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They aren't referencing the 1951 movie, but instead the 1920s shorts series called Alice Comedies, the first of which is literally called Alice's Wonderland. These weren't really r…

> So, I guess it wasn’t till after World War Two that their feature films became profitable. They survived, so chances are the shorts brought in money. According to Wikipedia [0], …

Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]…

> As to your second point, we often hire underage people to do work such as restocking shelves. If sex work is truly the same as retail work would you also argue that hiring an und…

Well, the burden of proof is on you for saying that there are small trucks on the market. But, it turns out that the complaint about the Tacoma is spot on. The Tacoma's weight has …

> Can you give examples of model years and decisions to back up your claim? Actually, I think the burden of proof is on the GP who made the original claim that there are plenty of …

I mean, probably, but the article is explicitly only looking at states with the death penalty: > In the analyses below, we include only states allowing the death penalty in the yea…

I assume you mean to imply that population alone explains the title of the post? My guess is the argument goes: (1) Crime scales with population. (2) Death sentences scale with cri…

Actually, I recommend you check out Freenet [0], a project that's 20 years old. In fact, the Wikipedia page explicitly states: > Information flow in Freenet is different from netwo…

> Realtime mass surveillance of every party who receives money is isomorphic to realtime mass surveillance of everyone. I don't believe it is. For instance, imagine a closed system…

It's referencing a theorem from string theory, as discussed in this Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww The catch is that this isn't valid in what we con…

Sure, the bridge operator could do that, but why? Bridges don't operate as efficient markets with heavy competition, instead they tend to act as regional monopolies. If you don't c…

> This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws. Yeah, but copyright is not a form of traditional property right. Intellectual "property" rights …

Well, despite what anarcho-capitalists may say, in an anarchist society you would find it very hard to maintain capitalism as is familair to us today. This is because the State, an…

I'm sorry, but I don't think that's what they were saying at all. To me, it sounded like they were saying that when a developer works alone at nights or on the weekend, they cannot…

My understanding is that while yes, in some sense a flat tax is neither progressive nor regressive, that's not really what people are talking about when they say a flat tax is regr…

For your first question, this is mostly about legal interpretability. The GPL has a long text that describes explicitly what it allows and doesn't. Yes, that is based on an ethical…

WebAuthn is only secure because it entrusts to browser to pass verified domains to your USB key. Why can't SQRL just do that with no other protocol modifications? Then we don't tru…

I'm not so sure that's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of elements of Christian myths that are considered 'scientific reality', such as people and fruits and the fact that the …

I disagree. If the community wants to make that illegal, they should make it explicitly illegal, and go through the formal processes of review and enactment that allow for checks o…

No, because the point of the value of defending people no matter what is to protect against government overreach. The government has a significant asymmetry of power against its ci…

I don't think there is any reason to believe that legislators are the individuals with the most talent at drafting law. It's probably some academic or lawyer somewhere. But, I do b…

To me, it feels like the complete lack of a deliberative process implies that the legislators are not actually providing meaningful oversight in the slightest. Sure, oftentimes spe…

> Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for…