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xdmr

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    Comment #42241895

    A plague o' both both your houses!

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    Comment #42241790

    Is that because their vision fails to provide the information necessary to drive safely? Or is it due to distraction and/or poor judgment? I don't actually know the answer to this,…

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    Comment #42241662

    Can anyone speak to whether this is likely to succeed on its merits, or point to analysis of same by competent professionals? Obviously, it looks like a pretty egregious case of Or…

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    Comment #37716101

    > Our community has persistent and pervasive problems of a particular sort which we are not allowed to talk about: sexual harassment and assault. Men who assault, harass, and even …

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    Comment #35428212

    > even intentionally tweeting misinformation wouldn't break this law unless you were conspiring with others to do it. Okay, but it has to break some law. You can't be convicted of …

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    Comment #35428013

    I don't actually know if intent is sufficient in this case. So maybe if nobody actually fell for it (or they did, but the government didn't bother to submit any evidence of this) t…

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    Comment #35427453

    I don't think this is true for all crimes. If I punch you that's assault. If I try to punch you and miss, that's not the crime of attempted assault. It can in some circumstances be…

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    Comment #35427383

    What I don't understand: Is it established in the law whether intent is enough in this case for there to be a crime, or is actual harm required? Lots of people are saying either "N…

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    Comment #33145912

    No, I am Ole Torvalds the poet!

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    Comment #32746251

    For comparison, here's the first bit of an Anthem file (which contains some of the data that's just another row in the Humana record), along with the first record "reporting_entity…

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    Comment #32746107

    To save anyone else similarly curious the trouble, here's a sample record from the Humana data set: {'REPORTING_ENTITY_NAME': 'Humana Inc', 'REPORTING_ENTITY_TYPE': 'Health Insuran…

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    Comment #32745020

    CF didn't just decide not to do business with a customer. They cut them off without notice in a way which they knew would cause service disruption to that customer, after having be…

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    Comment #32713006

    My point is not that they had an obligation to continue to have a business relationship with KF, but that if they chose to terminate the relationship, they had an obligation to do …

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    Comment #32710035

    [flagged]

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    Comment #32710009

    Sure, but KF hasn't specifically clarified whether the block was without _notice_ as opposed to just without _discussion_. And even if KF had specifically claimed that there was no…

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    Comment #32709882

    Did Cloudflare give KF notice that it intended to take this action and enable them to avoid service disruption? Or did Cloudflare intend that KF should experience service disruptio…

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    Comment #32709749

    CF could have said to KF "For various reasons we no longer wish to do business with you. In 24 hours we will stop redirecting to your servers. Please make appropriate arrangements.…

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    Comment #32451039

    They call it Fusion 360 because you turn 360 degrees and walk away

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    Comment #27567319

    > "I'm not a medical doctor, but here is a bunch of medical advice that should be used to prosecute this defendant." It doesn't sound that great either way. Yeah, it sounds like so…

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    Comment #27567148

    A lot of people seem to be splitting hairs over whether this guy's testimony or report in the trial is or isn't "practicing engineering," and whether that means that he's therefore…

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    Comment #25896718

    If you want a linux machine, I would strongly suggest going with https://system76.com/ rather than getting a thinkpad or dell or whatever, if one of their options work for you. The…

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    Comment #25380694

    > Finally, let’s imagine we have something more like a typical SaaS application, for example, a CRM. We have an accounts table with 20 secondary indexes defined for all the possibl…