TheCoelacanth

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We will never remove all evolutionary pressures short of a totalitarian society that makes sure every single person has exactly the same probability of reproducing.

We have changed evolutionary pressures, but certainly not removed them.

TheCoelacanth

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"Cookie banner" is a colloquial name; not a technically accurate description of what the banners are for.

GDPR is not about cookies; it is about tracking. Whether the tracking is done through cookies or through other means makes absolutely no difference.

You can prevent some tracking via your browser, but definitely not all of it.

TheCoelacanth

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No, you don't need consent for that. It falls under the legitimate interest exception.

You need to disclose it in your privacy policy, you need to delete it after a reasonable retention period and you can't use those logs for other purposes like ad targeting, but you don't need a consent banner to track things that you are legitimately using for security purposes.

TheCoelacanth

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Most aspects of 18th century coal mining probably sound like really bad ideas. It's a notoriously dangerous job.

The engine would also typically be at the top of the mine, not deep inside it.

TheCoelacanth

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Transparently corrupt maybe.

TheCoelacanth

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I don't think you can plausibly claim that the US was a leader in technology until the 20th century, which is long after the US started having enormous amounts of immigration.

TheCoelacanth

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Obviously they can do it. That doesn't mean it's good policy.

TheCoelacanth

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That's not accurate either. If the royalties are 15%, for example, then covering a $15k advance would take $100k of sales.

A typical book isn't making the publisher much profit but they aren't losing money on it either.

TheCoelacanth

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Absolutely. Early engines were so inefficient that they could basically only be used in coal mines.

TheCoelacanth

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It is insane that the people responsible for policing drugs get to decide what drugs are illegal. That's like letting the police decide if something is a crime or not. It's completely antithetical to democracy and the rule-of-law.

TheCoelacanth

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People who are empowered to enact violence on behalf of the state must be held to a higher standard than random citizens.

Anything other than absolute adherence to the letter of the law is completely unacceptable from any part of the government.

TheCoelacanth

27 ngày trướcdiscuss

That's more like having jurisdiction over the diplomat's property in the country than having jurisdiction over the diplomat themselves.

TheCoelacanth

27 ngày trướcdiscuss

By the time violins existed, then you are already 100+ years into the modern era and much of this article no longer applies.

Centralized states were becoming much more common and developing much more administrative capacity. Literate bureaucrats were much more easily available. Economic surpluses were much larger. Directly recruiting, equipping and paying an army became much more practical than it previously was and the other methods described here were no longer as necessary as they previously were.

TheCoelacanth

28 ngày trướcdiscuss

These Calvinball judges would never let logic or consistency control their decisions to that extent.

TheCoelacanth

28 ngày trướcdiscuss

Still "subject to the jurisdiction of". US law doesn't currently have a law allowing them to be conscripted, and it would be very ill-advised to do so and it would cause a lot of diplomatic backlash, but it certainly could pass such a law if it chose to.

TheCoelacanth

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Sparta is quite possibly the pinnacle of horribleness for civilization, which is why I think they emphasized that it particularly was a slave society (80%+ slaves and a majority of the remainder were non-citizens).

TheCoelacanth

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It's a fool's errand to try to prevent criticism to that extent. It's mostly harmless and functions as a release valve for people's frustrations and helps to stop them from doing something more extreme than just complaining.

It's also possibly illegal to stop them. Employees in the US have a legal right to talk to each other about their working conditions and employers are not allowed to stop them. Most companies aren't above violating that law, but they want to save that for actual union-busting, not to stop people from sharing memes.

TheCoelacanth

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It's pretty obvious that they are referring to a specific person and which specific person they are referring to.

TheCoelacanth

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I'm aware but I don't see how that changes those devices being the most open 3D printers.

TheCoelacanth

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As always, the real money in a gold rush goes to the people selling shovels.

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