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markrlondon wrote: A great many time travel scifi stories include the idea of a law that prevents disclosure of time travel to earlier societies. Some stories even have a police force to enforce this regulation.
And there's never a "mistake" where they get found out? Ever? Because humans from the future don't make those mistakes?
Like aliens; if either existed, we would have seen them. And we have no written recording of either.
We cannot even send information back, so not worried about humans being sent. (Just binge watched "travellers" on NetFlix)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If they could build a time machine, maybe the first thing they could use it for is to stop the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2? 
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12 monkeys?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Would that be to China's advantage? They don't seem to have suffered, strategically speaking.
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Economically, they do, still. And they depending a lot on economy and trade. Having food gives stability.
And their population still at risk, moreso due the mutations. That's what scares me most; the flu doesn't mutate at that rate. If it is not eliminated soon and the vaccine not world wide, we'll meet a version that adapts to the vaccine.
I dare not think about how this evolves in the next five years.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If you're looking at a future in software engineering, these are the platforms and languages you should get a handle on. Because that's what people enjoy - the interviews
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The argument boils down to "if you don't know we messed up, it can't hurt you." I wonder how well it would work if I tried that
No more suing me for bad song lyrics, meanness to a certain company, or horrid puns (sorry, that last one is redundant).
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But then... When then they come and sue you with something then you are the one that have to proof innocence because in civil right you have not the "innocent until proven guilty" right.
Everyone is equal under the justice and has the same rights... but some are even more equal than us.  
Addition:
Quote: According to the filing's reasoning here, Facebook should not have been held liable for violating Illinois law, because doing so didn't actually hurt anyone, as far as it could tell.
What a dangerous sentence... you can break law if you don't harm anyone or even better... if you can't be proven to have hurt anyone
Quote: We will find out sometime in May or June if the Supreme Court decides "no harm, no foul" to be a compelling legal argument.
Why I do have the feeling that it will be a really sad day for the "normal" population
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 12-Feb-21 5:26am.
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Nelek wrote: What a dangerous sentence... you can break law if you don't harm anyone or even better... if you can't be proven to have hurt anyone
Nelek wrote: Why I do have the feeling that it will be a really sad day for the "normal" population
Yes, both these arguments are very, very dangerous.
Even if the current court rejects them (which surely it should, although this is far from certain), I feel sure that legislators will make up for it in future.
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I suggest that the likes of Google, Facebook, et al will eventually get their way on this. 
My reasoning on this is that, as they accept more and more state regulation of and meddling in their services, they will demand that in return they should have some of the protection of the state. I.e. If the state (I mean government, not state in US terms) wants to meddle very heavily in their services then it is only fair that they are treated more like a branch of government with special legal protections.
I think this argument will eventually be compelling for law makers (especially after a nice undocumented deal for future employment).
This type of special legal protection for private businesses is already the case in some countries. E.g. The UK where privatised utility companies have special legal rights and protections that do not apply to other private companies. The US will follow.
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Quote: Hotwire offers “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript.” It’s described as an “HTML-over-the-wire” approach, meaning it generates the HTML file on the server and then delivers it to the browser. It’s an alternative to delivering JSON, a data format used by many JavaScript-heavy web apps to send content from the server to the client.
Run, Don't Walk[^] obligatory music video.
The lyrics are oddly appropriate. "I can't stop talking to myself." 
Ruby on Rails Creator Takes on JavaScript Frameworks with Hotwire – The New Stack[^]
modified 11-Feb-21 13:34pm.
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Link?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Link?
OMG. I failed at my Insider News post. 
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ASP.NET WebForms did that 20 odd years ago.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: ASP.NET WebForms did that 20 odd years ago.
I know. The irony.
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Terabyte-using customers doubled from 7% to 14% as pandemic wore on. I doff my data cap at you all
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The video shows the electricity reaching from the sky and up from a lightning rod until a thin connection appears It *was* Zeus all along
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. "What is the Matrix?"
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"I'll take the blue pill for $800, Alex!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft Word for Windows is picking up a major improvement to its dark mode implementation: Soon, the writing canvas will be dark as well. Once you go dark, you'll never format as Heading 4? (I really need to work on that one)
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To hell those godamn dark modes!
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We're shouting at the clouds, I'm afraid...
TTFN - Kent
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Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. Unreal, indeed
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The most effective managers have used the past 12 months to support new remote-working practices with Agile leadership styles. This is what two digital leaders have learnt from the experience - and here's how you can benefit. Isn't that what they used to call, "by the seat of your pants"?
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