pusher_robot
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
11hr ago
To be clear here, they didn't know he was dying. The wound was not visible from their perspective.
What constitutes "knowledge" here? The victim clearly articulated several times that he had, in fact, been stabbed and could not breathe. If you invoke enough skepticism, nobody can truly "know" anything.
pusher_robot
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13hr ago
I'm sure it's doable, and they may end up doing it as a courtesy, but I don't think they're under any ethical obligation to do so. They announced the lifespan of the product when they sold it, everyone was clear there would be no promise of updates after that. It's not like they broke the certificate, the expiration was set long ago.
Apple could push a security patch that caused some undocumented functionality used by Office 2019 to crash. Apple says the code used by Office 2019 was insecure and they won't be modifying their security update to accommodate it. Is Microsoft still under any obligation to push out a patch to make sure it continues to function, in your view?
I totally get customer frustration with bitrot and the (seemingly unnecessarily) short lifecycle of software. One of Microsoft's great strengths for a long time was that they put a lot of effort into making sure your old unsupported software would run on new and improved Windows platforms. But this also became a major liability to them, and I also understand the need to draw a line at spending precious engineering effort fighting bitrot for products that have been superseded several times over. I would guess they will not legally pursue someone who makes, e.g., an unofficial certificate patch.
But here, Microsoft is a trillion-dollar company and explicitly promised the software would continue to function
No, I think that's greatly overstating the promise they made. It was a perpetual license, i.e., not a subscription. There were never any guarantees about the software continuing to function past its published support lifecycle. I'd agree with you if they had pushed an update to disable it, but bitrot is an utterly foreseeable consequence of using unsupported software.
pusher_robot
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8d ago
We mostly have Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a neo-temperance movement, to thank for that
pusher_robot
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15d ago
Around $2K. I spend cash rarely so it's mostly cash that I've been given by others that I have not deposited. Since it hasn't been withdrawn by me either it's untraceable to me. I primarily use it in the event I can get an under-the-table cash discount from tradesmen in Minecraft.
pusher_robot
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15d ago
I don't think that kind of buy-and-hold strategy is what OP is talking about regarding "active trading" though, compared to someone actively buying and selling individual stocks, relying on timing for profitable buys and sells. And I agree with the OP, this is generally a losing strategy over time compared to dumping things into funds and sitting. But it can be fun in the same way that sports betting can be: if you think you really do have a better-than-average insight into some company or another, you can lose up to 100% of your investment (avoiding margin), but you can make 100% or more.
pusher_robot
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16d ago
Finished The Moon is a Harsh Mistress finally. Enjoyed it. At this specific moment the character of Mike seems eerily close to being a realistic possibility.
You have to think about the is the context of an honor culture person who perceived their honor to be challenged by the police officer. In this frame, any voluntary act of cooperation is a sign of submission and humiliation. Honor can only be satisfied by defeating the officer or frustrating his activities.
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