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yeah, this is the right answer. Are there any examples where this isn't what you want? I guess GROUPING SETS and ROLLUP, but those could be special.


Land Value Tax solves everything! /meme


I've been feeling very paranoid about posting ANYTHING online, honestly. Or chat, email, video call, etc. Is that what we're talking about?


It's a reference to this: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub There Is No Antimemetics Division and its sequel Five Five Five Five Five are some of the best sci-fi stories I've ever read.


I'm really enjoying this. Thanks for posting it!


There’s some really great SCPs on there, I go through the top rated ones every few months. Some very creative and well thought out pieces.

I have a feeling like the developers of Control (the video game) were heavily influenced by SCPs.


Huh I’m not familiar with that game. Gonna check this out.

Edit: ok, just checked out the Wikipedia page. You will be happy to learn that it is directly inspired by SCP.


It’s a great game, really hit that X-Files / Fringe vibe that has been largely missing from a lot of media in the last decade or so.


haha, that's not a visual programming language!


> Visa does[n't] need to hold the balance of my account.

Yes they do?

> Visa does[n't] need to or makes available all of my equity worth of assets for me to transfer.

This is a horrifying bug, right? A thing that no person would ever want, and it's so rare that visa would make you talk to a person and raise your limit first, or they'd get more people involved to make sure you're not being coerced because it's such an abnormal thing to do. Lawyers in some cases, just because you're being so silly. But if you REALLY wanted to make a $1b debit card transaction, you probably totally could, just call the visa billionaire line.

> Visa does not custody my assets.

But a regular bank can, and visa will send to and from there with a debit card.


Having a human rabbit isn't something you can really stop.

Am I an idiot who went out way too fast for the first 600m and then died, or did I exactly hit my teammate's pace, and then fall off intentionally?


The legal system does not work like this even though I see it all the time, and a lot from programmers.

You mostly cannot get off on a technicality like this. If they judge believe that a reasonable person thinks there was a human rabbit they can DQ you even if there are other explanations.

Same with all the plausible deniability with passwords etc, the judge can simple not believe you and put you in jail until you remember the password (even if you do not remember it).


>Same with all the plausible deniability with passwords etc, the judge can simple not believe you and put you in jail until you remember the password (even if you do not remember it).

In America, you can be compelled to surrender something you have, but not something you know.

So the jail you're waiting in while you remember you password is probably in Guantanamo Bay.


If only Guantanamo Bay was the only detention center lacking in accountability.

Even still, race directors have even wider latitude for DQs. In the end I suppose it ultimately comes down to propensity for those in disagreement to riot.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...

So it appears 18 months is max for currently for refusing to decrypt a drive, but it is under active court cases at the moment.

The important thing is that you are wrong, you can clearly be forced to surrender something you know.

Edit: The important part is not that you are wrong, but that the courts can put you in jail for refusing to disclose something you know.


Thanks for the edit :)


> Am I an idiot who went out way too fast for the first 600m and then died, or did I exactly hit my teammate's pace, and then fall off intentionally?

Nobody would be fooled by such a patently ridiculous argument. People have common sense.


The infield is not the race area proper, it's the area inside the track. GP is referring to having a non-racer (though still a teammate) run alongside the track as a motivator/pacer for those actually on the track for the race itself.



You'd be surprised how often git repos disappear when you have 100s or 1000s of deps.


I think that's a different dgit


Tacking on to this subthread: another "dgit" that i'm familiar with is https://wiki.debian.org/DgitFAQ


Two different dgits from github? wow!


the previous one is from github, the new one is hosted on github but not from github.


I obviously needed to read this more closely.


Eventually everything will be of, by and for the github so you're probably fine.


This is really amazing! Want to make sure I have a comment on the original post when this is huge!


"All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

He also didn't think much of private property.

[1] http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12....


You are intentionally misinterpreting his quote. He doesn't think much of excessive property. Yes, you probably don't need a 3rd home while other people have no homes...


His bar for "excessive" is pretty low though. We aren't talking 3rd home, plausibly we aren't even talking 1 home.


Indeed it isn't even one. He says right there, "temporary Cabin".


Yes, and the distinction is completely artificial. Worse, he gets the relationship between property and law exactly backwards. Property rights, even for what some here are calling "excessive" property, were not created "by the public" (meaning by legislators) through the passage of laws. Rather, property rights existed first and laws were passed to rationalize the abridgement of those rights when they proved inconvenient to those in power.

If you take someone else's property for your own use by force without their permission, they are perfectly justified in using force to take your property without your permission. That is the fundamental natural law which underlies property rights, as well as all other natural rights: reciprocation. It doesn't matter who the property belongs to, how much other property they have, or who is doing the taking.


The "fundamental natural law" you appeal to is none of those things, so it would be disingenuous to hold him to it. I'm not sure how I feel about the quote and don't have enough context on his thinking to really judge it, but your rejection sounds dogmatic, not reasoned.


I'm not "holding him to" anything. I'm just stating a fact. It is not logical to claim that it is simultaneously right for you to be able to do something unilaterally to someone else but wrong for that person to do exactly the same thing to you. Not unless you're arguing against the universality of rights in general, anyway, and if you're taking that approach then you can't make any meaningful statements at all about what rights other people may or may not have.

If you take someone's property without their permission there are three possibilities: (1) you admit that it's wrong and deserving of punishment; (2) you claim that taking property without permission is universally right (i.e. that there are no property rights), in which case you can't complain when others take your property; or (3) you claim that rights are not universal, in which case others can claim the right to take your property just as easily as you claim the right to take theirs. Whichever path you choose, the act of theft justifies its own proportional punishment. The same reasoning applies to any other natural right, as they are all based on the principle of reciprocation.

This is neither the time nor the place, but if you're interested in a more complete treatment of the topic I would recommend this paper: http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/12_1/12_1_3.pdf


I agree this isn't the time or place, but you are not stating a fact; rather you are choosing a particular framing which is neither unique nor universally accepted.

It doesn't matter whether or not I agree with you or Franklin (or neither) here - I was noting that your attempt at pointing out his "error" is itself logically flawed and does not demonstrate any such error on his part.


You claim that I am "not stating a fact" but it is a fact that any claim that an action is right when done by one person but wrong when done by another is either an internal contradiction or a repudiation of any universal standard for right and wrong. Either way, you can't consistently argue that a proportional response would be wrong after taking that same action yourself.

I should hope that this argument is not "unique", since it's just an application of basic logic, and I really couldn't care less whether the conclusions are universally accepted. The logic is sound whether you accept it or not.


Ah, we seem to be focused on different parts of your state to. The problem you ran into is axiomatic, not logical. You are asserting a concept of property that is not the same as Franklins, and then attempting to refute him based on that framework. He (I thinks least, based on those quotes alone) is proposing a quite different framework, so you have fallen into a type of category error. That is what I was pointing out. It’s all fair to argue that his framework is inferior, but it is illogical to just claim he got it wrong because it doesn’t fit the framework you prefer.

I think this has run its course, it’s not a good media to get into something like this at depth.


The point should be obvious from the context, that Franklin was very far from any sort of anarcho-capitalist/libertarian extremist.

> Was he some sort of fundamentalist anarchist?

The quote plainly refutes that idea.


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