purpose of gaming them by those of higher intelligence or memory of obscure facts.

Genetics has a lot to do with who we are, our race/looks, height, thoughts/intelligence even. Yet many cling to the idea that nurture can overcome nature. Our mtDNA and Y chromosome is the hardware our consciousness runs on. Just the way we are, not a strong or a weak thing you say, there are mutations in us, some are beneficial, some are good/bad, but I disagree, of course some are weak or objectively bad. Hotwheels from 8chan made a good post about how he doesn't like his existence and would support euthanasia for people like himself. I doubt anyone would want to be born with tay-sachs, and when you say not strong/weak you may be using a surviorship bias to say it, although most humans are on average quite healthy.

I was originally going to post how I had the opposite reaction to an event like this like you, a car crash when I lost control in the rain, thinking I was about to die. I didn't and I was mostly fine aside from some back pain from whiplash. I have aphatasia, do you happen to have it? I have a bad memory so I don't think people with it can get PTSD, so it is an adaptive mechanism, although I lose a lot of richness in thought I suppose I have been through really bad things with no problems, had a gun pointed at me, demanded my stuff, and I said no, he was confused and didn't really know what to do, I left. I didn't really think much of it but others thought it was crazy. No PTSD either.

Waterfall··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Revenue is not profit. I am not saying I believe them but it was in their earnings report. I think maybe it doesn't turn profit the same way that movies lose money.
Waterfall··on A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk
What is the Democratic country you're from? Didn't know they existed outside a few small tribes.
Waterfall··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
In their profit reports I am told that the 30% is not profit it just maintains the app store. I read that from some jailbreakers, they seemed legit since it was talking about how apple locks it down too much. It was in the earnings report, so they didn't have a reason to lie (I think). I wonder if they cook the numbers or something to lie about it.
Waterfall··on SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)
AMD has APUs.
Waterfall··on Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets
Do you really think everyone in the 50s was in stem, supported the space program, and innvoates? It's always a minority. They were bombing soldiers, us soldiers with nuclear weapons saying it was harmless to see the effects. Is it sad we don't do that anymore?

Just because you watch TV and have a bad Facebook feed doesn't make it America

Waterfall··on Why forgiving someone else is about you
I'm very happy to hear it! It helped me a lot too!
Waterfall··on Why forgiving someone else is about you
I think the letting go part they mention is important but letting go can be done in a different way. When you reframe the story, add a new chapter, one where the last battle you lost, but the new one you win. Holding onto toxic feelings is painful, you can either turn it into a good one (revenge), forgive (reframe), or forget (drug use and/or time). Most people forget unless it was really bad.
Waterfall··on Why forgiving someone else is about you
I never knew the term before! Thank you. I've heard it applied to love, for women it often means it willingness of others to sacrifice for them, and for men it's dedication, at least in heterosexual relationships in the West. I've found these expectations truthful in my life. Had no idea it was a class of words.
Waterfall··on Why forgiving someone else is about you
Let's say a man shot you. You don't want any petty revenge so you take no action and forgive. He now shoots you to death and the random occupant in your car. If only there was a way you could have signalled like a real life dislike button or a warning not to do it.
Waterfall··on Why forgiving someone else is about you
Yes. If you were stung by a wasp does it make you happy when you smack it to death and it never stings you again? Or do you forgive it as it continues to sting you and you gladly turn the other cheek to let it sting your other cheek too? Then when your facial cheeks are all stung, do you let it sting both your lower cheeks so when you sit down you can forgive them? Now the whole village is being stung by wasps and you taught everyone that revenge is not the right way and instead the village worships the wasps and builds more nests for them due to the ability to forgive. Do you honestly think revenge is useless?
Waterfall··on Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
How do they have no encryption in Australia and yet Google still have offices there? Seems very strange to me, don't even know how it works.
Waterfall··on Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
If only they could encrypt the links! Austria had them beat though, they outlawed it before this one two punch! Google is over!
Waterfall··on Reasonably priced color e-ink display
People are asking about using it as a monitor in the comments. Grocery stores can do wireless power but the comments are complaining about them being too big or small.

You can easily have a non backlit black and white display, like the one on an f91w or LCD clock.

Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
You can have it converged with Android and KDE connect already. These problems are absent from pine, so it's not the fact it's a Linux device it's incompetence that causes these issues.

If you want a Linux phone you can check the port status of postmarketOS or just get something like this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu_PRO_5_Ubuntu_Edition

None of the behind the scenes crap, no constant delays and no drama, with way better hardware for a cheaper price. If you want a server in your pocket the pine works for that but so does a cheap Android phone too.

Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
I'm having a hard time reading the last part. You lost your laptop? What made you disappointed?
Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
I would like to think that pine and purism had some effect on the mainlining, but project treble for Google had been thought of separately. I won't buy their hardware at this rate, but I hope they'll have a good mark on the Linux phone.
Waterfall··on Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
There's even a village of Jews that was intergrated into society. East Asia likes Jews for whatever reason, even Japan an axis power didn't give them up.
Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
It's been promising for years and under delivering. You could get all that with a cheapo phone that is given out free on prepaid.
Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
This project feels like how the Pandora project was. It was expensive for it's time, promised to do cool things and then was in suspended animation for years while the world changed. Snapdragons got mainlined. Phones got cheaper. Other Linux phones that worked completely came out. They should have delayed it and just put in a mainlined snapdragon processor.
Waterfall··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
This phone is an embarrassment. Petty mismanagement https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T... , subpar products, and breakdowns like this are nice, but you know what's better? Getting a working phone then getting the behind the scenes look rather than 2 unfinished products. It has none of the charm of the n900, at least pinephone is much cheaper, although I don't see a point to a Linux phone when they're mainlining a bunch of snapdragons like the one in the s9, with full network support. Once postmarketOS succeeds there's little reason to get these Linux phone as devices, and the main reason was good support before postmarketOS ported Linux but the hardware is pretty bad. Poor hardware and poor software for a hefty price, a phone that when sold wasn't even functional and is still rough around the edges.
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