I've always understood your comment, what I don't agree with is the need to state it now.
I've always understood your comment, what I don't agree with is the need to state it now. When we make statements, we do so with context, and in this context, stating "the US government could do X" is implying that, yes, in fact the US government did do X. Furthermore, saying "we don't know they didn't" is a specious argument, at best, because it suggests they did do X, when in reality they're no more likely to have done X, than I am to have done Y, which is some arbitrary other thing which is, while in the realm of possiblity, a complete waste of time to consider. There exists, within the set of possible things, a set of things which are not among the greater set of things one must consider. The US government secretly forcing GitHub to modify source code in one of their repositories is one of those things that we can safely not consider, even though it is, you're right, technically and politically possible.
Posted by diminoten on Apr 16, 2015, 10:05 PM
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That isn't really relevant for the tool starting the container.
Why is there no link to the source?
Something I wonder about in this domain is if this is the fault of the language.
Namespace pollution is an annoying problem in Rust.
Currently, no language ports of Timefold Solver are planned.
I agree with you, almost all .NET code I write is within the .NET framework, yet when I look at C# repos, it's disheartening to see so ma...
Why is there no simple workaround for this?
I have been using https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump to quickly jump to definitions.
I've always understood your comment, what I don't agree with is the need to state it now.
I've always understood your comment, what I don't agree with is the need to state it now. When we make statements, we do so with context, and in this context, stating "the US government could do X" is implying that, yes, in fact the US government did do X. Furthermore, saying "we don't know they didn't" is a specious argument, at best, because it suggests they did do X, when in reality they're no more likely to have done X, than I am to have done Y, which is some arbitrary other thing which is, while in the realm of possiblity, a complete waste of time to consider. There exists, within the set of possible things, a set of things which are not among the greater set of things one must consider. The US government secretly forcing GitHub to modify source code in one of their repositories is one of those things that we can safely not consider, even though it is, you're right, technically and politically possible.
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