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garrettgarcia

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    Comment #47127664

    It's clearly not untrackable. It's never been untrackable. That's how they know it went to Iran.

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    Comment #46267234

    I'm still scrobbling after all these years.

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    Comment #46018640

    The tool: https://nondelegationproject.org/ The working paper: https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SR-1097-...

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    Comment #45950635

    According to the Github page, you can just run `rm ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/*`

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    Comment #45224448

    > My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions. Huh? Of course you can. If you're practicing on leetcode, there's a discussion thread …

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    Comment #45224389

    "Follow-up question since you solved that so quickly: implement a constraint solver."

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    Comment #45224053

    Apple will more likely pull out of Europe incrementally (and eventually completely) as the cost of doing business continues to skyrocket. Other American targets of EU regulators wi…

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    Comment #45223962

    > and is making me want to not hang out here anymore. Agreed. No matter which side of the issue one is on, the fact you and everyone else who explains the incentive structure is ge…

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    Comment #45222633

    How are they not complying with the regulation? This is what compliance looks like.

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    Comment #44229496

    Anything under $100k for this is pathetic.

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    Comment #44196379

    I don't know why you're being downvoted. The political climate, and more broadly the culture of a society, is the crucial component to whether or not technological progress happens…

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    Comment #44196310

    It may look like typical libertarian argument, but it isn't. And the fact that taxes are collected coercively is just that: a fact. Collected coercively by a government != stolen. …

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    Comment #44196286

    Au contraire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosculation I do agree that branches staying separate is the essential property of a tree data structure.

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    Comment #44195797

    I see your point about it not being a strict tree. It is tree-like, however, in the sense that the branches/edges only point in one direction: forward in time.

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    Comment #44195785

    I've been wishing that this existed for a long time, and am thrilled to see that it does now! Something that fascinates me about early technology is that a significant amount of it…

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    Comment #44145729

    Yet another reason to not take federal money

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    Comment #44145721

    > It is certainly intellectually dishonest to claim that the government funding anything you don't like is a violation of your "intellectual freedom". Agreed. I never claimed that …

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    Comment #44142740

    That's a bit like saying, "I have a bicycle. I've never not been able to get where I need to go. Why would I need a car?"

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    Comment #44142730

    I'm also confused by this. I taught myself touch typing in the 90's. I also had a required semester-long class that covered only typing my freshman year of high school (1999). Neit…

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    Comment #44132647

    > But couldn’t this be said about any source of funding? All funders, public or private, make decisions about the projects and people they choose to fund. This selection process is…

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    Comment #44132580

    Deny reality all you want, it doesn't change the truth. The fact is that taxes are collected under threat of force. One need not express an opinion on whether there should be more …

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    Comment #44132355

    The article addresses this: "Intellectual freedom is the principle that all individuals have the right to think for themselves, to express their convictions on any subject, and to …