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Comment There's always an exception to the rule (Score 4, Interesting) 272

"...there's no reason to have a certain sign on certain roads (Stop sign on an interstate highway)."

What about here? (Cross Island Parkway, New York USA, Exit 31)

Stop signs often do appear on highway entry ramps, especially where they are short. This is true in construction areas, as well as on some older entrance ramps around New York City.

Technically this is a 50 MPH (~80 km/h) Parkway and not an Interstate, but rather than randomly searching the area this was the first that came to mind.

Comment Re:Prove it's true (Score 3, Insightful) 307

Proving it's true would not put a full stop to the suit; it would be a thing that you prove in the suit itself. This is expensive because it means you're paying lawyers lots of money. The thing that's supposed to put a full stop to the suit is an anti-SLAPP motion, because this appears to be a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation; among other things, this typically stays all discovery, saving much expense,

Unfortunately I'm not up to speed on California-specific anti-SLAPP statutes.

Comment Re:What Unions Did For You (Score 1) 317

They gave you: Weekends off, eight hour work day, Holidays off. And a safer workplace.

See, now, take this pro-union propaganda with a grain of salt. There were a lots of factors that led to a shorter American work week, and while unions were in fact one force, another major factor was that labor market conditions were much tighter. Manufacturing was expanding. Immigration was falling. Technological changes improved worker productivity. There were gross population shifts from rural areas to urban areas. There was plenty of government intervention into the labor market as well. All of these factors contributed to shorter work weeks too.

Unions in the abstract made a material contribution, and can be recognized as such, and lauded, but the usual case like we see here, you are told "without unions no weekends", and that's just ill-informed propaganda.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1, Informative) 389

Jewish Law? Begins in Exodus. More in Leviticus. Ongoing tradition of interpretation through your local rabbi.

Christian law? Begins with acknowledgement of Jewish law and extracts the Great Commandment (Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind) and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. From there has always been a diversity of practice in interpretation by various Christian religious communities, Christian religious leaders, and Christian rulers (where you will find it blended with civil law).

If you want something specific the best bet for codified Christian law is probably the Code of Canon Law -- perhaps starting with The Obligations and Rights of All the Christian Faithful.

If you want to talk about how a particular United States midwestern Protestant group with a sola scriptura mindset goes about it, that's another matter, and a bit harder.

Comment Re:Last I checked... (Score 2) 145

In the USA it is actionable. All you have to do is outspend your opponent, does not matter if something is legal or not.

It's not quite as simple as that, as there are substantial anti-SLAPP statutes in many states which allow people who are sued to get the case dismissed quickly and sometimes get their legal fees paid for it. But it's not the greatest situation, either.

Comment Re:It's not a thing (Score 2) 418

For instance, Zstandard lets you precompute a dictionary of common strings you want to shorten. Imagine if you trained it on HTML so that each tag or other common string just takes a few bits, then you can distribute that dictionary to the whole world so that you can save the bandwidth of transmitting it alongside the compressed data each and every time (like we do with Zip, Gzip, etc.).

HTTP/2.0 actually does this for HTTP headers as part of the HTTP Header Compression specification.

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